After over five decades in broadcasting, WCCO’s Al Schoch is hanging up the headphones for good this week and retiring. He’s been with WCCO Radio as a broadcast journalist since 2014.
A native of Stroudsburg, in Pennsylvania’s Poconos Mountains. Schoch’s career took him to numerous spots around the U.S. before a 30-year run in the Twins Cities.
“When you have a career this long, you think about the top moment,” Schoch reflected, speaking to the WCCO Morning News with Vineeta Sawkar this week. “This is it right here because I survived all these years. And I’m retiring on my own terms. That’s very rare for a lot of businesses and so I just think it’s, looking back, an extreme accomplishment what I’ve put together over these years.”…