He now does a morning news/talk show in Fargo. The show was emceed by KUXLs Jack Harris and Billy G. Little Miltons hits were listed in an ad in the Insider as Were Going to Make It, Blind Man, and More and More.. It also provided local-oriented public service information on groups like Y.E.S., Pharm House, Red Door, Womens Counseling Service, and more. This and other WDGY surveys can be see at the museum along with many other radio artifacts. June 18, WWTC radio replaces every bit of music with news. 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. On December 16, 1964, afternoons changed from jazz to Rhythm and Blues. No matter what I did, the signal was always distorted. It wasnt long before the radio stations heard about the fact that they were advertising a competing radio station. The next night, violence continued on its own momentum. Our family cabin was located north of Park Rapids. For that matter, we were discouraged from using the term teenager too. Ironically, he then started the next record, Na Na Kiss Him Goodbye by Steam and once again left the building. An invaluable source of information about the history of WDGY comes from a Masters Thesis written by Jerry Verne Haines in 1970. And he noted that it was difficult to even find R&B records in town. In August 1962 the station was identifying itself as Time-Life Broadcasting Inc. At that time an ad appeared with the following text: What happened to wtcn 1280? 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. 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! He was program director from 1968-1971. Nick came up with WCOW, which was deemed somehow more dignified. It was also appropriate: their records were labeled either O for Old Time or W for Western. I do know that Nancy Rosens name is spelled wrong. In 1956 or 57 Zingale went to New York as an account executive and, with two others, bought a White Plains radio station. (Minneapolis Star, March 17, 1978). Jeff Lonto: KDAN was depicted as an FM underground rock station, the complete opposite of what it actually was. Bob tries to give away $1,428 in WeeGee Fortune Phone Cash, but is unsucessful. WDGY at one time carried "The True Oldies Channel" programmed by New York City DJ Scott Shannon. What about a transmitter? This first tape was recorded of the radio on June 4, 1973 from 10 AM to 11:30 AM with the music and commercials out. Rick B. The photo below, provided by Jim Ramsburg to the Pavek Museum of Broadcasting, shows Jack Thayer holding the ball. The show, Pharoah Blacks Soul Til Sundown, began on May 1, 1975, and ran from 7 pm until sundown. In the meantime, Rob flew to Dallas to recut the jingles. The music was my kind of music, actuallyother than classical music. November 1966s In-Beat magazine included an interview with the stations new DJ and Program Manager, Ray Moss. WDGY (630 kHz AM, "Radio Rey") is a small Spanish-language radio station with studios located on Lake Street in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The agency negotiated non-cancellable contracts with all eight of the Twin City Stations. In 1956 the station was sold to the Crowell-Collier publishing firm. 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 station had a conglomeration of programs, ranging from waltzes, classical, show tunes, Tin Pan Alley, Hawaiian, religious, cowboy, and novelty. Paul Franklyn at 6 am, Jim Eckert at 9, Mort Garren at 11, Jim Eckert again at 1 pm, and Leigh Kamman at 4. For those who prefer to look on the gloomy side of things, there are always the daytime soap operas on television. Bo Diddley got the Marigold going on August 19, 1964. 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. In March 1958 WLOL hosted the Royal Crown Cola Bandstand at the Marigold Ballroom, with DJs Dan Anderson and Don Dahl, Sunday afternoons from 2 to 5pm. In 1933, Dr. Young was granted a license for W9XAT, an experimental mechanical television station. Take the elevator, said the sign. A touch of Formula 63 is the perfect way to brighten up your mundane day. Lets do bullets: Douglas Rice, Director of 3-man news department, General Manager: Robert W. Smith (Wolfman Jack). Image courtesy Jeff Lonto, Adult Standards, February 1980 to 1982. 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. WLOL FM and KUOM AM cooperated to create the stereophonic sound. The owner of easy listening FM station WAYL was interested in the AM operation, to simulcast WAYLs signal and expand coverage in parts of the metro area. Nearby homes similar to 36 CORNICHE Dr Unit B have recently sold between $755K to $755K at an average of $665 per square foot. In September 1956 a Will Jones item in the Trib referred to WMIN as the anti-Presley station, with a DJ called Alice Presley playing Benny Goodman records. In 1978, promoter Tom Tipton noted that KUXL played only 11 hours of soul music per week. The banner gives the shows host as Dave Reau, and the time slot as 11-11:15 am. Rob and Hartman decided to use U100 because of the dial position on an FM tuner you barely had to turn the dial to fine-tune between 980 AM and 101.3 FM they were within a couple millimeters of being in line on a 1970s-style AM/FM stereo tuner. The first tape was recorded off the air on February 21, 1973 and is a good quality recording. Look Younger is on twice. And you can try it today. This provides a historical look at the times. Ironically, WCOW eventually morphed into rock n roll station KDWB in 1959. Although FM radio is not on many car radio dials, it is found on other radios and most of the new hi-fi and stereo sets. Preacher Paul is no preacher. Photo from Judy Dibble via Rick Burnetts Twin Cities Radio Airchecks. 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. That night God must have liked bubble gum music because his gentle hand protected that flight. Let us assume that the mighty CCO did not dabble in such vulgar music and focus on the others. 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.. In the photo below, the KUXL trailer is in the parking area behind the building. Another January 1957 ad said If You Dig Rhythm N Blues Mitchells the Most! I went out to the lobby to see what they wanted an was totally surprised to see Little Jimmy Dickens! 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. In September 1962 it was advertised as the only all news station in the country. From 1969 to mid 1970, Tony Glover held down the midnight to 6 am shift. By 1972/1973, KRSI and KQRS had almost identical Progressive Rock shows. Cars were prevented from coming into the area from Interstate 94 at the Dale Street exit. Tune to the wtcn 1280 signal. He made a ton of money, eventually owning part of the Cleveland Nets World Tennis Team, Cleveland Indians, and Cleveland Cavaliers basketball team. The station was owned by the Peoples Broadcasting Company, founded by former WCCO announcer Bill Stewart and his wife Becky Ann. We did it. A 1969 shot of me (Rick Burnett a/k/a Rick Mason) when I was visiting the studio. Below is a listing of stations available in the metro area. 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. But, neither was it going to be a full-time jazz station as some had hoped. 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 : CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE, WDGY Air Staff 1986. What to do next? And although this page is about the AM station, what the heck. 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. 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. I leave it to smarter people than me to figure out the history of this craziest of stations. Listen to our News/Talk 1130 WISN podcasts here! The biggest troublemakers appeared to be a group of about 30 from Minneapolis, dressed in boots, Levi jackets, blue jeans, and cowboy or Australian digger hats. Jack Thayer had started his career here, from 1942-1951. 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.. You will also hear about his time as a morning co-host and hear him do some of the impressions from back then, including "Truman Compote," Sargent Schultz, and Preacher Paul. The 9-tower array beaming 50,000 watts was used to produce one of the most restrictive signals in the USA. It was KFMX from 1974 to 1979. He may have been a part owner of the company for a time, or he may have just been the station manager. With that in mind I had Charles Arlington record, as only he could, a theme line: Sixty Three. Bad news from Wikipedia: Despite receiving positive reviews in some mainstream publishings, Purple Haze was a flop. The Yearbook also gives the personnel as: Regardless, it went bankrupt by 1983 and left the air. Donald plays godfather with his "Don" imitation and asks Charlie "What is black and blue and floats?" 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 . WLOL-FM (99.5) (Means Fine Music) was up and running in 1956. I was still in high school when this photo was taken. This shot of him in the WDGY DJ control room is one of the better quality shots showing the Gates control board. Theserecordings are not intended to by used by others for commercial purposes. Jimmy was good friends with Tac Hammer, who was working at request radio KRSI at the time and also a former KDWB-AM jock. 63 thats easy to remember. Perhaps, this is a temporary station problem. Contests and Promotions. The station put on its salesmen, some, like Stan Mack, were former jocks. At the time you want it. 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. 1945. Or so reported the Minneapolis Star the next day. Todd Storz was an heir to the Storz Beer Co. out of Omaha, Nebraska. This site does not charge any fees to listen to the posted recordings. 1370 AM went through more ups and downs than probably any other local radio station. Like an acid-etching, the events of that day in early December 1969 are sharp as cut crystal. The music ranges from the swingtime of the late thirties to the jazz of today. Address : PO Box 25130 St Paul, MN 55125. Enter Bob Reed the news director. In September/October 1957 it announced new programming, with more music, more news, more often. By October it was a big-time rock n roll station, at least until that December, with DJs Rog Kent, Don Hawkins and Harry Zimmerman. I was first on so I got to choose radio station. WDGY Survey with Photos of Curtis J. Johnson from June 13, 1969. On October 3, 1963, Forrest Powers reported in the Star that, Well soon be the happiest group of radio listeners in the country. and Louisiana] in St. Louis Park. On April 13, 1968, Billboard reported that Ray Moss had gone to California for a job with XERB, but returned quickly and with a new name: Daddy Soul. The Insider reported that Moss became the new music director in April 1968, and was on-air from 3 to 7, Monday through Friday. This was in the basement of the old bloominton studio/transmitter site. From an ad from May 1970: WDGYA Touch of Taste.. All stations will soon be equipped with an echo chamber for ON AIR use. Later they would admit that the Todd Storz they often disparaged very well may have saved radio at a time when television was stealing its audience. On November 8, 1954, WMIN hosted a four-hour remote from the new Melodee Record Shop at 704 Hennepin Ave., advertised in the Minneapolis Spokesman. KANO was located in Anoka, with the studio and tower located on a gravel road just north of the Anoka County Fairgrounds in present-day Ramsey. He also plans to start an on-the-air school dedicated to enriching the personality of the housewife who finds herself bogged down by dishes and diapers.. The Beatles, Elton John, The Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, The Eagles, ZZ Top, David Bowie, Fleetwood Mac, Ike & Tina Turner, The Who, Rod Stewart, Diana Ross, Aretha Franklin, Bruce Springsteen, Carlos Santana, Billy Joel, The Doobie Brothers, The Steve Miller Band, The Beach Boys, Van Morrison, The Animals, Guess Who, Neil Diamond, Herman's Hermits, The Supremes, Sam and Dave, Stevie Wonder, The Four Seasons, Blood Sweat and Tears, The Allman Brothers, Johnny Rivers, Sonny and Cher, The Moody Blues, The Spinners, Grand Funk Railroad, Three Dog Night, The Box Tops, Chicago, Electric Light Orchestra and the list goes on. 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. Im going to stop here I should have stopped long ago, since this website only goes to 1974. He was in the middle of hiring, and was looking for a deep, authoritative, network kind of voice; a sirupy, romantic voice; and a thrid, more youthful and jolly voice. In August 1927, WDGYs transmitter was moved to Superior Blvd. 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. After several call letter changes, including WHAT and WGWY, Young settled on WDGY, which was based on his initials. The FCC required that the station identify itself as KDWB Lake Elmo, also occasionally serving Minneapolis and St. Paul. The station provided immediate competition to leading rock n roll station WDGY: See a good piece on the KDWB/WDGY rivalry from KARE-11 News. 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. The small 1000 watt daytime station was located at 1470 on the AM Dial. 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. But in Minneapolis-St. Paul a good part of the year was snowbound and it was really hard to see the billboards through all that sleet. probably not. The list of performers runs the gamut of the important influences on rock n roll; Bullmoose Jackson, LaVern Baker, Ruth Brown, Earl Bostic, Dinah Washington, Wynonie Harris, Johnny Otis, James Moody, Louis Jordan, the Clovers, Amos Milburn, Percy Mayfield, Johnny Ace, the Orioles, the Ravens, B.B. In addition to this web site creator's recorded aircheck collection, there are also manyairchecks that were recorded and submitted by friends and acquaintances, or contributed by other collectors. and went back to Mexico, this time to XERB, a 50,000 watt station in Tijuana. 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 call letters of WTCN radio were changed to WWTC on October 2, 1964, after Time Life sold the station to Buckley-Jaeger Broadcasting. Read more about the show in 1955, and about Zingale under Twin Cities Disc Jockeys. The company engineers actually had to install coils to de-tune the water tower before the license could be approved for 50kw operation. First air date. The decision of the police to bar the door and throw teargas into the hall was roundly criticized. It was a single engine plane trying to land at St. Pauls downtown airport, even though it was flying without instruments. The Strib is online now! My wife and I had long discussions late into the evening. WDGY gained the (perhaps unfortunate) nickname Weegee after a time. The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. WDGY-AM Hal Raymond 7/9/63 KDWB-AM 630 St. Paul (Woodbury) 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. Unfortunately, by September 1976, the programs two advertising contracts had expired, and Adams was unable to find new sponsors. It is imperative that this unit be installed as soon as possible when received.. If he plays Polk music, He must be a true Minnesotan. Remember that this website only goes up to 1974, and I did do a thorough search on Newspapers.com for KUXL and other offshoots. Merle introduced me when I called in, and gave me five seconds of dead air to start my home recorder at 78 rpm.. The baffles failed. What happened makes a big diferencce to those who know and like good radio. 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. You will also hear a commercial for a drive-in promoting a double feature rat movies (Ben) and that you can get free entrance if you bring your family cat. By 1981 it was back to Country, testified by Chris McKay: In 1981 I had just graduated from Brown Institute, and was the CHIEF ENGINEER at KDAN AM 1370! The team could not play high school and college teams, but would go out to small towns for exhibition games. The first song was Bad Blood by Neil Sedaka. 589 talking about this. 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. Billboards? Thanks to all contributors. And, Im sure it was after checking with their attorney, one by one they dropped our little campaign. It gets better: Will Jones reported on November 27, 1964, that Leigh Kamman and Herb Schoenbaum had turned KUXL into an all-jazz station and breathed new life into it. WMIN had several shows that might have included some jump tunes. From there he went on to be Milkman Sam until about 1956. Although Charles J. Lanphier of Milwaukee took out a construction permit for a new broadcast station on October 7, 1957, for some reason it took four years to be realized. Jim Foster was the Program Director. I love Will Jones, but this one is listed under Weekend girlwatching tip. MCP. Jimmy also worked at KDWB-AM and KRSI prior to this gig. I suppose at full speed, in December, the ride to Peoria would take 18 hours. Photo courtesy Jeff Neuberger. The ever-blessed Will Jones announced on June 5, 1964: KUXL is airing jazz. Leigh (pronounced Lay) Kamman had presented jazz shows for years, lately on KSTP radio until that station summarily fired him along with a number of longtime staff for some unknown reason. The turntables are in the left foreground. King was also coming to the same ballroom on September 12. The station was the first to put in the companys prepackaged Great American Country service. and an occasional Top 10 tune. 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. Radio contacts Time in Minneapolis: 13:28, 02.27.2023 Install the free Online Radio Box application for your smartphone and listen to your favorite radio stations online - wherever you are! In June 1956 KEYD was sold, changed its call letters to KEVE, and played full time Country and Western one of the first in the country to do so. Most Top 40 and Rock listening had migrated to the FM band (which had necessitated the Mighty 1130s switch in the first place.) Every sixth song was current. The Broadcasting Yearbook for 1983 indicates that the format was country. Because AM 740 is a Canadian clear channel frequency, WDGY is a daytime-only station. Love it, Scott! WISK, soon to be known as KDWB, was at 630, a spot no one in the listening area had ever heard, or even heard of. No signal. Bottom Row: Jenny Rein (secretary), Vic, Nick, ? There were baffles designed to permit travel only in one direction, so a fire in the vent-work should have just traveled out. Contributed by John Pratt 12-6-07. I did not get to talk to the Twin Cities until 1972 when I was hired as a part-time DJ at KTCR-FM, a country station in Minneapolis. Apparently the station had a wide variety of programs. . 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. On December 1, 1964, KEVE was changed to KQRS Quality Radio Station, still playing classical music. 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. 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. (KUXL is loaded with preachers earlier in the day, but most of them are called Brother or Doctor.) 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.. 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