A 1972 article in the Echo opined that KDWB played new songs that were just released, while WDGY only played nationally-established music. The first two sites below focus of Twin Cities radio stations, while the third is mostly national. Contact me at Rick(at)HotMail.com --- NOTE Replace "(at)" with @ when typing email address, Curtis J. Johnson, Former WDGY 20/20 Newscaster. No matter what I did, the signal was always distorted. That address does not compute, but below is a photo of the Holiday Motor Hotel, described as being taken in 1955. All stations will soon be equipped with an echo chamber for ON AIR use. Johnny Canton in the WDGY control room. Thermometer posted on Facebook by Jay Arnold. Another January 1957 ad said If You Dig Rhythm N Blues Mitchells the Most! But late at night, if the conditions were right, Minnesotans could hear all kinds of music through the airwaves from all parts of the United States country blues from Arkansas, R&B from WLAC in Nashville, and maybe even some doo-wop from back East. The recordings of the contributors to this web site who recorded them off the air may show up on other sites. 1370 AM went through more ups and downs than probably any other local radio station. The Sisters version sold six times better. The new station would be broadcast at 1570 kilocycles, way at the top of the AM dial, at only 500 watts, daytime only. MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA Format: T40. Interestingly, he was listed as age 29, she 24. In the first year they logged over a million calls to the Request Line: 920-9999. Okay, heres a puzzle. Lord Jeffrey, (Jeff Diamond) came to work at KUXL in 1967, when he was about 15 years old. The brochure inside the box was a ticket to a huge rock n roll show that would kick off the station. In May 2006 the recordings started to beconverted to MP3 andsharedhere. Despite the high hopes for I-95, it only lasted until February 2, 1980. Don's mother preferred that he work at a country station. That wouldnt happen until daylight. In ad in the June 14, 1969, TV Digest pictures Tac Hammer, Rick Easton, Anthony Gee, Jim Reed, and Don Shore. Everyone made up and by 1972 (and probably before) the station had a Super Shooters basketball team. In April 1957 the station was owned by the BFR Broadcasting Corp., N.L. (KUXL is loaded with preachers earlier in the day, but most of them are called Brother or Doctor.) CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE, One of the last music surveys published by WDGY. 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 Future is Now (bbzztt) The Future is Y-11, At 3 pm, September 2, 1977, the station changed its format again, this time to country. There were a bunch of people but no real activity. Probably poached from Facebook. 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. 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. Although its unclear what WLOL was playing from late 1953 to mid 1955, the names of the shows are tantalizing: A playlist from August 1956 shows that it was a major early rock n roll station. In 1959 it had a monthly newspaper called Big K News. Image courtesy Jeff Lonto. Engineer Herb Schoenbohm, a jazz buff, started by emceeing a nightly 7 7:30 pm spot. Then they would have to schlep the transmitter in a big box (about the size of a single hole outhouse) back to Minnesota. The problem was that by the time he got to a place that had soul food, it was all gone. J. Warren Burke was brought in as general manager to revamp the station. The studio, transmitter, and a 3-tower directional antenna array were located off Military Road in Woodbury (just east of Newport). He has been at KQRS in the Twin Cities for years, doing the morning show. John Fineberg was at both stations during those years and described a KQRSI (KQRS and KRSI) family. 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. New furnace, electricity etc. 1130 AM; Community content is available under CC-BY-SA unless otherwise noted. Photo courtesy Pavek Museum of Broadcasting. On the March 20, 1974 tape, we hear the jingle declaring "the music and money is on us" Mark Anderson does the news and informs us the CPI index was much higher, the US will spell out it position on the Panama Canal treaty and England is moving more troops into Belfast. The switch to talk was gradual over two years. Jim Dandy, Perry St. John, Scott Burton, George Young, B. Mason Dean. Legendary Call Letters and an incredible heritage. Dick Driscoll at WWTC in 1980, courtesy Jeff Lonto. Alan Freed, an employee to June 1989, says July 1989. Wikipedia says that the station went through jazz, and all news formats. Ironically, he then started the next record, Na Na Kiss Him Goodbye by Steam and once again left the building. Both Will Jones (Tribune, November 2, 1965) and Preacher Paul (Twin City a Go Go, Holiday 1965) wrote about the place, and how they installed 14 of the finest foxes youd ever want to see, a sound system thatll knock the buckle right off your belt, some of those sweet, gone, pine-toppin KUXL sounds, and crowds of out-a-sight swingers. 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. Then on Wednesday, July 8, 1964, were back to the old KUXL! Yonny Yonson played old time (polkas, waltzes and shoddiches) from 9 am to noon and 3-6 pm. In 1967, winning a Honda might have meant just a motorbike. Not knowing when he was writing the article, one would suppose that the Four Tops was between Ike and Tina and B.B. He had to play the #1 song every hour, and the others at will. To protect stations also on 1130 to the south and east, most of the power was directed north. WLOL FM and KUOM AM cooperated to create the stereophonic sound. For his own protection, his real identity was kept secret. 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. in Golden Valley, across from the Point Supper Club. 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. Inside of Formula 63 package, courtesy Sam Sherwood. Top Row: Step Up Movie, Steve Highsmith, Gregg Lindahl, Paul Johnson. Freed: KDAN, being a daytimer, was a perfect station to shoot at because it was off the air from sunset to sunrise, so a film shoot wouldnt interfere with normal operations if the filming was overnight. They were to buy only where they could get exactly the same guaranteed times on all stations at one time. 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. But stay tuned. The Lucky Lou program was on Sundays and was described as Jazz and Bits and Pieces of Music.. It is imperative that this unit be installed as soon as possible when received.. 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 1968 Red Owl changed the station policy from middle of the road to all request oldies to try for a high enough rating to at least make the property salable. WDGY station changed to a country music format in September 1977, around the time when most music stations began shifting onto the FM band. The Colonel became famous and very rich. The station derives a portion of its programming from Scott Shannon 's The True Oldies Channel from ABC Radio. Jim Dandy, Perry St. John, Scott Burton, George Young, B. Mason Dean. Its dead, it just sits there. Jay Philpott was the only holdover from the old format they had me doing 7 to Midnight until I left for WLOL in July 1980., KANO was Disk Jockey Rod Persons first radio job in 1959. People heard us in places we had never been heard before. All stations will soon be equipped with an echo chamber for ON AIR use. In 1948 the Sepia Serenade show featured black recording stars, Mondays and Wednesdays from 6:15 to 6:45 pm. Heres one of the dune buggies. OUR SURVEYS FOR WDGY; . I sure miss those days. Ironically, the abandoned WDGY call letters were quickly picked up by the former rival station at 630 kHz. On October 3, 1955, an ad boasted that the station would play more music and had a new record library. 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. His shows were variously called Diehl n Music, Diehls Caravan, and Its Your Diehl., Steve Cannon was at WMIN from 1949-54. WLOL-AM (We Love Our Listeners) was out of the rock n roll market and became the Twin Cities first all-talk station in 1967. Photo courtesy Jeff Neuberger. In late 1935 a new non-directional 226 Truscan Steel Vertical Radiator (tower) was erected at the site. I will cut in on occasion with additional/alternate information from Will Jones of the Minneapolis Tribune. Notice the Catman poster on the upper wall. Our normal 5,000 watt, 6 tower, highly directional radio station was now a 1,000-watt non-directional radio station. Don and I had both been part of the KTSA deejay team in San Antonio a couple of years earlier. 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. Well, they got out of the rock n roll business but stayed in the radio business until November 1972, when the station was sold and became WYOO. I have a few examples, but dont have the provenance they probably came from Jeff Lonto. The old transmitters produced a lot of heat. A 1972 article in the Echo opined that KDWB played new songs that were just released, while WDGY only played nationally-established music. In the photo below, the KUXL trailer is in the parking area behind the building. WDGY, Rock & Roll Radio, playing the hits of the '60s and '70s for the Twin Cities! 11:00 AM-2:00 PM. 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. Rhythm Of The Rain - Cascades 1 2. Well, they didnt love it, and at noon on November 2, 1972, oldies station WYOO signed on for the first time with See You Later Alligator by Bill Haley and His Comets. Congress amended the FCC Act in September 1960 to provide penalties short of license revocation for violations of FCC rules. "WDGY Means the Most Music and the Most Money." Johnny does a live Tastee Bread "Baked While You Sleep" spot, but the tape run out before he gets to finish. This has been the only transmitter location for the station since it signed on the air. WDGY 1130 AM is an online radio station broadcasts from Scottsdale, Arizona providing vintage music. Jimmy is very polite and waits for the mother to get her daughter on the phone to see if she could guess the amount. In April 1929 the frequency apparently became 1180. Once again, the small black population in Minneapolis was cited as a reason not to sponsor the program, although white people were clearly listening as well. The last listing in the paper as WMKT was April 11, 1970. Airchecks and other cool things are available at: KQRS-AM first signed on as KEYD, billed as Family Broadcasting, 1948. Rock n roll came roaring into the Twin Cities like a full force gale on February 6, 1956, when WDGY, 1130 AM, became a Storz station. 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. If it doesnt do, Ill be back in the rat race.. At night, WDGY was very strong, but could never be received clearly. 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. Our playlist stores a WDGY track list for the past 7 days. The Stewarts had worked at WCCO in various capacities since 1944. In his usual wry style, Irv describes how KRSIs General Manager, John Enoch, was testing Control Unit Model 901, which generated automated programming. 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. What to do next? Vineland Place and Oak Grove Street meet in front of WLOL with the Basilica of St. Mary visible in the background. Today, the station is KTLK, News/Talk 1130, and uses a transmitter site in Credit River Township. And although much of the 96-page report centered on the disturbances themselves, the committee had plenty to say about discrimination patterns in housing, education, recreation, employment, welfare, and police-community relations, and includes recommendations for improvement in those areas.. Stuart A. Lindman with photos of Steve Cannon, Merle Hub Cap Edwards, and Bill Diehl, 1949. 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. Performers included: These groups were well known in clubs like King Solomons Mines where Soul music was a staple. What we didnt realize was how much unexpected publicity we would get in the Twin City newspapers and on TV. 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. Storz's stations were heavy on promotion, headline-grabbing contests, and high profile dee-jays (usually using echo-chamber microphones). That clock is probably showing real time. (Kamman left for New York in 1950 but came back to the station in 1956-58.). Formula 63, will relieve ennui he promised right from the first moment you try it. 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? 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. Check out airchecks and more at RadioTapes.com, where the home page features newly-discovered TV commercials from 1974 1975. The Original Rock and Roll Station Contact Us In 2014, the station began broadcasting in HD. Cream City purchased the station from Franklin Broadcasting of New York. A note in the Minneapolis Tribune dated December 10, 1965, said that The discotheque scene at St. Pauls Ebony Lounge which disappeared a couple of weeks ago, is back in action, with much the same cast, at Big Als in Minneapolis. On October 3, 1963, Forrest Powers reported in the Star that, Well soon be the happiest group of radio listeners in the country. Reinhard Steinley became the first General Manager of WCOW on July 1, 1951. The early shows were pretty clearly just country/western affairs: Most importantly, in March/April 1955 there appeared Mr. The station finally landed at the great 1130 on March 24, 1941, when all of the local stations were repositioned. WWTC AM Radio is something of an oasis in the local radio market. Merle introduced me when I called in, and gave me five seconds of dead air to start my home recorder at 78 rpm.. Nearby Recently Sold Homes. Contributed by John Pratt 12-6-07. KANO was started in 1956 by Jack Lemme, who owned a radio station in Little Falls. http://twincitiesradioairchecks.com/wdgy1130tapes.html. Much More Music is simply that WDGY played, and is playing, more music with the bright pace of the modern sound. Broadcasting Yearbooks for 1984 through 1987 show that the name had been changed when KDAN went dark in 1983. (Minneapolis Star, October 18, 1966) Interestingly, the name of the act was never mentioned in the news reports. This is the best I could do with the poor exposure using photo editing tools. ' (April 13, 1965). 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. WDGY's longtime Top 40 format came to an end at 3 pm, September 2, 1977. In November 1962 the call letters were changed to KTWN. In 1969, WDGY's production room was located in the basement. 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). For those who prefer to look on the gloomy side of things, there are always the daytime soap operas on television. By 1955 the station was starting to play covers of rock n roll in with Perry Como and Doris Day. That November Ty Mack put in some hours, and it was now Autumn Serenade. Kash Box was apparently an advertising gimmick. WeeGee tended to be a little more conservative than KDWB reportedly even their staff wore suits and ties, but that has been disputed. http://twincitiesradioairchecks.com/kstpam70s.html. The station was fined $10,000 in March 1961 for exceeding its authorized power in nighttime operations. Thanks so much for the response to my e-mail, and for the kind words. I remember recording Rock Around the Clock from a WMIN broadcast on my Wilcox- Gay recorder. John was a dear, dear friend who died way too young. At least 48 times a day, if you happened to be tuning across the dial at that exact time all you could hear was the Colonel saying, You remember me? The music was my kind of music, actuallyother than classical music. Format. It must sign-off as sunset to prevent interfering with Class A CFZM in Toronto. It has been my opinion that a big lightning storm in July 1989 was an excuse for the station to shut down operation. On March 7, 2017, WDGY discontinued broadcasting in HD and began broadcasting in C-QUAM AM stereo. 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. History The WDGY callsign was used for another well-known station in the area from 1925 until 1991 and broadcast at 1130 kHz. Wonderful WeeGee, home of the boss jocks like Johnny Canton, hit its stride in the 60s, competing neck and neck with KDWB. 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. Al, by the way, happens to be a very knowledgeable fella, record wise. By 1977, FM radio had arrived big-time in MSP. Now, were not trying to put down all-news radio stations. The tap starts at 1:30 PM and goes about one hour with music in. ERP. There is a promo of Jim Dandy announcing he was returning to WDGY (to fill the shift left by Rob Sherwood when he went to KDWB). What became of the building? For that matter, we were discouraged from using the term teenager too. 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 station had a conglomeration of programs, ranging from waltzes, classical, show tunes, Tin Pan Alley, Hawaiian, religious, cowboy, and novelty. WWTC started out as WTCN radio, 1280 kc AM. It provided music and information for and about black people in this city and around the world. Black, age 28, was a graduate of Brown Institute, and had been working at WCCO. If we had to play junky music with morally degrading lyrics, wed get out of the business. It was then owned by Todd Storz, one of the pioneers in programming to the baby boom generation with music that theretofor had been rarely heard on "white" radio stations. This is a shot of the transmitter site of WDGY/1130AM radio, along 35W at about 102nd Street. The gun-toting news director? And, I can confirm that the man was everything his name implied: he was Little (411 tall), Jimmy (for James Cecil), and he admittedly was full of the Dickens. But thats another story. . (1970's), The WDGY Production Room. Alan Freed posted the photo below of WWTCs control center taken in 1981. Joe came from Cleveland, Ohio, and was a time salesman for WCOW and he just got this wild idea about playing that music. CLICK ON IMAGES TO ENLARGE, WDGY Donald K. Martin contributed this undated from the late 60's - early 70's. The initial format was apparently Modern Country. One early promotion involved a sticker that said KDWB is Everywhere. $630 would be awarded to the person who placed the sticker in the most unusual place, which turned out to be on the St. Paul Cathedral dome! The small 1000 watt daytime station was located at 1470 on the AM Dial. 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." . The recordings on this site provide historical examples of Twin Cities radio and are intended for purposes of archival preservation and for research. The station kept the name WDGY until 1991. K-COW said, Uh uh! With a constant bombardment of loud jingles, the jocks would scream YEEEEWWWW ONE HUNDRED! and BOOGIE! when they werent giving the time, temperature (its 72 degrees in Frriiidleeeeey!) or bad jokes. David Hersk remembers that Edwards had a late night show where he called himself Uncle Merle and played plenty of rock n roll in 1954-55. This is a shot of the transmitter site of WDGY/1130AM radio, along 35W at about 102nd Street. So maybe well never know. See www.radiotapes.com/WDGY.html for airchecks and much more, including the very entertaining history of the station written by Haines. In a June 4, 1959, article in the St. Louis Park High School Echo, it was reported that the FM station would feature dance band music on Fridays and Saturdays. He was not an on-air personality, although Secret Stash tells us that he once did a commercial in his normal voice and it was taped by a friend of Preacher Pauls who was learning how to run the board. From a Program Log, courtesy Patrick Sweeney, 1021 LaSalle Ave., 1966. Can't Get Used To Losing You - Andy Williams 5 4. Contributed by John Pratt 12-6-07. Bob Smith had created his Wolfman Jack character in 1958 at the 250,000 watt border blaster station XERF in Mexico, just over the border from Del Rio, Texas. Everyone seemed to be just milling about. UP radio sparkles in Rod Trangards newscastsin exclusive Mutual news remotes . 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