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When the oldies format of WYOO started to slide in the ratings, more MOR music was added, but ratings slid even further. 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. The station was licensed as 500-watt daytimer serving South St. Paul. 1 Bath. No audio, but the wires would vibrate in time to the modulation. Without their help, the site would have many less pages of radio history. Some of the airchecks are off reel to reel tapesthat were recorded off the air by the web site creator. About a year and a half later I was assigned the morning shift from 6 to 10 AM. Police said the wood snow fence frame beneath the paper had ignited at several points.. Not knowing when he was writing the article, one would suppose that the Four Tops was between Ike and Tina and B.B. Call them, not me. 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. While a lot of money has gone down the drain, it looks like it has been well spent since the station is gaining solid acclaim in the Twin Cities, and some of the money should start to come back in over a period of the next few years., One fun item is from a Storz Stations Engineering Newsletter dated November 20, 1956. U100 signed off for the last time at midnight on Wednesday September 15, 1976. 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. Mon 13.02 Tue 14.02 Wed 15.02 Thu 16.02 Fri 17.02 Sat 18.02 Sun 19.02 Show by radio station time ( now in Minneapolis 16:44) Unfortunately, the radio station did not provide a playlist for this day. The station had a conglomeration of programs, ranging from waltzes, classical, show tunes, Tin Pan Alley, Hawaiian, religious, cowboy, and novelty. WYOO was owned by Fairchild Industries, an Aeronautics company from Maryland that was looking to diversify. When did they first hear this new music that some loved, some hated, some called just a fad, but few could ignore? Will Jones dedicated most of his April 22, 1965, column to the station, saying, Life is simpler on KUXL. He declared that hip teenagers were abandoning the standard rock n roll stations late in the afternoon to tune in to Preacher Paul Anthony. After becoming VP and General Manager, I made sales calls in all the major markets and it never failed.Sam Sherwood?!!! Read more about the show in 1955, and about Zingale under Twin Cities Disc Jockeys. 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. Where is the equipment? I suppose at full speed, in December, the ride to Peoria would take 18 hours. Early disc jockeys were July 1, 1965 to November 14, 1966: Tom Kaye and Bob Lulline (1965 to 1966), Denny Long (1966 to 1967), Jay Daniels, Phil LaManne (1966 to 1968), Dick Daniels, Ed Lowell, Harvey Moss (1968 to 1969), and Doug White, Tony Young, Dee Carr, and Tom ONeal (1969 to 1970). WDGY was certainly a much different station pre-Beatles than it was as the 60's progressed. The Stewarts took a rather conservative approach in programming the station. They made a big pot of it at noon, and when it was gone, it was gone, seldom lasting past 5pm. One letter to the editor mourned the Death of Jazz, praised Herb Schoenbaum and Leigh Kamman, who gave much to the betterment of good music in the Twin Cities, and directed particular admiration to Paul Franklyn, who flew the jazz banner through the wildest change of station ownership and programming this city has ever seen. (Minneapolis Star, December 28, 1964). (The top 40 announcers were a different breed, and we had little to do with each other off-the-air.). In 1967 KQ-FM made its first foray into album rock with its Night Watch program, broadcasting from midnight to 5 am. Not all of the airchecks on this site were in my original personal collection. Install the free Online Radio Box application for your smartphone and listen to your favorite radio stations online - wherever you are! Wayne Red Williams was Station Manager and Ray Christensen was Program Director. But also Doris Day, Dean Martin, and Patti Page. The station even gave trading stamps three and a half million every week to listeners who called in at the right times. This site does not charge any fees to listen to the posted recordings. 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. Always "WDGY" 1130 AM!!!! Also my parents listened to WDGY in the mid to late 50's and on the long drive to the lake as well. Wedgy Devices for a variety of Electrical, Low Voltage, Plumbing, Piping, Mechanical, HVAC, Fire Protection and other construction applications using Wedgy Cable Supports. The epic blizzard of March 1965 prevented Bobby Blue Bland from making a KUXL-sponsored dance at the Marigold, but a local musician was found to substitute, admission price was lowered, and the event still drew 2,600 people. Nobody died. The station kept the name WDGY until 1991. And there was one other important requirement. Our service costs about the same if you brought in that supertalented program director. Plus you eliminate the stuck records, scratchy music, the jarring jock. Interestingly, he was listed as age 29, she 24. In ad in the June 14, 1969, TV Digest pictures Tac Hammer, Rick Easton, Anthony Gee, Jim Reed, and Don Shore. Kammans show, called KUXL Jazz Club, began on Monday, June 22, and aired Monday through Friday 4 pm to sundown and at 5 pm on Saturdays following Herb Schoenbaums Jazz Festival.. But then on May 2, 1988, new life came to our little station in the form of KMAP. Bob Short bought the station from Buckley Broadcasting in early (in or before March) 1978. Meanwhile, the engineer, who had been in the tower field, returned to the building and was just seconds from opening the back door. In 1954 the call sign for 1400 AM briefly changed to WMNS, reflecting a change to a full service format of music, news and sports. Curt discusses his early career and talks about his time at WDGY and shares some stories about the people he worked with during his career. band (which had necessitated the Mighty 1130s switch in the first place.) While some of us labored shoveling and wives and girlfriends scrubbed the residue gunk off everything, KDWB, like a phoenix, was about to arise from the ashes. Nearby Recently Sold Homes. The station played Country music with a heavy emphasis on local North Suburban news and sports. Lord Jeffrey, (Jeff Diamond) came to work at KUXL in 1967, when he was about 15 years old. Most Top 40 and Rock listening had migrated to the FM band (which had necessitated the Mighty 1130s switch in the first place.) The switch resulted in low ratings, according to an article in the Star Tribune on September 3, 1977. At the same time, the station will be entering the background music field, supplying a separate channel of music to supermarkets, offices, plants, and other installations, reported the Minneapolis Daily Herald on August 8, 1962. Today, the station is KTLK, News/Talk 1130, and uses a transmitter site in Credit River Township. All stations will soon be equipped with an echo chamber for ON AIR use. The promotional flier or whatever below was posted on Facebook, and I dont know what the class designations mean. 2 Baths. In the 60 I later converted to KDWB, but still listened to WDGY. (Storz died in 1964 at age 39.) cookies . He didnt want to scare people away, and he wanted to lure sponsors to the program. On October 3, 1955, an ad boasted that the station would play more music and had a new record library. Schedules and staff were changing that winter of 1965, with Preacher Paul slipping into semi-retirement, working only Saturdays from 1 to 5:30, remotely from the Ebony Lounge. The team could not play high school and college teams, but would go out to small towns for exhibition games. 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. Cars were prevented from coming into the area from Interstate 94 at the Dale Street exit. Doing the research for this page has taken all of my resources, from the all-important Facebook, Star Tribune, and Wikipedia, broken links, bad info and all. 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. 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. 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. After several call letter changes, including WHAT and WGWY, Young settled on WDGY, which was based on his initials. Well, at least with the progressive announcers on KRSI. The daytimer station was authorized for 1,000 watts. The station had a country format at the time and was owned by Benita Soho of Los Angeles, doing business as Newport Broadcasting. He expected to shock some people that first day! From late 1953 to mid 1955 WMIN had tons of shows that might have included some jump tunes. WDGY's longtime Top 40 format came to an end at 3 pm, September 2, 1977. (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. You will hear the WeeGee $10,000 Record Stash promo and Johnny ply "1130 Caret Gold." Hes still sick of The Wayward Wind., As for where the lists came from, Ramsburg explains, Juke box operators depended on Cash Box, which was a few weeks faster with sales figures than Billboard. But, neither was it going to be a full-time jazz station as some had hoped. The switch to talk was gradual over two years. . I will cut in on occasion with additional/alternate information from Will Jones of the Minneapolis Tribune. But was this the first opportunity that Twin Citians had to hear what came to be known as rock n roll on the radio? You can still hear the Van Dyke and Martin banter. Photo dated November 6, 1942, courtesy Minnesota Historical Society. Bobby Blue Bland might have been the first KUXL show, appearing on July 22, 1964. He was a captivating jock on WDGY. 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. So they convinced Edwards to do it and he became Merle Hub Cap Edwards. You can view more history by clicking the following web address:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KFAN_%28AM%29 And also at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WDGY. Whether it actually had to pony up the $10,000 is unknown. In 1959 it had a monthly newspaper called Big K News. It was a single engine plane trying to land at St. Pauls downtown airport, even though it was flying without instruments. The Colonel loved the whole idea and agreed to do it. 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 call letters of KUXL changed to KYCR on May 19, 1988. I took this from a flight I took in 1977. Not sure exactly when these recording ran on WDGY. In February 2017, WDGY added another FM translator, W221BS 92.1, broadcasting from an antenna atop Wells Fargo Place in Downtown St. Garcia was so good that Colonel Parker pulled him off early so he wouldnt upstage Presley. The recordings of the contributors to this web site who recorded them off the air may show up on other sites. In 1950 it was 1.3 percent, and in 1960 it grew to 2.5 percent. Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha!!! 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. Thats what caused the severe distortion, despite registering a 4 on my Wards Airline signal strength scale of 1 to 5. Its billed as the Ike and Tina Turner Revue, complete with nine-piece band, singers Bobby John and Jimmy Thomas and a girl trio called the Ikettes. 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. WLOLs Swing Club had Dan Anderson on Saturdays from noon to 6 pm., also Top 40 and then some.. He was in town doing two shows at the Flame Nightclub at 16th and Nicollet in downtown Minneapolis. 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. In the September 1965 issue of Twin City a-Go Go magazine, Preacher Paul had a column called Heres Hip Happenings. At the end he talked about the concerts, and said that as he was writing the article, the most recent one was the Ike and Tina Turner concert on August 1. They were attacked by about 20 men who tried to retrieve the gun. First, the typos are NOT mine this time. Harry Zimmerman was playing the Sweetest Music in Town., Something happened on January 14, 1957, but the ads werent clear. Two white youths from upstate Minnesota were arrested in a house when spotted brandishing a shotgun on a balcony. Courtesy Alan Freed. Also, they are not necessarily in the right order. Let us assume that the mighty CCO did not dabble in such vulgar music and focus on the others. On September 2, 1951, the station sponsored a concert by the Blind Boys, advertised in the Minneapolis Spokesman. Minneapolis, MN. Follow the link to read the story of this long-running radio show. They broke through one of the doors, and then the police decided to keep them back by lobbing teargas into the crowd. The Original Rock and Roll Station. To protect stations also on 1130 to the south and east, most of the power was directed north. Don was probably one of the first newscasters to experience terrorism while at KDWB, and shares this story with us. 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. By 1977, FM radio had arrived big-time in MSP. The first two sites below focus of Twin Cities radio stations, while the third is mostly national. There were many parts of our regular signal area where we were missing. The memory music format was enlarged, a jingle by Herb Pilhofer was created, and talk shows were produced. That wouldnt happen until daylight. Top of a Top 40 from August 1956, courtesy of the Pavek Museum of Broadcasting. Everything was ready and in place on the first day of the Minnesota State Fair, and Rob had the format and jingles ready to go on the air. Two of them, a married couple, were from Minneapolis, and they had a loaded submachine gun in the trunk of their car and a .45 pistol under the seat. The Star Tribune article also reported that Al Alonzo reported to Newport. So many questions. A couple years back I brought you Serutan, the product guaranteed to cure what ails you. The first of the stations catchphrases was My Mommy Listens to KDWB., Ad from September 19, 1959 courtesy Jeff Lonto. The following is from an email dated September 19, 2007, from Chuck Blore to Rick Burnett describing the Formula 63 and 63 Thats Easy to Remember promotions that Blore devised when KDWB first went on the air. WDGY, - , , OnlineRadioBox.com . Haines wrote: Rock and roll had a difficult entry into the Twin Cities market. While there were clearly some country/western shows Saturday Hoedown and Western Favorites and perhaps some old-time songs Tin Pan Allan was on a lot there were others with intriguing names: Ralph (Smith) and His Records, Top Tunes, (Judys) Juke Box, and Your Rhythm Review. I hope you enjoy them. And it was Snyder Drug Stores. I remember that the No. Screen grabs below courtesy Alan Freed. Dr. Young cycled through the names WHAT, WGWY ("W-George W. Young"), and finally WDGY ("W-Dr. George Young") in the next two years until being chastised by the government for changing too frequently. Its Ipanema, not Impanema. KS95 was beginning to take hold. He actually bought the time from KUXL himself and sold commercials to pay for it. CopyrightWDGY Radio. Allegedly, the Stewarts would go so far as to use the sharp end of a compass to scratch away the grooves of tracks on albums that didnt meet their standards of nice music, in order to prevent rebellious D.J.s from playing them. This was best done by the Five Keys in 1951, but the song was written in 1936, so whos to complain. For that matter, we were discouraged from using the term teenager too. My wife and I had long discussions late into the evening. Almost everybody in the country who had anything at all ailing them, bought into the pitch. The feeling seemed to be we are not going to advertise on that station., Jim Ramsburg, an early WDGY jock, says we were given strict orders never to utter the phrase, Rock & Roll, because it was black slang for sex. Listen To The Most Popular Podcasts On iHeartRadio! A memo to the staff from Todd Storz dated May 28, 1956 singles out the gang at WDGY for a job well done. Coast to Coast AM is overnight talk radio with daytime ratings. By the end of 1956 WMIN was participating in the contest craze and calling itself Music City.. WDGY (740 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Hudson, Wisconsin, and serving the Minneapolis-St. Paul radio market. http://twincitiesradioairchecks.com/kstpam70s.html. Kosofsky owned several other stations that catered to listener minorities, and the company represented a string of 30 special-interest stations. Police said they did not use tear gas to break up the crowd. Or so reported the Minneapolis Tribune, the day after that. The DJs chose the music, which was 80 percent pop standard and 20 percent contemporary. Donald Perry was the General Manager. The cookie was displayed in the lobby of the Foshay Tower, where viewers filched pieces of it until French dispatched a guard. Hubbards Hundred Days was the headline in late 1973.. This address doesnt exist as Highway 55 was expanded. Radio and Records magazine, March 18, 1977, courtesy Todd Mitchell, Only reference to Y-11 that came up in a search of the Strib. At every Provident Drug Store (not the real name) was a giant stack of tiny boxes beneath a huge sign saying, Free Samples of Formula 63. Another view of the Holiday Motor Hotel, Golden Valley, Jack Hyatt and Hugh Cardenas selecting records at the new studio in Golden Valley. John Hines replaced Knapp in about 1975, and Rob Sherwood arrived in 1976, after U100 was sold. In an interview given for the Rondo Oral History Project of the Minnesota Historical Society, Yusef Mgeni remembered that KUXL was a strange hybrid type of station. 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. At that point, having lost the opportunity to peacefully arrest the young man, the police decided to use nightsticks to bar the door to the hall, keeping the people in. Will Jones tells us that security was so tight that the 120,000 packages were stuffed at the Society for the Blind. The reels are changed by an actual human person., Oldies, the all-timers but not whammo smashes, not instantly recognizable but they sold a lot., Top country hits new reels sent in weekly. Airchecks are samples of old radio recordings, with the music cut out. See more about Preacher Paul on the Disc Jockeys page. It was Percy Faith type music. From 1969 to mid 1970, Tony Glover held down the midnight to 6 am shift. We ran through the frigid Minnesota December weather to get to the production room. The early shows were pretty clearly just country/western affairs: Most importantly, in March/April 1955 there appeared Mr. Contributed by John Pratt 12-6-07. Notice the Catman poster on the upper wall. On May 27, 1965, Will Jones noted that with Daylight Savings Time and sundown getting later Billy G would be able to wail with the records from Cassius Bar until 9 pm. The initial format was apparently Modern Country. Every sixth song was current. 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