CORRECTED AND UPDATED Advocates for the former WCAL-FM public radio station have filed a petition (pdf) asking the Rice County District Court Sept. 25 to declare the station’s $10.5 million sale to Minnesota Public Radio void.
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Two independent radio stations at colleges in two separate states, both sought by one buyer: Minnesota Public Radio.
Advocates for both stations ask their state attorneys general to investigate whether the prospective sales violate laws governing charitable…
Overexuberant support for Gov. Tim Pawlenty has come back to bite a major Minnesota company — for a second time. First, an executive with Piper Jaffray, Minnesota’s top municipal bond underwriter, gave too much money to the…
A Tale of Two Obits: The Associated Press, announcing the death of Count Gottfried von Bismarck, led its story with news that “the troubled scion of one of Germany’s most famous families has died.” The United Kingdom’s Telegraph got…
City Pages on WCAL suit: St. Olaf College’s abrupt sale of classical music station WCAL to MPR nearly three years ago ruffled feathers at the time — and, as City Pages’ Jonathan Kaminsky reports, the rufflin’ continues unabated. St.…
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