Heres one of the dune buggies. 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! Billy G, the Prime Minister, started doing daily remotes from the Cassius Bar and Cafe on May 4, 1965, from 6 to 7 pm. Jeff Lonto says that they became a middle-of-the-road music station for years, also carrying NBC news and NBCs Monitor on weekends. I sure miss those days. 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. UP radio sparkles in Rod Trangards newscastsin exclusive Mutual news remotes . The transmitter was destroyed by fire on February 23, 1933 and the station operated with WCCOs old transmitter. He left in July 1957 to become Vice President of ABC in New York and was replaced by Jack Thayer. It was the same night Count Basie was at the Prom, and a conflict was feared, but Will Jones reported that Mr. Diddley drew 1,500 sweating youngsters, and the Count drew 1,350 oldsters. (Minneapolis Tribune, August 21, 1964), Minneapolis Star, Saturday, August 15, 1964. Though our names are nearly identical, we were two different people. WPBC (Peoples Broadcasting Co.) was owned and operated by Bill and Becky Ann Stewart and went on the air in October 1949. Save peace in the world. At 7 AM following the news we played popular music until signoff. As a courtesy, once we had been exposed, the agency called them apologetically offering to rescind the non-cancelable clause. 1130 WDGY. 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.. Those shows included: TV Forecast, October 12, 1963, courtesy Jeff Lonto. Airchecks from 1955 57 on www.radiotapes.com seem to indicate that the music was pretty middle-of-the-road, but they did play Hound Dog on September 7, 1956 Its #1! The station was DJ-driven, with a July 2, 1956 ad touting the Fabulous 4+1: Herb Oscar Anderson, Don Loughnane, Jack Thayer, Bill Armstrong, and Bill Bennett. The team could not play high school and college teams, but would go out to small towns for exhibition games. It also aired sports talk at various times as well as leasing time to two groups that eventually purchased their own full-time frequencies: "Straight Talk Radio" (later on 950 KTNF) and "Relevant Radio" (later on 1330 WLOL). Suddenly the voice of Metropolitan Radio is clear as a bell on the dial. Glory of Love by the Four Knights. The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. (Phones at fire departments all across the vast Twin Cities area rang causing a ton of confusion as to just exactly where there was a fire.) (Minneapolis Tribune, September 7, 1976), Pharoah Black introduced Earth Wind and Fire, with the Emotions and Wild Cherry at their October 7, 1976, concert at the Met Center. Donald K. Martin at the mic again for a July 7th, 2008 interview. They continued to run the spots. The best of what youre about to give up on WWTC is what we play all the time on KEEY. 1400 AM changed its call letters again in January 1972 to KEEY AM, to match that of its FM sister station, and installed a soft rock format separate of the FM, which aired Beautiful Music. He didnt plan to start his new programming until he got a power increase from 500kw to 1,000kw. 740 kHz AM oldies; A police command post was set up at the St. Paul Cathedral, and two-man tear gas units were sent around, with police at every intersection. WDGY was founded in 1923 by Dr. George Young, an optometrist who dabbled in radio as a hobby, and was one of the first commercial radio stations in the Twin Cities area. The switch resulted in low ratings, according to an article in the Star Tribune on September 3, 1977. A listener needed an FM radio tuned to WLOL and a standard radio tuned to KUOM for full stereophonic effect. This has been the only transmitter location for the station since it signed on the air. Last week Ed Skotch of KUXL announced plans to introduce features designed to cheer up the lonely housewives, and now Bill Stewart of WPBC says he has started a new format of happy music and other features of make people feel better.. 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 : It had 5,000 watts, daytime only. Jack Nugent said they went from 13th in the market to 2nd in 105 days. All except for a little country station called K-COW. Thats what caused the severe distortion, despite registering a 4 on my Wards Airline signal strength scale of 1 to 5. The material was from the then-unpublished autobiography that appeared as Okay, Okay, I Wrote the Book in 2012. The stations schedule wasnt printed in the Tribune until December 10, 1961. 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. 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! It was Storzs fourth station. If he plays Polk music, He must be a true Minnesotan. WMIN had several shows that might have included some jump tunes. 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. WLOL-AM (We Love Our Listeners) was out of the rock n roll market and became the Twin Cities first all-talk station in 1967. Soon, it was possible to see the lights on the six KDWB towers. For his Masters Thesis on the history of WDGY, Jerry Verne Haines interviewed WDGY announcer Leonard D. Bart on June 15, 1970. Then on Wednesday, July 8, 1964, were back to the old KUXL! Each one of these selections was especially chosen by the WDGY All-Americans, and is performed by the original recording artists. The station was licensed as 500-watt daytimer serving South St. Paul. Jimmy Reed let me sit in his chair, but did not let me go on the air. Both Will Jones (Tribune, November 2, 1965) and Preacher Paul (Twin City a Go Go, Holiday 1965) wrote about the place, and how they installed 14 of the finest foxes youd ever want to see, a sound system thatll knock the buckle right off your belt, some of those sweet, gone, pine-toppin KUXL sounds, and crowds of out-a-sight swingers. We thought you could come up with a new product called Formula 63. Top of a Top 40 from August 1956, courtesy of the Pavek Museum of Broadcasting. The show was not widely advertised. The first station in the country to receive disciplinary action was KDWB. Courtesy Jeff Lonto. I wonder how long this crazy schedule lasted! Call or Text The Studio Line (651) 564-9349 Trusted Partners We Play The Hits! 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. 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. In the photo below, the KUXL trailer is in the parking area behind the building. I was a young kid when I first listened to WDGY and KDWB. The Tams made an appearance on Sunday, August 23, 1964. 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. September 18, 1964. Advertised performers were: Unfortunately, the staff was so busy working out the show and the logistics that they forgot to promote the concerts, and they were poorly attended, Sherwood reported. After several call letter changes, including WHAT and WGWY, Young settled on WDGY, which was based on his initials. Shot of Johnny Canton's desk area at WDGY-AM when he was the music director. Stephen B. Labunski was made General Manager. Due to the re-heightened awareness of HD broadcasting on AM surrounding the October 27, 2020 FCC vote to approve voluntary all-digital broadcasting by AM stations, WDGY resumed an HD Radio signal on November 17, 2020. 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. See more about Harris under his listing on the Disc Jockey page. 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. 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. Wonderful WeeGee, home of the boss jocks like Johnny Canton, hit its stride in the 60s, competing neck and neck with KDWB. SOLD JUN 13, 2022. In 1980 KDAN was airing the syndicated Wolfman Jack Show. How could this format possibly be a winner on AM? The original WDGY DJs were Herb Oscar Anderson, Jack Thayer, Bill Bennett, Don Loughnane, Ralph Martin, and Len Bart. 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. Todd Mitchell found this article in the March 18, 1977, issue of Radio and Records, an industry newspaper. However, they were not playing records by local groups Earl Trout III told the Insider that the station was on a tighter playlist.. [2] Some not so happily as others, he admits. The news is left in and you will hear about the big CPI index increase. He was not an on-air personality, although Secret Stash tells us that he once did a commercial in his normal voice and it was taped by a friend of Preacher Pauls who was learning how to run the board. Unfortunately, this shot suffers from poor exposure. These summaries focus on the 1950s through the 1970s, with an emphasis on trying to figure out which stations might have played rhythm & blues, rockabilly, or straight-on rock n roll before WDGY, the first full-time rock n roll station, hit the airwaves in February 1956. Don reminded me about the Colonel and his pitch prowess. Or when Bill Bennett 2-6 cuts in on Nancy Wilsons HOW GLAD I AM to tell her about THE BOY FROM IMPANEMA. The fact that there were no lights did not compute until I heard the news guy on WLOL say, The radio station studios of KDWB burst into flame this afternoon. 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. The station played Country music with a heavy emphasis on local North Suburban news and sports. Only the snakes know for sure. It had only 250 watts. (Will Jones, Minneapolis Tribune). Covering black music was standard operating procedure in those days Pat Boone made a fortune covering Fats Domino records. Photo courtesy Pavek Museum of Broadcasting. 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. The program director, Rob Sherwood, used this opportunity to abruptly change the format of both stations, debuting the AM and FM simulcast of Super U100 with a Joe Cocker song and a two-minute montage of the new stations new jingles. 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. Visit http://www.radiotapes.com for historic airchecks of Minneapolis/St. Rock station WDGY - which can be heard on metro area FM dials at 92.1, 103.7, and 107.1HD2, as well as at 740 AM - announced on Monday that Sue Falls is the new host of its weekday 11:30 a.m. show, slotting in between Morning Drive host Dr. Don Michaels and Afternoon Drive . Probably poached from Facebook. Its IN but NOT far out!!!! My wife and I had long discussions late into the evening. But was this the first opportunity that Twin Citians had to hear what came to be known as rock n roll on the radio? That beam was so strong that the GROUNDWAVE signal made it at night in addition to the skywave signal. It also provided local-oriented public service information on groups like Y.E.S., Pharm House, Red Door, Womens Counseling Service, and more. Wikipedia says that the station went through jazz, and all news formats. 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. MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA Format: T40. 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.. The control board, counters, carts, walls, microphone, everything. In 1948 the Sepia Serenade show featured black recording stars, Mondays and Wednesdays from 6:15 to 6:45 pm. Seriously, who thought progressive rock on AM was a good idea? In 1962 WDGY broadcast the Vikings games. WDGY News Room Shot from DJ Control Room - 1969. It had 50,000 watts during the day and 25,000 at night. Glover did most of his programming from his own record collection. The new U100 quickly became the topic of conversation throughout the area with its rowdy, outrageous mix of Top 40 and hard rock. The exact date of the change seems a little murky (unlike the very sharp change to country below), but experts say it was probably in January 1977. We Play The Hits! In 2008, the station became WDGY after sister station 630 AM switched to Regional Mexican music, using the call letters WREY. 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. Freed: KDAN, being a daytimer, was a perfect station to shoot at because it was off the air from sunset to sunrise, so a film shoot wouldnt interfere with normal operations if the filming was overnight. (Minneapolis Tribune, January 27, 1966). The January 1973 tape is poor quality. WDGY 40 STAR SURVEY Week *Ending* May 7, 1966 1. The station finally landed at the great 1130 on March 24, 1941, when all of the local stations were repositioned. By the 1960s, the station didn't use the name itself, but the name stuck among people in the radio industry for many years to come. The station kept the name WDGY until 1991. 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. "WDGY Means the Most Music and the Most Money." After a couple of changes the call letters became WDGY (Dr. George Young) in 1926. 1/6/1961 Bill Diehl - 23 MB 7/10/1963 Bill Diehl - 8 MB (provided by Phil Kitchen) - February 1964 We dug up the Colonel, I called and told him what we had in mind. It was a small shack hoisted on a small tower on the corner of 9th and Nicollet. The stations license was always in the name of Universal Broadcasting during these years, so it is difficult to know what role Smith played at KUXL. The station pushed the technological limits of the day and provided a lot of interesting exercises for WDGY engineers, but Dr. Young never got into regular broadcasts. Photo by John Glanton, courtesy Hennepin County Library, From 1946-1950 Leigh Kamman and Bob Smith hosted the We Call it Jazz Program, featuring live performances from the Treasure Inn, Calhoun Beach Hotel, and Radisson Hotel downtown. What are we gonna do? Rhythm [in 1955] and played the real soul of rhythm and blues. This ad appeared in March 1964. KRSI Radio was located at 4500 Excelsior Blvd. The station had a country format at the time and was owned by Benita Soho of Los Angeles, doing business as Newport Broadcasting. Tweedle Dee, not by LaVern Baker or even Georgia Gibbs, but by someone named Vicky Young. Alan Freed points out that the 1982 film, Purple Haze, shot in the Twin Cities, used the mighty KDAN 1370 South St. Paul for a scene. In the first year they logged over a million calls to the Request Line: 920-9999. Original staff consisted of Rob Sherwood, Jeff MotherRobins, Benny Blore (Bill Hartman) Jerry Brook, U.S. Johnson mostly played what was termed easy-listening jazz: Isaac Hayes, Shirley Bassey, George Benson, Herbie Mann, Herbie Hancock, etc. At the time you want it. Hagman had previously worked for WLOL, whose owner, Ralph Atlass, had adopted the Top Forty format during Hagmans time there from 1947 to 1952. 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. 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? WeeGee tended to be a little more conservative than KDWB reportedly even their staff wore suits and ties, but that has been disputed. At that time, the Twin Cities had only about nine stations, all AM, of course, with WCCO being the powerhouse. A December 1, 1955, ad says Now All Day and announces DJs Texas Bill Strength and Johnny T from Tennessee, and Slim Jim. 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. There was apparently a change of heart; ads from the mid 50s asked: tired of one-note guitar players and hiccup singers?, like to crawl in a hole when you hear rock and roll?. That clock is probably showing real time. MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA Format: T40. I was the only one there with a GRTO [General Radiotelephone Operator license]. SOLD JUN 14, 2022. ! and the association never quit from New York to LAIt was the most visible thing we ever did..!!! This address doesnt exist as Highway 55 was expanded. Clockwise from Jack are Bill Diehl, Don Kelly, Dan Daniel, Stanley Mack, and Ramsburg. Thats easy to remember. Of course, we could say that sixty three times an hour, and if no one was listening, it wouldnt be that easy to remember. So, we had to do something to let people know we were there there. Authorization is only required to store your personal settings. (Minneapolis Daily Herald, August 8, 1962). RecordedMay 12, 1963. and Falvey Cross Road [Wayzata Blvd. The country format continued until 1989, when it became "News Talk 1130, WDGY". I was prensent at the studio when Jimmy and Tac coordinated play of the same record at the same time on both stations. The music ranges from the swingtime of the late thirties to the jazz of today. But its also a dance session. CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE, WDGY Hit Car Photo Contributor, Wild Wilson. Zingale urged the Tedescos to change the stations format to all R&B, and they considered it, but since they were only a 1,000 watt daytimer, they figured that a more powerful station would just steal the format and leave them hanging. WDGY is the only AM radio station in the Minneapolis-St. Paul market that broadcasts in HD. In the meantime, it was Zingale who arranged for Augie Garcia to open for Elvis when the King came to town in May 1956. The station was innovative in its promotions, had legendary DJs, features like Solid Gold Weekends, and at least two airings of The History of Rock n Roll, an all-encompassing rockumentary.. We do know that the station was playing rock n roll from the WMIN Top 40 dated August 4, 1958. Paul caught on fire and was off the air? 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. It was never clear whether he used it or even who he was. Photo courtesy Pavek Museum of Broadcasting. $755,000 Last Sold Price. In February 2022, the station resumed broadcasting in AM HD. What Storz did was apply the Top 40 concept to rock n roll. Ill always be grateful for the little station in the funky building on Military Road in Newport. KRSI personalities in this second Request Radio stint included Don Thompson, Jerry Anderson, Mike Records Ryan, Ray Walby and Bill Hutchinson., Urban Adult Contemporary (SMN Heart and Soul) 1988, Hard Rock (Satellite Music Networks Z-Rock) as KZOW (1988-1990), Business Radio Network (as KJJO), 1990-1992, R&B Oldies as KSGS (ABC Solid Gold Soul) with local AM Drive) (9-5-0 Solid Gold Soul), 1995-1999, Urban Adult Contemporary (ABC The Touch) with local AM Drive), 1999-2001, Business Radio as KDOW, then KCCO (Business 9-5-0), 2001-2004, KRSI-FM (104.1) went on the air for the first time on about September 1, 1962. A January 1957 ad touted The Latest Platters with the Lightest Chatter on Sam Sabeans morning show On the all new, brand new WISK. Then I noticed the missing tower lights. So many questions. Broadcasting Yearbooks for 1984 through 1987 show that the name had been changed when KDAN went dark in 1983. He wanted ethnic shows in Polish, German, and Scandinavian. Whats more, we do it selectively enough to fill just the news you want. Bowman image sent to me by John Pratt, formerly of WDGY. When WDGY began to play it, WDGY salesmen found an amazing reluctance on the part of advertisers to buy time on a station that was rated number two in the market. 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.. Listen to Paul Geiger in the morning! The license for that station expired in 1938, partly because mechanical television development was heavily discouraged by that point. For that matter, we were discouraged from using the term teenager too. 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. Station Frequency Format . 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