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In a 1972 article the Insider noted the leaky roof and yellowed wallpaper at the aging studio in St. Louis Park. NIS ended in May 1977 but WWTC continued the all-news format with its own staff. On August 19, 1963, the stations license was voluntarily assigned to Edward D. Skotch. The hallway down the middle of the building acted as a firebreak and the hardcore damage was on one side and just water and smoke damage on the other side. Unfortunately, I have started to notice some of these posted airchecks from my personal collection are now being sold on eBay, when they are available at this site free. Bobby Blue Bland might have been the first KUXL show, appearing on July 22, 1964. The ad campaign for 1964 was UP radio (imagine an arrow on the UP). John Hines replaced Knapp in about 1975, and Rob Sherwood arrived in 1976, after U100 was sold. 1945. Dr. Young died in 1945 and the station was transferred to the Twin City Broadcasting Corporation 1946. WDGY-AM Hal Raymond 7/9/63 KDWB-AM 630 St. Paul (Woodbury) Slogan. Jim Foster was the Program Director. Don and I had both been part of the KTSA deejay team in San Antonio a couple of years earlier. 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! And they would play some jazz, depending on which of the announcers was on or what day of the week or what time of the day it was, youd turn the radio on and hear something different.. Donald plays godfather with his "Don" imitation and asks Charlie "What is black and blue and floats?" Heres a group shot of the Country WDGY airstaff from late 1978 or early 1979, taken at a Conway Twitty concert at the Minneapolis Auditorium. Minneapolis Star, Saturday, April 10, 1965. Presumably the shows Cannonball Express and Cannon Fodder were his. He wanted ethnic shows in Polish, German, and Scandinavian. KDWB had a prime spot at the State Fair in 1973, one of the great Teen Fair years. In 1942, the station gained approval to broadcast at night. First air date. We were kind of in the middle of 1965. "WDGY Means the Most Music and the Most Money." Also, they are not necessarily in the right order. The frequency was originally 1140 kc. We have a contract and youll be billed for 2 spots an hour for 2 days. David Hersk remembers that Edwards had a late night show where he called himself Uncle Merle and played plenty of rock n roll in 1954-55. Dateline Minneapolis, March 13, 1966. The station will feature top cuts from current albums along with a selection of singles, with no jingle package and segued sets. By that time Elvis had hit it big with Heartbreak Hotel and Hound Dog a cover of a black record followed. All stations will soon be equipped with an echo chamber for ON AIR use. The song list included such gems as You Clobbered Me, Ink Dries Quicker Than Tears, Lie Detector, and Take Your Cotton-Pickin Hands Off My Girl. The station had been playing some Top-10, Classical, semi-classical, some religious, etc. Eventually we had to accept the reality of what had happened. We thought you could come up with a new product called Formula 63. The broadcast license was cancelled by the FCC in February 1991. The DJ on the air, Ron Block, noticed the pall of smoke in the hallway and left the building. First, the story of the building. They kept the WYOO call letters, to avoid the hassle and long process of changing call letters with the FCC. That address does not compute, but below is a photo of the Holiday Motor Hotel, described as being taken in 1955. I guess. A fellow out of Texas, after first commissioning himself a Colonel, was bottling what was essentially sweet prune juice, calling it Serutan, and telling the great American radio audience over and over again, day after day, Serutan is Natures spelled backwards. Station Frequency Format . KS95 was beginning to take hold. On April 13, 1968, Billboard reported that Ray Moss had gone to California for a job with XERB, but returned quickly and with a new name: Daddy Soul. The Insider reported that Moss became the new music director in April 1968, and was on-air from 3 to 7, Monday through Friday. Glover finally finally took two weeks vacation in New York City and never came back. [He became a freelance writer and contributing editor for Circus, a music magazine.]. Well, there is an Alan Freed in Minneapolis, but hes not the guy! 2,838 Sq. In the first year they logged over a million calls to the Request Line: 920-9999. Station manager Jim Peterson said the change, effective January 1, 1973, will involve afternoon programming only, with religious programs to stay on the stations schedule until 1 pm daily. He tried to use the phones, but the wires all came into the building through the furnace room and they were already toast. A Super Soul Thirty countdown dated July 1, 1972, pictures DJ Thomas Love and Music Director Jimmy Smith (. Another January 1957 ad said If You Dig Rhythm N Blues Mitchells the Most! 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. You can hear some of Herbs patter from September 7, 1956, on Tom Gavarass RadioTapes Web site: radiotapes.com/WDGY.html. Donald K. Martin at the mic again for a July 7th, 2008 interview. Seems to be half and half in the photo below, mid-1960s. The studio, transmitter, and a 3-tower directional antenna array were located off Military Road in Woodbury (just east of Newport). I hope you enjoy them. I had hired Don French to be the KDWB PD. WTCN Radios history goes back to September 1934, and even further back if you count its predecessors, but Ill just start with the 1950s. The show was not widely advertised. OUR SURVEYS FOR WDGY; WEEK #1 THIS WEEK; 1956-07-21: The Platters / My Prayer: 1956-07-28: The Platters / My Prayer: 1956-11-09: Guy Mitchell . The turning point came one night around [January 1956] when we tuned in the Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey Show on TV and they had on Elvis Presley They predicted that he and his music would be the wave of the future, and when we heard what he sang and how he sang it, we began to be concerned. Wonderful WeeGee, home of the boss jocks like Johnny Canton, hit its stride in the 60s, competing neck and neck with KDWB. It made for a very fast, progressive Top 40 and far less corrupt than sales lists that could be influenced by cases of free product which is how payola really worked. Even among Storz stations, Ramsburg says that each individual station made up its own Top 40. It was Helm that people petitioned to have on the station more than anything, after trying him out on a trial basis starting in the middle of 1972. WMIN was reassigned to the 1400kHz in 1941. Ad from the Hopkins Sun, May 2, 1968, courtesy Jeff Lonto; also in Minnetonka Herald, February 22, 1968, Image courtesy Pavek Museum of Broadcasting, In 1969 KRSI issued a two-record compilation of oldies called the KRSI Request Album. The photo below is from the album. Since it was the only bid submitted, they were handed a building worth $35,000, complete with air conditioning, transmitting equipment, control board, and paneled studios and offices. For $7,000 they moved the entire concrete block structure 25 miles across town. The new owners immediately requested permission from the FCC to change the call letters back to WMIN. Today, the station is KTLK, News/Talk 1130, and uses a transmitter site in Credit River Township. Later WDGY would flip to a news/talk format; and finally, the adoption of sports talk as KFAN in 1991. Some of the airchecks are off reel to reel tapesthat were recorded off the air by the web site creator. Because WTCN-TV was sold to a different company (Chris Craft Broadcast, Inc.), the two stations had to have different names. I got my First in 6 weeks at Brown Institute. Killed were the pilot, Thomas B. Leivermann, his daughter and son, and his sons girlfriend. We sold spots a dollar a holler.. To promote the contest the jocks would ride around on a float in rush hour handing out stickers, hopelessly tying up traffic. WDGY (630 kHz AM, "Radio Rey") is a small Spanish-language radio station with studios located on Lake Street in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Not sure what this is announcing. We ought to get him to tell people about how good things are when you reach 63. Finally, Rob Sherwood arrived back in Minnesota with new jingles for the Twin Cities powerhouse station U100. The station is the oldest continuously operating station in the state, dating to December 23, 1923 when Dr. George W. Young signed on with the call letters KFMT. In August 1957 the station claimed to be first with Twin Cities Housewives based on a telephone poll of 388 people. King, right? In 1952 everyone on the staff had a corny western name: Sam Sabean (aka Sam Sherwood) started out with the Sam Sabean Show in 1954, which became Hobo Sam and His Bum Program from about November 1954-March 1955. 636 Selby Ave. Photo courtesy Jeff Neuberger. Today, the station is KTLK, News/Talk 1130, and uses a transmitter site in Credit River Township. He truly loves the business. A Billboard Magazine from July 9, 1966 shows that it was a 250-watt independent station operating 15 hours/day. In ad in the June 14, 1969, TV Digest pictures Tac Hammer, Rick Easton, Anthony Gee, Jim Reed, and Don Shore. (Minneapolis Star, October 18, 1966) Interestingly, the name of the act was never mentioned in the news reports. WDGY - The Original Rock and Roll Station. The station even gave trading stamps three and a half million every week to listeners who called in at the right times. The next morning we were all there and I still remember seeing Howie Anderson shoveling the wreckage out the engineering entrance. 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. 1936 ad below courtesy Jeff Lonto. One was a big man about 64 tall, the other much shorter and wearing a white Stetson hat, white boots and a red and white country-western outfit that was so loaded with rhinestones that he literally shimmered when he walked. Buy spots on the other stations?? ARSA: ABOUT: SURVEYS: STATIONS: 1970-02-13 WDGY 1130 AM ( Minneapolis / St. Paul, Minnesota ) TW LW ARTIST TITLE WKS NOTES; 1: 4 : Sly & The Family Stone: Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) 1: 4 : Sly & The Family Stone: Everybody Is A Star: 2: 1 : The building itself was very dark. Take the elevator, said the sign. . Click on Photo to go to a site with old bloomington antenna site and transmitter photos put together by Aaron White. He had to play the #1 song every hour, and the others at will. Swinging through the Heights area the freeway ended and became Highway 12. Did they bring Imogene the horse inside Jennings? In June 1959 the Tedescos sold the station to Crowell-Collier, owner of the legendary KFWB in Los Angeles. Bob Short bought the station from Buckley Broadcasting in early (in or before March) 1978. King was also coming to the same ballroom on September 12. You will hear Johnny's brief Art Fern imitation and at 5:30 he will say hi to the Twin Cities in a slightly similar fashion as a competing DJ did. Not sure where the photo above came from. Will Jones dedicated most of his April 22, 1965, column to the station, saying, Life is simpler on KUXL. He declared that hip teenagers were abandoning the standard rock n roll stations late in the afternoon to tune in to Preacher Paul Anthony. In an interview given for the Rondo Oral History Project of the Minnesota Historical Society, Yusef Mgeni remembered that KUXL was a strange hybrid type of station. Art Hoehn and Ralph Hull left with Wolfman, either to Mexico or Southern California. To celebrate its first anniversary, WDGY is happy to present this album of YESTERHITS FROM YESTERDAY. It includes a collection of twelve of the greatest hits from the last year. The station was located at 8th and Wabasha in South St. Paul, conveniently adjacent to the stockyards. WDGY was the Twin Cities' first full-time Top 40 station, going on the air with its new format on February 6, 1956. The music played was from Kammans own encyclopedic library of records, domestic and foreign. And so goes the history of one of our most obscure radio stations. [made possible by the late summer daytime hours] Now he also does a Saturday afternoon session from 1 to 5. This is a shot of the transmitter site of WDGY/1130AM radio, along 35W at about 102nd Street. WDGY Survey with Photos of Curtis J. Johnson from June 13, 1969. Wednesday, February 10, 1965, was the first day the newspaper schedule showed Paul Anthonys name. Ironically, the abandoned WDGY call letters were quickly picked up by the former rival station at 630 kHz. Stephen B. Labunski was made General Manager. Ironically, WCOW eventually morphed into rock n roll station KDWB in 1959. Quick installation and adjustment. Now that TV had grabbed everyones attention, and radio was just background music, he wanted to reverse the process and create The Nations Most Attention-Programmed Station. The key was to provide entertainment, but not with comedy or drama, but with ideas and thoughts. KDWBs listeners were gradually migrating to the FM signal. Leigh (pronounced Lay) Kamman had presented jazz shows for years, lately on KSTP radio until that station summarily fired him along with a number of longtime staff for some unknown reason. Always a different color of Twin Cities life. This was best done by the Five Keys in 1951, but the song was written in 1936, so whos to complain. The photo below was posted on Facebook by Paul Strickland, who says. And, those cops took $350 in cash. Ironically, he then started the next record, Na Na Kiss Him Goodbye by Steam and once again left the building. Matchbook images courtesy Pavek Museum of Broadcasting, In July 1948, Chuck Mulkern had a fifteen-minute show called Hillbilly Hits.. Alonzo himself was to do the afternoon drive. . In April 1973 there was an ad for WWTC Spectrum, If youre not thrilled with KSTP, WYOO, KEEY, or WLOL. All things to all people, apparently: Every twenty minutes its a different color of spectrum. MONDAY, MONDAY - Mama's & Papa's. Tonight's Top 20 as heard on WeeGee Wayback Wonders! Heres one of the dune buggies. And when youre there, youre a celebrity. The Twins management got riled at the implications that its star catcher and other players were hanging around a saloon, and protested, so the Preacher toned it down. Collins, a transmitter company located in Peoria, Ill., I think, had a 1,000-watt transmitter and a 630 crystal. It is owned by WRPX, inc. and airs a Classic Hits / Oldies radio format. Canton, of Edina, had suffered a severe stroke Monday, his family said in an online obituary. Four people were killed when their light plane, flying in a blinding snowstorm, hit a guy wire holding up one of KDWBs radio towers in Woodbury. The Stewarts took a rather conservative approach in programming the station. K You Excel. Years later, I learned the reason why. At the time it was billed as The New WDGY Your Radioactive Station! Top 40s available from July 21, 1956 on do show that the playlist was definitely rock n roll, although they played a lot of cover versions and a lot of schmaltz. One song in 57 looks suspiciously local: Paddlin Ingabord Home by Ole The Singing Janitor. Fan Feed More The OFFICIAL Fictional Radio Stations Wiki. 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. So far, they say, they havent found one. Todd Storz was an heir to the Storz Beer Co. out of Omaha, Nebraska. Some jingles too. Contests and Promotions. When constructed, a Bloomington transmitter location made sense as there was little development to the south at the time. The reaction to the music I played overnights was very favorable and the format expanded to evening hours and then into days and [by 1968] KQ became full time rock. As they were limited by their then-daytime only license at 980 AM, they started up WPBC-FM at 101.3 MHz in August 1959, simulcasting the AM station. It was Percy Faith type music. It was then owned by Todd Storz, one of the pioneers in programming to the baby boom generation with music that theretofor had been rarely heard on "white" radio stations. This site does not charge any fees to listen to the posted recordings. Competition was fierce with five rock radio stations at the time, and compared to U100, WDGY, KDWB and KSTP seemed a bit tame in their original on-air presentation. WDGY-AM (1130): 1/6/1958 Bill Diehl Show - 9 MB (provided by Helen Diehl and Tom Oszman of TCMediaNow) Includes commercials for Hi-Spot Lemon Soda from Canada Dry, Dodge Dealers and Red Devil Soot Remover. Well hear more from Preacher Paul down below. The Centennial Rhythm & Blues Show was the brainchild of Lamar Adams, who shared his collection of more than 4,000 recordings starting in May 1976. The photo below was posted on Facebook by Paul Strickland, who says. The competition, sometimes friendly, sometimes not, resulted in memorable merchandising promotions and concerts. 11:00 AM-2:00 PM. Minneapolis, MN. Found on Radiotapes.com: Ballad of Minnesota!. The WDGY call letters lasted from 1925 until 1991, first at 1140kHz, then to its longtime home at 1130kHz beginning in 1941. The street address was 6541 Military Road. But stay tuned. HIstory of Radio in 10 Minutes (actually in 11:30), http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwXJ89-qD6g, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KFAN_%28AM%29, WDGY - Scott Burton Recorded by Dick Sigurdson December 1965, WDGY Johnny Dollar Recorded Off The Air By Dick Sigurdson December 1965, WDGY - Jim Dandy's Return On Air Visit with Johnny Canton - 1976, WDGY Curtis J. Johnson 20/20 News January 1968, Curtis Johnson's Senic Minnesota :30 Spot, WDGY 1130 Johnny Canton November 30, 1970, WDGY 1130 Jimmy Reed September 23, 1969 1st 1/2 hour on WDGY, WDGY 1130 Charlie Van Dyke & Donald K. Martin February 21, 1973, WDGY 1130 Charlie Van Dyke January 1973, WDGY 1130 Bob Dayton September 30, 1971, WDGY 1130 Dick Driscoll August 1960 - from A. Mintz collection, WDGY-AM 1130 Hal Raymond July 7, 1963 - from A. Mintz collection, WDGY 1130 November 1956 - Dan Daniel - Bill Armstrong - Don Kelly the Morning Mayor - Bill Diehl - WDGY Jingles & Dick Driscoll - from A. Mintz collection, http://www.kfgo.com/pages/tomanddankfgo.html, WLOL-AM Tom Wynn 6/5/72 - from the Rick Burnett collection, WDGY-AM 1130 Perry St. John All Night Shift 5/12/63, WDGY-AM Dick Driscoll 8/60 Scoped - from A. Mintz collection, KSTP-AM Tribute To Elvis - Day Elvis Died 8-17077 Un-Scoped - from the A. Mintz collection, WDGY-AM Dan Daniels 8/57 Scoped - from the A. Mintz collection, WDGY Prospector Promo (Undated - Early '60?). While their job was to arrest one man with a gun, they instead barricaded the door of the hall with their night sticks and used tear gas to subdue the crowd. Preacher Paul (nee Ralph Hull) had come from KDWB and it appears that he was working at both stations until June 1965. And fortunately I can stop at 1974, for there are greater minds than mine that can keep going past this Golden Age. such tangy extras are part of ear-tickling, toe -tapping UP radio. At night, WDGY was very strong, but could never be received clearly. His shows were variously called Diehl n Music, Diehls Caravan, and Its Your Diehl., Steve Cannon was at WMIN from 1949-54. Doubleday Broadcasting, owner of KDWB, wasnt actively seeking an FM station at the time but offered to buy 101.3 FM in February 1976 after they were offered a rather generous deal for $750,000 that included WYOO-FM and the building in Eagan that housed both stations. CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE, WDGY Air Staff 1986. The daytimer station was authorized for 1,000 watts. WDGY's old Bloomington studio/transmitter site sign. KTCR signed on on April 5, 1962, as a Country station. That beam was so strong that the GROUNDWAVE signal made it at night in addition to the skywave signal. By 1957 KSTP was squarely on the rock n roll bandwagon, but got off pretty quickly. In the summer, you waded through chest high weeds and as important as noting the amperage, was pulling (and, for sport, counting) any number of wood ticks that would jump on you for the ride (I counted 27 one day.). Did the snakes and ticks take over the studio? 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. That kind of ended when Mr. Purcell reminded them that WCCO, like every station, is required by FCC rules to know who their advertisers are. It had 50,000 watts during the day and 25,000 at night. Hennepin Ave. looking towards Kenwood Pkwy. This is a list of AM radio stations in the United States having call signs beginning with the letters WA to WF. And then, nothing. The two competitors seesawed back and forth in ratings supremacy for area teen and young adult audiences throughout the 1960s and '70s. After becoming VP and General Manager, I made sales calls in all the major markets and it never failed.Sam Sherwood?!!! Download Our Free iHeartRadio App! WDGY went through several ownership changes until 1956, when it were purchased by Todd Storz' Storz Broadcasting, an Omaha-based owner of a five-to-seven-station group (the maximum number allowed in those days). The station was five years in construction, delayed when its two towers in Eden Prairie fell. A note in the Minneapolis Tribune dated December 10, 1965, said that The discotheque scene at St. Pauls Ebony Lounge which disappeared a couple of weeks ago, is back in action, with much the same cast, at Big Als in Minneapolis. The call letters were changed back to WMIN later that year. The recordings of the contributors to this web site who recorded them off the air may show up on other sites. 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. Bill Hartman, as promotion director, convinced Rob and Mike that it was very important to launch the new station at the Minnesota State Fair, exposing the new format to 1.3 million people that attended the fair for 12 days at the end of August to Labor Day every year. In April 1957 the studio was in the Builders Exchange Building in downtown Minneapolis, and the transmitter was described as WDGY Transmitter Plant, Oxboro, Minn. Thanks again for the responseand thanks for the great website! In early 1976, Fairchild Industries decided to put both stations on the market. WDGY, Rock and Roll Oldies Radio, playing the best oldies of the 1960s and 1970s for the Twin Cities! Pleased by the response to a recent project on emotionally induced illness, Skotch said the station will devote another day to the subject in the near future. Jack Thayer had started his career here, from 1942-1951. Guaranteed to make life more fun. Apparently WPBC was trying to hang on: an ad in what appears to be called WPBC Metropolitan Magazine, dated April 1972, says: WPBC MAKES THIS BOLD CLAIM: IF you are an ADULT .. who likes POPULAR MUSIC from TODAY and YESTERDAY but your nerves cant stand the LOUD NOISY TEEN-AGE MUSIC.. YOU WILL LOVE the GENTLE TENDER TOUCHING RELAXING selection of EASY LISTENING POPULAR MUSIC on WPBC AM and FM STEREO! (Minneapolis Star, April 30, 1975), During the show, black broadcast community news, and an educational series called Red, White and Blue in Black. The program also kept in touch with other black media programs like the black TV show, Harambee. He started the black show because whatever black programming there was was scattered a half hour on one station and 15 minutes on another. Here are some possibilities: Rock n rolls roots lie in pop, country, and most important, rhythm and blues. Sources are cited, if known. Inside of Formula 63 package, courtesy Sam Sherwood. Download Our Free iHeartRadio App! Police shut down Nicollet Ave. and were heckled by the crowd. [2] The station can also be heard on 107.1 KTMY's HD2 channel in the Twin Cities.[3]. Tedescos sold the station is KTLK, News/Talk 1130, and Most important, Rhythm Blues! Wabasha in South St. Paul, conveniently adjacent to the skywave signal its longtime Home at 1130kHz beginning in.... 1975, and Rob Sherwood arrived back in Minnesota with new jingles for the City. In May 1977 but WWTC continued the all-news format with its own top 40 Cannon was at WMIN from.... 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