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    Twin Cities Broadcasting in the Analog Age: A Presentation for the St. Paul Radio Club Annual Banquet
    Twin Cities Broadcasting in the Analog Age: A Presentation for the St. Paul Radio Club Annual Banquet
    Twin Cities Broadcasting in the Analog Age: A Presentation for the St. Paul Radio Club Annual Banquet
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    Twin Cities Broadcasting in the Analog Age: A Presentation for the St. Paul Radio Club Annual Banquet

    By Jeff R. Lonto

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    Author-historian Jeff R. Lonto's presentation on the history of radio and television in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area that he gave for the St. Paul Radio Club's annual banquet at the University of St. Thomas in 2014.

    In his speech, he discussed the early experiments with radio at the University of Minnesota going all the way back to 1912, leading to the formation of station KUOM, the origins of legendary radio stations in the Twin Cities such as WCCO, KSTP, WDGY, WTCN and WLOL, the role Twin Cities stations played in the formation of the national networks such as NBC and CBS, early FM stations, the TV stations, the dominance of top-40 radio and other events, up to the 2009 conversion of all television stations to digital.

    Presented is a full transcript of this detailed, colorful history. Lonto, founder of Studio Z-7 Publishing, is the author of local broadcasting realted books "Fiasco At 1280" and "It Happened On the Air," the writer of a regular column called "It Happened On the Air" for the Pavek Museum of Broadcasting Newsletter in the 1990s, and has written many online features about broadcast history and other pop culture-related subjects.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStudio Z-7 Publishing
    Release dateJun 7, 2015
    ISBN9780966021363
    Twin Cities Broadcasting in the Analog Age: A Presentation for the St. Paul Radio Club Annual Banquet
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    Jeff R. Lonto

    Jeff R. Lonto is a writer, publisher, blogger and historian residing in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He likes music from the 1960s, B movies from the 1930s and '40s, cats, beer and sugared soft drinks. His first published article, a history of Minneapolis-St. Paul television stations, appeared in a small local tabloid called the Hornet (printed on yellow paper, of course) in September 1985, courtesy of his friend and mentor, Darrell Mulroy. In the 1990s he wrote a regular feature for the Pavek Museum of Broadcasting Newsletter called "It Happened on the Air," chronicling various aspects of broadcasting history. In 1997 he founded Studio Z-7 Publishing, and in 1998 he published his first book, Fiasco at 1280, a behind-the-scenes story of Minneapolis radio station WWTC. Springing off of that, he hosted panel discussions featuring former personalities from that station, and was invited to discuss the book on WCCO Radio's Tim Russell Show, and on, of all places, WWTC Radio. Soon he published a second book, a history of the Grain Belt brewery in Minneapolis called Legend of the Brewery. This lead to interviews on Minnesota Public Radio, KARE-11 News, the Fox 9 KMSP morning show, and even WWTC Radio. He has been invited to speak at events at or near the Grain Belt brewery from time to time as well. In 2007 he published a third book, It Happened on the Air, a compilation of his Pavek Museum Newsletter columns, and in 2010, his first version of Chronicles from the Analog Age, a book covering a wide range of 20th Century pop culture topics, was published. In addition to his books, Lonto has written and had published a number of print and web articles, which have been referenced in a number of places. In 2000, the original version of his web article "The Trading Stamp Story," published on a now defunct website, was referenced in the New York Times ("Clicks, Not Licks, as Green Stamps Go Digital" by Michelle Slatalla, March 9, 2000), and more recently, the revised version on studioz7.com has been referenced in the Rochester, New York Democrat & Chronicle ("What Ever Happened To...trading stamps?" by Alan Morrell, July 21, 2015) and in an ebook, "Let's Close a Deal: Turn Contracts into Paying Customers for Your Company, Product, Service or Cause" by Christine Clifford (2013), National Public Radio's "Planet Money," as well as Wikipedia. As a media historian, Lonto's published articles were referenced in the print book "Media Tales: Stories of Minnesota TV, Radio, Publications and Personalities" by Sheri O'Meara and Martin Keller (D Media, Inc., 2007), he was a contributor to a radio industry print book called "Ain't Misbehavin' Just Conclavin" (Billboard Radio Monitor, 2005) and in 2014 he was invited to give a presentation to the St. Paul Radio Club Annual Banquet at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, on the history of broadcasting in the Twin Cities area. The transcript of the speech was published in an ebook, Twin Cities Broadcasting in the Analog Age. More recently, Jeff Lonto has published an ebook collection of short stories (some of which he originally wrote years ago) called Old Snapshots--Quirky Short Stories from Out of the Past. He has been a contributing writer for the online Minneapolis Happening magazine, and Pixable.com, he has given presentations about brewery history and collectibles at the Minnesota State Fair and the Autum Brew Review (a craft beer show in Minneapolis) for the Minnesota Craft Brewers Guild, and he occasionally posts something on Jeff R. Lonto's Chronicles from the Analog Age Blog (theanalogage.blogspot.com).

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      Twin Cities Broadcasting in the Analog Age - Jeff R. Lonto

      TWIN CITIES BROADCASTING IN THE ANALOG AGE

      A Presentation for the St. Paul Radio Club Annual Banquet

      at the University of St. Thomas

      April 26, 2014

      By JEFF R. LONTO

      Copyright 2014, 2015 by Jeff R. Lonto. All rights reserved.

      Published by Studio Z-7 Publishing, Minneapolis, MN, via Smashwords.

      International Standard Book Number: 978-0-9660213-6-3

      Forward

      Introduction

      Early Radio

      Television and Early FM

      Rock ‘n’ Roll Radio

      The Sixties and Seventies

      Changes in Television

      Radio in the Eighties

      The Long Road to Digital

      Fun Stuff

      FORWARD

      "Jeff Lonto, local author and historian, has published articles on subjects as diverse as beer and brewery history to trading stamps. One of his main interests is media history, which lead to his first book, Fiasco At 1280--The Rise and Hard Fall of a Twin Cities Radio Station. Over the course of two decades he wrote a series of articles for the Pavek Museum of Broadcasting, which later formed his 2007 book, It Happened On the Air--Amusing Stories of Radio-TV History.

      "For our program, Jeff will explore Twin Cities Broadcasting in the Analog Age. He’ll go back to the early local radio stations in the 1920s, work into the television era, and get into the formation of the big networks and how Twin Cities stations played a role in it. He’ll point out the various changes in broadcast media, primarily from a consumer’s point of view with a few technical details thrown in, up to the television conversion to digital channels."

      --From the St. Paul Radio Club website

      *****

      On April 26, 2014, I was invited to give a presentation at the St. Paul Radio Club Annual Banquet, held at the club’s headquarters at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, about the history of broadcasting in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. It was an honor to be given the opportunity. The

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