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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. John Hines replaced Knapp in about 1975, and Rob Sherwood arrived in 1976, after U100 was sold. Coast to Coast AM Weekend Edition. Oh so many levels. A license to install a new transmitter was approved on June 29, 1964. That night God must have liked bubble gum music because his gentle hand protected that flight. In late 1935 a new non-directional 226 Truscan Steel Vertical Radiator (tower) was erected at the site. Sometime between March 1976 and January/February 1979, the station flipped to Disco. Radio was going through a fearful period in the face of the TV monster, and Stewart and his co-owner wife, Becky Ann, urgently called their staff together. A moment later we were both rolling on the floor, rocking with laughter. Chuck Blore was Crowell-Colliers national program director, and ran a disk jockey school that the DJs at KDWB attended. The stations were reminded that they had a non-cancelable contract. A gunshot was heard and a policeman was hit in the arm or hand. Preacher Paul is a disc jockey. They conducted a Music Poll via a coupon in the papers where people could indicate their music preferences and help the station select what it would play on the air. Unlike in 2017, C-QUAM AM stereo did not return. The ad below boasts of their KUXL award for excellence in musical instruction. ' (April 13, 1965). Quick installation and adjustment. This is a shot of the transmitter site of WDGY/1130AM radio, along 35W at about 102nd Street. The WYOO call sign has resided on an FM talk station in Panama City, Florida since 1993. WTCN was the home of Jack Thayer and Bill Diehl (before they moved over to WDGY) and had a lot of music shows with ambiguous titles. The Stewarts took a rather conservative approach in programming the station. 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. Minneapolis Star, Saturday, April 10, 1965. In August 1957 the station claimed to be first with Twin Cities Housewives based on a telephone poll of 388 people. Johnny is on the rear of the bike. The whole tower and Reeds escape rope would have burned had the wood had a chance to get a good start. Reed slept through the whole thing. The facts, as reported in the newspapers and in investigative reports approximate these. On June 6, 1965, Jones dedicated a long, three-column article to the concept of Soul Food, saying that while Billy G made it sound good, it was hard to come by. Formula 63, will relieve ennui he promised right from the first moment you try it. A search through the Broadcast Yearbooks and the Star Tribune turn up no evidence that the FCC ever raised the stations hours or wattage, so KMAP was apparently operating beyond the parameters of its license. Wikipedia says the stations last documented owner was KMAP Broadcasting of Tampa. Don K. Martin is in this photo. An obvious reference to his old employing station. Like an acid-etching, the events of that day in early December 1969 are sharp as cut crystal. And this scene was a night scene. KDWB had a prime spot at the State Fair in 1973, one of the great Teen Fair years. Airchecks and other cool things are available at: KQRS-AM first signed on as KEYD, billed as Family Broadcasting, 1948. Don Martin_________________________________________Thanks Don for letting me share on the site. In November of 1957 WLOL brought stereophonic radio to the Twin Cities. The transmitter location was .3 miles north from the intersection of Sixth Ave. North and Highway 100 in Golden Valley, and the transmitter would be remotely controlled from the studio. . Heres the story from Jim Stokes: KRSI originated Red Owl Stores storecast from their transmitter on what is called subcarrier. You can look it up. 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. At the time you want it. The station was nicknamed "WeeGee," the phonetic pronunciation of the call sign, and its format was near the top of the ratings for several years. An article in the Star said the show included skits, blackouts, parodies on talk and telephone shows, and interviews. Although the show was an hour long, KQ began by airing a half-hour version at 10 pm on Sundays. Formula 63 box, courtesy Sam Sherwood. History The WDGY callsign was used for another well-known station in the area from 1925 until 1991 and broadcast at 1130 kHz. When even a little pimple of a disaster like this strikes, people rise to the occasion. The WLOL staff believes that FM radio provides better reception and clearer tones than the AM frequencies. The shows were identified by the name of the DJs, which included Morris, Rodger Kent, Riley, Valentine, and Ingram. 740 AM began broadcasting as WRPX, featuring a locally based MOR/adult contemporary format targeting the Hudson/St. In conjunction with the 1966 Aquatennial, disc jockey Jimmy Reed spent (a reported 21 days) on top of a flagpole in downtown Minneapolis starting on July 5, 1966. WPBC: No, thats not a mistake. On November 7, 1961, Will Jones reported in his entertainment column in the Minneapolis Tribune that the station was still awaiting its approval from the FCC to go on the air. The license for that station expired in 1938, partly because mechanical television development was heavily discouraged by that point. On August 26, 1974, live at the Minnesota State Fair, the oldies format became boogie, with KDWB alumnus Rob Sherwood heading up a wild and crazy format as U100. Here in my file is a page out of the July 9, 1966, issue of Billboard magazine, where the information about KUXL lives. It will be historical and contemporary, sweet, hot, lowdown, enlightened Chicago style or very cool. KANO was Disk Jockey Rod Persons first radio job in 1959. Slogan. Johnson mostly played what was termed easy-listening jazz: Isaac Hayes, Shirley Bassey, George Benson, Herbie Mann, Herbie Hancock, etc. 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. 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. The entire concept, advertising and promotion was headed and created by Mike Siegelman, Rob Sherwood, and Bill Hartman. Photo courtesy Jeff Neuberger. Ill tell it right when I find it again. The station even gave trading stamps three and a half million every week to listeners who called in at the right times. By 1956 WLOL was squarely in the rock n roll camp and stayed there until at least 1959, although WLOL-FM featured classical music. The radio studios are on Utica Avenue South in St. Louis Park . Although I adored KLBB, which 1400AM took on in 1981. Jim provided this aircheck of Johnny Canton. They also played some Whoopie John and Frankie Yankovic for the polka crowd. Bottom Row: Dan Halyburton, Larry E. Cummins, Jimmy Reed. The engineers labored through the night and the following night and on Tuesday, we signed back on. View more recently sold homes. The 9-tower array beaming 50,000 watts was used to produce one of the most restrictive signals in the USA. Cap Cities/ABC's KQRS combo (1440 AM and 92.5 FM) was a solid top three station by the end of the decade, far ahead of An historical archive of surveys and nostalgia from radio station WDGY 1130 AM, Minneapolis / St. Paul. It was never clear whether he used it or even who he was. As always, these recordings will be available at no charge to you. KDWB morning personality True Don Bleu launched the new KDWB-FM simulcast the following morning at 6 AM, replacing WYOO-FM. All we have are newspaper listings, but on Tuesday, July 7, 1964, there is a full day of Ed Skotchs programming for women, from 6 am until 4 pm when jazz takes over. 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. On October 30, 2021, WDGY once again discontinued broadcasting in HD Radio. You cant imagine how his popularity took off. It was on that day that Rob and Bill decided to emulate KFRC and use the phrase powerhouse. With Mike Siegelmans OK, they decided to call the new station Y100.. KEEY seemed to specialize in handing out these FM radio station directories, which seem to me to advertise the competition more than anything else. The disturbance was considered contained by 2:30 am. I took this from a flight I took in 1977. And although this page is about the AM station, what the heck. After several call letter changes, including WHAT and WGWY, Young settled on WDGY, which was based on his initials. In 1954 and 55 Bob Bradley and Jerry Cunning played R&B tunes. They kept the WYOO call letters, to avoid the hassle and long process of changing call letters with the FCC. Metropolitan Radio moved to a new site, and built a new and modern transmission facility (4-tower complex west of Highway 100 in St. Louis Park) a broadcast service that brings it within clear signal range of thousands who could nevr before enjoy wtcn 1280 as easily as they wished. [1] In the September 1971 Insider, reviewer Will Shapira profiled W. Amos Johnson, who did a two-hour jazz show on KUXL each Sunday. In January 1957 Will Jones of the Trib said that the station claimed that classical music has doubled its nighttime ratings in a matter of a few weeks. On October 28, 2006 Johnny Canton was inducted intoPavek's Museum of Radio Broadcasting Hall of Fame. They made a big pot of it at noon, and when it was gone, it was gone, seldom lasting past 5pm. 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. I do not remember much about Gene Leader. Theserecordings are not intended to by used by others for commercial purposes. ARSA: ABOUT: SURVEYS: STATIONS: WDGY 1130 AM. Another crazy promotion was the time Charlee Brown styled himself as the Emperor and threatened to take over the State of Wisconsin. 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! As you commented in Scott's Guest bookthey don't seem to do radio like that anymore. 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. Reportedly one of them was a one hour program playing rockabilly and R&B perhaps the first in the area. and Falvey Cross Road [Wayzata Blvd. The airchecks reflect a more middle-of-the-road format, but the Top 40 playlists from 1956-59 have a lot of rock n roll (with a polka thrown in for good measure). Recorded of the air in March 1968. Jerry Telser, 10-2 electrifying the afternoon airwavesJohn Pete, 6-Midnight seasoning your evening with top pop hitswide-eyed George Murphy, holding sway with the night people from midnight to dawn. Herb Oscar Anderson was the first disk jockey on the air with the new Top 40 rock n roll format that morning, and the jocks and the new sounds boosted the station from a tepid Number 4 to second place behind behemoth WCCO. Ramsburg says, Let me put it this way it was all show-biz. Unlike most metropolitan areas, the Twin Cities did not have a black radio station in the 1940s or 50s. 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 photo below of broadcasters Kenneth Wilson (standing) and Albert Vant Flash Washington, dated to the 1940s, suggests that R&B was available at least part time to listeners in Minneapolis. Clockwise from Jack are Bill Diehl, Don Kelly, Dan Daniel, Stanley Mack, and Ramsburg. As a promotion, in November 1958 Jim Ramsburg cooked up the Radio Wonders basketball team. One of the big sponsors was the Celebrity Lounge, where you could hang out with the owners, Minnesota Twin Earl Battey and former Gopher quarterback Sandy Stephens. At night (with 25,000 watts) you could hardly pick up the station 5 miles to the south of the site, but the signal had an effective radiated power of 300,000 watts to the north and went right over the North Pole into the Soviet Union. As disasters go, this one wasnt even on the radar screen. Nearby Recently Sold Homes. The Gavins sold their mimeographed service to one station per market and it was kind of a co-op into which we all poured our tips. It was also described as 90 percent dance music in a TV interview on YouTube. Bo Diddley by (are you ready?) The ever-blessed Will Jones announced on June 5, 1964: KUXL is airing jazz. Fortunately, the door blew open before he got there. In August 1927, WDGYs transmitter was moved to Superior Blvd. 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. KRSI Radio was located at 4500 Excelsior Blvd. That beam was so strong that the GROUNDWAVE signal made it at night in addition to the skywave signal. But late at night, if the conditions were right, Minnesotans could hear all kinds of music through the airwaves from all parts of the United States country blues from Arkansas, R&B from WLAC in Nashville, and maybe even some doo-wop from back East. 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. Authorization is only required to store your personal settings. Jimmy and his agent were out visiting stations that played country-western music and promoting his latest record. Jimmy also tries to give away WDGY Fortune Phone Cash to the Williams family. Black brought major R&B acts to the Labor Temple on 4th Street SE in Minneapolis. Im guessing that KAAYs Beaker Street was influential here. This provides a historical look at the times. Peterson cited economic factors as the reason for this change. WDGY/Minneapolis has modified its Top 40 format to an AOR-slanted approach. From Midnight to 6 am they would broadcast The Quiet Storm, a syndicated program of laid-back music. I guess. Meanwhile the station was being sold, and they moved over to KQRS (which was then KEVE) to continue playing jazz after dark fell and KUXL was off the air. But stay tuned. Lets hope this is sort of right. As far back as 1950 promoters Rufus Webster and D.P. (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. Ray left in June 1957 because he was too busy with baseball and was replaced by Jim Boysen. WDGY Jimmy open his 1st show at WDGY he stated he was "..out on pass from the suburban rest-home." Steele (Steve Gibbons) Art Snow (The all night snowman) Scott Cannon, the Tall (Brother Bob) Robert Hall, Doug McKinnon, (Captain Billy in the morning) Michael J. See the new transmitter here courtesy www.radiotapes.com, Aerial shot of the 9-tower array courtesy Tom Gavaras. The station was licensed as 500-watt daytimer serving South St. Paul. A 1972 article in the Echo opined that KDWB played new songs that were just released, while WDGY only played nationally-established music. And if I were Nancy Wilson, Id be a little ticked to have my song interrupted. The Colonel became famous and very rich. And he skipped out on the landlord, too. 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. We were doing just that. The baffles failed. 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. He finally had some blackeyed peas on New Years Eve, and other successes after that. Also, they are not necessarily in the right order. Heres one of the dune buggies. The station played Country music with a heavy emphasis on local North Suburban news and sports. 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. The presentation was tight, fast-paced and very up-front. Who had the key? He expected to shock some people that first day! But we also know that the Key Room program featured live performances by Augie Garcia, the Godfather of Twin Cities Rock n Roll, performing jump blues in 1954-55 from the River Road Club in Mendota. Rhythm Of The Rain - Cascades 1 2. Also appearing were the Amazers. I thought if we could get somewhat organized on a daily continuous basis that it would be a step in the right direction. The year closes out with the Fontane Sisters back with Seventeen, a pretty good song if done by Boyd Bennett and His Rockets, a rockabilly band. ERP. Part of the plan was to tape all of the features for syndication and he figured there were 200 stations that could make good use of the material. Dr. Young died in 1945 and the station was transferred to the Twin City Broadcasting Corporation 1946. It was discovered during an antenna proof, when it was noticed there was a drop in signal strength in the main lobe and it was traced to this guys house. 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). And it was Snyder Drug Stores. . People could come and watch Slim Jims show at the studios on 9th Street. Brother Al Tedesco wanted to call it WPIG or WHOG, but Vic protested the barnyard connotation. 11/22/1973 Hubbards Hundred Days was the headline in late 1973.. At the same time, the station will be entering the background music field, supplying a separate channel of music to supermarkets, offices, plants, and other installations, reported the Minneapolis Daily Herald on August 8, 1962. Midge was the luck caller who got to shoot the turkey. Ironically, WCOW eventually morphed into rock n roll station KDWB in 1959. CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE, KOMA Guide. Below is a photo thats not too great, but hopefully shows how big the winning monster was. Vineland Place and Oak Grove Street meet in front of WLOL with the Basilica of St. Mary visible in the background. See Top 30 and Top 40 countdowns from 1966 on Robb Henrys blog. We kept professional secrets from each other, but otherwise we were just one big, happy family. So many questions. Protests of the new format came in the form of resignations of staff, pickets, KQ Sucks t-shirts, loss of advertisers, and the formation of an organization called People for Progressive Radio, which strove to bring the free-form format back, either at KQ or otherwise. There were going to be 27 separate short entertainment features every day, ranging from the supernatural to what makes raindrops round. The fire department didnt want us beginning the clean up until the inspector could make sure the building was safe to enter. Jim Ramsburg says that in 1956 we pulled our own music from the big record library with no rules or restrictions. Its complex. 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. Just tune to 1500 on your dial! The format changed from full-time Country & Western to a combination of Lombardo/Welk/etc. Because the two signals arrived out of phase, they cancelled each other out. [2] No Top Forty. Because AM 740 is a Canadian clear channel frequency, WDGY is a daytime-only station. Is it possible Don glowed in the dark? This page contains some rare tapes recorded off the air during the 50's 60's and 70's. The decision of the police to bar the door and throw teargas into the hall was roundly criticized. CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE, WDGY's Johnny Dollar in a promotional photo from the mid-60's. It is believed that the first transmission of the 120- or 125-line systemprobably the first telecast in Minnesotaoccurred on August 4 of that year, featuring a handshake between WDGY station personality Clellan Card and Minneapolis mayor William Kunze. WMIN adopted an all news format in mid-July 1962. 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. On November 16, 1965, the 2:00 listing in the newspaper for KUXL simply read R&B Express., Apparently the scene with the Fourteen Foxes didnt last too long. CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE, WDGY Air Staff 1986. Harry Zimmerman was playing the Sweetest Music in Town., Something happened on January 14, 1957, but the ads werent clear. MOST NEGRO OWNED RADIO STATIONS INSULT TO RACE IS CLAIM. It had 50,000 watts during the day and 25,000 at night. In 1956 or 57 Zingale went to New York as an account executive and, with two others, bought a White Plains radio station. Im going to stop here I should have stopped long ago, since this website only goes to 1974. Contributed by John Pratt 12-6-07. But Glover was probably the most popular and well-known. No lights. Our studios were at the transmitter at [Seventh and] Davern Street in St. Paul and engineers played both records and commercials.. He was a captivating jock on WDGY. Check out airchecks and more at RadioTapes.com, where the home page features newly-discovered TV commercials from 1974 1975. In the fall of 1985, KQ adopted the Classic Rock format. In 1967 KQ-FM made its first foray into album rock with its Night Watch program, broadcasting from midnight to 5 am. band (which had necessitated the Mighty 1130s switch in the first place.) However, you can still hear what is being discussed and the sound for the WDGY portion of the interview is unaffected. WLOL-FM (99.5) (Means Fine Music) was up and running in 1956. The text is rather small; it reads: Today WWTC Radio trades violins for violence. A memo to the staff from Todd Storz dated May 28, 1956 singles out the gang at WDGY for a job well done. The ad below is for Position 63, a rather suggestive takeoff of the popular Position 69 that every schoolboy loved to joke about. and the slogan Beat of the Cities., Alan Freed at KMAPs booth at Riverfest, Harriet Island, 1988. Unfortunately, Mike Siegelman received a letter of cease and desist from Heftel communications in Miami, which owned Y100 Miami. Rob and Bill were in a state of shock, and the decision was made to not launch the station on the first day of the State Fair. Access Minnesota is a 30-minute public affairs program airing on Minnesota radio and TV stations. The 9-tower array beaming 50,000 watts was used to produce one of the most restrictive signals in the USA. Personnel listed were: The stations format was described in the Yearbook as Urban Contemporary. WDGY was certainly a much different station pre-Beatles than it was as the 60's progressed. The Greatest Hits of the 50s, 60s, and 70s. This is a shot of the transmitter site of WDGY/1130AM radio, along 35W at about 102nd Street. Henrys blog click IMAGE to ENLARGE, WDGY is a daytime-only station country-western music and his! A shot of the interview is unaffected big, happy family the 1940s or 50s 99.5 ) ( Means music... 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