Now that’s a great accomplishment these days; since nothing last like they used to. WDAY has been on the air for 70 years. They are located on 8th street South Fargo, few blocks from Main Avenue. Now 8th Street is one of the oldest streets in Fargo, North Dakota. If you travel down that street, you can find old mansions; because it was originally known as the rich area.

WDAY is partnered with The Forum; which is downtown on 1st avenue North, near Broadway.

Speaking of being located downtown near Broadway is Prairie Public Television; which is next to Radison Hotel.

Prairie Public is channel 13 and WDAY is channel 6, also known as the local ABC network.

I grew up watching WDAY; and you can say that I still watch WDAY today, at least for the local news and weather. I remembered watching Marv Bossart, who was the news anchor until he retired. Marv Bossart also taught journalism at Moorhead State University. Toward the end of his life, he had Parkinson. Dewey Bergquist did the weather. His full name was Albert Lloyd Dewey Bergquist. He is in the news because of his grandson, Phillip Dewey Bergquist, was murdered recently. I’m not saying that Dewey was always accurate with the weather; but he was fun to watch. At the end of the local evening news broadcast, Paul Harvey would give the rest of the story segment. I remembered liking those stories and you can even catch them on You Tube. Every once in a while I make reference to Paul Harvey and the rest of the story in my blog because of my fascination.

I’ll talk about other WDAY’s employees a little later. They must have a good working accord there; because people have stayed with WDAY a long time. Even some news personality figure from other networks had transfer over to WDAY. Robin Huebner, was once on KXJB-KVLY, left because of a discrimination lawsuit and joined WDAY . Also Steve Poitras can be seen once in a while on WDAY banking program. He used to be on KXJB.

KXJB, channel 4 used to be located on Main Avenue near West Fargo until they moved near Target on 13th Ave. That building is gone and KXJB has merge with KVLY, channel 11. They are located near the intersection off University Drive. They used to be known as KTHI before KVLY took over. KVLY owners was from Bismark and Minot.

The newest TV station is Fox, located near West Acres.

Back to WDAY, John Wheeler replaced Dewey Bergquist when he retired. John Wheeler is a short man, who does a lot of walking. He is also fun to watch; even though, like Dewey is not always accurate with the weather, but still better than the other local news stations.

Around 40 years ago, WDAY and KTHI, swapped network. At one time, WDAY was NBC and KVLY was ABC, still channel 6 and 11 though. The building stayed the same though. Due to the switch, Maureen Zimmerman and Ed Schultz also switched local network as well, since they were married at the time. You can check more on them in my blog on Ed Schultz; which is somehow the top blog for me.

Dana Mogck, who is now the news anchor for WDAY used to helped Ed Schultz with the sports until he eventually took over Ed Schultz job. Eventually, Dana Mogck took over for Marv Bossart as well. He has been with WDAY since 1983. Dana Mogck is married to Christina Gerhardson from Hawley, MN. She works for the NDSU bison staff. The connection I have with her was my classmate, Tim Gerhardson is her brother.

I do want to add that Maureen Zimmerman and Ed Schultz has a son, David Schultz who is more like his father rather than his mother. I feel sorry for him, because his mother was a nice lady. She gave me the advice, “get your foot in the door.” Now David Schultz is a local pro golfer who also can be seen on WDAY once in a while.

It’s good to see there are some things still remain the same; even as Fargo has grown and can be unrecognizable to someone who used to lived here but moved away. If you were to take a drive south on University Drive, the only business that is still in that part of town is the Bowler. Both Kmart and Quality Bakery is no longer there.

Another thing that has change in Fargo is the fact there was at least 5 hospitals in Fargo-Moorhead, St. Luke, St. Ansgar, St. John, Dakota, and the VA. Now there is just Sanford, Essentia, and the VA.

Congratulation once again to WDAY for being on the air for 70 years! That is wonderful! May they have many more years.