KDUZ
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| City | Hutchinson, Minnesota |
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| Slogan | "Your Information Station" |
| Frequency | 1260 kHz |
| First air date | September 16, 1953 |
| Format | News/Talk |
| Power | 1,000 watts (day) 64 watts (night) |
| Class | D |
| Facility ID | 49124 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 44°54′24″N 94°21′59″W / 44.90667°N 94.36639°W |
| Affiliations | Citadel Media, Westwood One |
| Owner | Iowa City Broadcasting Company, Inc. |
| Sister stations | KARP-FM |
| Website | kduz.com |
KDUZ (1260 AM) is a radio station licensed to serve Hutchinson, Minnesota, United States. The station, which began broadcasting in 1953, is currently owned by Iowa City Broadcasting Company, Inc.
KDUZ broadcasts a news/talk radio format to a ten-county area of southern Minnesota, including western Minneapolis. Local programming includes traffic reports, funeral announcements, local news updates, sports, weather, and a tradio program called "KDUZ Swap Shop". Network newscasts are taken from ABC News, the Minnesota News Network, and the Associated Press.
Weekend programming includes four different Lutheran church services on Sunday morning. Sunday afternoon programming includes Polka Parade with Lester Schuft, Polka-bration hosted by Chuck Thiel, and "It's Polka Time" with Craig Ebel. Syndicated financial shows on Saturday include The Bruce Williams Show and Bob Brinker's Moneytalk.
This station began its licensed broadcast operations on September 16, 1953, serving Hutchinson, Minnesota, with 1,000 watts of power, daytime-only on a frequency of 1260 kHz. The new station was assigned the call sign KDUZ by the Federal Communications Commission.
KDUZ was initially owned by a partnership of brothers Albert Tedesco, Victor Tedesco, and Nicholas Tedesco operating as the McLeod County Broadcasting Company. Ted Hanson served as the station's first program director with Howard Nordine as news director and Albert Tedesco as general manager. In 1955, Heinz Fruck took over the general manager role, a job he held into the 1980s.
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