 It's 1249 here on Minnesota Now. It was on this very date, July the 1st, 1949. It marks the date that WCCO television went on the air 75 years ago. WCCO is known as WTCN-TV before the station merged with legendary radio station WCCO and became WCCO-TV. At that time, there were about 60,000 TV sets in the entire Twin Cities area. A person responsible for shaping the station throughout the second half of the 20th century was Ron Hanberg.