. you dont have to listen to rock and roll! He recently celebrated 25 years at KFGO. It was sold to Park Broadcasting [Roy H. Park]. In 1980 KDAN was airing the syndicated Wolfman Jack Show. Although the records say that KUXL was granted the license to increase its power to 1000 watts on October 1, 1963, Will Jones of the, Both KFMX 104.1 and KRSI 950 am flipped to Music of Your Life as KRSI AM-FM that day, with Don Shore as the Program Director and morning host. This was best done by the Five Keys in 1951, but the song was written in 1936, so whos to complain. 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. Their playlist is appealing, though their disk jockeys are somewhat obnoxious., Chuck Knapp: Fun times is rock & roll with the very talented 15/KSTP The Music Station staff in 1975. According to PD Chuck Roberts, the new format is closer to AOR than Top 40 radio. The Impressions made an appearance at the Marigold on Sunday, April 11, 1965. WDGY 1130 Tapes This Site Primarily Contains a Collection of Airchecks of Numerous Twin Cities (Minneapolis/St. It is imperative that this unit be installed as soon as possible when received.. Peterson said R&B never even paid salaries. From 1 to 3, Mike Cunningham would be on the air, and then from 3 to 5, Paul Helm, the man people loved to hate. The memory music format was enlarged, a jingle by Herb Pilhofer was created, and talk shows were produced. I hope to get some late 60's clips up on the site soon. Image courtesy Alan Freed. Finally, in the late 50s Sam Cooke broke the color barrier in the Midwest with You Send Me and black artists began to appear regularly on Top 40 charts. We chatted and laughed on the air for about 15 minutes, talking about his devilish upbringing, singing at the Grand Ole Opry, the weekend shows at the Flame and played his latest recording. This aircheck has the music scoped out, but the commercials and promos are left in, providing a glimpse into the times. Alan Freed, an employee to June 1989, says July 1989. Thermometer posted on Facebook by Jay Arnold. That beam was so strong that the GROUNDWAVE signal made it at night in addition to the skywave signal. The Twin Cities has many FM and AM radio stations. $1,175,000 Last Sold Price. (Guess who said that?) Although he broadcast his morning show from there, there were reports that he went inside the adjacent Young-Quinlan-Rothschild building at night. To protect stations also on 1130 to the south and east, most of the power was directed north. (From the A. Mintz Collection), Lunch with Donald K. Martin, Former WDGY Newsman and Morning Show Co-Host. http://twincitiesradioairchecks.com/wdgy1130tapes.html. Photo from Judy Dibble via Rick Burnetts Twin Cities Radio Airchecks. This is a shottaken at the St. Paul Winter Carnival. And he noted that it was difficult to even find R&B records in town. NIS ended in May 1977 but WWTC continued the all-news format with its own staff. Paul?) (Minneapolis Star, March 17, 1978). Will Jones tells us that security was so tight that the 120,000 packages were stuffed at the Society for the Blind. Another genre could be nascent Rhythm & Blues. From the early 1940s to the early 70s the brothers owned and operated 11 radio stations throughout the Upper Midwest. Shows like Record Reville, Melody Mart, Platter Previews, The TNT Club, and mid-1955s Hot Corner dont give us much to go on as to their format. KDWBs listeners were gradually migrating to the FM signal. By that time Elvis had hit it big with Heartbreak Hotel and Hound Dog a cover of a black record followed. Once there, scroll down. I guess. The owners brought in Robert Purcell to inject life in the station, and a friend who booked Country & Western touring shows told him that the area was one of the top in the country. Don French was the first Program Director. Program Director Sam Sherwood: I so remember how Don French was on the hot seat for getting hit by such a large prizehe and I argued: Ill take the hitno I willno no, I will and thats the way it went until the cookie picture hit the front pages of news papers across the country.THEN.we became heroes, both Don and I. Bowman image sent to me by John Pratt, formerly of WDGY. He also said that the Four Tops were two days away with an expected crowd of 2,000 or more at the Marigold Ballroom. Once outside the missiles became rocks. 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. So they convinced Edwards to do it and he became Merle Hub Cap Edwards. When Hagman moved to WDGY, he brought the Top Forty concept with him, as well as the Mutual Broadcasting System, which aired programs like Queen for a Day and Sergeant Preston of the Yukon. A schedule from April 1955 shows Eddie Cantor and a lot of Springtime Serenade, but also shows just identified by the DJ (Bill Rudd and Irv Smith put in a lot of time.). And he skipped out on the landlord, too. A 1972 article in the Echo opined that KDWB played new songs that were just released, while WDGY only played nationally-established music. I thought if we could get somewhat organized on a daily continuous basis that it would be a step in the right direction. Listen to Paul Geiger in the morning! And this scene was a night scene. The competition clobbered WDGY, which succumbed in 1977. Charlie Smith and Preacher Paul Sunday swing thing. He finally had some blackeyed peas on New Years Eve, and other successes after that. This and other WDGY surveys can be see at the museum along with many other radio artifacts. The story from Wikipedia: (Punctuation fixed by me). The why behind a cheeseburger. Storzs company, Mid-Continent Broadcasting, purchased WDGY on February 6, 1956 for $212,000. In April 1957 the station was owned by the BFR Broadcasting Corp., N.L. CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE, WDGY Guide, Atkinson, 1982. 1936 ad below courtesy Jeff Lonto. WPBC (Peoples Broadcasting Co.) was owned and operated by Bill and Becky Ann Stewart and went on the air in October 1949. No Top Forty. The ever-blessed Will Jones announced on June 5, 1964: KUXL is airing jazz. 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. KANO was Disk Jockey Rod Persons first radio job in 1959. An October 1949 ad in the Trib called it The Northwest Empire Station and morning shows featured Irene and Lou, hillbilly favorites; Sschunemans Red Rooster Hour; and Johnny Aarthun, popular singer of old-country songs. In 1953-55 announcers included Howard Viken, Don Riley, Harry Zimmerman, Slim Jim Iverson, and Slim Jims brother the Vagabond Kid. 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. Interestingly, he was listed as age 29, she 24. Pine was known for making people mad, and Dick Driscoll tells of coming on the air after Pine and having people call to yell at him for things Pine said. The company engineers actually had to install coils to de-tune the water tower before the license could be approved for 50kw operation. In 1933, Dr. Young was granted a license for W9XAT, an experimental mechanical television station. The recordings of the contributors to this web site who recorded them off the air may show up on other sites. Its the swinginest!, In March 1958, WLOLs catchphrases were The Best Sound for Miles and Miles Around and Bigger, Better, Brighter than Ever.. Right on Super U became a catch phrase on the station and among its fans. After the war, Kamman produced We Call it Jazz concerts at the Calhoun Beach Hotel and hosted The Swing Club on WLOL. Phone : (651) 436-4000. . To call attention to WDGY's new identity, Storz kicked off a cash giveaway contest craze that would involve almost every other station in the Twin Cities and force hopeful listeners to "stay tuned." . We thought you could come up with a new product called Formula 63. This is WWTC Spectrum. WDGY was the Twin Cities' first full-time Top 40 station, going on the air with its new format on February 6, 1956. Skotch felt that once radio became a juke box and all talk was eliminated, the heart of radio was lost as well. Bad luck was cited, as it was the Twin Cities 13th radio station, and Lanphier pointed out that if you added up 1570 it came to 13. WDGY is the only AM radio station in the Minneapolis-St. Paul market that broadcasts in HD. WDGY operated on a number of different frequencies before settling onto 1130 AM in 1941. 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. WDGY's Charlie Van Dyke & Donald K. Martin in the studio during their morning show. Top of a Top 40 from August 1956, courtesy of the Pavek Museum of Broadcasting. 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. 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.. Thus incited, the crowd began yelling invectives at the police and throwing furniture at them. 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?). When the oldies format of WYOO started to slide in the ratings, more MOR music was added, but ratings slid even further. Sixteen pastors gathered to support this action and expressed their concern that the investigation be impartial and representative. WDGY, Rock and Roll Oldies Radio, playing the best oldies of the 1960s and 1970s for the Twin Cities! CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE, KOMA Guide. We do know that the station was playing rock n roll from the WMIN Top 40 dated August 4, 1958. Alan Freed: Al Alonzo still owes many of us our final paychecks. A touch of Formula 63 is the perfect way to brighten up your mundane day. Hagman had previously worked for WLOL, whose owner, Ralph Atlass, had adopted the Top Forty format during Hagmans time there from 1947 to 1952. Jimmy also tries to give away WDGY Fortune Phone Cash to the Williams family. History The WDGY callsign was used for another well-known station in the area from 1925 until 1991 and broadcast at 1130 kHz. Bottom Row: Jenny Rein (secretary), Vic, Nick, ? 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. It was Storzs fourth station. Merle introduced me when I called in, and gave me five seconds of dead air to start my home recorder at 78 rpm.. They would play pranks like play the identical songs for an hour and see if anyone noticed. Al Tedesco purchased the station in 1968. 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. The concerts were advertised in the Minneapolis Spokesman, the citys African-American newspaper, but rarely in the mainstream dailies. CopyrightWDGY Radio. 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. One young man was in a rest room with some others who were drinking, and he flashed a gun. After 64 years of dormancy, an amateur radio group in the area acquired the W9XAT call sign in 2002 with the intention of using it for mechanical and narrow-bandwidth TV experiments. You can still hear all George Young has to say on this clip. The show was to start at 8 pm and take place at both the Minneapolis and St. Paul Auditoriums at the same time, with the stars shuttled by helicopter between them. Since KDWB did not cover the area as well as WDGY, that was the station my uncle listened to continuously. Unfortunately, this shot suffers from poor exposure. An October 1949 ad in the Trib called it The Northwest Empire Station and morning shows featured Irene and Lou, hillbilly favorites; Sschunemans Red Rooster Hour; and Johnny Aarthun, popular singer of old-country songs. 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. As always, much more information and many airchecks are available at www.radiotapes.com/wwtc.html and http://twincitiesradioairchecks.com/wwtc.html. Police shut down Nicollet Ave. and were heckled by the crowd. 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. In November 1963 the Program Director was Jerry Cunning and the General Manager was Robert J. Then, thinking he may have over-reacted, returned to the studio to start the next song. 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 . Casey Kasems American Top 40 began broadcasting on KDWB on January 6, 1974. Total information News, in-depth, authoritative, 1280s programming for metropolitan listeners has long been one of radios finest. No matter what I did, the signal was always distorted. And then he said that B.B. In April 1929 the frequency apparently became 1180. Broadcasting Yearbooks for 1984 through 1987 show that the name had been changed when KDAN went dark in 1983. When such a strictly-top-40 station as WLOL decides to go in for the classics, it smacks of chaos rather than culture. Even the disk jockeys werent let in on it until that morning. 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). The transmitter was destroyed by fire on February 23, 1933 and the station operated with WCCOs old transmitter. The purpose of this site is to provide radio history and intendedfor purposes of archival preservation and research.Windows Media Player works well to play these MP3 files, and depending on your internet settings, will start streaming the file once the link is clicked, Some files are large and may take time to open. This left KEYD (soon to become KEVE) as the only full time C&W station. I was driving my yellow Toronado through the spaghetti part of I-94 in St. Paul. 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. It was the old WPBC studio on Stinson Blvd., near Broadway, abandoned because of freeway construction. The initial format was apparently Modern Country. In summary, it was a conservative, white bread market with only a handful of stations in those days., Although many give Storz the credit for inventing the Top 40 format, Haines asserts that it was already in place. He broadcast over the radio that there was a fire at KDWB, no joke, and that someone should call the fire department. It held some interesting insights not revealed in the one Will Jones did (on August 18, above). The Stewarts took a rather conservative approach in programming the station. band (which had necessitated the Mighty 1130s switch in the first place.) Jeff Lonto provides this info: The station became WJSW Polka Power around 1969, and they picked up the WMIN call letters in November 1973 after being dropped a year earlier by 1400 AM. Its dead, it just sits there. MOST NEGRO OWNED RADIO STATIONS INSULT TO RACE IS CLAIM. This heat siphoned off through ductwork that eventually combined with ductwork from the furnace and heating system. The old tower was removed and a new tower erected. What happened makes a big diferencce to those who know and like good radio. 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. 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 ad below is for Position 63, a rather suggestive takeoff of the popular Position 69 that every schoolboy loved to joke about. Image courtesy Jeff Lonto, Adult Standards, February 1980 to 1982. King was also coming to the same ballroom on September 12. Guy Lombardo records were used as a transition between the hillbilly songs and religious programs, reported Will Jones in the Trib on August 18, 1952. If he plays Polk music, He must be a true Minnesotan. could get them on my Lloyds Transistor Six when the batteries were dead., I dated a girl who lived on Fremont Ave. between 101st & 102nd streets. Contributed by John Pratt 12-6-07. Sherwood and the rest were at their antic best, cooking up contests and announcing test answers to kids. Supposedly, a gentleman that lived within the main lobe of the pattern had decided to wind copper around his attic and, with an appropriate capacitor, made a tuned circuit at 1130 which allowed him to power his florescent lights. Photo dated November 6, 1942, courtesy Minnesota Historical Society. No KDWB! But if you listen to radio to soothe your nerves, reports of mideast tension, recession and crime just might produce the opposite effect. Big Time TV left Chicago and so did Skotch, going out to the West Coast and working as a director until he decided to get out of the rat race and become his own boss. 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. You can hear some of Herbs patter from September 7, 1956, on Tom Gavarass RadioTapes Web site: radiotapes.com/WDGY.html. The WDGY call letters lasted from 1925 until 1991, first at 1140kHz, then to its longtime home at 1130kHz beginning in 1941. Our family cabin was located north of Park Rapids. One more testament to the sheer effective radiated power in WDGYs nighttime lobe. Jay Philpott posted it to Facebook, and listed the names: Brian Cosmic Phenix, Bob Lange, True Don Bleu, Tim Kelly (nee Sebean), Smokin Joe Hager, Chuck Britton, Dave Cooper (nee Hamilton), John Sebastion (PD), and Dave Thompson. KDWBs general manager at the time, Gary Stevens, claimed that they did not buy WYOO-FM to shut down a competitor, but rather to take advantage of what they saw as a good deal. The station began as WMIN in the summer of 1936, when St. Paul furniture retailer Edward Hoffman began broadcasting at 1370kHz. He left in July 1957 to become Vice President of ABC in New York and was replaced by Jack Thayer. Photos from the Minnesota Historical Society show the Augie Garcia Quintet performing at the River Road Club in Mendota in front of a banner that says they were featured on the Key Room Show on KEYD-AM. Thats why wed like to call your attention to the music of KEEY-AM at 1400 on your standard radio dial. It was to be a program format, readily identifiable concentrating on jazz, according to Burke. in Golden Valley was approved. The crowd moved west down 4th Street, smashing store windows, until they got to the Selby-Dale neighborhood, where many of the Citys 10,000 black people lived in what could only be described as a ghetto. See more about Harris under his listing on the Disc Jockey page. Theserecordings are not intended to by used by others for commercial purposes. He came with no radio training at all in fact, he was a bartender but the station executives were impressed with his verbal fluency and vast knowledge of music. Or when Bill Bennett 2-6 cuts in on Nancy Wilsons HOW GLAD I AM to tell her about THE BOY FROM IMPANEMA. Most Top 40 and Rock listening had migrated to the FM band (which had necessitated the Mighty 1130s switch in the first place.) They would play gospel, and they would play Rhythm and Blues. On August 28, Will Jones published an extended interview with Skotch. Consequently the launch of U100 was delayed three days. From an ad from May 1970: WDGYA Touch of Taste.. The 9-tower array beaming 50,000 watts was used to produce one of the most restrictive signals in the USA. The daytimer station was authorized for 1,000 watts. I dont recall if he spent 21 days up there, but it was a while. A KDWB Fabulous Forty survey that Don donated to the Pavek Museum of Broadcasting called the shack a four-story-high flag pole playhouse. John Pratt saved an article from the Minneapolis Star reporting that four hoodlums set the crepe-paper wrapping on the 40-ft. pole on fire. Jim Ramsburg says that in 1956 we pulled our own music from the big record library with no rules or restrictions. Its a NEW concept in news coverage! Scientifically Designed Entertainment $100,000 worth of better listening Big Big Big 40,000! All on the Northwests QUALITY station. End Of The World - Skeeter Davis 4 3. A 1973 ad featured a hippie smoking a pipe on a bed of nails reading a book called Happiness Through Yogurt. Good music. A December 1, 1955, ad says Now All Day and announces DJs Texas Bill Strength and Johnny T from Tennessee, and Slim Jim. After the wayward flight to Illinois and a non-stop trek through Wisconsin, the transmitter arrived, tied to a U-Haul trailer pulled by a rental car. Other Facebook stories of the strength of the transmission: In 1952 the station was sold to a group of four local businessmen, one of which was Clarence T. Hagman. The small 1000 watt daytime station was located at 1470 on the AM Dial. The request line was started in February 1968, with oldies and not just the same old ones being their mainstay. A couple years back I brought you Serutan, the product guaranteed to cure what ails you. A fair portion of its signal pointed away from populated areas, making it audible only to its intended audience in South and West St. Paul. 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? In August 1957 the station claimed to be first with Twin Cities Housewives based on a telephone poll of 388 people. Haines wrote: Rock and roll had a difficult entry into the Twin Cities market. 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. WCOW was renamed WISK in May 1956, and affiliated with the Mutual network, late of WDGY. Performers included: These groups were well known in clubs like King Solomons Mines where Soul music was a staple. That beam was so strong that the GROUNDWAVE signal made it at night in addition to the skywave signal. The result of this was that our spot was on every radio station at the same time. The turntables (pre-historic CD players) are out of the shot to his left side. The very next day, November 13, 1963, the stations permit was approved to change its studio location and remote control point to the Golden Valley Inn, a motel at 4820 Olson Memorial Highway. Email : [email protected]. In 1956 the station also participated in the big Contest Craze that hit most of the areas radio stations. Two off-duty policemen who were hired for the event came on the scene and took the gun away from him and tried to arrest him. Coast to Coast AM is overnight talk radio with daytime ratings. The stations schedule wasnt printed in the Tribune until December 10, 1961. KQRS was close to adopting the SuperStars format, making them a major player. They are posted here for historical examples of top 40 radio from one of the originators, Storz. But then on May 2, 1988, new life came to our little station in the form of KMAP. 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. On June 18, 1975, 1280 switched to NBCs News and Information Service (NIS). The station then bought the syndicated program Music of Your Life from Al Ham. Years later, I learned the reason why. (The top 40 announcers were a different breed, and we had little to do with each other off-the-air.). 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. Without their help, the site would have many less pages of radio history. And it is impossible to do a newspaper search on Bob Smith. 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