Grant Departs KTTC

By Michael Malone
( Broadcasting & Cable )
published

Wednesday is Dennis Grant’s last day at KTTC Rochester, Minn., as the longtime news director departs the NBC affiliate for Fox O&O KMSP Minneapolis . Grant is credited with bringing together KTTC and Fox outlet KXLT to form a joint newsroom in 2001--one of the first such agreements of its kind.

Grant will produce KMSP’s 10 p.m. news starting Sunday, according to a station spokesperson. Back in 1999, he helped launch KXLT’s 9 p.m. newscast.

According to Rochester’s Post Bulletin, KTTC also lost morning anchor Jeremiah Jacobsen, who took a position in Florida last week.

Michael Malone
Michael Malone

Michael Malone, senior content producer at B+C/Multichannel News, covers network programming, including entertainment, news and sports on broadcast, cable and streaming; and local broadcast television. He hosts the podcasts Busted Pilot, about what’s new in television, and Series Business, a chat with the creator of a new program, and writes the column “The Watchman.” He joined B+C in 2005. His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Playboy and New York magazine.