MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA Format: T40. The company engineers actually had to install coils to de-tune the water tower before the license could be approved for 50kw operation. The daytimer station was authorized for 1,000 watts. Almost everybody in the country who had anything at all ailing them, bought into the pitch. The Temptations came to the Marigold on October 16, 1966, and police had to be called when 800 to 1,000 people on the sidewalk got impatient waiting to buy tickets at the one ticket booth. Alan Freed: Al Alonzo still owes many of us our final paychecks. Most Top 40 and Rock listening had migrated to the FM band (which had necessitated the Mighty 1130s switch in the first place.) In May 2016, WDGY began simulcasting on FM translator W279DD 103.7 in Hudson, Wisconsin. Contests and Promotions. 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. Don's mother preferred that he work at a country station. Suddenly the voice of Metropolitan Radio is clear as a bell on the dial. 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. WDGY was certainly a much different station pre-Beatles than it was as the 60's progressed. So., Minneapolis, 5, MN. I have a few examples, but dont have the provenance they probably came from Jeff Lonto. 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. This is a list of AM radio stations in the United States having call signs beginning with the letters WA to WF. WDGY's longtime Top 40 format came to an end at 3 pm, September 2, 1977. 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. Its dead, it just sits there. The ad below boasts of their KUXL award for excellence in musical instruction. We chatted and laughed on the air for about 15 minutes, talking about his devilish upbringing, singing at the Grand Ole Opry, the weekend shows at the Flame and played his latest recording. 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! The Twin Cities has many FM and AM radio stations. Ten people were arrested, most for carrying firearms. Jeff Lonto provides this info: The station became WJSW Polka Power around 1969, and they picked up the WMIN call letters in November 1973 after being dropped a year earlier by 1400 AM. Ike and Tina Turner appeared at the Minneapolis Auditorium under the auspices of Preacher Paul and KUXL on August 1, 1965. The caption to the photo below, from Minnesota Music magazine, 1980, reads. I worked with Jim when he was at KTCR-FM. Grew up listening to Jonny on my school bus. ! 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. Try it for a week. People heard us in places we had never been heard before. 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. Hobart also announced the increase in power. For those who prefer to look on the gloomy side of things, there are always the daytime soap operas on television. I hope you have some audio clean up program. By 1957 KSTP was squarely on the rock n roll bandwagon, but got off pretty quickly. From about 1955 to 1977, the station played popular music and was one of the most popular stations in the area, primarily competing for music listeners with KSTP 1500 and KDWB 630, though WCCO 830 was the major force of the day with a mixture of music, talk, and farm reports. Dandy informs us that if we do not listen, he will tear our heads off. So they had to have an engineer on duty at the KRSI transmitter to change the store announcements that interrupted the music. CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE, WDGY Guides, Bohaty-Douglas-Olson, 1982. WDGY-AM (1130) - Charlie Van Dyke and Donald K. Martin - 10 MB (provided by Danny Sigelman Includes newscast and commercials for Anacin, Eastern Airlines, GAC Finance, Target, Fairview Chrysler Plymouth, Joyous Christmas LP at Beneficial Finance, Hansord Pontiac, Xerox, Sears, First Minnehaha National Bank, and Quality Mercury. They would play pranks like play the identical songs for an hour and see if anyone noticed. In summary, it was a conservative, white bread market with only a handful of stations in those days., Although many give Storz the credit for inventing the Top 40 format, Haines asserts that it was already in place. Unlike in 2017, C-QUAM AM stereo did not return. The WDGY call letters lasted from 1925 until 1991, first at 1140kHz, then to its longtime home at 1130kHz beginning in 1941. The crowd moved west down 4th Street, smashing store windows, until they got to the Selby-Dale neighborhood, where many of the Citys 10,000 black people lived in what could only be described as a ghetto. Luxurious digs, no? says Curt. 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?. A gunshot was heard and a policeman was hit in the arm or hand. 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. 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. VSNN had taken over the station on a management agreement and, in reality, nobody else at VSNN wanted the PD job. Ads to rent out the St. Louis Park studio appear in January 1973 and sometime between then and March 1973 the studio moved to Valley View Road in Eden Prairie. KANO was started in 1956 by Jack Lemme, who owned a radio station in Little Falls. WDGY "The Original Rock and Roll Station" . And when youre there, youre a celebrity. The Twins management got riled at the implications that its star catcher and other players were hanging around a saloon, and protested, so the Preacher toned it down. Jim Ramsburg says that in 1956 we pulled our own music from the big record library with no rules or restrictions. One even has a snippet of Loni Anderson! such tangy extras are part of ear-tickling, toe -tapping UP radio. Theres a ton of stories circulating about Top 40 began inspired by an Omaha tavern juke box, developed by a college statistical department, guided by BBDOs Hit Parade formula for Lucky Strike you name it. Jimmy is very polite and waits for the mother to get her daughter on the phone to see if she could guess the amount. RecordedMay 12, 1963. The term we are using to describe this particular form of AOR is Coloradio. Our research and general observations indicate that this is the direction of AM Top 40 radio, so we may as well start now.. Record album issued by WWTC in 1981 image courtesy Jeff Lonto. Dateline Minneapolis, March 13, 1966. I do believe we did have the first of the top forty station two man morning shows, at least in the Twin Cities, other than CCO. 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. Contact me at Rick(at)HotMail.com --- NOTE Replace "(at)" with @ when typing email address, Curtis J. Johnson, Former WDGY 20/20 Newscaster. Thought I would share. Image courtesy Jeff Lonto. WeeGee tended to be a little more conservative than KDWB reportedly even their staff wore suits and ties, but that has been disputed. Unfortunately, this shot suffers from poor exposure. I remember that the No. But the advent of WDGY was the quantifiable arrival of the genre that influenced lifestyles, attitudes, fashion, language, and of course, radio formats for generations to come. band (which had necessitated the Mighty 1130s switch in the first place.) They never expected the gigantic turnout, and the ultra-gigantic cookie that won the contest! Middle row: Steve Hatley, Cosmic Cowboy a/k/a Terry Roberts, Chuck Knapp & Charlie Bush. As a promotional gimmick, Skotch planned to distribute 100,000 happiness charts, which supposedly predicts the days when a person will feel cheerful or grumpy. The first lineup of DJs was Hall Murray, Phil Page, Sam Sherwood, Bob Chasteen, Bob Friend, Randy Cook, and Dick Halvorson John McCrae was the first General Manager, and Sam Sherwood held that position throughout the 60s. KQRS was close to adopting the SuperStars format, making them a major player. The other stations had an unwritten agreement not to play race music because they assumed the Twin Cities audience would be outraged. This time he was planning to do the same with KUXL, only without partners, using his life savings. KS95 was beginning to take hold. In July 1957 Kamman was doing the noon to 2pm show from Southdale, just off the Garden Court. 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. It was Tiger Radio. Later WDGY would flip to a news/talk format; and finally, the adoption of sports talk as KFAN in 1991. Right on Super U became a catch phrase on the station and among its fans. View more recently sold homes. Contributed by John Pratt 12-6-07. Meanwhile, the engineer, who had been in the tower field, returned to the building and was just seconds from opening the back door. The team could not play high school and college teams, but would go out to small towns for exhibition games. They used KUOM AM instead of WLOL AM because they did not want to scare away their AM Top 40 listeners by playing even only one hour of the FMs classical music. WDGY- Don Martin contributed this undated photo from late 60's - early 70's, Don Martin contibuted this October 16, 1974 article on Twin Cities morning radio shows. On this tape you will catch Johnny in the middle of a WeeGee Triple Power Play at the home of the "Twin Cities Most Music." That beam was so strong that the GROUNDWAVE signal made it at night in addition to the skywave signal. Photos from the Minnesota Historical Society show the Augie Garcia Quintet performing at the River Road Club in Mendota in front of a banner that says they were featured on the Key Room Show on KEYD-AM. Donald K. Martin at the mic again for a July 7th, 2008 interview. Dr. Young died in 1945 and the station was transferred to the Twin City Broadcasting Corporation 1946. 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. It was the old WPBC studio on Stinson Blvd., near Broadway, abandoned because of freeway construction. 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. There are some quality problems, different recorder. 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. Will Jones dedicated most of his April 22, 1965, column to the station, saying, Life is simpler on KUXL. He declared that hip teenagers were abandoning the standard rock n roll stations late in the afternoon to tune in to Preacher Paul Anthony. John Fine was also part of this tight social group. It was fun, and by then, Charlie was on the mornings, and I did the news and the bits. The Original Rock and Roll Station Contact Us The Insider reported that Evan Curfew was playing a Solid Gold Oldies All Request show on Saturdays from 1 5 (am or pm?) He recently celebrated 25 years at KFGO. . One more testament to the sheer effective radiated power in WDGYs nighttime lobe. Mid 60's photo of WDGY's Johnny Dollar on the back of a Honda being driven by a constest winner. The contributed recordings fromfriends and contributors of both airchecks and other material are greatly appreciated. in 1330s exciting sportscasts and weather reports. Jack Hazlett was Station and Sales Manager, and Ralph R. Smith was Program Director. Much of the following information about this ever-changing station comes from Jeff Lontos book Fiasco at 1280, The Rise and Hard Fall of a Twin Cities Radio Station, available through the Pavek Museum of Broadcasting. 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. 1130 AM: News/Talk: Clear Channel: KLBB: 1220 AM: American standards: Endurance Broadcasting, LLC . 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. Seriously, who thought progressive rock on AM was a good idea? Efforts to find out who was playing that night were fruitless. 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. By 1981 it was back to Country, testified by Chris McKay: In 1981 I had just graduated from Brown Institute, and was the CHIEF ENGINEER at KDAN AM 1370! 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 : In June 1956 KEYD was sold, changed its call letters to KEVE, and played full time Country and Western one of the first in the country to do so. More great stuff is on http://twincitiesradioairchecks.com/wdgy1130tapes.html. Reportedly one of them was a one hour program playing rockabilly and R&B perhaps the first in the area. That November Ty Mack put in some hours, and it was now Autumn Serenade. Kash Box was apparently an advertising gimmick. He stayed until February 1978. Tweedle Dee, not by LaVern Baker or even Georgia Gibbs, but by someone named Vicky Young. We hope you will enjoy our first birthday edition YESTERHITS FROM YESTERDAY and join us in listening to the second year of Much More Music on 1130 Radio WDGY. The format changed to classical music in 1961. In conjunction with the 1966 Aquatennial, disc jockey Jimmy Reed spent (a reported 21 days) on top of a flagpole in downtown Minneapolis starting on July 5, 1966. WPBC (Peoples Broadcasting Co.) was owned and operated by Bill and Becky Ann Stewart and went on the air in October 1949. On June 12, 1967, the stations application to change its studio location to 5728 Wayzata Blvd. The airchecks reflect a more middle-of-the-road format, but the Top 40 playlists from 1956-59 have a lot of rock n roll (with a polka thrown in for good measure). I have absolutely no idea what is going on here. An envelope dated October 1, 1956, is addressed to 10350 Fremont Ave. 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. On August 28, Will Jones published an extended interview with Skotch. And then almost overnight, or so it seemed, the jazz folk around town were talking about their station. The 1989 Broadcasting Yearbook reported that the station was now owned by Newport Broadcasting. The facts, as reported in the newspapers and in investigative reports approximate these. Because AM 740 is a Canadian clear channel frequency, WDGY is a daytime-only station. Install the free Online Radio Box app for your smartphone and listen to your favorite radio stations online - wherever you are! And the response has been so good that the weekday evening jazz time may be extended. Screen grab from the movie Purple Haze. Image courtesy Alan Freed. Nick came up with WCOW, which was deemed somehow more dignified. It was also appropriate: their records were labeled either O for Old Time or W for Western. As part of the anniversary celebration, listeners were urged to send the station a birthday card with a favorite song from the last year, and if it was drawn the listener could win the Yesterhits Souvenir Album and a chance of winning one of six Hondas. 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! band (which had necessitated the Mighty 1130s switch in the first place.) The 9-tower array beaming 50,000 watts was used to produce one of the most restrictive signals in the USA. In 1937 the station had a 15-minute program on Sundays featuring black singers that was advertised in the Minneapolis Spokesman. 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." . Joe Edwards does the news outro, ending this segment of WDGY's 20/20 News. From 1969 to mid 1970, Tony Glover held down the midnight to 6 am shift. Unlike most metropolitan areas, the Twin Cities did not have a black radio station in the 1940s or 50s. An obvious reference to his old employing station. WLOL first went on the air on June 6, 1940. Shot of Johnny Canton's desk area at WDGY-AM when he was the music director. I was a young kid when I first listened to WDGY and KDWB. 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 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. The first song was Bad Blood by Neil Sedaka. ARSA: ABOUT: SURVEYS: STATIONS: WDGY 1130 AM. The shows were identified by the name of the DJs, which included Morris, Rodger Kent, Riley, Valentine, and Ingram. 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 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. He actually bought the time from KUXL himself and sold commercials to pay for it. After a brief shutdown in 1993 due to business failure and the sale of WRPX, the station picked up the vacated WMIN call sign, which had a long history in the market. I hope to get some late 60's clips up on the site soon. In 1969, WDGY's production room was located in the basement. In 1942, the station gained approval to broadcast at night. KQRS 92.5 FM started out as KEVE-AM on September 1, 1963. He also plans to start an on-the-air school dedicated to enriching the personality of the housewife who finds herself bogged down by dishes and diapers.. The ad below was placed during the Cuban Missile Crisis: The ad below is from the Minneapolis Herald, the replacement paper started when the Star and Tribune were on strike in 1962. Tom Wynn was at WDGY in the early 1960's and the two WDGY airchecks below are from January 6, 1961. Some of the airchecks are off reel to reel tapesthat were recorded off the air by the web site creator. could get them on my Lloyds Transistor Six when the batteries were dead., I dated a girl who lived on Fremont Ave. between 101st & 102nd streets. At the time he was operating two mobile discos called Soul on the Roll Disco Rendezvous.. Ft. 7013 N Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA 90042. The last listing in the paper as WMKT was April 11, 1970. WeeGee tended to be a little more conservative than KDWB reportedly even their staff wore suits and ties, but that has been disputed. Whether it actually had to pony up the $10,000 is unknown. KANO was located in Anoka, with the studio and tower located on a gravel road just north of the Anoka County Fairgrounds in present-day Ramsey. WDGY Jocks teamed up with professionals Ed Kalafat, Bobby Cox, Jim Springer, and Corky Devlin, possibly former Minneapolis Lakers. See www.radiotapes.com/WDGY.html for airchecks and much more, including the very entertaining history of the station written by Haines. But then on May 2, 1988, new life came to our little station in the form of KMAP. 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. And it was Snyder Drug Stores. In late 1953 there were shows called Saturday Date and Rhythm at Random, but what they played is anyones guess. There were going to be 27 separate short entertainment features every day, ranging from the supernatural to what makes raindrops round. Note the article actually prints his home address. Jones explained that Lanphier was a former Milwaukee radio and TV man, and would act as the station manager as well as owner. In his usual wry style, Irv describes how KRSIs General Manager, John Enoch, was testing Control Unit Model 901, which generated automated programming. The call letters were also WLOL. The fact that there were no lights did not compute until I heard the news guy on WLOL say, The radio station studios of KDWB burst into flame this afternoon. Jay Philpott posted it to Facebook, and listed the names: Brian Cosmic Phenix, Bob Lange, True Don Bleu, Tim Kelly (nee Sebean), Smokin Joe Hager, Chuck Britton, Dave Cooper (nee Hamilton), John Sebastion (PD), and Dave Thompson. A 15-year-old polio victim was smashed, face-first, into the pavement and sent home bleeding. Labor Temple, third floor. We asked them what WPBC should be playing and it was almost unanimous that we should play the Top 40, rock and roll I remember that the No. Hagman had previously worked for WLOL, whose owner, Ralph Atlass, had adopted the Top Forty format during Hagmans time there from 1947 to 1952. Advertisement. Rhythm. Here was a country station, WCOW, and on Saturday afternoon and evening, along came Mr. Apparently WPBC was trying to hang on: an ad in what appears to be called WPBC Metropolitan Magazine, dated April 1972, says: WPBC MAKES THIS BOLD CLAIM: IF you are an ADULT .. who likes POPULAR MUSIC from TODAY and YESTERDAY but your nerves cant stand the LOUD NOISY TEEN-AGE MUSIC.. YOU WILL LOVE the GENTLE TENDER TOUCHING RELAXING selection of EASY LISTENING POPULAR MUSIC on WPBC AM and FM STEREO! Twin Cities News Talk Podcasts. He has been at KQRS in the Twin Cities for years, doing the morning show. However, they were not playing records by local groups Earl Trout III told the Insider that the station was on a tighter playlist.. decade KDWB-FM was picked up by Chancellor Media. Finally, in the late 50s Sam Cooke broke the color barrier in the Midwest with You Send Me and black artists began to appear regularly on Top 40 charts. Tom Kilbride was a DJ at KANO from 1960 to 1965. 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. The Original Rock and Roll Station. Many thanks to Jeff Lonto, who is one of the Cities experts on radio history, for much of the information cited here. According to PD Chuck Roberts, the new format is closer to AOR than Top 40 radio. Financial Fortitude with Vincent Asset Management. In 1950 it was 1.3 percent, and in 1960 it grew to 2.5 percent. There was a live broadcast at 9:15 a.m. and a performance at Graham Temple at 3 p.m. A December 1951 ad said [Cassiuss] Bamboo Room is KEYED for your enjoyment, which may or may not mean that there was a tie-in. 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