Word: kstp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...advance reservation; most of them were signed up for the rest of the season. Izaak Waltons from towns like Bemidji, Sleepy Eye and Sauk Center got out their flies and corks, all hell bent to catch one of the 1 ,000 prize fish planted by Minneapolis Radio Station KSTP...
...best summer stunt in radio. This week, as the fish contest reached the halfway mark, KSTP was the most talked-about station in the Northwest. Minnesotans tuned in every Friday...
Stanley Hubbard, KSTP's sport-loving president, had hatched the scheme, while itching to get into the woods last spring. He rustled the 1,090 fish (sunfish, bass, walleyed pike, crappies) from the state conservation department. Marked with numbered, metal jaw tags, the fish were planted well before the season opened...
...Remedy? Said KSTP President Stanley E. Hubbard last week: "Petrillo has demonstrated to the world that he has more power [than the War Labor Board]. . . . We therefore have capitulated . . . to his demands that we employ men under contract regardless of whether or not we need them. . . . The remedy to this situation lies in the legislative branch of our government...
...began when the Minneapolis musicians' local opened negotiations for a new contract by insisting that KSTP hire a minimum of eight staff musicians, three record turners. The dispute went to the War Labor Board. While awaiting a decision, the station got a restraining order to forestall a strike threat. Petrillo met that by ordering a strike, which worked. The Minneapolis court issued a warrant for Petrillo's arrest, which did not work: he stayed out of Minneapolis...