KDUZ

KDUZ (1260 AM) is a radio station licensed to serve Hutchinson, Minnesota, United States.

[6] This station began its licensed broadcast operations on September 16, 1953, serving Hutchinson, Minnesota, with 1,000 watts of power, daytime-only on a frequency of 1260 kHz.

[12] In 1968, the company launched KDUZ-FM (now KARP-FM) as an FM sister station to KDUZ, duplicating all of its programming and extending the duopoly's reach past the AM's daytime-only restriction.

[17] In the awards for 2007, KDUZ received an Honorable Mention in the category Best Feature for 2007 Grackle Days by Mark Wodarczyk, in Sports Play-by-play for Crown College Football hosted by Joel Niemeyer, and Best Newscast for KDUZ News hosted by Mark Wodarczyk.

[19] In July 2004, John Mons of KDUZ was announced as one of five nominees for the NAB Marconi Radio Award honor from the National Association of Broadcasters in the "Small Market Personality of the Year" category.

[9] They began their careers in radio station ownership on March 15, 1949 with the purchase of WSHB (W-east of Mississippi River, S- Stillwater, H-Hudson, B-Bayport) along with the application to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), purchased WSHB (licensed originally 1948) with a call letter change request to reflect their first names, WAVN Stillwater (Minnesota) "The Voice Of The Saint Croix Valley" and "We're Always WAViN To You" signed on the air as a 5000 watt non-directional daytimer with 500 watt pre-sunrise authority.

The three Tedesco brothers sold 63 WISK to Crowell-Collier with a call letter change request in the FCC application to purchase in 1959.