He’s been associated with a spoken word AM radio station associated with CBS Radio since it purchased the property in 1932 from General Mills. Now, he has officially retired from the property that is today owned by Soros Fund Management-controlled Audacy Inc.
Denny Long‘s tenure extends back to August 16, 1971, and with the conclusion of the Smart Garden Radio Hour on Saturday morning (5/30), he formally concluded his time with WCCO-AM in Minneapolis.
Long co-hosted the show with Julie Weisenhorn, and the two had been paired since 2013. However, he was first brought to the station in its Full Service years as Music Director. In a WCCO interview, he said, “I think initially when when I first got hired, I walked through those doors, I was working at a radio station that had maybe 15 people. But it took me two weeks to get introduced to all the staff, 100 and some people at ‘CCO Radio back then. And it still amazes me, we had a receptionist 24/7 back then … 24/7! Just meeting all these people, great people, great voices, and then seeing all the stars, the authors, TV people, you name it, they were coming in and out of that door so often, it was quite impressive.”…