The Morning News with Vineeta Sawkar

After a fun morning of chatting with just a handful of the legends who graced the airwaves of WCCO Radio recapped their time with the station and even serenaded the crowd with one collective ‘Good Morning’ sing along to cap it off! 

It has been a rough run as of late for the Twins lately, but bench coach Jayce Tingler joined us on Twins First Pitch to talk about this team hoping to turn it around and stay in the hunt for the strengthening AL Central and shared some of his must-haves at the Fair!

A cast of many in attendance at the WCCO Radio booth to witness the triumphant return of Minnesota Hospital LIVE on stage featuring the addition of Vineeta Sawkar and Steve Simpson as supporting cast!

Before the big performance, Dave Lee sits down with Vineeta to talk about the story behind Minnesota Hospital! 

Not a good night for the Gophers as they struggled with scoring outside of some field goals and it ended up costing them as they missed a game-winning field goal losing to North Carolina at Huntington Bank Stadium starting their season 0-1 and we get Henry Lake's reaction to the loss. 

The radio icons keep piling on as Mike Lynch and Tim Russell joined Vineeta! Both grew up listening to WCCO Radio and then got to work there.  Mike Lynch was broadcasting live from Tower Minnesota as we set an all time record low mark of -60 on February 2nd, 1996.   Tim Russell was on WCCO Radio and was our entertainment reporter during things like the Opening of Planet Hollywood. Appeared in the Film Prairie Home Companion, that filmed while he was working at WCCO Radio.

Over 3 decades in the newsroom at WCCO Radio, Eric Eskola and Steve Murphy covered everything from Gorbachev's visit to 9/11 to the 35W bridge collapse - they experienced it all in the moment. Both men were kind enough to join Vineeta on stage to share some stories!

He grew up in western Minnesota listening to WCCO Radio, and would then go on to work at WCCO Radio for 39 years so our Sawkar Salute was easy saluting WCCO Radio 830 Day as well as the dedicated work of Bruce Hagevik on this station!

Keeping AM radio in cars has been an ongoing battle and we had former WCCO program director and current Director of Operations and Member Services for the Minnesota Broadcasters Association about the importance AM radio plays in our lives and in our cars! 

It is a legendary year for WCCO Radio and one of the legendary voices many have heard on Twins broadcasts is John Gordon, he joins Vineeta for our Twins First Pitch to recap his amazing career behind the mic, some of his best memories of WCCO Radio as well as some of the best moments he had the honor to call!