News11 KARE-TV Open from July 18, 1986 Minneapolis/St Paul

News11 5pm News opening from July 1986. Paul Magers anchored the news on KARE 11 for twenty years before moving to KCBS in LA.

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• Minneapolis

[chibicelchan]

Jeff Passolt! No kidding. I'd never heard of him before he came to KMSP in I believe 1996. (I was 11)

Was KARE affiliated with NBC in 86? I notice no NBC mention on the station ident.

[Namzso1]

Passolt was at KARE-TV (WTCN, WUSA)from 1981 to 1994, then went to Denver for two years before coming to KMSP to anchor te news. KARE-TV (WTCN-TV) was an NBC affiliate starting in 1979.

[parachuteclubbed]

Wow. That same "11" was used with KHOU-11 in Houston. But OMG, Paul Douglas is just a baby back then! Precious! :)

[SS421982]

I used to serve him his Vanilla Latte every day. He's gone now, how kind of them to let him go while he was on vacation. Typical.

[jhshifris1]

@MGG75 Paul lived near me

[kawneekwa]

As a LGBT youth growning up in MPLS I remember how every time Paul Magers read a newstory about some LGBT event or new item, he would follow with some scary story about pedophiles and child abuse. Such balanced reporting. Paul Magers you be proud now, ha hear?

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[EricEbac22]

chibicelchan--

Yes; KARE has been affiliated with NBC since 1979 when the station was still known as WTCN; prior to that, they were a Metromedia owned and operated independent station, which they had been from 1971 until 1979.

[SciFiGuy1x]

Paul Magers is now at KCBS-TV 2 in Los Angeles.

[knke0402]

Jeff Passolt! Go SCSU!

[Lukelr]

WHAT THE HELL? You cut out the best par, this is the day of that huge Fridley tornado, which Magers was just going to talk about shortly after "we're tossing everything out the window right now..."

[godstenrules]

I didn't know that Paul Magers worked for KARE 11 back then i see him on CBS 2 here in southern california.

[Dodgerfn5]

I'm so glad we have Paul Magers @ KCBS here in Los Angeles. His low keyed delivery of the news is a facet to LA.

[sdragon21]

Jeff Passolt looked like a pimp back then.