No audio, but the wires would vibrate in time to the modulation. So., Minneapolis, 5, MN. 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. We were talking and I happened to mention I was a DJ at KDWB (1982-85) and they had this photo stored in their phone picture library. I leave it to smarter people than me to figure out the history of this craziest of stations. Also appearing were the Amazers. If you suffer from lusterless, uninteresting radio, etc., etc., come on down and put a little color in your life.. Dandy informs us that if we do not listen, he will tear our heads off. This aircheck has the music scoped out, but the commercials and promos are left in, providing a glimpse into the times. So maybe well never know. There were other ways for Twin Citians to hear pre-WDGY rock n roll, of course: Records from Melodee Record Shop in Downtown Minneapolis, movies like Blackboard Jungle, and live performances of pop, jazz, and country acts. [This was what Ed Skotch wanted to be The Nations Most Attention-Programmed Station, remember?] In 1953-55 announcers included Howard Viken, Don Riley, Harry Zimmerman, Slim Jim Iverson, and Slim Jims brother the Vagabond Kid. 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. The stations address was given as 287 E 6th Street, St. Paul. 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. Many thanks to Jeff Lonto, who is one of the Cities experts on radio history, for much of the information cited here. On June 3, 1963, KTWN began programming by its new owners, K-TWN, Inc., headed by Gene Posner, President of Cream City Broadcasting, Milwaukee. 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 . Later WDGY would flip to a news/talk format; and finally, the adoption of sports talk as KFAN in 1991. Shot of Johnny Canton's desk area at WDGY-AM when he was the music director. One mainstay was the Key Room, broadcast on Saturday mornings. The WYOO call sign has resided on an FM talk station in Panama City, Florida since 1993. 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 Betzold recalled, It wasnt really a flagpole. 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.. The September 22, 1958 survey advertised Down Beat, the Longest radio show in the Twin Cities. It was also the Twin Cities ONLY station with Future-Phonic Sound. The disk jockeys were Ralf Smith, Jere Smith, Dan Allan, Jack Douglas, and Lou House. But also Doris Day, Dean Martin, and Patti Page. One young man was in a rest room with some others who were drinking, and he flashed a gun. 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. Today, the station is KTLK, News/Talk 1130, and uses a transmitter site in Credit River Township. 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. Forrest Powers of the Star filed his report on March 17, 1964, explaining how Ed Skotch was doing market research with a group of 40 housewives. The shows were identified by the name of the DJs, which included Morris, Rodger Kent, Riley, Valentine, and Ingram. The stations were reminded that they had a non-cancelable contract. Meanwhile, here are some of the dances the station sponsored. Remember that this website only goes up to 1974, and I did do a thorough search on Newspapers.com for KUXL and other offshoots. This may or may not be the building in another iteration. The station changed its call sign to KDAN in March 1970. Soon, it was possible to see the lights on the six KDWB towers. 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. It was never clear whether he used it or even who he was. In 2014, the station began broadcasting in HD. Here in my file is a page out of the July 9, 1966, issue of Billboard magazine, where the information about KUXL lives. The whole tower and Reeds escape rope would have burned had the wood had a chance to get a good start. Reed slept through the whole thing. The music spanned the black musical spectrum, from bebop to pop, delta blues to Motown, Dixieland to the Philadelphia disco sound, said Adams. Today, the station is KTLK, News/Talk 1130, and uses a transmitter site in Credit River Township. and Louisiana] in St. Louis Park. 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. Try it for a week. 3D WALKTHROUGH. In 1951 Ray Christenson was voted the most popular classical and semi-classical disk jockey in the State of Minnesota. At the time, Ray was also teaching diction to the students of Helen Stefan Model and Finishing School. The address of the first transmitter and main studio was 7711 Sixth Ave. No. 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. We may drop it from the top of Foshay, said Sherwood, Chuckling at the prospect of the worlds biggest pile of crumbs. Sam says that what actually happened to it was the cookie was picked by cargo plane at Twin Cities Airport and flown to the Ive Got A Secret Show in New York, MCd by the late Gary Moore and after that it was just disposed ofnot sure how but that was it!!. On April 18, 1994, after 36 years, the 630kHz frequency went dark. WDGY-AM 1130 Perry St. John All Night Shift 5/12/63 The quality is not great on this recording, but you can still hear everything. The call letters were also WLOL. WDGY/1130 AM . My DJ page tells me that Ronn the Rajah of Rhythm & Bluess real name was Ron Samuels the one who married Wonder Woman? 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.. Talk about a time frame, eh?) A January 1957 ad touted The Latest Platters with the Lightest Chatter on Sam Sabeans morning show On the all new, brand new WISK. Sixteen pastors gathered to support this action and expressed their concern that the investigation be impartial and representative. The first song was Bad Blood by Neil Sedaka. WDGY was different pre-Beatles. The control board, counters, carts, walls, microphone, everything. Although we think of WDGY as the Twin Cities first rock n roll station, it was not at all clear at the time. They shied away from the likes of Elvis Presley and most early rock and roll music, which they described as junky music with morally degrading lyrics. Their philosophy extended to commercials as well, to the point that they rejected advertising from beer and tobacco companies. So far, they say, they havent found one. The station was licensed as 500-watt daytimer serving South St. Paul. Billy G, the Prime Minister, started doing daily remotes from the Cassius Bar and Cafe on May 4, 1965, from 6 to 7 pm. Theairchecks on this not for profit web site were recorded off the air. The team could not play high school and college teams, but would go out to small towns for exhibition games. HIstory of Radio in 10 Minutes (actually in 11:30), http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwXJ89-qD6g, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KFAN_%28AM%29, WDGY - Scott Burton Recorded by Dick Sigurdson December 1965, WDGY Johnny Dollar Recorded Off The Air By Dick Sigurdson December 1965, WDGY - Jim Dandy's Return On Air Visit with Johnny Canton - 1976, WDGY Curtis J. Johnson 20/20 News January 1968, Curtis Johnson's Senic Minnesota :30 Spot, WDGY 1130 Johnny Canton November 30, 1970, WDGY 1130 Jimmy Reed September 23, 1969 1st 1/2 hour on WDGY, WDGY 1130 Charlie Van Dyke & Donald K. Martin February 21, 1973, WDGY 1130 Charlie Van Dyke January 1973, WDGY 1130 Bob Dayton September 30, 1971, WDGY 1130 Dick Driscoll August 1960 - from A. Mintz collection, WDGY-AM 1130 Hal Raymond July 7, 1963 - from A. Mintz collection, WDGY 1130 November 1956 - Dan Daniel - Bill Armstrong - Don Kelly the Morning Mayor - Bill Diehl - WDGY Jingles & Dick Driscoll - from A. Mintz collection, http://www.kfgo.com/pages/tomanddankfgo.html, WLOL-AM Tom Wynn 6/5/72 - from the Rick Burnett collection, WDGY-AM 1130 Perry St. John All Night Shift 5/12/63, WDGY-AM Dick Driscoll 8/60 Scoped - from A. Mintz collection, KSTP-AM Tribute To Elvis - Day Elvis Died 8-17077 Un-Scoped - from the A. Mintz collection, WDGY-AM Dan Daniels 8/57 Scoped - from the A. Mintz collection, WDGY Prospector Promo (Undated - Early '60?). He left in July 1957 to become Vice President of ABC in New York and was replaced by Jack Thayer. Click on Photo to go to a site with old bloomington antenna site and transmitter photos put together by Aaron White. Don was probably one of the first newscasters to experience terrorism while at KDWB, and shares this story with us. The new schedule kept the morning religious shows, which did have sponsors and paid the bills. ! Sam also remembered that the President of station owner Crowell-Collier was pretty mad, and annoyed when the guys on the golf course started calling him Cookie, but when he got to become a celebrity as the story went national, everyone job was safe. Joe came from Cleveland, Ohio, and was a time salesman for WCOW and he just got this wild idea about playing that music. The music first played on KUXL was of the Percy Faith/David Rose/Henry Mancini/Peggy Lee/Bing Crosby/Lawrence Welk fare. [2] The station can also be heard on 107.1 KTMY's HD2 channel in the Twin Cities.[3]. WDGY Radio is a Oldies radio station serving Minneapolis-St. Paul. 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. WMIN aired a pop music Spanish-language format as "La Nueva Ley" until November 14, 2005. 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. Jimmy Reed cues up a record in the control room at WDGY in 1969. All we have are newspaper listings, but on Tuesday, July 7, 1964, there is a full day of Ed Skotchs programming for women, from 6 am until 4 pm when jazz takes over. Contributed by John Pratt 12-6-07. I encourage you to check back from time to time. The 9-tower array beaming 50,000 watts was used to produce one of the most restrictive signals in the USA. The St. Paul Urban League and the St. Paul Human Rights Department also launched their own investigations. Feb 28, 2023. Alonzo himself was to do the afternoon drive. By 1956 WLOL was squarely in the rock n roll camp and stayed there until at least 1959, although WLOL-FM featured classical music. It is licensed to Hudson, Wisconsin, three miles east of its studios in Lakeland, Minnesota. John Fine was also part of this tight social group. When you hear it, youll find youve been missing enjoyable listening Music, mature and distinguished, in distinctive settings and performance . For his Masters Thesis on the history of WDGY, Jerry Verne Haines interviewed WDGY announcer Leonard D. Bart on June 15, 1970. It made its final move to 1130 AM in 1941 as required by the North American Radio Broadcasting Agreement (NARBA) under which most American, Canadian and Mexican AM radio stations changed frequencies. Photo from Judy Dibble via Rick Burnetts Twin Cities Radio Airchecks. Contributed by John Pratt 12-6-07. Kamman went to New York, but fortunately returned to present this gift to the Twin Cities. If he had opened that door, the back draft would have engulfed the engineer in flame. Lord Jeffrey, (Jeff Diamond) came to work at KUXL in 1967, when he was about 15 years old. 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 Big 5 jocks were Bob Bradley, Leigh Kamman, Don Kelly, Steve Cannon, and Jerry Cunning. Thanks so much for the response to my e-mail, and for the kind words. 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. Al, Nick, and Vic Tedesco, photo courtesy Pavek Museum of Broadcasting. Much More Music is simply that WDGY played, and is playing, more music with the bright pace of the modern sound. 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. (Minneapolis Star, April 30, 1975), During the show, black broadcast community news, and an educational series called Red, White and Blue in Black. The program also kept in touch with other black media programs like the black TV show, Harambee. He started the black show because whatever black programming there was was scattered a half hour on one station and 15 minutes on another. Middle row: Steve Hatley, Cosmic Cowboy a/k/a Terry Roberts, Chuck Knapp & Charlie Bush. [In 1961, when the KFWB was having labor trouble, the owner shipped some Minnesota DJs to LA to cover.] In 1959-1960 KEVE had a Sunday remote broadcast from the Fireside in Fridley. such tangy extras are part of ear-tickling, toe -tapping UP radio. Special thanks to Jeff Lonto and Alan Freed! WDGY/Minneapolis has modified its Top 40 format to an AOR-slanted approach. I took this from a flight I took in 1977. He had a student pilots license and certainly shouldnt have been flying alone, in the night, in a storm, with passengers. Can't Get Used To Losing You - Andy Williams 5 4. He didnt want to scare people away, and he wanted to lure sponsors to the program. J. Warren Burke was brought in as general manager to revamp the station. But that was overnights (considered a throwaway daypart by management) on a 50,000 watt station that reached from Canada to Cuba. The call letters of KUXL changed to KYCR on May 19, 1988. WeeGee tended to be a little more conservative than KDWB reportedly even their staff wore suits and ties, but that has been disputed. If it doesnt do, Ill be back in the rat race.. This is borne out by the number of Grand Ole Opry touring shows that came through in those days. The entire concept, advertising and promotion was headed and created by Mike Siegelman, Rob Sherwood, and Bill Hartman. The country format continued until 1989, when it became "News Talk 1130, WDGY". And, those cops took $350 in cash. 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. Todd Storz was an heir to the Storz Beer Co. out of Omaha, Nebraska. In November 1957 Jerry Cunning did Night Watch, Twin Cities first all-night record party Top 40 and then some from 11 pm to 6 am. The recordings of the contributors to this web site who recorded them off the air may show up on other sites. The station was nicknamed "WeeGee," the phonetic pronunciation of the call sign, and its format was near the top of the ratings for several years. 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. The last listing in the paper as WMKT was April 11, 1970. KQRS 92.5 FM started out as KEVE-AM on September 1, 1963. 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. Rock continued to do well in Minneapolis in the eighties. During the KFMX days, one of the frequent sponsors was the Leaning Post. (Minneapolis Daily Herald, August 8, 1962). Scripts saved all these years by DJ John Evans list songs such as: WLOL had lots of shows with tantalizing names, such as Top Tunes, Roys Record Shop, Todays Hits, Top Ten, Hit Parade, and Off the Record. The promotional piece below pictures the stations initial staff. Subject: Re: Guest Book for Scott Gary Burton. It held some interesting insights not revealed in the one Will Jones did (on August 18, above). The station had a country format at the time and was owned by Benita Soho of Los Angeles, doing business as Newport Broadcasting. He was keeping the call letters their full potential had never been fully utilized. WDGY-AM 1130 Sign-Off, 1970 - YouTube This sign-off announcement from a radio station in Minneapolis (now News/Talk KTCN) is one of many audio files preserved at:http://www.radiotapes.comNo. One of the big sponsors was the Celebrity Lounge, where you could hang out with the owners, Minnesota Twin Earl Battey and former Gopher quarterback Sandy Stephens. 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. Station manager Jim Peterson said the change, effective January 1, 1973, will involve afternoon programming only, with religious programs to stay on the stations schedule until 1 pm daily. Out on the East Coast listeners heard the original version by the Moonglows. MONDAY, MONDAY - Mama's & Papa's. Tonight's Top 20 as heard on WeeGee Wayback Wonders! 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. Twin Cities News Talk Podcasts. Seems to be half and half in the photo below, mid-1960s. An underlying cause was said to be the overall condition of the Selby-Dale area. The show, Pharoah Blacks Soul Til Sundown, began on May 1, 1975, and ran from 7 pm until sundown. On October 3, 1955, an ad boasted that the station would play more music and had a new record library. Note that one of the attributes of the station mentioned in the ad above is Awards. What happened to the records? The cops busted four men and three women for selling liquor without a license (and on a Sunday!). It wasnt long before the radio stations heard about the fact that they were advertising a competing radio station. In February 2022, the station resumed broadcasting in AM HD. Bob Allards call-in show nearly caused a riot on July 14, 1978, when he hosted Nazi Steven Martinson. The paper called the new WMINs format variety.. The station played Country music with a heavy emphasis on local North Suburban news and sports. And if I were Nancy Wilson, Id be a little ticked to have my song interrupted. 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. Then, thinking he may have over-reacted, returned to the studio to start the next song. band (which had necessitated the Mighty 1130s switch in the first place.) The Pavek Museum of Broadcasting has radio station ratings books that list programs from 1953 to 1955. Kamman left for New York in 1950. Jack Nugent said they went from 13th in the market to 2nd in 105 days. Another genre could be nascent Rhythm & Blues. No electricity. 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. There was the terrible smell of burnt paper and charred wood. After several call letter changes, including WHAT and WGWY, Young settled on WDGY, which was based on his initials. 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. Who had the key? At that time the station was also playing show tunes, Lawrence Welk, and shows like Dragnet, Bob Hope, The Great Gildersleeve, and biographies. WDGY: Dick Driscoll remembers trying to sneak in some peppier tunes in the mid- 1950s, to his bosss chagrin. The studio, transmitter, and a 3-tower directional antenna array were located off Military Road in Woodbury (just east of Newport). Never would have believed this if I hadnt seen it with my own eyes!. 50,000 watts. They also played some Whoopie John and Frankie Yankovic for the polka crowd. JAVASCRIPT IS DISABLED. Image courtesy Jeff Lonto. [4] Faced with much stronger competition on the FM dial, WDGY adopted a country music format, which continued well into the 1980s. The names of the shows were pretty ambiguous: In most cases programs were identified by the names of the DJs: Personalities selling time in this 1953 broadcasting magazine were, January 19, 1953 ad Courtesy mnkidvid.com. The turntables (pre-historic CD players) are out of the shot to his left side. . 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. 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. The decision of the police to bar the door and throw teargas into the hall was roundly criticized. May 17, 1965, saw the introduction of Billy G to the announcing staff, when the sun stayed up long enough for another shift. WMIN was still resisting the rock n roll bandwagon in January 1957, when it was playing Easy Listening. Im going to try Minnesota to the bust before I try and move on someplace, because I feel that black programming is needed here more than anyplace else. (Minneapolis Star, August 3, 1976). One highlight of the stations programming from about 1958 to 1973 was Leigh Kamman, whose jazz programs emanated from Freddys night club in Minneapolis and featured performances by Count Basie, Ramsey Lewis, Errol Garner, and Ella Fitzgerald. He was a captivating jock on WDGY. Our studios were at the transmitter at [Seventh and] Davern Street in St. Paul and engineers played both records and commercials.. (Thanks to David Hersk!). 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. Because WTCN-TV was sold to a different company (Chris Craft Broadcast, Inc.), the two stations had to have different names. From 1973 to 1976 it was strictly Country. Vineland Place and Oak Grove Street meet in front of WLOL with the Basilica of St. Mary visible in the background. On January 15, 1969, Minnesota Human Rights Commissioner Frank C. Kent announced that Ray Moss, who had charged KUXL with discriminatory practice in employment when it discharged him, had been been restored to his position. Our family cabin was located north of Park Rapids. The WDGY call letters lasted from 1925 until 1991, first at 1140kHz, then to its longtime home at 1130kHz beginning in 1941. In the first few months of operation, I would guess that WDGY probably lost as much money per month as any station in the history of radio. Jim Foster was the Program Director. The Greatest Hits of the 50s, 60s, and 70s. A memo to the staff from Todd Storz dated May 28, 1956 singles out the gang at WDGY for a job well done. Don and I had both been part of the KTSA deejay team in San Antonio a couple of years earlier. KANO was Disk Jockey Rod Persons first radio job in 1959. 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. I have absolutely no idea what is going on here. The antics of the Wolfman were documented in the 1974 film American Graffiti, and were punctuated with ads for baby chicks (100 for $4), glow-in-the-dark statues of Jesus, and oldies albums from Uncle Georges Record Shop, owned by George Garrett here in Minneapolis. Will Jones announced the change in his column on June 18, 1963, and said that the format would go to country/western, folk and ethnic programming. The Impressions made an appearance at the Marigold on Sunday, April 11, 1965. Performers included: These groups were well known in clubs like King Solomons Mines where Soul music was a staple. It is imperative that this unit be installed as soon as possible when received.. Unfortunately, there is a short period of time with lower quality sound, which is corrected quickly. It was baked in five pound slabs in a church basement and delivered just an hour before the deadline. Personnel listed were: The stations format was described in the Yearbook as Urban Contemporary. The Wolfman died on July 1, 1995. September 7, 1963s listings showed: But things were moving along. Additionally, the recordings can be used byvision impaired visitorsto get an audio perspective of radio history. At one time I was trying to find out who/what station started playing rock n roll / R&B first, but I was told in no uncertain terms that there was no Alan Freed in Minneapolis. Thanks to all contributors. 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. To promote the contest the jocks would ride around on a float in rush hour handing out stickers, hopelessly tying up traffic. I know nothing about Billy G! We have no airchecks, but ratings books from 1953 to 1955 do give us the names of programs that give hints as to what they were playing: KEYD was primarily a country station, with shows by Slim Jim and the Vagabond Kid and programs called Record Rodeo and Random Ranch. 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." . 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