UP radio sparkles in Rod Trangards newscastsin exclusive Mutual news remotes . Tom Wynn was at WDGY in the early 1960's and the two WDGY airchecks below are from January 6, 1961. WDGY Survey with Photos of Curtis J. Johnson from June 13, 1969. . What we didnt realize was how much unexpected publicity we would get in the Twin City newspapers and on TV. He was hired to do the jazz show, but moved to take over the R&B show when that opened up. Johnny does a live Tastee Bread "Baked While You Sleep" spot, but the tape run out before he gets to finish. Hennepin Ave. at the Lyndale bottleneck looking north. Don French was the first Program Director. The contributed recordings fromfriends and contributors of both airchecks and other material are greatly appreciated. Jim provided this aircheck of Johnny Canton. The Yearbook also gives the personnel as: Regardless, it went bankrupt by 1983 and left the air. Matter of fact, the spots started at 6 AM and by 10 seven of the eight stations had called the ad agency making all kinds of threats. An undated report says KEVE did a remote broadcast from the Flame on Saturday nights from 10:30 to 11:30 pm. The recordings on this site provide historical examples of Twin Cities radio and are intended for purposes of archival preservation and for research. 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! Each one of these selections was especially chosen by the WDGY All-Americans, and is performed by the original recording artists. In late 1935 a new non-directional 226 Truscan Steel Vertical Radiator (tower) was erected at the site. It had only 250 watts. Advertised performers were: Unfortunately, the staff was so busy working out the show and the logistics that they forgot to promote the concerts, and they were poorly attended, Sherwood reported. All promos, commercials and music have been left in. 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. 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. Jones explained that Lanphier was a former Milwaukee radio and TV man, and would act as the station manager as well as owner. Leigh Kamman left to join KEVE, which became KQRS. and an occasional Top 10 tune. The original call sign for the station's construction permit was WAOZ, but the station was never on the air with those call letters. (Guess who said that?) 50,000 watts. Its unclear when KSTP started playing rock n roll. More fire trucks. Wonderful WeeGee, home of the boss jocks like Johnny Canton, hit its stride in the 60s, competing neck and neck with KDWB. Glover finally finally took two weeks vacation in New York City and never came back. [He became a freelance writer and contributing editor for Circus, a music magazine.]. The text of the ad below, which comes courtesy of Jeff Lonto, reads: WLOLs catchy UP radio flavor has a way of titillating you with surprises. They could hear WDGY all across the AM dial, at points on the FM dial, on their CB radio base station, on their telephone, on their electronic organ, and(drum roll please)on their TOASTER! Big Time TV left Chicago and so did Skotch, going out to the West Coast and working as a director until he decided to get out of the rat race and become his own boss. You will hear the WeeGee $10,000 Record Stash promo and Johnny ply "1130 Caret Gold." The cops busted four men and three women for selling liquor without a license (and on a Sunday!). But stay tuned. [This was what Ed Skotch wanted to be The Nations Most Attention-Programmed Station, remember?] In 1959, WDGY gained a formidable challenger when KDWB launched. Wikipedia says the stations last documented owner was KMAP Broadcasting of Tampa. 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. decade KDWB-FM was picked up by Chancellor Media. Alan Freed found another award made by the station to the American Legion North Side Post on May 1, 1962, for Excellence in Community Service. was? 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. Secret Stash, Volume 1, Issue 1 (September 25, 2012), says that Kosofsky was the Chairman of Universal Broadcasting, and that his brother-in-law, Howard Warshaw, was the President. 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. Unfortunately, there is a short period of time with lower quality sound, which is corrected quickly. Love it, Scott! From 1973 to 1976 it was strictly Country. Two days before, Will Jones reported: Solomon Burke, who has taken to wearing kingly robes and calling himself King Solomon, is booked for a Friday night bash at the Pick-Nicollet Hotel, promoted by a young married folks group called The Weekenders. No audio, but the wires would vibrate in time to the modulation. Should you have any aircheck of Twin Cities radio stations, let me know and I may be able to include them at this site. Congress amended the FCC Act in September 1960 to provide penalties short of license revocation for violations of FCC rules. The very next day, November 13, 1963, the stations permit was approved to change its studio location and remote control point to the Golden Valley Inn, a motel at 4820 Olson Memorial Highway. There were many parts of our regular signal area where we were missing. Police shut down Nicollet Ave. and were heckled by the crowd. Download Our Free iHeartRadio App! Once outside the missiles became rocks. (The name change from WISK was reflected in the radio listings in the newspaper on September 19.) WCOW Staff @ 1953, courtesy Vic Tedesco. From there he went on to be Milkman Sam until about 1956. Skotch felt that once radio became a juke box and all talk was eliminated, the heart of radio was lost as well. It was also described as 90 percent dance music in a TV interview on YouTube. 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. Theairchecks on this not for profit web site were recorded off the air. Today, the station is KTLK, News/Talk 1130, and uses a transmitter site in Credit River Township. The show was called Rhythm n Blues Time. (Minneapolis Tribune, January 16, 1969). Following Young's death in 1945, his estate sold the station. It was Helm that people petitioned to have on the station more than anything, after trying him out on a trial basis starting in the middle of 1972. 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. http://twincitiesradioairchecks.com/wdgy1130tapes.html. I was driving my yellow Toronado through the spaghetti part of I-94 in St. Paul. Rhythm. Here was a country station, WCOW, and on Saturday afternoon and evening, along came Mr. The request line was started in February 1968, with oldies and not just the same old ones being their mainstay. The creepy monstrosity below, entered by St. Michael Elementary School, was the winner. Bob Allards call-in show nearly caused a riot on July 14, 1978, when he hosted Nazi Steven Martinson. Some of the soon to be converted files includemore airchecks of DJ's from WDGY, KDWB and others. 1130 WDGY. WPBC: No, thats not a mistake. (Thanks to David Hersk!). The station was located at 8th and Wabasha in South St. Paul, conveniently adjacent to the stockyards. 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. Radio and Records magazine, March 18, 1977, courtesy Todd Mitchell, Only reference to Y-11 that came up in a search of the Strib. By that time Elvis had hit it big with Heartbreak Hotel and Hound Dog a cover of a black record followed. A free sample is waiting for you at any Provident Drug Store. In 2008, the station became WDGY after sister station 630 AM switched to Regional Mexican music, using the call letters WREY. In 1978, promoter Tom Tipton noted that KUXL played only 11 hours of soul music per week. [4] Faced with much stronger competition on the FM dial, WDGY adopted a country music format, which continued well into the 1980s. Right on Super U became a catch phrase on the station and among its fans. This is a shottaken at the St. Paul Winter Carnival. It was payback time. This first tape was recorded off the air in March 1973. WLOL-FM (99.5) (Means Fine Music) was up and running in 1956. Art Hoehn and Ralph Hull left with Wolfman, either to Mexico or Southern California. WDGY-AM (1130): 1/6/1958 Bill Diehl Show - 9 MB (provided by Helen Diehl and Tom Oszman of TCMediaNow) Includes commercials for Hi-Spot Lemon Soda from Canada Dry, Dodge Dealers and Red Devil Soot Remover. Ramsburg says, Let me put it this way it was all show-biz. Ft. 7013 N Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA 90042. On December 1, 1964, KEVE was changed to KQRS Quality Radio Station, still playing classical music. King was also coming to the same ballroom on September 12. Always "WDGY" 1130 AM!!!! Each episode focuses on the issues, people and stories that impact the state. My wife and I had long discussions late into the evening. Sixteen pastors gathered to support this action and expressed their concern that the investigation be impartial and representative. Todd Storz was an heir to the Storz Beer Co. out of Omaha, Nebraska. Today, the station is KTLK, News/Talk 1130, and uses a transmitter site in Credit River Township. WDGY Jocks teamed up with professionals Ed Kalafat, Bobby Cox, Jim Springer, and Corky Devlin, possibly former Minneapolis Lakers. ARSA: ABOUT: SURVEYS: STATIONS: WDGY 1130 AM. The music first played on KUXL was of the Percy Faith/David Rose/Henry Mancini/Peggy Lee/Bing Crosby/Lawrence Welk fare. Then there was alternating R&B and Rap at various intervals. The concerts were advertised in the Minneapolis Spokesman, the citys African-American newspaper, but rarely in the mainstream dailies. In May 2006 the recordings started to beconverted to MP3 andsharedhere. This a recnet PR photo. Contributed by John Pratt 12-6-07. In the meantime, it was Zingale who arranged for Augie Garcia to open for Elvis when the King came to town in May 1956. The Stewarts had worked at WCCO in various capacities since 1944. (KUXL is loaded with preachers earlier in the day, but most of them are called Brother or Doctor.) 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. As a promotion, in November 1958 Jim Ramsburg cooked up the Radio Wonders basketball team. And you can try it today. Well, I found no evidence whatsoever of the Four Tops show, but I did find this: On August 23, 1965, a fracas broke out involving 400-500 young people throwing eggs and rocks at cars, about a block from the Marigold Ballroom. The following year, the station moved to 1140kHz. Ill always be grateful for the little station in the funky building on Military Road in Newport. Merle introduced me when I called in, and gave me five seconds of dead air to start my home recorder at 78 rpm.. And although this page is about the AM station, what the heck. Listen to our News/Talk 1130 WISN podcasts here! I really dont remember which station I was on then. CopyrightWDGY Radio. On February 26, 1964, Randall Hobart of the Star reported that Ed Skotch credited his women-oriented programming for a 480 percent increase in business since he took over the station. Garcia was so good that Colonel Parker pulled him off early so he wouldnt upstage Presley. 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. It held some interesting insights not revealed in the one Will Jones did (on August 18, above). Tom did the best impression of Muhammad Ali I have ever heard. KDWBs general manager at the time, Gary Stevens, claimed that they did not buy WYOO-FM to shut down a competitor, but rather to take advantage of what they saw as a good deal. As for our own radio stations, there were about nine to choose from the mighty WCCO (which had nothing remotely like rock n roll) and those listed below. Remember Bob? This is Jim Dandy's (Jim Evarts) second time at WDGY-AM. Rhythm [in 1955] and played the real soul of rhythm and blues. Can't Get Used To Losing You - Andy Williams 5 4. There was apparently a change of heart; ads from the mid 50s asked: tired of one-note guitar players and hiccup singers?, like to crawl in a hole when you hear rock and roll?. Im guessing that KAAYs Beaker Street was influential here. Out on the East Coast listeners heard the original version by the Moonglows. 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. The November 10, 1970 recording was sitting in an unmarked reel to reel box had in storage. 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? It is believed that the first transmission of the 120- or 125-line systemprobably the first telecast in Minnesotaoccurred on August 4 of that year, featuring a handshake between WDGY station personality Clellan Card and Minneapolis mayor William Kunze. You cant imagine how his popularity took off. Eight Miracle Mile merchants sponsored the program. So many questions. or use search to go right to what you are looking for: 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. You will enjoy tuning up to the quality sound of sound radio programming on KUXL. The station began as WMIN in the summer of 1936, when St. Paul furniture retailer Edward Hoffman began broadcasting at 1370kHz. Kosofsky owned several other stations that catered to listener minorities, and the company represented a string of 30 special-interest stations. We kept professional secrets from each other, but otherwise we were just one big, happy family. That November Ty Mack put in some hours, and it was now Autumn Serenade. Kash Box was apparently an advertising gimmick. 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. 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. During the next two years, U100 quickly became the most talked-about and Number one rated radio station in town. Did the snakes and ticks take over the studio? Also, a fun fact is that in October 1964, wide-eyed George Murphy (something you cant see on radio) became Dino Day and began hosting A Date With Dino on Channel 9 TV. In the meantime, Rob flew to Dallas to recut the jingles. So stunned were most of us, the gravity of situation was difficult to grasp. Fortunately, the door blew open before he got there. I hope to get some late 60's clips up on the site soon. Rock. Well hear more from Preacher Paul down below. It had 50,000 watts during the day and 25,000 at night. Show more. Its Ipanema, not Impanema. All stations will soon be equipped with an echo chamber for ON AIR use. Casey Kasems American Top 40 began broadcasting on KDWB on January 6, 1974. One more testament to the sheer effective radiated power in WDGYs nighttime lobe. The DJ on the air, Ron Block, noticed the pall of smoke in the hallway and left the building. That beam was so strong that the GROUNDWAVE signal made it at night in addition to the skywave signal. If he had opened that door, the back draft would have engulfed the engineer in flame. CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE, KOMA Guide. Consequently the launch of U100 was delayed three days. Whether this was related to the disturbance was not quite clear. The Original Rock and Roll Station. Another crazy promotion was the time Charlee Brown styled himself as the Emperor and threatened to take over the State of Wisconsin. A newspaper schedule dated December 19, 1972, shows the same preacher tapes, as Ray Moss called them, from 6 am to 1 pm. 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. Labor Temple, third floor. Well, there is an Alan Freed in Minneapolis, but hes not the guy! Because AM 740 is a Canadian clear channel frequency, WDGY is a daytime-only station. Format was Urban and they were targeting inner city Minneapolis. On August 22, 1978, a construction permit was approved to increase the stations power to 2.5 kw. In the summer, you waded through chest high weeds and as important as noting the amperage, was pulling (and, for sport, counting) any number of wood ticks that would jump on you for the ride (I counted 27 one day.). Matchbook images courtesy Pavek Museum of Broadcasting, In July 1948, Chuck Mulkern had a fifteen-minute show called Hillbilly Hits.. Countryside magazine, March 1976. He did his own programming, and said he loved his job. 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. 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. In April 1957 the studio was in the Builders Exchange Building in downtown Minneapolis, and the transmitter was described as WDGY Transmitter Plant, Oxboro, Minn. It was to be a program format, readily identifiable concentrating on jazz, according to Burke. In February 2017, WDGY added another FM translator, W221BS 92.1, broadcasting from an antenna atop Wells Fargo Place in Downtown St. The contributed recordings fromfriends and contributors of both airchecks and other material are greatly appreciated. When constructed, a Bloomington transmitter location made sense as there was little development to the south at the time. Donald K. Martin and Rick Burnett, July 7th, 2008, Mike Cunningham (Left) andJim du Bois (Richt) in the studio with Donald K. Martin, WDGY December 1972 Survey Contributed by Donald K. Martin, WDGY December 1972 Survey Back Cover (page 4), WDGY - Don Martin in undated photo he contributed. (Storz died in 1964 at age 39.) In 1952 everyone on the staff had a corny western name: Sam Sabean (aka Sam Sherwood) started out with the Sam Sabean Show in 1954, which became Hobo Sam and His Bum Program from about November 1954-March 1955. Helen Reddy / I Am Woman: 1972-12-01: Albert Hammond / It Never Rains In Southern California: 1972-12-08: Albert Hammond . To get us in the mood for another rock n roll station, they played Charlie Brown by the Coasters in French non-stop for several days. 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. You can see the full shot of the turntables with their massive tone arms. 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. John Hines replaced Knapp in about 1975, and Rob Sherwood arrived in 1976, after U100 was sold. Rhythm Of The Rain - Cascades 1 2. After he left WDGY, he actually called me a few times from his new position in Washington DC to have me do some bits for him over the phone. Ed Skotch gave up the ghost on December 1, 1964, when he voluntarily assigned his license to Universal Broadcasting Co. of Minneapolis-St. Paul, Inc. As usual, Will Jones spells it out for us in his column of December 10, 1964. 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. Don and I had both been part of the KTSA deejay team in San Antonio a couple of years earlier. 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. A daily show dedicated to Whoopie John records, Melody Hall with Mort Garren, 11 to 3 pm, Album Parade with Jack Hyatt, 3 to 8 pm, German, Polish, Country, Old-Time: 15 percent, Shows with Don Hawkins, Johnny Morris, and Jimmy Valentine, Shows with Henry J. Taylor, Bill Ingram, and Don Riley, Suburban Editorial, with editors of 12 suburban newspapers editorializing on the air throughout the week, A two-hour show featuring audience calls discussing some controversial or current issue, The all-time, sock, dynamite hits, on 15 reels of tape, 32 or 33 songs to a reel. By 1977, FM radio had arrived big-time in MSP. See more of WDGY "The Original Rock and Roll . On April 18, 1994, after 36 years, the 630kHz frequency went dark. Not sure what this is announcing. Cars were prevented from coming into the area from Interstate 94 at the Dale Street exit. One young man was in a rest room with some others who were drinking, and he flashed a gun. WDGY operated on eight frequencies [1] by the time it settled on 1180 AM. Because WTCN-TV was sold to a different company (Chris Craft Broadcast, Inc.), the two stations had to have different names. Performers included: These groups were well known in clubs like King Solomons Mines where Soul music was a staple. See more about Harris under his listing on the Disc Jockey page. Photo courtesy Pavek Museum of Broadcasting. The stations request to change the location of the studio to 5730 Duluth Street in Golden Valley was approved on October 14, 1969. These summaries focus on the 1950s through the 1970s, with an emphasis on trying to figure out which stations might have played rhythm & blues, rockabilly, or straight-on rock 'n' roll before WDGY, the first full-time rock 'n' roll station, hit the airwaves in February 1956. 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. Kamman left for New York in 1950. He now does a morning news/talk show in Fargo. On December 16, 1964, afternoons changed from jazz to Rhythm and Blues. The show was not widely advertised. The station was owned by the Peoples Broadcasting Company, founded by former WCCO announcer Bill Stewart and his wife Becky Ann. On December 29, 1972, KUXL announced that it was abandoning rhythm & blues in favor of a telephone talk show. The January 1973 tape is poor quality. ARSA: ABOUT: SURVEYS: STATIONS: WDGY 1130 AM. There were going to be 27 separate short entertainment features every day, ranging from the supernatural to what makes raindrops round. 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. FM. This is the place where "it pays to listen." For awhile they called the AM station KEVE and the FM station KADM Adam and Eve in the Valley. 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