WTCN-TV (now KARE-TV)’s 9:30pm news opening from 1975. Then an independent station, this was a Saturday evening news broadcast aired after Hee Haw in 1975. Included is a spot for Howard Johnson’s clam buffet, William Shatner, and the very 1975 (and at the time little watched and low budget) opening to Channel 11’s evening news. At the anchor desk is longtime channel 11 broadcaster Gil Amundson.

Veterans Day covered by Paul Magers and Diana Pierce on WUSA.
For 10 months what was known as WTCN-TV and what is now known as KARE-TV was..WUSA-TV. Gannet changed WTCN to WUSA on July 4, 1985. These call letters were later used for a Gannet property in Washington DC, and WUSA became KARE-TV in June of 1986.
The station’s news branding changed little between the call letters during the 1980s. This news open was the same theme and graphics that were used during the Gannet years of WTCN and the first months of KARE.
Courtesy of the Barbara Ellison collection.

The weather event that made KARE and Paul Douglas world famous (and respected). While shooting overhead footage of the Minneapolis Aquatennial on a hot muggy day on July 18, 1986 News11 pilot Max Messmer and photogtrapher Tom Empy discovered and shot live video of a tornado moving through Brooklyn Park. Paul Magers, Kirstin Lindquist, and Paul Douglas provided live coverage during some of the most vivid pictures of a tornado ever shot and broadcast live.