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Midwest Radio and Television was a broadcasting company based in the Upper Midwest United States.

Its history dates back to August 1952, when the original owners of WTCN-AM
WWTC

WWTC is a long-standing radio station serving the Minneapolis-St. Paul region. Despite its up-and-down history, the station spawned two of the area's major television stations and had some very innovative and unusual periods in its history....
-FM-TV
WCCO-TV

WCCO-TV, is the CBS owned and operated station television station that serves the Minneapolis-St. Paul area of Minnesota. It broadcasts on North American broadcast television frequencies 4 and 32 ....
 decided to sell the stations. While the radio stations went to a separate owner, WTCN-TV was sold to the owners of WCCO Radio, and became WCCO-TV
WCCO-TV

WCCO-TV, is the CBS owned and operated station television station that serves the Minneapolis-St. Paul area of Minnesota. It broadcasts on North American broadcast television frequencies 4 and 32 ....
. The company expanded over the years, launching WCCO-FM
WLTE

WLTE is a radio station in Minneapolis-St. Paul that carries a "Lite rock" adult contemporary format and has done so for more than two decades....
 (now WLTE) in the 1970s.

In the 1980s, Midwest Radio and Television bought ABC affiliate WFRV-TV
WFRV-TV

WFRV-TV, channel 5 , is a CBS affiliate based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The station is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Liberty Media Corporation The station's studios are located in Green Bay, and its transmitter is in De Pere, Wisconsin....
 in Green Bay and its satellite in Escanaba, Michigan
Escanaba, Michigan

Escanaba [es-ka-NAH-ba] is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan, located in the banana belt on the state's Upper Peninsula of Michigan. As of the United States Census, 2000, the city population was 13,140....
, WJMN-TV. Midwest Radio and Television also bought KCMT in Alexandria, Minnesota
Alexandria, Minnesota

Alexandria is a city in and the county seat of Douglas County, Minnesota, Minnesota, United States. First settled in 1858, it was named after Alexander and William Kinkead....
 and its satellite in Walker, Minnesota
Walker, Minnesota

Walker is a city in Cass County, Minnesota, Minnesota, United States. The population was 1,069 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Cass County, Minnesota....
, KNMT.






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Midwest Radio and Television was a broadcasting company based in the Upper Midwest United States.

Its history dates back to August 1952, when the original owners of WTCN-AM
WWTC

WWTC is a long-standing radio station serving the Minneapolis-St. Paul region. Despite its up-and-down history, the station spawned two of the area's major television stations and had some very innovative and unusual periods in its history....
-FM-TV
WCCO-TV

WCCO-TV, is the CBS owned and operated station television station that serves the Minneapolis-St. Paul area of Minnesota. It broadcasts on North American broadcast television frequencies 4 and 32 ....
 decided to sell the stations. While the radio stations went to a separate owner, WTCN-TV was sold to the owners of WCCO Radio, and became WCCO-TV
WCCO-TV

WCCO-TV, is the CBS owned and operated station television station that serves the Minneapolis-St. Paul area of Minnesota. It broadcasts on North American broadcast television frequencies 4 and 32 ....
. The company expanded over the years, launching WCCO-FM
WLTE

WLTE is a radio station in Minneapolis-St. Paul that carries a "Lite rock" adult contemporary format and has done so for more than two decades....
 (now WLTE) in the 1970s.

In the 1980s, Midwest Radio and Television bought ABC affiliate WFRV-TV
WFRV-TV

WFRV-TV, channel 5 , is a CBS affiliate based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The station is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Liberty Media Corporation The station's studios are located in Green Bay, and its transmitter is in De Pere, Wisconsin....
 in Green Bay and its satellite in Escanaba, Michigan
Escanaba, Michigan

Escanaba [es-ka-NAH-ba] is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan, located in the banana belt on the state's Upper Peninsula of Michigan. As of the United States Census, 2000, the city population was 13,140....
, WJMN-TV. Midwest Radio and Television also bought KCMT in Alexandria, Minnesota
Alexandria, Minnesota

Alexandria is a city in and the county seat of Douglas County, Minnesota, Minnesota, United States. First settled in 1858, it was named after Alexander and William Kinkead....
 and its satellite in Walker, Minnesota
Walker, Minnesota

Walker is a city in Cass County, Minnesota, Minnesota, United States. The population was 1,069 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Cass County, Minnesota....
, KNMT. The stations' calls became KCCO and KCCW respectively, and the stations became satellites of WCCO-TV.

In 1992, the company merged with CBS, and WFRV/WJMN became CBS affiliates. Today, only the Minneapolis stations are retained by CBS Corporation
CBS Corporation

CBS Corporation is an United States media conglomerate focused on broadcasting, publishing, billboards, and television production, with most of its operations in the United States....
 (WFRV/WJMN was sold to Liberty Media
Liberty Media

The Liberty Media Corporation is an United States media conglomerate and the control is exercised by engineer Dr. John C. Malone, with a majority of the voting shares....
 in 2007).

Midwest also owned the Midwest Sports Channel, which was originally associated with WCCO-TV. MSC became a CBS owned and operated network following its acquisition of WCCO. In 1999, shortly after CBS was acquired by Viacom, MSC was sold to Fox Sports Net, becoming Fox Sports Net North.

Midwest Radio and Television was not associated with Midwest Television, owners of KFMB
KFMB (AM)

KFMB is a conservative talk radio radio station in San Diego, California, co-owned with KFMB-FM and KFMB-TV. KFMB is one of the few stations in the U.S....
, KFMB-FM
KFMB-FM

KFMB-FM is a commercial radio station located in San Diego, California, broadcasting on 100.7 FM Broadcasting. KFMB-FM airs an adult hits music format branded as "Jack FM"....
, and KFMB-TV
KFMB-TV

KFMB-TV is the local CBS television affiliate of San Diego. Its transmitter is located atop Mount Soledad above La Jolla, California broadcasting over the air in digital on channel 8....
 in San Diego, California
San Diego, California

San Diego is the second largest city in California and the List of United States cities by population, located along the Pacific Ocean on the West Coast of the United States of the Western United States....
.