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WUCW is a television station licensed to Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, serving the Twin Cities area as an affiliate of The CW. Owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, the station maintains studios
The purchase of Grass Lake (above) as public land by Ramsey County set back the construction of channel 23 for nearly a decade.
"Team23: It's the best we can do." A December 1987 advertisement for KTMA's 23rd Annual New Year's Eve Extravaganza, with Kevin Murphy as "reporter"/emcee Bob (Bagadonuts).
A standup comedian, inventor and prop comic, Joel Hodgson created the cult comedy series Mystery Science Theater 3000 for KTMA in late 1988.
Since 2018, WUCW's studios have been located in the Pence Automobile Company Building.
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Joel Gordon Hodgson is an American writer, comedian, and television actor. He is the creator and star of the television series Mystery Science Theater 3000. In 2007, MST3K was listed as "one of the to
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…manager Jim Mallon sought to fill a gap in the Sunday night line-up, he talked to his contacts in the local comedy community and ended up meeting Joel Hodgson, who had a warehouse in the same building as office space Mallon was using at the time. After a successful lunch meeting with Mallon to produce a new…
Hodgson at Dragon Con in Atlanta, August 2008