Not sure what this is announcing. In November 1962 the call letters were changed to KTWN. How to get it to St. Paul? It broadcasts a conservative talk radio format to the Twin Cities radio market and is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. I was driving my yellow Toronado through the spaghetti part of I-94 in St. Paul. Steve Bowman, Nancy Rosen, B.J. The show, Pharoah Blacks Soul Til Sundown, began on May 1, 1975, and ran from 7 pm until sundown. After all, its a thing to be able to sit down and listen to sides all day., There was also a Richard Nelson, who Connie Hechter at the Insider called Dick, but he actually was known as Admiral Richard E, and was on the air from 1966 to 1968, according to Curt Lundgren (who says he would cringe at the name Dick.). Thats what caused the severe distortion, despite registering a 4 on my Wards Airline signal strength scale of 1 to 5. Remember that this website only goes up to 1974, and I did do a thorough search on Newspapers.com for KUXL and other offshoots. Frequency. King, right? Kamman produced live broadcasts from Mitchs Roadhouse in Mendota and hung out at the Club Casino in the Hotel St. Paul where the big bands played. The other stations had an unwritten agreement not to play race music because they assumed the Twin Cities audience would be outraged. During the next two years, U100 quickly became the most talked-about and Number one rated radio station in town. In 2014, the station began broadcasting in HD. They would play pranks like play the identical songs for an hour and see if anyone noticed. This was in the basement of the old bloominton studio/transmitter site. Tom Kilbride was a DJ at KANO from 1960 to 1965. The license for that station expired in 1938, partly because mechanical television development was heavily discouraged by that point. Curtis J Johnson, formerly of WDGY. Without their help, the site would have many less pages of radio history. Due to the re-heightened awareness of HD broadcasting on AM surrounding the October 27, 2020 FCC vote to approve voluntary all-digital broadcasting by AM stations, WDGY resumed an HD Radio signal on November 17, 2020. The manager was Roger D. Wilson, and in an ad for sales people he called the station Katy Radio.. Photo from Judy Dibble via Rick Burnetts Twin Cities Radio Airchecks. Despite the high hopes for I-95, it only lasted until February 2, 1980. There were baffles designed to permit travel only in one direction, so a fire in the vent-work should have just traveled out. Glad you got that right, as our listeners just couldnt figure it out. For his Masters Thesis on the history of WDGY, Jerry Verne Haines interviewed WDGY announcer Leonard D. Bart on June 15, 1970. ARSA: ABOUT: SURVEYS: STATIONS: 1970-02-13 WDGY 1130 AM ( Minneapolis / St. Paul, Minnesota ) TW LW ARTIST TITLE WKS NOTES; 1: 4 : Sly & The Family Stone: Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) 1: 4 : Sly & The Family Stone: Everybody Is A Star: 2: 1 : The ad below is for Position 63, a rather suggestive takeoff of the popular Position 69 that every schoolboy loved to joke about. He expressed his intent to present commercial religious shows in the morning [commercial meaning they pay for the time?]. Generally, WDGY came in second in overall audience ratings to market-dominant, clear-channel WCCO. Leigh Kamman left to join KEVE, which became KQRS. It had 5,000 watts, daytime only. Youll LOVE IT!!!!! His shows were variously called Diehl n Music, Diehls Caravan, and Its Your Diehl., Steve Cannon was at WMIN from 1949-54. Website. Everyone made up and by 1972 (and probably before) the station had a Super Shooters basketball team. Here in my file is a page out of the July 9, 1966, issue of Billboard magazine, where the information about KUXL lives. Its a NEW concept in news coverage! Scientifically Designed Entertainment $100,000 worth of better listening Big Big Big 40,000! All on the Northwests QUALITY station. The Insider reported that it was moving toward soft progressive in September 1971, when Dick Driscoll came back to the station after Dick had turned KQRS from classical to progressive. 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. It has been my opinion that a big lightning storm in July 1989 was an excuse for the station to shut down operation. Well hear more from Preacher Paul down below. WDGY 1130 Minneapolis (Scroll Down For Airchecks), WDGY was owned by Storz Broadcasting and when they started it jukebox format of plying the hits again and again, they gave WCCO a run for the money. It was a small shack hoisted on a small tower on the corner of 9th and Nicollet. The station signed on with a cowbell. This is a list of AM radio stations in the United States having call signs beginning with the letters WA to WF. In 1967 KQ-FM made its first foray into album rock with its Night Watch program, broadcasting from midnight to 5 am. 2 Baths. In April 1973 there was an ad for WWTC Spectrum, If youre not thrilled with KSTP, WYOO, KEEY, or WLOL. All things to all people, apparently: Every twenty minutes its a different color of spectrum. Don Martin_________________________________________Thanks Don for letting me share on the site. Download Our Free iHeartRadio App! Wayne Red Williams was Station Manager and Ray Christensen was Program Director. Authorization is only required to store your personal settings. In the first year they logged over a million calls to the Request Line: 920-9999. This is Jim Dandy's (Jim Evarts) second time at WDGY-AM. Whether this was related to the disturbance was not quite clear. 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. MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA Format: T40. I worked with Jim when he was at KTCR-FM. What should have been a fun night turned into two nights of fear, anger, and violence not only because of a situation handled poorly but because of underlying conditions that faced black communities all across the country. JAVASCRIPT IS DISABLED. And this scene was a night scene. 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. 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. The Tams made an appearance on Sunday, August 23, 1964. While their job was to arrest one man with a gun, they instead barricaded the door of the hall with their night sticks and used tear gas to subdue the crowd. According to PD Chuck Roberts, the new format is closer to AOR than Top 40 radio. Tom did the best impression of Muhammad Ali I have ever heard. But its also a dance session. Meanwhile, here are some of the dances the station sponsored. They continued to run the spots. The fire from the furnace traveled to the transmitters and out the intake vents. Original staff consisted of Rob Sherwood, Jeff MotherRobins, Benny Blore (Bill Hartman) Jerry Brook, U.S. The text is rather small; it reads: Today WWTC Radio trades violins for violence. Bo Diddley got the Marigold going on August 19, 1964. UP radio sparkles in Rod Trangards newscastsin exclusive Mutual news remotes . Guy Lombardo records were used as a transition between the hillbilly songs and religious programs, reported Will Jones in the Trib on August 18, 1952. Twin Cities News Talk Podcasts. The stations R&B programming had averaged about two hours daily during recent months when the stations sign-off time local sunset had been late afternoon. A touch of Formula 63 is the perfect way to brighten up your mundane day. 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. The stations music survey was Top 15 Teen Tunes, and included 5 Top Comers selected by a High School Panel of Experts. 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. That spring the station presented Saints baseball with Ray Christensen. He also mentions his concern about working around a transmitter that could light up light bulbs without putting them in an electrical socket. Fairchild contemplated selling the station. The action was finally granted on July 19, 1961. The early shows were pretty clearly just country/western affairs: Most importantly, in March/April 1955 there appeared Mr. On November 16, 1965, the 2:00 listing in the newspaper for KUXL simply read R&B Express., Apparently the scene with the Fourteen Foxes didnt last too long. ARSA: ABOUT: SURVEYS: STATIONS: WDGY 1130 AM. 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. All except for a little country station called K-COW. Its IN but NOT far out!!!! It was a single engine plane trying to land at St. Pauls downtown airport, even though it was flying without instruments. 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. Rock continued to do well in Minneapolis in the eighties. The creepy monstrosity below, entered by St. Michael Elementary School, was the winner. The photo below was posted on Facebook by Paul Strickland, who says. After a couple of changes the call letters became WDGY (Dr. George Young) in 1926. The next morning we were all there and I still remember seeing Howie Anderson shoveling the wreckage out the engineering entrance. Other early DGY personalities were Bill Armstrong, Jack Thayer, Bill Bennett, Don Loughnane, and Stanley Mack. Im sorry the ad below is so hard to read. In the photo below, the KUXL trailer is in the parking area behind the building. 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. Preacher Paul (nee Ralph Hull) had come from KDWB and it appears that he was working at both stations until June 1965. People walking by the facility at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds would comment, what is this? U100 the twin cites powerhouse playing top 40 and album rock from the speakers with no one in the booth! The ad pointed out that the stations news came not only from AP and UPI but also from Zodiac and Earth News, and provided exclusive perspectives on ecology, abortion, drug use, and consumer protection. KRSIs owner, Park Broadcasting, which owned 18 radio and TV stations in 11 cities, asked Drake-Chenault Enterprises of Los Angeles to install one of its systems. Storz also ended the affiliation with the Mutual network. 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. Not sure where the photo above came from. Super U100, the Twin Cities powerhouse was the original catch phrase, used on-air and in promotion and advertising beginning on August 26, 1974. Thinking about how to tell the good people of the Twin Cities there was some good radio on the South end of the dial was pretty much all I was thinking about. The purpose of this site is to provide radio history and intendedfor purposes of archival preservation and research.Windows Media Player works well to play these MP3 files, and depending on your internet settings, will start streaming the file once the link is clicked, Some files are large and may take time to open. The KDAN Remote Caboose Studio was used in the early 1970s for commercial remote broadcasts and for broadcasting from the Minnesota State Fair. I wonder how long this crazy schedule lasted! 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. broadcasters Kenneth Wilson (standing) and Albert Vant Flash Washington, dated to the 1940s, suggests that R&B was available at least part time to listeners in Minneapolis. Al, by the way, happens to be a very knowledgeable fella, record wise. This and other WDGY surveys can be see at the museum along with many other radio artifacts. In 1956 the station also participated in the big Contest Craze that hit most of the areas radio stations. Love it, Scott! He made a ton of money, eventually owning part of the Cleveland Nets World Tennis Team, Cleveland Indians, and Cleveland Cavaliers basketball team. A September 21, 1958 playlist shows jocks Bob Bradley, Tom Wynn, Jim Boysen, Dan Anderson, and Sandy Singer. 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. But Sam Sabean [Sam Sherwood] reports on this very important development: Joe Zingale called himself Mr. You can hear some of Herbs patter from September 7, 1956, on Tom Gavarass RadioTapes Web site: radiotapes.com/WDGY.html. We do know that the station was playing rock n roll from the WMIN Top 40 dated August 4, 1958. Ironically, the abandoned WDGY call letters were quickly picked up by the former rival station at 630 kHz. It discussed an article in the December 3, 1958 issue of Variety, in which Richard J. Miller, president of St. Louis radio station KXLW claimed that: most Negro emphasis radio is a cheap insult to Negroes, a source of self-generated bigotry, religious quackery, charlatanism, and a wallow of ugly, primitive and harmful sounds. John was a dear, dear friend who died way too young. Don was probably one of the first newscasters to experience terrorism while at KDWB, and shares this story with us. In September 1956 a Will Jones item in the Trib referred to WMIN as the anti-Presley station, with a DJ called Alice Presley playing Benny Goodman records. I was the only one there with a GRTO [General Radiotelephone Operator license]. Bottom Row: Dan Halyburton, Larry E. Cummins, Jimmy Reed. He sold me (for the cost of materials and production time) the following: Dick Driscoll, The January '73 Charlie Van Dyke, George Young, Perry St. John, Tom Wynn, Hal Raymond, Dan Daniels, and the Various WDGY DJ (composite) clip. Program directors like me used the more exclusive Gavin Report from Bill and Janet Gavin in San Francisco. Two white youths from upstate Minnesota were arrested in a house when spotted brandishing a shotgun on a balcony. 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. Jack Thayer had started his career here, from 1942-1951. A police command post was set up at the St. Paul Cathedral, and two-man tear gas units were sent around, with police at every intersection. Wonder what E.I.I. But was this the first opportunity that Twin Citians had to hear what came to be known as rock n roll on the radio? KDWBs listeners were gradually migrating to the FM signal. So many questions. 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. We hired an advertising agency which represented a large local chain of drug stores where free samples of Formula 63 where to be made available. Although he broadcast his morning show from there, there were reports that he went inside the adjacent Young-Quinlan-Rothschild building at night. WCOW, owned by the Tedesco brothers, was definitely a country make that a hillbilly station, with DJs named Sidesaddle Sore Sam (Sabean), Denver Don Doty, Buffalo Bob Montgomery, and Pecos Paul (Denault). This billboard at 9th and Hennepin tells us that WTCNs radio and TV studios were at Radio City. The format was Country With A Kick. There was a three tower directional array, and a transmitter that looked more like a refrigerator. On August 13, 1968, KDWB started programming underground music from midnight to 5 am. Click on the following web address for the museum: http://www.pavekmuseum.org/2006HOF1.htm and click on the following address to see the museum's entire Hall of Fame: http://www.pavekmuseum.org/hall.htm. The Wolfman died on July 1, 1995. The station even gave trading stamps three and a half million every week to listeners who called in at the right times. 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! Jim Peterson, station manager for the last year, said no matter how much sense it made, nobody would buy commercials for a little 1,000 watt, AM daytimer station. The competition clobbered WDGY, which succumbed in 1977. The hallway down the middle of the building acted as a firebreak and the hardcore damage was on one side and just water and smoke damage on the other side. On October 10, 1958, the station was moved from 1590 to 630 kc (Channel 63). We Play The Hits! WPBC: No, thats not a mistake. Probably poached from Facebook. [In 1961, when the KFWB was having labor trouble, the owner shipped some Minnesota DJs to LA to cover.] November 1966s In-Beat magazine included an interview with the stations new DJ and Program Manager, Ray Moss. 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. As Hartman and a crew worked 24 hours to changed all the logos and artwork on the broadcast trailer, it was a very hectic time for this brand-new, soon to be record-breaking FM station. You will also hear about his time as a morning co-host and hear him do some of the impressions from back then, including "Truman Compote," Sargent Schultz, and Preacher Paul. Ad from the Hopkins Sun, May 2, 1968, courtesy Jeff Lonto; also in Minnetonka Herald, February 22, 1968, Image courtesy Pavek Museum of Broadcasting, In 1969 KRSI issued a two-record compilation of oldies called the KRSI Request Album. The photo below is from the album. Much later, in 1977, Kosofsky would transfer his shares to Miriam Warshaw. No electricity. A license to install a new transmitter was approved on June 29, 1964. Billboards? Proceeds would go to a charity mutually agreed upon by the two teams. 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. In February 1963, familiar names Stanley Mack and Lou House were on the air. Radiotapes.com has airchecks from 1957 of Steve Cannon and Leigh Kamman doing what was billed as the Twin Cities first and only Double Disk Jockey Show. WCOW was a precursor to KDWB, so it must have been another station. Listen To Podcasts That Examine The Passion, Perseverance, And Power Of Black Culture! The first two sites below focus of Twin Cities radio stations, while the third is mostly national. The song list included such gems as You Clobbered Me, Ink Dries Quicker Than Tears, Lie Detector, and Take Your Cotton-Pickin Hands Off My Girl. The station had been playing some Top-10, Classical, semi-classical, some religious, etc. Unlike in 2017, C-QUAM AM stereo did not return. What happened to the records? 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. Ike and Tina Turner appeared at the Minneapolis Auditorium under the auspices of Preacher Paul and KUXL on August 1, 1965. Other Twin Cities station owners resented the attention WDGY received, but soon they too jumped on the top-40 bandwagon. The Twin City stations were all on the upper part of the dial at 1070, 1130, 1490, etc., but nothing below 1000. More great stuff is on http://twincitiesradioairchecks.com/wdgy1130tapes.html. No Top Forty. No signal. 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. How could this format possibly be a winner on AM? The Big 5 jocks were Bob Bradley, Leigh Kamman, Don Kelly, Steve Cannon, and Jerry Cunning. So they convinced Edwards to do it and he became Merle Hub Cap Edwards. But that was overnights (considered a throwaway daypart by management) on a 50,000 watt station that reached from Canada to Cuba. (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. Meanwhile, the Mayor and others defended the actions of the police and laid the blame squarely on the mob.. Donald K. Martin reading the news in the WDGY newsroom. This was on the grounds of the U.S. Silver Fox Farm, at the very northern border of the Village.The document below is the application to move the transmitter in 1927. On his first day found in the newspaper, he was on in front of the Polish Hour and the Methodist Church, both 90 minute shifts in the morning. In 1983 the station was sold to John and Kathleen Parker. A newspaper schedule dated December 19, 1972, shows the same preacher tapes, as Ray Moss called them, from 6 am to 1 pm. 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. Studio and Transmitter were at 611 Frontenac Place, St. Paul. Thermometer posted on Facebook by Jay Arnold. Some jingles too. In July 1966 (Smith sold out to Kosofsky?) Tune in, now . 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. Mike Sigelman (General Manager) Rob Sherwood (program director), both hired from KDWB, hired Bill Hartman straight out of WMMR at the University of Minnesota to become a full-time promotion director. Forrest Powers published his own interview with Ed Skotch on October 7, 1963, in the Star. The first song was Bad Blood by Neil Sedaka. You can still hear all George Young has to say on this clip. From an ad from May 1970: WDGYA Touch of Taste.. The State put it up for sale, and three cheeky guys, Roger Wilson, William Woods, and Dave Herman, put in a bid for $200. WDGY Hit Car - Late 60's. Who is this guy? 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." . 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. WDGY, Rock & Roll Radio, playing the hits of the '60s and '70s for the Twin Cities! I stopped and visited him one morning, and he lowered a Bob Dylan album for me. Cars were prevented from coming into the area from Interstate 94 at the Dale Street exit. 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. Thus incited, the crowd began yelling invectives at the police and throwing furniture at them. Countryside magazine, March 1976. It had hope to start broadcasting a week ago but was held up by equipment delays. 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. Killed were the pilot, Thomas B. Leivermann, his daughter and son, and his sons girlfriend. Tom Wynn was at WDGY in the early 1960's and the two WDGY airchecks below are from January 6, 1961. New furnace, electricity etc. KSTP had some country shows as well, such as Dude Ranch Jamboree, but some of the other programs leave room for speculation that they may have played something hot: Rhythm at Random, Saturday Juke Box, Young Ideas, and Record Rack. 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