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Dec 10, 2013 · Original: Dec 10, 2013. They don't make 'em like Jack McKenna anymore. The Duluth News Tribune reported that McKenna, one of northern Minnesota's earliest, most versatile and most enduring TV and radio personalities, died Sunday of natural causes. He was 91. The Northland's News Center, one of the stations where McKenna held court on the ...
Dec 14, 2013 · Jack McKenna passed away on December 8, 2013 at the age of 91. Jack McKenna was fondly remembered as Captain Q on WDSM in the sixties. Captain Q commanded a pirate ship and featured Laurel and Hardy shorts and cartoons like Casper, Popeye, and Little Lulu. He had a rubber parrot named Angus, as well as a chimp named Shortcake.
Dec 10, 2013 · Jack could do weather like nobody else,” Simonson said. “He’d talk to you. He connected. He had fun with it. He made remarks that were silly, but never stupid. People loved Jack McKenna. He was their weatherman.” McKenna was a weatherman at WDIO-TV in the 1960s and 1970s and worked at KBJR-TV in the 1980s.
We received word from KUWS radio's Mike Simonson, on the Radio Superior Facebook page, that longtime Twin Ports radio and TV personality Jack McKenna died Sunday, Dec. 8 at age 91. Longtime Duluth TV weatherman and news host Jack McKenna has died at age 91. He also played the children's TV show character "Captain Q."
Mar 12, 2014 · Jack McKenna, 91, died peacefully on Dec. 8th. Jack was born in Duluth to Georgiana and John Maltby. He graduated from Denfeld in 1940 and was later inducted into the Denfeld Hall of Fame.
Dec 14, 2013 · Jack McKenna was a broadcast legend in northern Minnesota. He is best remembered as the weatherman at WDIO and KBJR in Duluth. McKenna is remembered by young children as Captain Q in Duluth and Sgt. Scotty in Minneapolis. He also hosted horror movies as Professor Fantastic on WDIO. McKenna was born August 13, 1923 […]
Dec 9, 2013 · WDIO. · December 9, 2013 ·. Jack McKenna, one of the original weatherman on WDIO/WIRT, has died at age 91. Do you remember his weathercasts and memorable sponsor commercials?
