For those interested in the early history of WCCO radio in Minneapolis, the May 1925 issue of Radio Age carried a feature on the station as it was 90 years ago. The station had just put into service its new 5000 watt transmitter, what the magazine called “one of the super broadcasting units.” It also noted that the Minneapolis studios at the Nicollet Hotel were “said to be the equal both in equipment and elegance of anything in the country.”

In addition to the Minneapolis studio, the station had just begun construction of a studio in St. Paul, which would probably be “the most unique location of any studios in the world, for they will be in Saint Paul’s handsome new Union Depot used by nine railroads.”

The transmitter was at the station’s current transmitter location, 18 miles northwest of Minneapolis in Anoka. Special telephone lines connected the studios and transmitter.

The station had come on the air in October 1924, using the equipment of the former WLAG.

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