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An envelope dated October 1, 1956, is addressed to 10350 Fremont Ave. 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. CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE, WDGY Air Staff 1986. Wedgy Devices - WEDGY12 & WEDGY23Cable Support Attachment Accessories for 600, 700, 800, 900 Series Wedgy Supports. 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. The fact of the matter is that 40 records plus a few extras (or extra commercials) conveniently fit into the three 55 minute periods that made up each afternoons Top 40 Show. He also says that the concept of only playing 40 records was blasphemy in the business. The owner of easy listening FM station WAYL was interested in the AM operation, to simulcast WAYLs signal and expand coverage in parts of the metro area. The program was one half hour long and started on October 17, 1964. 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. During the KFMX days, one of the frequent sponsors was the Leaning Post. Kammans show, called KUXL Jazz Club, began on Monday, June 22, and aired Monday through Friday 4 pm to sundown and at 5 pm on Saturdays following Herb Schoenbaums Jazz Festival.. Not all of the airchecks on this site were in my original personal collection. Format. The station was fined $10,000 in March 1961 for exceeding its authorized power in nighttime operations. Im guessing that KAAYs Beaker Street was influential here. Everyone made up and by 1972 (and probably before) the station had a Super Shooters basketball team. This shot of him in the WDGY DJ control room is one of the better quality shots showing the Gates control board. So two cops from the morals squad took the elevator and found 150 men and women, a four-piece band, 36 tables and a 15-foot liquor bar with 54 quarts of liquor, 21 bottles of beer. U100 signed off for the last time at midnight on Wednesday September 15, 1976. They made a big pot of it at noon, and when it was gone, it was gone, seldom lasting past 5pm. Jeff Lonto: The ratings started to go up and so ownership and management had the bright idea of pulling the plug on the whole thing, changing the calls to KJJO-AM, and simulcasting FM sister station KJJO-FM (104.1). Dick Driscoll at WWTC in 1980, courtesy Jeff Lonto. Photo from Judy Dibble via Rick Burnetts Twin Cities Radio Airchecks. Johnny Canton in the main WDGY Control Room (1970's), WDGY's Donald K. Martin at the newsroom mic. Storz quickly changed the format to Top 40, taking advantage of the early rise of rock and roll music. Selby and Avon Streets. Glad you got that right, as our listeners just couldnt figure it out. 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. September 7, 1963s listings showed: But things were moving along. Meanwhile, here are some of the dances the station sponsored. By that time Elvis had hit it big with Heartbreak Hotel and Hound Dog a cover of a black record followed. KUXL and Preacher Paul Anthony are the sponsors. The ad campaign for 1964 was UP radio (imagine an arrow on the UP). 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. It was Storzs fourth station. Then I was given stacks of albums of rock, bands from primarily the West Coast, to audition and play once my show began that Spring. So maybe well never know. June 18, WWTC radio replaces every bit of music with news. 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. 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. The Original Rock and Roll Station. As they were limited by their then-daytime only license at 980 AM, they started up WPBC-FM at 101.3 MHz in August 1959, simulcasting the AM station. The company engineers actually had to install coils to de-tune the water tower before the license could be approved for 50kw operation. Tom G. Morris was promoted to station manager and Robert E. Bowdan was named sales supervisor. 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. Notice the Catman poster on the upper wall. On November 30, 1969, fire spread through the KDWB studio, destroying two transmitters and shutting it down for two days. It's like the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on the radio 24 hours a day. WDGY operated on a number of different frequencies before settling onto 1130 AM in 1941. This is Jim Dandy's (Jim Evarts) second time at WDGY-AM. Wee Gee spins the forgotten hits, the cruisin' classics, the legendary artists. probably not. 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. Funny thing, it turned out that Bob Reed didnt have a pilots license. Jack Hazlett was Station and Sales Manager, and Ralph R. Smith was Program Director. 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 slogan was 15 KSTPTHE MUSIC STATION., The Insider made note of the change to a rock format, playing a mix of current and older top 40. 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. Kosofsky owned several other stations that catered to listener minorities, and the company represented a string of 30 special-interest stations. So they had to have an engineer on duty at the KRSI transmitter to change the store announcements that interrupted the music. Preacher Paul is no preacher. 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. It had 5,000 watts, daytime only. 50,000 watts. Covering black music was standard operating procedure in those days Pat Boone made a fortune covering Fats Domino records. It had only 250 watts. Coast to Coast AM Weekend Edition. Todd Storz was an heir to the Storz Beer Co. out of Omaha, Nebraska. The station was the first to put in the companys prepackaged Great American Country service. While a lot of money has gone down the drain, it looks like it has been well spent since the station is gaining solid acclaim in the Twin Cities, and some of the money should start to come back in over a period of the next few years., One fun item is from a Storz Stations Engineering Newsletter dated November 20, 1956. He said Ronn the Rajah would broadcast from 1 to 2pm Monday through Friday, and then Ronn and Billy G the Prime Minister would alternate every half hour. A listener needed an FM radio tuned to WLOL and a standard radio tuned to KUOM for full stereophonic effect. After 64 years of dormancy, an amateur radio group in the area acquired the W9XAT call sign in 2002 with the intention of using it for mechanical and narrow-bandwidth TV experiments. Following this change, the WDGY call letters were ironically adopted by KDWB for the 630 kHz frequency. Soon, it was possible to see the lights on the six KDWB towers. Black brought major R&B acts to the Labor Temple on 4th Street SE in Minneapolis. Now. Or when Bill Bennett 2-6 cuts in on Nancy Wilsons HOW GLAD I AM to tell her about THE BOY FROM IMPANEMA. The TV station kept WTCN. (Minneapolis Star, October 18, 1966) Interestingly, the name of the act was never mentioned in the news reports. TeleVue magazine, 1980. Install the free Online Radio Box application for your smartphone and listen to your favorite radio stations online - wherever you are! The photo below, provided by Jim Ramsburg to the Pavek Museum of Broadcasting, shows Jack Thayer holding the ball. Sign-on was at 6 AM followed by five minutes of news and then country-western music for 55 minutes. According to the April 13, 1968, issue of Billboard, Chess Records artist Jack Harris is now doing a show on the R&B station Jack Harris, the proprietor of Black & Proud records, became Daddy Soul. The Insider said that he was on-air just an hour a day during the week and from 1 to 3:30 on Saturdays. MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA Format: T40. WDGY 40 STAR SURVEY Week *Ending* May 7, 1966 1. 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. I stopped and visited him one morning, and he lowered a Bob Dylan album for me. Clockwise from Jack are Bill Diehl, Don Kelly, Dan Daniel, Stanley Mack, and Ramsburg. The following year, the station moved to 1140kHz. WTCN Radios history goes back to September 1934, and even further back if you count its predecessors, but Ill just start with the 1950s. Apparently the station had a wide variety of programs. ARSA: ABOUT: SURVEYS: STATIONS: WDGY 1130 AM. The station began broadcasting on July 1, 1965, as WMKT. 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.. The news is left in and you will hear about the big CPI index increase. you dont have to listen to rock and roll! The engineers labored through the night and the following night and on Tuesday, we signed back on. The 9-tower array beaming 50,000 watts was used to produce one of the most restrictive signals in the USA. Found on Radiotapes.com: Ballad of Minnesota!. Our studios were at the transmitter at [Seventh and] Davern Street in St. Paul and engineers played both records and commercials.. 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. He was program director from 1968-1971. In 1956 or 57 Zingale went to New York as an account executive and, with two others, bought a White Plains radio station. You will hear the WeeGee $10,000 Record Stash promo and Johnny ply "1130 Caret Gold." Im sorry the ad below is so hard to read. Below is a photo thats not too great, but hopefully shows how big the winning monster was. They want smooth, slick, uncluttered radio., Ad from Minneapolis/St. 3D WALKTHROUGH. Tweedle Dee, not by LaVern Baker or even Georgia Gibbs, but by someone named Vicky Young. The shows were identified by the name of the DJs, which included Morris, Rodger Kent, Riley, Valentine, and Ingram. 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. 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. To protect stations also on 1130 to the south and east, most of the power was directed north. Donald K. Martin at the mic again for a July 7th, 2008 interview. Jim Ramsburg says that in 1956 we pulled our own music from the big record library with no rules or restrictions. Tom Kilbride was a DJ at KANO from 1960 to 1965. Donald plays godfather with his "Don" imitation and asks Charlie "What is black and blue and floats?" There were going to be 27 separate short entertainment features every day, ranging from the supernatural to what makes raindrops round. Heres a group shot of the Country WDGY airstaff from late 1978 or early 1979, taken at a Conway Twitty concert at the Minneapolis Auditorium. 11/22/1973 Although the records say that KUXL was granted the license to increase its power to 1000 watts on October 1, 1963, Will Jones of the Tribune did not announce the approval until February 17, 1964. 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. Alan Freed, an employee to June 1989, says July 1989. 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. The WDGY call letters lasted from 1925 until 1991, first at 1140kHz, then to its longtime home at 1130kHz beginning in 1941. Don and I had both been part of the KTSA deejay team in San Antonio a couple of years earlier. 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. Steve Bowman, Nancy Rosen, B.J. Unfortunately, by September 1976, the programs two advertising contracts had expired, and Adams was unable to find new sponsors. He also said that the Four Tops were two days away with an expected crowd of 2,000 or more at the Marigold Ballroom. It was payback time. The new U100 quickly became the topic of conversation throughout the area with its rowdy, outrageous mix of Top 40 and hard rock. They all said the same thing, essentially: screw your non-cancelable contract. The Twin City stations were all on the upper part of the dial at 1070, 1130, 1490, etc., but nothing below 1000. The small 1000 watt daytime station was located at 1470 on the AM Dial. While newspaper listings are not 100 percent reliable, the Tribunes listings of Monday, November 11, 1963, reflect the old format, with Jim Eckert from 6 to 11 am, Mort Garren from 11 to 3, and Jack Hyatt at 3. Secret Stash indicates that Bob Smith arrived in January 1965. Can't Get Used To Losing You - Andy Williams 5 4. How to get it to St. Paul? (Will Jones, Minneapolis Tribune). A gunshot was heard and a policeman was hit in the arm or hand. 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. Paul.[5]. Although authorized for only 500 watts from midnight to 4am, it had been broadcasting at full 5,000 watt strength since Crowell-Collier Broadcasting bought the station in late 1959. WDGY's Charlie Van Dyke & Donald K. Martin in the studio during their morning show. Midge was the luck caller who got to shoot the turkey. Photo dated November 6, 1942, courtesy Minnesota Historical Society. Additionally, the recordings can be used byvision impaired visitorsto get an audio perspective of radio history. Note the article actually prints his home address. See www.radiotapes.com/WDGY.html for airchecks and much more, including the very entertaining history of the station written by Haines. However, you can still hear what is being discussed and the sound for the WDGY portion of the interview is unaffected. In the first few months of operation, I would guess that WDGY probably lost as much money per month as any station in the history of radio. Tune to the wtcn 1280 signal. On October 30, 2021, WDGY once again discontinued broadcasting in HD Radio. The material was from the then-unpublished autobiography that appeared as Okay, Okay, I Wrote the Book in 2012. WMIN was reassigned to the 1400kHz in 1941. Paul Franklyn at 6 am, Jim Eckert at 9, Mort Garren at 11, Jim Eckert again at 1 pm, and Leigh Kamman at 4. In January 1971 the station started to gradually move away from the oldies and gradually more toward album cuts. Radio was going through a fearful period in the face of the TV monster, and Bill Stewart and his co-owner wife, Becky Ann, urgently called their staff together. Trongard, not Trangard. Formula 63 box, courtesy Sam Sherwood. Grew up listening to Jonny on my school bus. An ad from October 1976 describes the playlist as Folk, Jazz, Blues, Totally Album-Oriented The Fine Rock Station. DJs could play anything they liked and anything that pleased the stations audience. While some of us labored shoveling and wives and girlfriends scrubbed the residue gunk off everything, KDWB, like a phoenix, was about to arise from the ashes. I have absolutely no idea what is going on here. The format changed to classical music in 1961. Tom Wynn was at WDGY in the early 1960's and the two WDGY airchecks below are from January 6, 1961. The 9-tower array beaming 50,000 watts was used to produce one of the most restrictive signals in the USA. I was prensent at the studio when Jimmy and Tac coordinated play of the same record at the same time on both stations. 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. John Hines replaced Knapp in about 1975, and Rob Sherwood arrived in 1976, after U100 was sold. WDGY "The Original Rock and Roll Station" The Original Rock and Roll Station--Shows. Jack Thayer was on three different times during the day, Frank Beutel with a show called Just Easy, Swing Club: David Hersk remembers Bob Bradley playing R&B in 54 and 55. Keep your spirits high with KRSI, 950 on your radio dial, finest in hi-fi.. This format gradually morphed into the sports talk format, and the calls were changed to KFAN in 1991. Good music. 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? CopyrightWDGY Radio. Today, the station is KTLK, News/Talk 1130, and uses a transmitter site in Credit River Township. Coordinates: .mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}445805N 924001W / 44.96806N 92.66694W / 44.96806; -92.66694, For the radio station which held the WDGY callsign from 1926 to 1991, see, Learn how and when to remove these template messages, Learn how and when to remove this template message, http://hdradio.com/station_guides/widget.php?id=16, https://startribune.newspapers.com/image/186746317/?terms=wdgy&match=1, Radiotapes.com Historic Minneapolis/St. WLOL-FM (99.5) (Means Fine Music) was up and running in 1956. Checker recording star Little Milton, with local band Maurice McKinnis and His Fabulous Blazers, appeared at a dance at the Minneapolis Armory on Friday, April 12, 1968. In 1959-1960 KEVE had a Sunday remote broadcast from the Fireside in Fridley. 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?. We ran through the frigid Minnesota December weather to get to the production room. What to do next? On other pages of this site I also have some airchecks (in addition to tape from my personal collection)I obtained directly from others. Visit http://www.radiotapes.com for historic airchecks of Minneapolis/St. For awhile they called the AM station KEVE and the FM station KADM Adam and Eve in the Valley. The two stations were simulcasting classical music when they both went to KQRS. It was made by a student named Goodman, who financed the venture by selling $1 shares to his friends with a double-your-money guarantee. In 1973-75 Chuck Knapp and Charlie Bush in the morning, Machine Gun Kelly and others livened things up. What about a transmitter? Every sixth song was current. Website. Will Jones of the Trib noted on January 11, 1957, that the station suddenly decided to go to symphonic, opera and chamber music. In 1976, U of M student Gregg Lindahl joined for summer employment as music director. The station signed on with a cowbell. 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. The presentation was tight, fast-paced and very up-front. Sometime between March 1976 and January/February 1979, the station flipped to Disco. Eight Miracle Mile merchants sponsored the program. This first tape was recorded of the radio on June 4, 1973 from 10 AM to 11:30 AM with the music and commercials out. To protect stations also on 1130 to the south and east, most of the power was directed north. 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. At that time the station was also playing show tunes, Lawrence Welk, and shows like Dragnet, Bob Hope, The Great Gildersleeve, and biographies. Sherwood and the rest were at their antic best, cooking up contests and announcing test answers to kids. The FCC required that the station identify itself as KDWB Lake Elmo, also occasionally serving Minneapolis and St. Paul. The station provided immediate competition to leading rock n roll station WDGY: See a good piece on the KDWB/WDGY rivalry from KARE-11 News. In 1974 the Wolfman was into many projects, including a weekly syndicated show that was broadcast here on KDWB. Try it yourself. Theserecordings are not intended to by used by others for commercial purposes. BB King performed at the Marigold on September 12, 1965. Skotch felt that once radio became a juke box and all talk was eliminated, the heart of radio was lost as well. Zingale urged the Tedescos to change the stations format to all R&B, and they considered it, but since they were only a 1,000 watt daytimer, they figured that a more powerful station would just steal the format and leave them hanging. WDGY, Rock and Roll Oldies Radio, playing the best oldies of the 1960s and 1970s for the Twin Cities! That address does not compute, but below is a photo of the Holiday Motor Hotel, described as being taken in 1955. He did his own programming, and said he loved his job. band (which had necessitated the Mighty 1130s switch in the first place.) Dr. Young died in 1945 and the station was transferred to the Twin City Broadcasting Corporation 1946. WDGY: Dick Driscoll remembers trying to sneak in some peppier tunes in the mid- 1950s, to his bosss chagrin. Jack Reynolds became General Manager in April 1971. They kept the WYOO call letters, to avoid the hassle and long process of changing call letters with the FCC. On October 28, 2006 Johnny Canton was inducted intoPavek's Museum of Radio Broadcasting Hall of Fame. And it was Snyder Drug Stores. Thanks to all contributors. Engineer Herb Schoenbohm, a jazz buff, started by emceeing a nightly 7 7:30 pm spot. Jimmy is very polite and waits for the mother to get her daughter on the phone to see if she could guess the amount. If he plays Polk music, He must be a true Minnesotan. What happened to the records? As always, much more information and many airchecks are available at www.radiotapes.com/wwtc.html and http://twincitiesradioairchecks.com/wwtc.html. The promotional piece below pictures the stations initial staff. 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. Im going to stop here I should have stopped long ago, since this website only goes to 1974. http://www.twincitiesradioairchecks.com/ (Rick Burnett). 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