WDIO-TV
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Template:Infobox Broadcast WDIO-TV (channel 10, digital 43) and WIRT TV (channel 13, digital 36) are the ABC affiliates for North Central and Northeastern Minnesota. WDIO first went on the air on January 24, 1966. WIRT in Hibbing is a full time satellite station of WDIO. WIRT went on the air on September 1, 1967. WDIO news anchor Dennis Anderson has been with the station since 1970 and was the first local TV anchor to announce the sinking of the ore freighter Edmund Fitzgerald which sank in Lake Superior on November 10, 1975.
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