Roger erickson wcco bio

MINNEAPOLIS (KMSP) - At one point, more than half of the radios in the Twin Cities were tuned to the WCCO Radio morning show team of Charlie Boone and Roger Erickson.

Roger Erickson, WCCO’s Bozo the Clown has died.

Boone died in and now Erickson's voice is silenced. He died Monday night at his home in Plymouth at the age of

He loved Minnesota. He just loved the people he saw, said Dave Lee, currently the morning show host at WCCO. He was legitimately a really great person.

WCCO’s Roger Erickson dead at 89 - MPR News

And off the air, he just loved being a part of the state.

Roger Erickson started working at WCCO in and just a few years later he began the partnership with Charlie Boone that would become legendary.

Boy, they owned the market at a time when you could, Lee said. And now with social media and everything else, it&#x;s a different beast out there.

Boone and Erickson hosted together for 38 years, perhaps the longest running duo in radio history.

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