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Yahoo
08-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
WCCO Radio reverses course, reinstates The Henry Lake Show
The Henry Lake Show has been saved at 830 WCCO-AM, with the station reversing course a day after announcing it would be canceled. A memo to staff from parent company Audacy obtained by Bring Me The News revealed Friday that Henry Lake and producer Chris Tubbs "will continue in their roles on WCCO Radio." Twenty-four hours earlier, a memo sent to Audacy Twin Cities staff explained that WCCO-AM was eliminating all local programming, with the exception of Minnesota Twins games, after 6 p.m. Lo and behold, Lake and Tubbs were back on the air Friday. "Has the last 36 hours been a little bit awkward? Not gonna sit here and lie," Lake said in the opening moments of his show Friday. "I am thankful. I am happy to be here. Happy to be speaking with you. Happy to be doing a show to all of you on this iconic radio station." The reversal comes amid a series of sweeping cuts unfolding from parent company Audacy, with Radio Insight reporting that between 250 and 300 staff across the country could be laid off. Lake called the experience a "roller coaster of emotions." "We know that there were some national layoffs yesterday, and I want to note that because we know that industries all over the country are going through some rough times—and radio is not immune to that. I've got colleagues in other markets that unfortunately lost their jobs, and for a short time yesterday, it looked like me and Chris were in that same situation," Lake explained. "I feel gratitude. I'm thankful that we've got good leadership here at WCCO, and the higher-ups appreciate me and Chris." Lake has been at WCCO-AM for six years, having previously been employed at Twin Cities-based KFAN-FM 100.3 and at a station in Kansas City.
Yahoo
28-01-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara calls Trump pardons of Jan. 6 rioters 'disgusting'
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara said he is "disgusted" by the recent pardons by President Donald Trump of 1,500 Jan. 6 insurrectionists – some of whom assaulted Capital police officers. O'Hara was a guest on WCCO Radio's Chad Hartman's show on Monday, re-affirming an opinion piece he penned for the Star Tribune when he stated the move was a "slap in the face" to law enforcement and their families. He also posted on social media, saying the mass pardoning "dishonors" the sacrifice made by police officers who defended the Capitol during the rioting on Jan. 6, 2021, as Trump supporters sought to overturn the election of Joe Biden as president. "It was just very disturbing to me how quickly this happened," O'Hara told Hartman. "It's seemingly just glossed over. Violence against police, particularly on the level that happened that day that cannot be excused and it absolutely cannot be normalized." O'Hara was serving as the Public Safety Director in Newark, New Jersey when supporters of Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. He cited the death of Officer Brian Sicknick, a New Jersey native who was working for the Capitol police at the time of the riot. He suffered a medical emergency during a struggle with rioters, dying at a hospital the following day. O'Hara also mentioned the four officers who responded on Jan. 6 that committed suicide in the months that followed. "Everybody has seen images of what happened down there. Officers being choked, being stuck and pinned in doorways, beaten with — after they had their police shields and batons taken from them — beaten with American flags and metal poles," O'Hara said. "It's disgusting. We are in a very, very sad state of when people are following their politics to an extreme as if it is a religion where they can actually just excuse these pardons. It's disgusting and everyone should be speaking out against it." Of the 1,500 people convicted or facing charges over their involvement in Jan. 6 that are now receiving pardons or commuted sentences, 15 are from Minnesota. One of them, Brian Mock of Minneapolis, had already been convicted of assaulting four police officers. The U.S. Justice Department said more than 140 police officers were assaulted in the riot. Financial losses from the Capitol siege exceeded $2.8 million in property damage.
