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The music first played on KUXL was of the Percy Faith/David Rose/Henry Mancini/Peggy Lee/Bing Crosby/Lawrence Welk fare. This time he was planning to do the same with KUXL, only without partners, using his life savings. 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. The Twin Cities has many FM and AM radio stations. Photo dated November 6, 1942, courtesy Minnesota Historical Society. 9:00 AM-11:00 AM. See more about Preacher Paul on the Disc Jockeys page. Tom Wynn at his current job at KFGO in Fargo ND. The problem was that by the time he got to a place that had soul food, it was all gone. In January 1956 Will Jones of the Trib talks about KEYD radios new staff of imported hillbillies, Texas Bill Strength and Johnny T. from Tennessee. In January 1971 the station started to gradually move away from the oldies and gradually more toward album cuts. 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. A unique look at sports. I have a few examples, but dont have the provenance they probably came from Jeff Lonto. Checker recording star Little Milton, with local band Maurice McKinnis and His Fabulous Blazers, appeared at a dance at the Minneapolis Armory on Friday, April 12, 1968. He was in town doing two shows at the Flame Nightclub at 16th and Nicollet in downtown Minneapolis. The promotional piece below pictures the stations initial staff. [2] George Donaldson Fisher describes the transformation: I began the Progressive (I referred to it as Underground) rock on KQRS in early 1967. Top Row: Step Up Movie, Steve Highsmith, Gregg Lindahl, Paul Johnson. WDGY (740 AM, " The True Oldies Channel ") is a daytime-only oldies radio station serving the Minneapolis-St. Paul area of Minnesota. They made a big pot of it at noon, and when it was gone, it was gone, seldom lasting past 5pm. CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE, 1969 photo of Jim Dandy at the control board in the Bloomington studios, Jay J. Forrest Powers published his own interview with Ed Skotch on October 7, 1963, in the Star. WCOW Staff @ 1953, courtesy Vic Tedesco. Contributed by John Pratt 12-6-07. In his usual wry style, Irv describes how KRSIs General Manager, John Enoch, was testing Control Unit Model 901, which generated automated programming. Those Yearbooks and a Minneapolis Star Tribune article dated April 30, 1988, provide the details below. Seven ways to listen: FM 92.1, FM 103.7, AM 740, FM 107.1 HD2, Live Stream at WDGYradio.com, Smart Speakers through TuneIn and the WDGY Phone App. We hired an advertising agency which represented a large local chain of drug stores where free samples of Formula 63 where to be made available. Most Top 40 and Rock listening had migrated to the FM band (which had necessitated the Mighty 1130s switch in the first place.) On March 7, 2017, WDGY discontinued broadcasting in HD and began broadcasting in C-QUAM AM stereo. Advertising sales for the stations paled in comparison to the competition, and managing both stations became a burden for the couple, so the Stewarts sold the station in 1972 to Fairchild Industries for $1.5 million. How could this format possibly be a winner on AM? He left in July 1957 to become Vice President of ABC in New York and was replaced by Jack Thayer. Kamman left for New York in 1950. 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. A listener needed an FM radio tuned to WLOL and a standard radio tuned to KUOM for full stereophonic effect. Like an acid-etching, the events of that day in early December 1969 are sharp as cut crystal. WMIN had several shows that might have included some jump tunes. The Original Rock and Roll Station. Once in there, though, it was kind of cozy. Seven ways to listen:FM 92.1, FM 103.7, AM 740, FM 107.1 HD2, Live Stream at WDGYradio.com, Smart Speakers through TuneIn and the WDGY Phone App. We kept professional secrets from each other, but otherwise we were just one big, happy family. I was prensent at the studio when Jimmy and Tac coordinated play of the same record at the same time on both stations. The ad below is for Position 63, a rather suggestive takeoff of the popular Position 69 that every schoolboy loved to joke about. This venerable station was around for a long time, and occasionally tried on new names, including: This page, like this website, sticks to pre-1975, and tries to focus on popular music. 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. At first the prize was proposed at 63 cents per pound, but Station Manager Don French decided that a bigger incentive might be $6.30 per pound. After all, its a thing to be able to sit down and listen to sides all day., There was also a Richard Nelson, who Connie Hechter at the Insider called Dick, but he actually was known as Admiral Richard E, and was on the air from 1966 to 1968, according to Curt Lundgren (who says he would cringe at the name Dick.). Croix Valley area on December 14, 1983. Ad courtesy Jeff Lonto. In late 1976/early 1977, the station rebranded itself as Y-11 (never losing its WDGY call letters) and switched to a progressive rock, album-oriented format. Many thanks to Jeff Lonto, who is one of the Cities experts on radio history, for much of the information cited here. 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. Around that time, a young Leigh Kamman and his friend Sev Widman hosted Studio Party Wham, named after a Jimmie Lunceford tune, showcasing big bands, small combos, and jazz. So many questions. and Falvey Cross Road [Wayzata Blvd. As a promotion, in November 1958 Jim Ramsburg cooked up the Radio Wonders basketball team. Preacher Paul reported that the show drew an audience of 5,000 people! The presentation was tight, fast-paced and very up-front. KSTP had some country shows as well, such as Dude Ranch Jamboree, but some of the other programs leave room for speculation that they may have played something hot: Rhythm at Random, Saturday Juke Box, Young Ideas, and Record Rack. The street address was 6541 Military Road. For those who prefer to look on the gloomy side of things, there are always the daytime soap operas on television. The why behind a cheeseburger. By 1977, FM radio had arrived big-time in MSP. To this day I am still impressed that a major country western and Grand Ole Opry star would drive all the way out to Anoka just to visit with someone who played country-western music for only 55 minutes a day. The other stations had an unwritten agreement not to play race music because they assumed the Twin Cities audience would be outraged. ERP. The studio and transmitter were located at 158 N. White Bear Ave., St. Paul. Alonzo himself was to do the afternoon drive. In the September 1971 Insider, reviewer Will Shapira profiled W. Amos Johnson, who did a two-hour jazz show on KUXL each Sunday. In 1959, WDGY gained a formidable challenger when KDWB launched. http://www.twincitiesradioairchecks.com/ (Rick Burnett). 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. $755,000 Last Sold Price. 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. Listen to Paul Geiger in the morning! In July 1969 the two were doing an underground show. In the main studio, there was a sticky sap-like residue on everything. The production room was a wreck and there was no heat in the building. In addition to the ones listed below, Preacher Paul expressed an interest in booking act such as Chuck Jackson, Jimmy Reed, Junior Walker, Marv Johnson (he lost $20 on that show, he told Secret Stash), Al Green, Wilson Pickett (emceed by Lord Jeffrey), Fats Domino, the Supremes, Joe Hinton, and his pride and joy the Righteous Brothers. I took this from a flight I took in 1977. You will hear the WeeGee $10,000 Record Stash promo and Johnny ply "1130 Caret Gold." How could this format possibly be a winner on AM? 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. In 1949 the station moved its transmitter and studio to a new multi-tower array described as at 102nd and Bloomington Freeway/Lyndale Freeway/35W. Dandy informs us that if we do not listen, he will tear our heads off. Countryside magazine, March 1976. Much More Music is simply that WDGY played, and is playing, more music with the bright pace of the modern sound. 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. 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 Colonel became famous and very rich. WDGY Jocks teamed up with professionals Ed Kalafat, Bobby Cox, Jim Springer, and Corky Devlin, possibly former Minneapolis Lakers. . Jimmy and his agent were out visiting stations that played country-western music and promoting his latest record. U100 Studio. Below is a listing of stations available in the metro area. Our normal 5,000 watt, 6 tower, highly directional radio station was now a 1,000-watt non-directional radio station. Today, the station is KTLK, News/Talk 1130, and uses a transmitter site in Credit River Township. MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA Format: T40. 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. In 1949 the station moved its transmitter and studio to a new multi-tower array described as at 102nd and Bloomington Freeway/Lyndale Freeway/35W. They built their studio on Stinson Blvd. Sources are cited, if known. Below is a photo of at least part of the family and shows how close the staffs of the two competitors were. In July 1966 (Smith sold out to Kosofsky?) In July 1956 the station stopped playing all night country & western, with Harry Zimmerman playing an hour of jazz, and hour of show tunes, and two hours of country. Don's mother preferred that he work at a country station. Visit http://www.radiotapes.com for historic airchecks of Minneapolis/St. Humor from a local Twin City news item. 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. 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.. The switch resulted in low ratings, according to an article in the Star Tribune on September 3, 1977. The report by the St. Paul Human Rights Department, released in February 1969, placed the blame for the disturbances mainly on how the police handled it. VSNN had taken over the station on a management agreement and, in reality, nobody else at VSNN wanted the PD job. There was a live broadcast at 9:15 a.m. and a performance at Graham Temple at 3 p.m. A December 1951 ad said [Cassiuss] Bamboo Room is KEYED for your enjoyment, which may or may not mean that there was a tie-in. Contact me at Rick(at)HotMail.com --- NOTE Replace "(at)" with @ when typing email address, Curtis J. Johnson, Former WDGY 20/20 Newscaster. One of the obstacles it ran into was resonating re-radiation from the Bloomington Water tower. However, you can still hear what is being discussed and the sound for the WDGY portion of the interview is unaffected. To protect stations also on 1130 to the south and east, most of the power was directed north. In July the McGuire Sisters were back with a song called Rhythm and Blues Somehow even they heard about it. WWTC AM Radio is something of an oasis in the local radio market. Bobby Blue Bland might have been the first KUXL show, appearing on July 22, 1964. The Impressions made an appearance at the Marigold on Sunday, April 11, 1965. Top Row: Step Up Movie, Steve Highsmith, Gregg Lindahl, Paul Johnson. Minneapolis has been kind of a combination rat race and three ring circus since the New WDGY started, but the tremendous amount of work being done is paying off in increased ratings and business every month. Johnson mostly played what was termed easy-listening jazz: Isaac Hayes, Shirley Bassey, George Benson, Herbie Mann, Herbie Hancock, etc. CLICK TO ENLARGE, Donald K. Martin at The Pavek Hall of Fame Dinner, October 2006. Courtesy Alan Freed. Personnel listed were: The stations format was described in the Yearbook as Urban Contemporary. The 9-tower array beaming 50,000 watts was used to produce one of the most restrictive signals in the USA. KRSI Radio was located at 4500 Excelsior Blvd. The station was licensed as 500-watt daytimer serving South St. Paul. Now. In May 2006 the recordings started to beconverted to MP3 andsharedhere. It was started through his Minneapolis Brokers Association, which bought the two-hour Sunday time slot from KUXL after Adams and his associates sold enough advertising. 1370 AM went through more ups and downs than probably any other local radio station. We sold spots a dollar a holler.. The schedule on December 30, 1971, shows Rhythm & Blues programming from 1pm until dark and 6 am until 6:45 am. We were kind of in the middle of 1965. They all said the same thing, essentially: screw your non-cancelable contract. Commercial from a 1988 Beta recording of the TV movie Leap of Faith on Minneapolis, Minnesota channel 4 WCCO-TV . This is Jim Dandy's (Jim Evarts) second time at WDGY-AM. Will Jones reported in his column on March 12, 1964: Of all the new for-women-only features on KUXL, the station reports the ladies are most interested in a feature called The Unbelievable, Yet it Happened. Its about the supernatural. 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. 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. At the time it was programming Classical music. At night, WDGY was very strong, but could never be received clearly. He becomes Uncle Snuffy, Radio Daddy-O, The Cat Man. He said that his stations was making a profit from its enlightened programming and others that followed are probably doing the same. 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. Special thanks to Jeff Lonto and Alan Freed! CopyrightWDGY Radio. [4] Faced with much stronger competition on the FM dial, WDGY adopted a country music format, which continued well into the 1980s. Note that one of the attributes of the station mentioned in the ad above is Awards. The article in the Star Tribune outlined the new program: Drew Durigan: I DID hear them very well in 1988 as KMAP. Somewhere theres a story about how a station staffer would drive a dune buggy around town, and the listener who guessed closest to the number of miles driven at the end of the summer won the vehicle. CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE, WDGY Hit Car Photo Contributor, Wild Wilson. On December 1, 1964, KEVE was changed to KQRS Quality Radio Station, still playing classical music. No doubt the Random Ranch show was similar. KANO was Disk Jockey Rod Persons first radio job in 1959. It was the old WPBC studio on Stinson Blvd., near Broadway, abandoned because of freeway construction. 636 Selby Ave. Photo courtesy Jeff Neuberger. A 1969 shot of me (Rick Burnett a/k/a Rick Mason) when I was visiting the studio. It was also described as 90 percent dance music in a TV interview on YouTube. In the meantime, Rob flew to Dallas to recut the jingles. See www.radiotapes.com/WDGY.html for airchecks and much more, including the very entertaining history of the station written by Haines. It was Storzs fourth station. The shooter was never identified. The why behind recent legislation. Even the disk jockeys werent let in on it until that morning. Charlie playfully talked to Don about a glee club and does the Weatherball Weather, sponsored by North Western National Bank.."May We Help You Today." 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. Never would have believed this if I hadnt seen it with my own eyes!. 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. The station was one of the first stations in the country to program rock and roll music in a top 40 format in the mid 1950s. The most interesting thing about working there at the time was feeling the surge of relevance the station had regained on since taking on the Country format. Performers included: These groups were well known in clubs like King Solomons Mines where Soul music was a staple. 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). Johnny Canton is at the top left. There were baffles designed to permit travel only in one direction, so a fire in the vent-work should have just traveled out. So they had to have an engineer on duty at the KRSI transmitter to change the store announcements that interrupted the music. Seriously, who thought progressive rock on AM was a good idea? He broadcast over the radio that there was a fire at KDWB, no joke, and that someone should call the fire department. Apparently all this time, the station was still owned by Universal Broadcasting, which, when it was purchased, was controlled by Marvin Kosofsky. Its MODERN but MILD! Published in the Star Tribune on 3/30/2008. Hobart also announced the increase in power. This address doesnt exist as Highway 55 was expanded. June 18, WWTC radio replaces every bit of music with news. CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE, This photo was taken as the car pulls into the driveway on a Richfield winter day. KEEY seemed to specialize in handing out these FM radio station directories, which seem to me to advertise the competition more than anything else. 2 Baths. Grew up listening to Jonny on my school bus. In September 1962 it was advertised as the only all news station in the country. Bowman image sent to me by John Pratt, formerly of WDGY. In November 1977 the Insider reported that the station was working around to the album rock format from Top 40. Around the fall of 1979 it went to adult contemporary,: and they also picked up Bob Allards and Larry Kings talk shows in the late evening. Though our names are nearly identical, we were two different people. (From the A. Mintz Collection), Lunch with Donald K. Martin, Former WDGY Newsman and Morning Show Co-Host. Right on Super U became a catch phrase on the station and among its fans. This aircheck in two parts is presented un-scoped. In November 1962 the call letters were changed to KTWN. The names of the programs may give an indication of what the station was like, apparently dispensing a lot of wisdom and advice. KS95 was beginning to take hold. 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