R.I.P.: Veteran ND, MN Radio/TV Personality Jim Rohn

Jim Rohn

Jim Rohn, whose broadcasting career on the airwaves in North Dakota and Minnesota spanned almost seven decades, died Monday.

He was 88-years-of-age, according to Inforum.com.

Rohn got his start in 1946 on the radio at KSJB-AM in Jamestown following his service in World War II.

After a few years, he moved to Fargo when sister station KXJB-TV was launched, where he was a fixture for many years as a weatherman, among other roles.

He was known to viewers who grew up in the 1950s and 1960s as “Captain Jim,” his persona in a children’s show, a name that stuck among viewers of a certain age for years afterward.

Rohn’s career took him to KCMT-TV in Alexandria, Minn., in 1972, where he worked as a weatherman for 18 years. He returned to his radio roots in 1990, when he joined the morning team at KIKV-FM in Sauk Centre, MN, where he stayed until retiring in December 2014.

“He loved coming to work every day, but his age and his health caught up with him,” Dave Vagle, general manager at KIKV 100.7 FM said Wednesday.

Rohn’s decades on the airwaves, and the connections he made with viewers and listeners, made him a revered figure to many.