Below is a listing of stations available in the metro area. He was in the middle of hiring, and was looking for a deep, authoritative, network kind of voice; a sirupy, romantic voice; and a thrid, more youthful and jolly voice. In fact, I was just doing news in the mornings, when Scott was doing his morning show, and then one day, I secretly called his special phone line to record my imitation of Truman Capote, with a comment for Scott. The Twin City stations were all on the upper part of the dial at 1070, 1130, 1490, etc., but nothing below 1000. The team could not play high school and college teams, but would go out to small towns for exhibition games. In 1948 the Sepia Serenade show featured black recording stars, Mondays and Wednesdays from 6:15 to 6:45 pm. Personnel listed were: The stations format was described in the Yearbook as Urban Contemporary. The result of this was that our spot was on every radio station at the same time. Paul Magazine, August 1978, courtesy Jeff Lonto. Although the records say that KUXL was granted the license to increase its power to 1000 watts on October 1, 1963, Will Jones of the, Both KFMX 104.1 and KRSI 950 am flipped to Music of Your Life as KRSI AM-FM that day, with Don Shore as the Program Director and morning host. I have a few examples, but dont have the provenance they probably came from Jeff Lonto. In November 1962 the call letters were changed to KTWN. Authorization is only required to store your personal settings. Nearby Recently Sold Homes. Out on the East Coast listeners heard the original version by the Moonglows. Big Time TV left Chicago and so did Skotch, going out to the West Coast and working as a director until he decided to get out of the rat race and become his own boss. Thanks to all contributors. The music spanned the black musical spectrum, from bebop to pop, delta blues to Motown, Dixieland to the Philadelphia disco sound, said Adams. Another view of the Holiday Motor Hotel, Golden Valley, Jack Hyatt and Hugh Cardenas selecting records at the new studio in Golden Valley. In August 1957 the station claimed to be first with Twin Cities Housewives based on a telephone poll of 388 people. In 1954 and 55 Bob Bradley and Jerry Cunning played R&B tunes. Minneapolis Star, Thursday, August 20, 1964. When constructed, a Bloomington transmitter location made sense as there was little development to the south at the time. The format of the station is actually kind of ambiguous in this ad from the Minneapolis Daily Herald from September 13, 1962: Hear it Yourself Tune up to 1570 on your radio dial where you are never more than 2 minutes away from the Hi-Fi sound of good music, Associated Press news on the hour and half hour, latest in sports on the quarter hour. Storz also ended the affiliation with the Mutual network. 1130 AM: News/Talk: Clear Channel: KLBB: 1220 AM: American standards: Endurance Broadcasting, LLC . Kamman also hosted the Swing Club Program. In 1968 Red Owl changed the station policy from middle of the road to all request oldies to try for a high enough rating to at least make the property salable. Admission was 50 cents and open to teens age 16 and over. In March 1970, two engineers struck for higher pay and the disk jockeys honored the picket line. Preacher Paul (nee Ralph Hull) had come from KDWB and it appears that he was working at both stations until June 1965. [2] The station can also be heard on 107.1 KTMY's HD2 channel in the Twin Cities.[3]. Johnny Canton in the WDGY control room. A construction permit was granted to install a new transmitter and a permit was granted to increase power to 1kw on October 1, 1963. Wonderful WeeGee, home of the boss jocks like Johnny Canton, hit its stride in the 60s, competing neck and neck with KDWB. Published in the Star Tribune on 3/30/2008. This is a shot of the transmitter site of WDGY/1130AM radio, along 35W at about 102nd Street. The format changed from full-time Country & Western to a combination of Lombardo/Welk/etc. The decision was made to change to a Top 40/hard rock format, in contrast to what they saw as the rigid, bland presentation of other similar stations in town. The jocks shouted, snarled and chanted the KSTP slogan that was spilling from billboards and buses all over town, according to a 1977 Strib article. At that point, having lost the opportunity to peacefully arrest the young man, the police decided to use nightsticks to bar the door to the hall, keeping the people in. WDGY station changed to a country music format in September 1977, around the time when most music stations began shifting onto the FM band. Download Our Free iHeartRadio App! The schedule on December 30, 1971, shows Rhythm & Blues programming from 1pm until dark and 6 am until 6:45 am. Wednesday, February 10, 1965, was the first day the newspaper schedule showed Paul Anthonys name. The contributed recordings fromfriends and contributors of both airchecks and other material are greatly appreciated. WDGY, Rock and Roll Oldies Radio, playing the best oldies of the 1960s and 1970s for the Twin Cities! The new schedule kept the morning religious shows, which did have sponsors and paid the bills. They claimed to be running 5,000 watts. On the banner below is an outline of Downtown (St. He sold me (for the cost of materials and production time) the following: Dick Driscoll, The January '73 Charlie Van Dyke, George Young, Perry St. John, Tom Wynn, Hal Raymond, Dan Daniels, and the Various WDGY DJ (composite) clip. It had 5,000 watts, daytime only. The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. Okay, heres a puzzle. (Helicopters had to be replaced by limos when things got too dangerous.) (The name change from WISK was reflected in the radio listings in the newspaper on September 19.) WMIN was reassigned to the 1400kHz in 1941. Good New Show on KUXL: Saturday at 5:00 pm is the time to listen to all the old hits on Bill Blast Hits of the Past. The show, hosted by Al Collins of Music City, downtown Minneapolis, received good response from listeners. In April 1929 the frequency apparently became 1180. This is the place where "it pays to listen." WDGY at one time carried "The True Oldies Channel" programmed by New York City DJ Scott Shannon. The owners brought in Robert Purcell to inject life in the station, and a friend who booked Country & Western touring shows told him that the area was one of the top in the country. Hennepin Ave. at the Lyndale bottleneck looking north. Stronger, clearer than ever before. Heres one of the dune buggies. It now programs its oldies format along with local hosts in-house. The Future is Now (bbzztt) The Future is Y-11, At 3 pm, September 2, 1977, the station changed its format again, this time to country. Studio and Transmitter were at 611 Frontenac Place, St. Paul. Performers included: These groups were well known in clubs like King Solomons Mines where Soul music was a staple. Three informative features were broadcast every hour each day to draw attention to commercial messages. Call sign: WDGY Frequency: 740 AM City of license: Hudson, WI Format: Oldies Owner: WRPX Area Served: Minneapolis-St. Paul Sister stations: 94.9 El Rey Contact Address: 300 St Croix Trail S, Lakeland, MN 55043 Phone: (651) 436-4000 And so goes the history of one of our most obscure radio stations. Preacher Paul is a disc jockey. In a 1972 article the Insider noted the leaky roof and yellowed wallpaper at the aging studio in St. Louis Park. The following is from an email dated September 19, 2007, from Chuck Blore to Rick Burnett describing the Formula 63 and 63 Thats Easy to Remember promotions that Blore devised when KDWB first went on the air. Police said the wood snow fence frame beneath the paper had ignited at several points.. Im sorry the ad below is so hard to read. Alan Freed posted the photo below of WWTCs control center taken in 1981. The roof hadnt collapsed, but the rafters were charred black. (From the A. Mintz Collection), Lunch with Donald K. Martin, Former WDGY Newsman and Morning Show Co-Host. He truly loves the business. Out of reflex, I punched the 63 button and silence. The only coordination was (sometimes) the Pick Hit of The Week as a freebie to a record maker.. The new manager of operations was William Stewart, ironically replacing WPBC owner Bill (and wife Becky Ann) Stewart. The crowd moved west down 4th Street, smashing store windows, until they got to the Selby-Dale neighborhood, where many of the Citys 10,000 black people lived in what could only be described as a ghetto. I may get the dates wrong, but the devil is in the details and I am loaded with details. He recently celebrated 25 years at KFGO. No matter what I did, the signal was always distorted. WDGY can be heard around the clock on two FM translator stations: 92.1 W221BS from St. Paul and 103.7 W279DD from Hudson. Although the records say that KUXL was granted the license to increase its power to 1000 watts on October 1, 1963, Will Jones of the Tribune did not announce the approval until February 17, 1964. The station derives a portion of its programming from Scott Shannon 's The True Oldies Channel from ABC Radio. Then on Wednesday, July 8, 1964, were back to the old KUXL! Many thanks to Jeff Lonto, who is one of the Cities experts on radio history, for much of the information cited here. in Golden Valley, across from the Point Supper Club. Jack Hazlett was Station and Sales Manager, and Ralph R. Smith was Program Director. We dug up the Colonel, I called and told him what we had in mind. Optometrist George W. Young started radio station KMFT in 1923; his first broadcast was on January 13, 1924 from his house at 2219 N. Bryant. The KDWB Seven Swingin Gentlemen, 1960: Randy Cook, Dick Halverson, Bobby Dale, Sam Sherwood, Bob Friend, Lou Riegert, Hal Murray. Wonder what E.I.I. BB King performed at the Marigold on September 12, 1965. Those seven people included Mr. and Mrs. The switch to talk was gradual over two years. Doing the research for this page has taken all of my resources, from the all-important Facebook, Star Tribune, and Wikipedia, broken links, bad info and all. Its the swinginest!, In March 1958, WLOLs catchphrases were The Best Sound for Miles and Miles Around and Bigger, Better, Brighter than Ever.. The format changed to classical music in 1961. In 1957-58 WMIN put weekly ads in the Minneapolis Spokesman, the citys black-owned newspaper, urging readers to listen to Lou House, possibly the only black DJ in the market. Charlie Smith and Preacher Paul Sunday swing thing. They were born in St. Pauls Swede Hollow. This first tape was recorded of the radio on June 4, 1973 from 10 AM to 11:30 AM with the music and commercials out. On August 19, 1963, the stations license was voluntarily assigned to Edward D. Skotch. could get them on my Lloyds Transistor Six when the batteries were dead., I dated a girl who lived on Fremont Ave. between 101st & 102nd streets. More great stuff is on http://twincitiesradioairchecks.com/wdgy1130tapes.html. A 1969 shot of me (Rick Burnett a/k/a Rick Mason) when I was visiting the studio. WDGY Jocks teamed up with professionals Ed Kalafat, Bobby Cox, Jim Springer, and Corky Devlin, possibly former Minneapolis Lakers. Note that one of the attributes of the station mentioned in the ad above is Awards. Years later, I learned the reason why. The Colonel became famous and very rich. WDGY 1130 Tapes This Site Primarily Contains a Collection of Airchecks of Numerous Twin Cities (Minneapolis/St. Haines wrote: Rock and roll had a difficult entry into the Twin Cities market. (Minneapolis Tribune, January 2, 1973), For the first time since 1973, black music was again on the radio, with a new disc jockey named Pharoah Black (nee Thornton Jones). WDGY "The Original Rock and Roll Station" . I remember recording Rock Around the Clock from a WMIN broadcast on my Wilcox Gay recorder. Some of the airchecks are off reel to reel tapesthat were recorded off the air by the web site creator. Allegedly, the Stewarts would go so far as to use the sharp end of a compass to scratch away the grooves of tracks on albums that didnt meet their standards of nice music, in order to prevent rebellious D.J.s from playing them. As a courtesy, once we had been exposed, the agency called them apologetically offering to rescind the non-cancelable clause. Theres a ton of stories circulating about Top 40 began inspired by an Omaha tavern juke box, developed by a college statistical department, guided by BBDOs Hit Parade formula for Lucky Strike you name it. Nearby homes similar to 36 CORNICHE Dr Unit B have recently sold between $755K to $755K at an average of $665 per square foot. Donald K. Martin at the mic again for a July 7th, 2008 interview. As an example when your unpredictable Carson Rennie of 6-10 spins a yarn about Aunt Julias first trip to the Twin Cities. In 2008, the station became WDGY after sister station 630 AM switched to Regional Mexican music, using the call letters WREY. WCOW was a precursor to KDWB, so it must have been another station. MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA Format: T40. He also mentions his concern about working around a transmitter that could light up light bulbs without putting them in an electrical socket. This survey provided by Steve Raymer of the Pavek Museum of Broadcasting. Click on the following web address for the museum: http://www.pavekmuseum.org/2006HOF1.htm and click on the following address to see the museum's entire Hall of Fame: http://www.pavekmuseum.org/hall.htm. and an occasional Top 10 tune. In January 1956 Will Jones of the Trib talks about KEYD radios new staff of imported hillbillies, Texas Bill Strength and Johnny T. from Tennessee. Stuart A. Lindman with photos of Steve Cannon, Merle Hub Cap Edwards, and Bill Diehl, 1949. After a couple of changes the call letters became WDGY (Dr. George Young) in 1926. If you look carefully, you can see the old WDGY transmitter through the studio glass. Rick B. The turntables are in the left foreground. KDWB went off the air at 5:21 PM, Sunday Afternoon, and was back on the air on Tuesday. Image courtesy Alan Freed. The Strib is online now! We are a resilient species arent we? This is a shot of the transmitter site of WDGY/1130AM radio, along 35W at about 102nd Street. On December 20, 1977, a permit was approved to change the tower location to 5650 St. Croix Ave. in Golden Valley. and briefly Fred Osanna. Thats what caused the severe distortion, despite registering a 4 on my Wards Airline signal strength scale of 1 to 5. An October 1949 ad in the Trib called it The Northwest Empire Station and morning shows featured Irene and Lou, hillbilly favorites; Sschunemans Red Rooster Hour; and Johnny Aarthun, popular singer of old-country songs. I was first on so I got to choose radio station. History The WDGY callsign was used for another well-known station in the area from 1925 until 1991 and broadcast at 1130 kHz. When did they first hear this new music that some loved, some hated, some called just a fad, but few could ignore? The action was finally granted on July 19, 1961. The news is left in and you will hear about the big CPI index increase. WeeGee tended to be a little more conservative than KDWB reportedly even their staff wore suits and ties, but that has been disputed. I purchased some of the WDGY airchecks from collector Arron Mintz in Maine. Solomon Burke performed on May 28, 1965. Shows like Record Reville, Melody Mart, Platter Previews, The TNT Club, and mid-1955s Hot Corner dont give us much to go on as to their format. In late 1976/early 1977, the station rebranded itself as Y-11 (never losing its WDGY call letters) and switched to a progressive rock, album-oriented format. And he skipped out on the landlord, too. Remember that this website only goes up to 1974, and I did do a thorough search on Newspapers.com for KUXL and other offshoots. Everyone seemed to be just milling about. That UP radio uplift all the way. Well hear more from Preacher Paul down below. I do know that Nancy Rosens name is spelled wrong. It has been my opinion that a big lightning storm in July 1989 was an excuse for the station to shut down operation. Interestingly enough, in my KUXL file I found an article from the Minneapolis Spokesman, the black communitys weekly newspaper, dated December 26, 1958. On the second tape from 1971, I noticed Bob Dayton has some spots with a county twang. From about 1955 to 1977, the station played popular music and was one of the most popular stations in the area, primarily competing for music listeners with KSTP 1500 and KDWB 630, though WCCO 830 was the major force of the day with a mixture of music, talk, and farm reports. Image courtesy Jeff Lonto, Adult Standards, February 1980 to 1982. One more testament to the sheer effective radiated power in WDGYs nighttime lobe. The article in the Star Tribune outlined the new program: Drew Durigan: I DID hear them very well in 1988 as KMAP. The Wolfman died on July 1, 1995. The contributer, 'wild wilson' a/k/a as'wildman' has his onw internet polka radio show. FM. CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE, 1969 photo of Jim Dandy at the control board in the Bloomington studios, Jay J. It was perhaps the only American commercial radio station the Russians had to jam to prevent their people from hearing all that decadent American Rock & Roll! There, at 63, where no Minnesotan had gone before. Its unclear when KSTP started playing rock n roll. And you can try it today. We ought to get him to tell people about how good things are when you reach 63. We asked them what WPBC should be playing and it was almost unanimous that we should play the Top 40, rock and roll I remember that the No. Found on Radiotapes.com: Ballad of Minnesota!. The station was fined $10,000 in March 1961 for exceeding its authorized power in nighttime operations. Thought I would share. Storz also ended the affiliation with the Mutual network. OUR SURVEYS FOR WDGY; . Heres a photo of the KANO VW bus from July 1963, with his wife, sister, and daughter. He's So Fine - Chiffons 9 5. By 1957 KSTP was squarely on the rock n roll bandwagon, but got off pretty quickly. 1 Bath. He didnt want to scare people away, and he wanted to lure sponsors to the program. Program directors like me used the more exclusive Gavin Report from Bill and Janet Gavin in San Francisco. On other pages of this site I also have some airchecks (in addition to tape from my personal collection)I obtained directly from others. The call letters were also WLOL. The feeling seemed to be we are not going to advertise on that station., Jim Ramsburg, an early WDGY jock, says we were given strict orders never to utter the phrase, Rock & Roll, because it was black slang for sex. Every sixth song was current. At that time, the Twin Cities had only about nine stations, all AM, of course, with WCCO being the powerhouse. The Stewarts took a rather conservative approach in programming the station. The photos of the 45 come from Discogs.com, which says that it was recorded in 1965, but that doesnt compute with whats below. Its called, Formula 63. The Twin Cities has many FM and AM radio stations. This aircheck has the music scoped out, but the commercials and promos are left in, providing a glimpse into the times. For some country airchecks from 1963 and for two Music Surveys from 1974, see http://twincitiesradioairchecks.com/ktcrfmtapes.html, For several Music Surveys from the early 1970s, see http://www.radiotapes.com/surveys.html. In a column dated January 24, 1954, Will Jones of the Trib called Cannon a Hep Talking radio disk jockey.. (Storz died in 1964 at age 39.) WDGY's longtime Top 40 format came to an end at 3 pm, September 2, 1977. The DJ on the air, Ron Block, noticed the pall of smoke in the hallway and left the building. Mort Garren left but stayed on at KMSP-TV, so apparently he was working at both places. A spokesman for the station said: Were promoting a better brand of music because we believe that most teenagers are getting tired of rock n roll. Jimmy was good friends with Tac Hammer, who was working at request radio KRSI at the time and also a former KDWB-AM jock. The Lucky Lou program was on Sundays and was described as Jazz and Bits and Pieces of Music.. Minneapolis has been kind of a combination rat race and three ring circus since the New WDGY started, but the tremendous amount of work being done is paying off in increased ratings and business every month. A memo to the staff from Todd Storz dated May 28, 1956 singles out the gang at WDGY for a job well done. CopyrightWDGY Radio. He actually bought the time from KUXL himself and sold commercials to pay for it. Along with enough news to give you information, but not anxiety. I dont recall if he spent 21 days up there, but it was a while. A KDWB Fabulous Forty survey that Don donated to the Pavek Museum of Broadcasting called the shack a four-story-high flag pole playhouse. John Pratt saved an article from the Minneapolis Star reporting that four hoodlums set the crepe-paper wrapping on the 40-ft. pole on fire. Or so reported the Minneapolis Star the next day. Our service costs about the same if you brought in that supertalented program director. Plus you eliminate the stuck records, scratchy music, the jarring jock. It was payback time. In 1983 the station was sold to John and Kathleen Parker. Luxurious digs, no? says Curt. The turntables (pre-historic CD players) are out of the shot to his left side. It wasnt long before the radio stations heard about the fact that they were advertising a competing radio station. The next morning we were all there and I still remember seeing Howie Anderson shoveling the wreckage out the engineering entrance. CLICK ON IMAGES TO ENLARGE, WDGY Donald K. Martin contributed this undated from the late 60's - early 70's. KDWBs listeners were gradually migrating to the FM signal. There were other ways for Twin Citians to hear pre-WDGY rock n roll, of course: Records from Melodee Record Shop in Downtown Minneapolis, movies like Blackboard Jungle, and live performances of pop, jazz, and country acts. After a brief shutdown in 1993 due to business failure and the sale of WRPX, the station picked up the vacated WMIN call sign, which had a long history in the market. The 1989 Broadcasting Yearbook reported that the station was now owned by Newport Broadcasting. Ive been ignoring this station because I couldnt believe that Bill and Becky Ann would ever broadcast anything resembling rock n roll, but listen to this, from an article of the TV section of the Minneapolis Tribune, September 7, 1969: Anybody who has heard WPBC in recent years might have found it ludicrous to have listed to founder-owner Bill Steward the other morning as he remembered the tough radio days of 1954 and 1955. We do know that the station was playing rock n roll from the WMIN Top 40 dated August 4, 1958. This was on the grounds of the U.S. Silver Fox Farm, at the very northern border of the Village.The document below is the application to move the transmitter in 1927. After the news, you will hear the Charlie and Don jingle into the music. They kept the WYOO call letters, to avoid the hassle and long process of changing call letters with the FCC. The station was owned by the Peoples Broadcasting Company, founded by former WCCO announcer Bill Stewart and his wife Becky Ann. And, I can confirm that the man was everything his name implied: he was Little (411 tall), Jimmy (for James Cecil), and he admittedly was full of the Dickens. But thats another story. The frequency was originally 1140 kc. And although this page is about the AM station, what the heck. At the time it was programming Classical music. It will be historical and contemporary, sweet, hot, lowdown, enlightened Chicago style or very cool. Eight Miracle Mile merchants sponsored the program. . There were many parts of our regular signal area where we were missing. In the July 2, 1967, edition of the TMC Insider, we learn that KDWB went off the air last Friday when a 50-foot tower was blown down and fell on top of the stations studios. The show, Pharoah Blacks Soul Til Sundown, began on May 1, 1975, and ran from 7 pm until sundown. 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