Tonight WDSE Channel 8, the PBS station in northern Minnesota and Wisconsin, announced that beloved retired WDIO Channel 10 (ABC) anchor Dennis Anderson will assume duties as the new co-host of Almanac North. This is a weekly news magazine that does a fine job of exploring the region’s headlines. It serves in the shadows of the larger TPT Almanac program in the Twin Cities, but you’ll enjoy the quirky charm of a less shiny set.
Anderson, the most recognized and respected TV journalist in the region’s history, will be a superb co-host with Julie Zenner. He replaces Darren Danielson, who took his old job at WDIO. Denny gets one more of these before he gets the Favre label.
4 responses to “Dennis Anderson named co-host of Almanac North”
It must be just focused on the northeast. Lakeland television doesn’t carry it (Bemidji/Brainerd). I didn’t even know it existed.
It’s a production of WDSE in Duluth. I am speaking of the Duluth TV market. I always see you guys as more of a central or north central region. But I’m not trying to cause geographic friction. 🙂
It is good to see programming originating outside the Twin Cities. I enjoy Almanac (I watched it from its first year to 1988 when I left for the service and then resumed 20 years later) but it is Twin Cities-centric.
I hope this is an opportunity for him to cut loose. There used to be other adults on the 10 o’clock show, and often, somebody would tell a joke or do something funny during commercial. They would be laughing so hard coming out of the last break that he could barely say “be kind”!