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There were many parts of our regular signal area where we were missing. The address of the first transmitter and main studio was 7711 Sixth Ave. No. In an article in the February 1972 Insider, Tom Murtha noted that Glover was the prime mover in bringing more diversified programming to local radio. Glover was not the first to present underground music in the Twin Cities when he took on the overnight shift in 1969, George Fisher at KQRS had already been playing a diverse selection of underground rock, jazz, blues and comedy (Firesign Theatre, Cheech and Chong) for a couple of years. The why behind a cheeseburger. We looked at each other for a long time. Jeff Lonto: KDAN was depicted as an FM underground rock station, the complete opposite of what it actually was. The best of what youre about to give up on WWTC is what we play all the time on KEEY. While there were clearly some country/western shows Saturday Hoedown and Western Favorites and perhaps some old-time songs Tin Pan Allan was on a lot there were others with intriguing names: Ralph (Smith) and His Records, Top Tunes, (Judys) Juke Box, and Your Rhythm Review. Tune to the wtcn 1280 signal. Brother Al Tedesco wanted to call it WPIG or WHOG, but Vic protested the barnyard connotation. People walking by the facility at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds would comment, what is this? U100 the twin cites powerhouse playing top 40 and album rock from the speakers with no one in the booth! Courtesy Jeff Lonto. In May 1961 it was purchased by Red Owl Stores, Inc. which was seeking diversified subsidiaries. A Hammond RK4 reverberation unit has been ordered The echo unit will be .. controlled by push buttons installed at the news table and console. Reinhard Steinley became the first General Manager of WCOW on July 1, 1951. When did they first hear this new music that some loved, some hated, some called just a fad, but few could ignore? On October 16, 1964, Will Jones announced that: Jazzman Rio Pardo has undertaken a new KUXL show, heard at 10:30 am each Saturday and Sunday, called Flying Along With Rio. He stresses soul-jazz and airs a bulletin-board feature for the Negro community. Sherwood and the rest were at their antic best, cooking up contests and announcing test answers to kids. Because AM 740 is a Canadian clear channel frequency, WDGY is a daytime-only station. On May 27, 1965, Will Jones noted that with Daylight Savings Time and sundown getting later Billy G would be able to wail with the records from Cassius Bar until 9 pm. The Catman was Tom Bernard who at one time was a record rep (Capitol Records, I think). In September 1956 a Will Jones item in the Trib referred to WMIN as the anti-Presley station, with a DJ called Alice Presley playing Benny Goodman records. At least 48 times a day, if you happened to be tuning across the dial at that exact time all you could hear was the Colonel saying, You remember me? Johnny Canton in the main WDGY Control Room (1970's), WDGY's Donald K. Martin at the newsroom mic. The report of the St. Paul Urban Coalition, headed by Arthur S. Fleming, President of Macalester College, was released in March 1969 and echoed the first but was much more detailed and damning. Address : PO Box 25130 St Paul, MN 55125. The team could not play high school and college teams, but would go out to small towns for exhibition games. Lord Jeffrey, (Jeff Diamond) came to work at KUXL in 1967, when he was about 15 years old. SOLD JUN 14, 2022. It discussed an article in the December 3, 1958 issue of Variety, in which Richard J. Miller, president of St. Louis radio station KXLW claimed that: most Negro emphasis radio is a cheap insult to Negroes, a source of self-generated bigotry, religious quackery, charlatanism, and a wallow of ugly, primitive and harmful sounds. From 1973 to 1976 it was strictly Country. This get together included Jim du Bois, currently CEO and President of the Minnesota Broadcasters Association & formerly of KTCR-FM, WDGY, & K102, Mike Cunningham, former KTCR-FM Operations Manager, and myself, Rick Burnett (also formerly of KTCR-FM).Don talks about his early days in Iowa and tells how very disappointed his mother was when Don failed to get a job at country station KTCR-AM in 1963; instead he got a job at KDWB. Oh so many levels. The first of the stations catchphrases was My Mommy Listens to KDWB., Ad from September 19, 1959 courtesy Jeff Lonto. 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. The station signed on with a cowbell. Over the next few days, the cleaning and repairing continued. TeleVue magazine, 1980. Seven ways to listen:FM 92.1, FM 103.7, AM 740, FM 107.1 HD2, Live Stream at WDGYradio.com, Smart Speakers through TuneIn and the WDGY Phone App. Special thanks to Jim du Bois for the use of the recording studio & to Donald K. Martin and Mike Cunningham for spending timein the interest to preserve some of the Twin Cities radio history. We plan to have him on two hours Saturday and two hours Sunday. The competition clobbered WDGY, which succumbed in 1977. By 1981 it was back to Country, testified by Chris McKay: In 1981 I had just graduated from Brown Institute, and was the CHIEF ENGINEER at KDAN AM 1370! The country format continued until 1989, when it became "News Talk 1130, WDGY". It had only 250 watts. See www.radiotapes.com/WDGY.html for airchecks and much more, including the very entertaining history of the station written by Haines. Whats especially weird about this photo is that it was posted to Facebook by Scott Kramer, who says: I am vacationing in Kauai and a person at our Luau had this in their camera. Wayne Red Williams was Station Manager and Ray Christensen was Program Director. WLOLs Swing Club had Dan Anderson on Saturdays from noon to 6 pm., also Top 40 and then some.. In 1974 the Wolfman was into many projects, including a weekly syndicated show that was broadcast here on KDWB. The Strib is online now! Jim Ramsburg says that in 1956 we pulled our own music from the big record library with no rules or restrictions. Curtis J Johnson, formerly of WDGY. To this day I am still impressed that a major country western and Grand Ole Opry star would drive all the way out to Anoka just to visit with someone who played country-western music for only 55 minutes a day. Listen to Paul Geiger in the morning! WCOW was renamed WISK in May 1956, and affiliated with the Mutual network, late of WDGY. No matter what I did, the signal was always distorted. But also Doris Day, Dean Martin, and Patti Page. The station again went dark, this time for good, but when? The daytimer station was authorized for 1,000 watts. On October 3, 1955, an ad boasted that the station would play more music and had a new record library. Donuts Douglas (news man) Later on, the following talent also became a part of the station: Jerry St. James, Mesa Kincaid, Patrick M. Cookin' McKay, Chucker Morgan, and Jo Jo Gunne. The Wolfman died on July 1, 1995. It changed its format to Golden Rock on October 1, 1979. After he left WDGY, he actually called me a few times from his new position in Washington DC to have me do some bits for him over the phone. Its dead, it just sits there. The text of the ad below, which comes courtesy of Jeff Lonto, reads: WLOLs catchy UP radio flavor has a way of titillating you with surprises. And, Im sure it was after checking with their attorney, one by one they dropped our little campaign. At every Provident Drug Store (not the real name) was a giant stack of tiny boxes beneath a huge sign saying, Free Samples of Formula 63. This month the losses should be fairly slight and we have every hope that June will see the station in the black for the first time in a long time. 980 AM was originally staid WPBC from 1949 to 1972. A history of the station prepared much later explained that: In 1956 the owners of WLOL AM added one of the first FM stations. 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. The names of the programs may give an indication of what the station was like, apparently dispensing a lot of wisdom and advice. 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. They were to buy only where they could get exactly the same guaranteed times on all stations at one time. Much More Music is simply that WDGY played, and is playing, more music with the bright pace of the modern sound. Hobart also announced the increase in power. Rock continued to do well in Minneapolis in the eighties. Not sure where the photo above came from. Ironically, he then started the next record, Na Na Kiss Him Goodbye by Steam and once again left the building. WDGY gained the (perhaps unfortunate) nickname Weegee after a time. Fan Feed More The OFFICIAL Fictional Radio Stations Wiki. Bob Short bought the station from Buckley Broadcasting in early (in or before March) 1978. Unfortunately the photos arent dated, but we do know that the band formed in 1954 when Augie returned from Korea. And, those cops took $350 in cash. The other stations had an unwritten agreement not to play race music because they assumed the Twin Cities audience would be outraged. Solomon Burke performed on May 28, 1965. the second line is pretty shocking: Skotchs research concluded that the suburban housewife was a lonely person was too busy to hear her troubles and who tied herself in knots over small problems. He made a ton of money, eventually owning part of the Cleveland Nets World Tennis Team, Cleveland Indians, and Cleveland Cavaliers basketball team. 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! 1 tune was Ernie Ford singing Mule Train, and can you imagine me calling from home on the phone that we werent playing Mule Train often enough? John Fineberg was at both stations during those years and described a KQRSI (KQRS and KRSI) family. WCOW, owned by the Tedesco brothers, was definitely a country make that a hillbilly station, with DJs named Sidesaddle Sore Sam (Sabean), Denver Don Doty, Buffalo Bob Montgomery, and Pecos Paul (Denault). Paul Johnson recalls the remote surroundings of the transmitter and other memories of the tiny station: To make a once-per-day required base current reading at the bottom of the center tower meant you had to trudge through chest-deep snow in the winter. The station played four categories of Country: Drake-Chenaults sales manager explained that if a station tried to duplicate the format live, youd have to get supertalented country jocks, a top-notch country producer and all the other things. Two days before, Will Jones reported: Solomon Burke, who has taken to wearing kingly robes and calling himself King Solomon, is booked for a Friday night bash at the Pick-Nicollet Hotel, promoted by a young married folks group called The Weekenders. He was program director from 1968-1971. The ratings books from late 1953 to late 1955 identify programs by names of shows and names of DJs, and its a challenge to match them up. Ed Skotch gave up the ghost on December 1, 1964, when he voluntarily assigned his license to Universal Broadcasting Co. of Minneapolis-St. Paul, Inc. As usual, Will Jones spells it out for us in his column of December 10, 1964. 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. The shooter was never identified. At night, WDGY was very strong, but could never be received clearly. The recordings on this site provide historical examples of Twin Cities radio and are intended for purposes of archival preservation and for research. Without their help, the site would have many less pages of radio history. Generally, WDGY came in second in overall audience ratings to market-dominant, clear-channel WCCO. Photo by Steve Raymer. What happened makes a big diferencce to those who know and like good radio. band (which had necessitated the Mighty 1130s switch in the first place.) It is owned by WRPX, inc. and airs a Classic Hits/Oldies radio format. I encourage you to check back from time to time. Station Frequency Format . Skotch was the highest-paid director-producer in Chicago, with as many as six shows he created, network and local, being aired in town every week. His programming was designed to help said housewife by becoming an intimate, informative close friend that will cloud out the things that bug her. In a 1972 article the Insider noted the leaky roof and yellowed wallpaper at the aging studio in St. Louis Park. By 1977, FM radio had arrived big-time in MSP. Some not so happily as others, he admits. The first we hear of programming that was not Percy Faith and not (by this 21st Century womans standards) patronizing, comes in mid 1964. They used KUOM AM instead of WLOL AM because they did not want to scare away their AM Top 40 listeners by playing even only one hour of the FMs classical music. Another genre could be nascent Rhythm & Blues. WDGY (740 AM, " The True Oldies Channel ") is a daytime-only oldies radio station serving the Minneapolis-St. Paul area of Minnesota. On December 20, 1977, a permit was approved to change the tower location to 5650 St. Croix Ave. in Golden Valley. Paul?) 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. WMIN aired a pop music Spanish-language format as "La Nueva Ley" until November 14, 2005. As part of the anniversary celebration, listeners were urged to send the station a birthday card with a favorite song from the last year, and if it was drawn the listener could win the Yesterhits Souvenir Album and a chance of winning one of six Hondas. Minneapolis, MN. Airchecks are samples of old radio recordings, with the music cut out. So they convinced Edwards to do it and he became Merle Hub Cap Edwards. On September 2, 1951, the station sponsored a concert by the Blind Boys, advertised in the Minneapolis Spokesman. You will hear Jimmy promote the "All Americans,"you will hear one of the first Gatorade commercials and you will hear the WDGY promo for the WDGY Power Poll where one could win a Craig color TV (I thought this was radio?). Even the disk jockeys werent let in on it until that morning. . Disc Jockey Fat Daddy (a/k/a Jimmy Smith) cited statistics that out of 32,000 blacks in the potential audience, between 10,000 and 15,000 listened to the station. They made a big pot of it at noon, and when it was gone, it was gone, seldom lasting past 5pm. Our studios were at the transmitter at [Seventh and] Davern Street in St. Paul and engineers played both records and commercials.. Joe came from Cleveland, Ohio, and was a time salesman for WCOW and he just got this wild idea about playing that music. I hope to get some late 60's clips up on the site soon. (Minneapolis Tribune, January 16, 1969). Also, a fun fact is that in October 1964, wide-eyed George Murphy (something you cant see on radio) became Dino Day and began hosting A Date With Dino on Channel 9 TV. Dr. Young died in 1945 and the station was transferred to the Twin City Broadcasting Corporation 1946. So many questions. (Minneapolis Star, March 14, 1966). To protect stations also on 1130 to the south and east, most of the power was directed north. Well hear more from Preacher Paul down below. Mob violence ensued and the car of KSTP-TV newsman Dave Margeson was smashed by rocks and a piece of wood; he was treated and released from the hospital. So little time. They could hear WDGY all across the AM dial, at points on the FM dial, on their CB radio base station, on their telephone, on their electronic organ, and(drum roll please)on their TOASTER! Radio Stations in Minneapolis-Saint Paul, MN Radio stations sorted by popularity Twin Cities News Talk KTLK 1130 AM News/Talk KFAN 100.3 FM KFXN-FM 100.3 FM Sports K-LOVE Radio Contemporary Christian K102 KEEY-FM 102.1 FM Country Music 94.9 El Rey WREY 630 FM Regional Mexican CBS Sports Radio Sports AM 1280 The Patriot WWTC 1280 AM News/Talk KTLK (1130 kHz) - branded News/Talk AM 1130 - is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Minneapolis, Minnesota. Nearby Recently Sold Homes. What Storz did was apply the Top 40 concept to rock n roll. No electricity. But the Country format was gaining acceptance among older baby-boomers and melding that growth with WDGYs big 50,000-watt signal gave new purpose to the station and validation to a growing, willing audience that perhaps Country musics time was coming. I was still in high school when this photo was taken. All except for a little country station called K-COW. Many thanks to Jeff Lonto, who is one of the Cities experts on radio history, for much of the information cited here. The station was licensed as 500-watt daytimer serving South St. Paul. I may get the dates wrong, but the devil is in the details and I am loaded with details. Bo Diddley by (are you ready?) U.S. Patent . The music ran a slow speed on gigantic tape reels. Perhaps, this is a temporary station problem. "WDGY Means the Most Music and the Most Money." 1951 Photo courtesy Minnesota Historical Society. We were talking and I happened to mention I was a DJ at KDWB (1982-85) and they had this photo stored in their phone picture library. Some took it hard. The fire department didnt want us beginning the clean up until the inspector could make sure the building was safe to enter. Not sure exactly when these recording ran on WDGY. WLOL-FM (99.5) (Means Fine Music) was up and running in 1956. It was emceed by Jack with KUXL, and is believed to be the first appearance of Brown in the Twin Cities. 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. WDGY 1130 Minneapolis (Scroll Down For Airchecks), WDGY was owned by Storz Broadcasting and when they started it jukebox format of plying the hits again and again, they gave WCCO a run for the money. Around that time, a young Leigh Kamman and his friend Sev Widman hosted Studio Party Wham, named after a Jimmie Lunceford tune, showcasing big bands, small combos, and jazz. For his own protection, his real identity was kept secret. As a promotional gimmick, Skotch planned to distribute 100,000 happiness charts, which supposedly predicts the days when a person will feel cheerful or grumpy. In contrast to WCCO and KSTP, WPBC carried no network programming, and were live and local all day. WPBC: No, thats not a mistake. See Pavek Museum RadioHall of Fame inductee Dale Weber, one time WDGY General Manager,at the Pavek site: http://www.pavekmuseum.org/weber.htm (The 9/30/71 Dayton aircheckisfrom the A. Mintz Collection - The March 1973 tape was recorded off the air by Rick Burnett). The Insider reported that it was moving toward soft progressive in September 1971, when Dick Driscoll came back to the station after Dick had turned KQRS from classical to progressive. Preacher Paul. Then they would have to schlep the transmitter in a big box (about the size of a single hole outhouse) back to Minnesota. Its Ipanema, not Impanema. I sure miss those days. 740 kHz AM oldies; We may drop it from the top of Foshay, said Sherwood, Chuckling at the prospect of the worlds biggest pile of crumbs. Sam says that what actually happened to it was the cookie was picked by cargo plane at Twin Cities Airport and flown to the Ive Got A Secret Show in New York, MCd by the late Gary Moore and after that it was just disposed ofnot sure how but that was it!!. Since one company could not own more than one AM or more than one FM station in the same market at the time, they needed to find a buyer for the FM station, and sought out the owners of various AM stations in the area. The call letters were changed to WWTC on October 2, 1964, after the station was sold to Buckley-Jaeger Broadcasting. In a blurb in the Minneapolis Star (September 1, 1977), station manager Dale Webber was quoted as saying the reason for the change was getting out of the ridiculous Top 40 market. There were three other country stations on AM in the market at the time. I had to park on the highway and walk up the hill to the studios. As disasters go, this one wasnt even on the radar screen. I continued on Highway 12 to Radio Drive. For those who prefer to look on the gloomy side of things, there are always the daytime soap operas on television. It is licensed to Hudson, Wisconsin, three miles east of its studios in Lakeland, Minnesota. All rights reserved. The term we are using to describe this particular form of AOR is Coloradio. Our research and general observations indicate that this is the direction of AM Top 40 radio, so we may as well start now.. Bottom Row: Dan Halyburton, Larry E. Cummins, Jimmy Reed. Presumably the shows Cannonball Express and Cannon Fodder were his. in the Minneapolis northwest terminal district practically from scratch, and most of the personnel acted as stockholders, officers of the corporation, and on-air talent. He didnt plan to start his new programming until he got a power increase from 500kw to 1,000kw. Gloomy side of things, there are always the daytime soap operas on television Im it. 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