Categories: OLD Media Moves

Minneapolis-St. Paul to get biz news TV show

Greater MSP, the Twin Cities-wide economic development group, will air a weekly television show hosted by former news anchor Cyndy Brucato that will highlight area businesses and business leaders.

Sam Blackof the Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal writes, “The show, called ‘Greater MSP Business,’ will be broadcast Sunday mornings on KSTP-TV, Channel 5, starting on Sunday, Dec. 16.

“Three sponsors for the show are U.S. Bank, the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management and PricewaterhouseCoopers, said Gita Sitaramiah, a spokeswoman for Greater MSP. The target audience will be people interested in business news, including residents and business leaders, she said.

“Brucato, a former anchor on KSTP, also was deputy chief of staff for Minnesota Gov. Arne Carlson in the early 1990s and worked for U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman. According to her bio, she runs a consulting firm with her husband called Brucato & Halliday.

“Greater MSP announced its plans for the show during its first birthday party Monday at the Guthrie Theater.”

Read more here.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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