Both Will Jones (Tribune, November 2, 1965) and Preacher Paul (Twin City a Go Go, Holiday 1965) wrote about the place, and how they installed 14 of the finest foxes youd ever want to see, a sound system thatll knock the buckle right off your belt, some of those sweet, gone, pine-toppin KUXL sounds, and crowds of out-a-sight swingers. On November 7, 1961, Will Jones reported in his entertainment column in the Minneapolis Tribune that the station was still awaiting its approval from the FCC to go on the air. In 1933, Dr. Young was granted a license for W9XAT, an experimental mechanical television station. One young man was in a rest room with some others who were drinking, and he flashed a gun. In May 2006 the recordings started to beconverted to MP3 andsharedhere. Photo dated February 23, 1950 courtesy Minnesota Historical Society. In 1942, the station gained approval to broadcast at night. Humor from a local Twin City news item. Roof rebuilt. Beatles Concert Photos of the Fab Four in 1966 with local radio talend from Cleveland's WIXY radio - Note a young Johnny Canton and Jerry Brooke who both went on to work at WDGY. WDGY was certainly a much different station pre-Beatles than it was as the 60's progressed. Interestingly enough, in my KUXL file I found an article from the Minneapolis Spokesman, the black communitys weekly newspaper, dated December 26, 1958. I will cut in on occasion with additional/alternate information from Will Jones of the Minneapolis Tribune. It's like the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on the radio 24 hours a day. [made possible by the late summer daytime hours] Now he also does a Saturday afternoon session from 1 to 5. Wonderful WeeGee, home of the boss jocks like Johnny Canton, hit its stride in the 60s, competing neck and neck with KDWB. Original staff consisted of Rob Sherwood, Jeff MotherRobins, Benny Blore (Bill Hartman) Jerry Brook, U.S. John Fineberg was at both stations during those years and described a KQRSI (KQRS and KRSI) family. 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. On June 12, 1967, the stations application to change its studio location to 5728 Wayzata Blvd. In 1962 WDGY broadcast the Vikings games. 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. Engineer Herb Schoenbohm, a jazz buff, started by emceeing a nightly 7 7:30 pm spot. Black brought major R&B acts to the Labor Temple on 4th Street SE in Minneapolis. It must sign-off as sunset to prevent interfering with Class A CFZM in Toronto. Although I adored KLBB, which 1400AM took on in 1981. All rights reserved. There were a bunch of people but no real activity. See more about Harris under his listing on the Disc Jockey page. Oh the Cookie Station KDWB!!! The reaction to the music I played overnights was very favorable and the format expanded to evening hours and then into days and [by 1968] KQ became full time rock. The glass in the ticket booth was broken in two places, but Ballroom manager Elmer Larson insisted that there was no danger of the crowd getting out of hand and that the booth broke because it was poorly constructed. One person was sought for breach of the peace. More great stuff is on http://twincitiesradioairchecks.com/wdgy1130tapes.html. Much More Music is simply that WDGY played, and is playing, more music with the bright pace of the modern sound. In 1980 KDAN was airing the syndicated Wolfman Jack Show. 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. WDGY Jocks teamed up with professionals Ed Kalafat, Bobby Cox, Jim Springer, and Corky Devlin, possibly former Minneapolis Lakers. Its IN but NOT far out!!!! 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. In the meantime, it was Zingale who arranged for Augie Garcia to open for Elvis when the King came to town in May 1956. Metropolitan Radio moved to a new site, and built a new and modern transmission facility (4-tower complex west of Highway 100 in St. Louis Park) a broadcast service that brings it within clear signal range of thousands who could nevr before enjoy wtcn 1280 as easily as they wished. 50,000 watts. The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. In his usual wry style, Irv describes how KRSIs General Manager, John Enoch, was testing Control Unit Model 901, which generated automated programming. Minneapolis Star, Thursday, August 20, 1964. The company engineers actually had to install coils to de-tune the water tower before the license could be approved for 50kw operation. The roof hadnt collapsed, but the rafters were charred black. (Minneapolis Tribune, January 2, 1973), For the first time since 1973, black music was again on the radio, with a new disc jockey named Pharoah Black (nee Thornton Jones). The actual graphics and billboards were created by Sid Rich and his advertising agency at the time in 1974. Reportedly one of them was a one hour program playing rockabilly and R&B perhaps the first in the area. By 1955 the station was starting to play covers of rock n roll in with Perry Como and Doris Day. Contributed by John Pratt 12-6-07. The new manager of operations was William Stewart, ironically replacing WPBC owner Bill (and wife Becky Ann) Stewart. Happy to find and post it prior to Johnny induction into the Pavek'sMuseum of Radio Broadcasting Hall of Fame. Forrest Powers of the Star filed his report on March 17, 1964, explaining how Ed Skotch was doing market research with a group of 40 housewives. The call letters of WTCN radio were changed to WWTC on October 2, 1964, after Time Life sold the station to Buckley-Jaeger Broadcasting. The frequency was originally 1140 kc. Theairchecks on this not for profit web site were recorded off the air. 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). That beam was so strong that the GROUNDWAVE signal made it at night in addition to the skywave signal. KS95 was beginning to take hold. I hope you enjoy them. The music would continue to be in the pop album category, but each selection would contribute to the pattern of feature material. Police shut down Nicollet Ave. and were heckled by the crowd. Reported the Minneapolis Star, The new station will go on the air in early May with a music format, said Herman, and not all that yakety-yak you hear on some stations. Pine was known for making people mad, and Dick Driscoll tells of coming on the air after Pine and having people call to yell at him for things Pine said. No matter what I did, the signal was always distorted. It had only 250 watts. 1130 AM; Community content is available under CC-BY-SA unless otherwise noted. Thermometer posted on Facebook by Jay Arnold. Wedgy Devices for a variety of Electrical, Low Voltage, Plumbing, Piping, Mechanical, HVAC, Fire Protection and other construction applications using Wedgy Cable Supports. In early 1976, Fairchild Industries decided to put both stations on the market. NIS ended in May 1977 but WWTC continued the all-news format with its own staff. One was the Uncle Elmer Show. A rural comedy production? The next night, violence continued on its own momentum. WWTC Stationery from 1979 (scoped!). Although Charles J. Lanphier of Milwaukee took out a construction permit for a new broadcast station on October 7, 1957, for some reason it took four years to be realized. At first the prize was proposed at 63 cents per pound, but Station Manager Don French decided that a bigger incentive might be $6.30 per pound. The Star Tribune article also reported that Al Alonzo reported to Newport. For more on Progressive/Underground Rock, see KRSI. The rest of that Sunday night, people continued to mill about. MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA Format: T40. Authorization is only required to store your personal settings. He expected to shock some people that first day! WCCO, by far the Twin Cities most powerful station, called us to express their outrage and to let us know, Were taking this whole fraudulent farce to the FCC. Not all of the airchecks on this site were in my original personal collection. Special thanks to Jeff Lonto and Alan Freed! To protect stations also on 1130 to the south and east, most of the power was directed north. This and other WDGY surveys can be see at the museum along with many other radio artifacts. 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. And as soon as he got that he would file for full-time operation and still more power. . Then on Wednesday, July 8, 1964, were back to the old KUXL! Part of the plan was to tape all of the features for syndication and he figured there were 200 stations that could make good use of the material. A fellow out of Texas, after first commissioning himself a Colonel, was bottling what was essentially sweet prune juice, calling it Serutan, and telling the great American radio audience over and over again, day after day, Serutan is Natures spelled backwards. 1936 ad below courtesy Jeff Lonto. Presumably the shows Cannonball Express and Cannon Fodder were his. 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. (Minneapolis Star, March 17, 1978). In 1968 Red Owl changed the station policy from middle of the road to all request oldies to try for a high enough rating to at least make the property salable. band (which had necessitated the Mighty 1130s switch in the first place.) WDGY gained the (perhaps unfortunate) nickname Weegee after a time. Not sure exactly when these recording ran on WDGY. 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. Peterson gave the example of Hamms and Grain Belt beer highly patronized by the black community, but refused to buy time on the station. 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. It features the bands of Les Brown, Glenn Miller, Woody Herman, Sammy Kaye, Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, Ray Anthony and Xavier Cugat. in 1330s exciting sportscasts and weather reports. Perhaps, this is a temporary station problem. Once outside the missiles became rocks. Program Director Sam Sherwood: I so remember how Don French was on the hot seat for getting hit by such a large prizehe and I argued: Ill take the hitno I willno no, I will and thats the way it went until the cookie picture hit the front pages of news papers across the country.THEN.we became heroes, both Don and I. WDGY 1130 Tapes This Site Primarily Contains a Collection of Airchecks of Numerous Twin Cities (Minneapolis/St. 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. Broadcasting Yearbooks for 1984 through 1987 show that the name had been changed when KDAN went dark in 1983. I remember that the No. I would arrive at 5 AM, opened up the station, turned on the lights and the transmitter, and clear the two teletype machines of overnight news. Below is a photo thats not too great, but hopefully shows how big the winning monster was. The show was emceed by KUXLs Jack Harris and Billy G. Little Miltons hits were listed in an ad in the Insider as Were Going to Make It, Blind Man, and More and More.. In 1967, winning a Honda might have meant just a motorbike. The switch was preceded by a five minute retrospective radio collage of the history of WDGY, and the first song played was John Denvers Thank God Im a Country Boy.. 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. WCOW was renamed WISK in May 1956, and affiliated with the Mutual network, late of WDGY. See www.radiotapes.com/WDGY.html for airchecks and much more, including the very entertaining history of the station written by Haines. Hennepin Ave. looking towards Kenwood Pkwy. With a couple of partners he bought a radio station in Cincinnati and turned it around, selling it at a profit. Rob and Hartman decided to use U100 because of the dial position on an FM tuner you barely had to turn the dial to fine-tune between 980 AM and 101.3 FM they were within a couple millimeters of being in line on a 1970s-style AM/FM stereo tuner. I wonder how long this crazy schedule lasted! I went out to the lobby to see what they wanted an was totally surprised to see Little Jimmy Dickens! 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. A touch of Formula 63 is the perfect way to brighten up your mundane day. A 15-year-old polio victim was smashed, face-first, into the pavement and sent home bleeding. The decision of the police to bar the door and throw teargas into the hall was roundly criticized. 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. The Lucky Lou program was on Sundays and was described as Jazz and Bits and Pieces of Music.. After that theyve changed calls as often as formats and thats pretty frequent.. 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). The ad campaign for 1964 was UP radio (imagine an arrow on the UP). The 9-tower array beaming 50,000 watts was used to produce one of the most restrictive signals in the USA. Front row John Hines and Larry Carolla. He taped the call, didn't know it was me, and used it on the air. The Insider reported that Evan Curfew was playing a Solid Gold Oldies All Request show on Saturdays from 1 5 (am or pm?) Airchecks and other cool things are available at: KQRS-AM first signed on as KEYD, billed as Family Broadcasting, 1948. If you look carefully, you can see the old WDGY transmitter through the studio glass. From there he went on to be Milkman Sam until about 1956. An article in the Star said the show included skits, blackouts, parodies on talk and telephone shows, and interviews. Although the show was an hour long, KQ began by airing a half-hour version at 10 pm on Sundays. One letter to the editor mourned the Death of Jazz, praised Herb Schoenbaum and Leigh Kamman, who gave much to the betterment of good music in the Twin Cities, and directed particular admiration to Paul Franklyn, who flew the jazz banner through the wildest change of station ownership and programming this city has ever seen. (Minneapolis Star, December 28, 1964). KANO was started in 1956 by Jack Lemme, who owned a radio station in Little Falls. 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. Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha!!! The station had a conglomeration of programs, ranging from waltzes, classical, show tunes, Tin Pan Alley, Hawaiian, religious, cowboy, and novelty. 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. Breams article explained: KQRS made the format change, explains Dick Poe, station vice-president and general manager, because of impending competition from four FM stations that will be increasing their signal power and potential audience this winter with new antennas atop the IDS Center. 11:00 AM-2:00 PM. Try some Red Owl green beans. (blah blah). Image courtesy Alan Freed. Everything was ready and in place on the first day of the Minnesota State Fair, and Rob had the format and jingles ready to go on the air. (Storz died in 1964 at age 39.) See the new transmitter here courtesy www.radiotapes.com, Aerial shot of the 9-tower array courtesy Tom Gavaras. KS95 was beginning to take hold. Station manager Jim Peterson said the change, effective January 1, 1973, will involve afternoon programming only, with religious programs to stay on the stations schedule until 1 pm daily. And it was Snyder Drug Stores. In May 2006 the recordings started to beconverted to MP3 andsharedhere. The station was owned by the Peoples Broadcasting Company, founded by former WCCO announcer Bill Stewart and his wife Becky Ann. Bob Short bought the station from Buckley Broadcasting in early (in or before March) 1978. Should you have any aircheck of Twin Cities radio stations, let me know and I may be able to include them at this site. MOST NEGRO OWNED RADIO STATIONS INSULT TO RACE IS CLAIM. The photo below was posted on Facebook by Paul Strickland, who says. Im guessing that KAAYs Beaker Street was influential here. And he noted that it was difficult to even find R&B records in town. . 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. Some of the airchecks are off reel to reel tapesthat were recorded off the air by the web site creator. WDGY-AM 1130 Sign-Off, 1970 - YouTube This sign-off announcement from a radio station in Minneapolis (now News/Talk KTCN) is one of many audio files preserved at:http://www.radiotapes.comNo. 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. It made its final move to 1130 AM in 1941 as required by the North American Radio Broadcasting Agreement (NARBA) under which most American, Canadian and Mexican AM radio stations changed frequencies. 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. I always respected his unusually creative approach to all things radio. A spokesman for the station said: Were promoting a better brand of music because we believe that most teenagers are getting tired of rock n roll. 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. Mutual was dropped and the station adopted a for women only format. 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. The transmitters were destroyed, as was the entire engineering area and furnace room. She missed winning $678. RecordedMay 12, 1963. On December 16, 1964, afternoons changed from jazz to Rhythm and Blues. 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. History The WDGY callsign was used for another well-known station in the area from 1925 until 1991 and broadcast at 1130 kHz. An undated report says KEVE did a remote broadcast from the Flame on Saturday nights from 10:30 to 11:30 pm. Jackie Wilson was scheduled to perform at the Marigold on January 14, 1966, but didnt arrive until midnight, causing a near-riot at the ballroom when the 1,600 people in the audience became annoyed. Police were called and the City Council discussed the matter. Hagman had previously worked for WLOL, whose owner, Ralph Atlass, had adopted the Top Forty format during Hagmans time there from 1947 to 1952. WDGY Survey with Photos of Curtis J. Johnson from June 13, 1969. KANO was Disk Jockey Rod Persons first radio job in 1959. CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE, KOMA Guide. This aircheck in two parts is presented un-scoped. Radio was going through a fearful period in the face of the TV monster, and Stewart and his co-owner wife, Becky Ann, urgently called their staff together. And he skipped out on the landlord, too. 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. Found on Radiotapes.com: Ballad of Minnesota!. KLBB Building in 2014, courtesy Reed Hagen, For airchecks from WMIN, see http://twincitiesradioairchecks.com/wmin.html. Because WTCN-TV was sold to a different company (Chris Craft Broadcast, Inc.), the two stations had to have different names. You can still hear the Van Dyke and Martin banter. 3 Beds. Personnel listed were: The stations format was described in the Yearbook as Urban Contemporary. Like an acid-etching, the events of that day in early December 1969 are sharp as cut crystal. Wednesday, February 10, 1965, was the first day the newspaper schedule showed Paul Anthonys name. But that was overnights (considered a throwaway daypart by management) on a 50,000 watt station that reached from Canada to Cuba. Mid 60's photo of WDGY's Johnny Dollar on the back of a Honda being driven by a constest winner. Well, they got out of the rock n roll business but stayed in the radio business until November 1972, when the station was sold and became WYOO. 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. OUR SURVEYS FOR WDGY; WEEK #1 THIS WEEK; 1956-07-21: The Platters / My Prayer: 1956-07-28: The Platters / My Prayer: 1956-11-09: Guy Mitchell . Did they bring Imogene the horse inside Jennings? K You Excel. I actually have a WRCR pinback button that says IM A TEN-TEN TUNER WRCR 10-10 ST. PAUL, MINN.'. In March 1970, two engineers struck for higher pay and the disk jockeys honored the picket line. In April 1957 the station was owned by the BFR Broadcasting Corp., N.L. I remember recording Rock Around the Clock from a WMIN broadcast on my Wilcox- Gay recorder. We had been wounded, but we werent dead. The team could not play high school and college teams, but would go out to small towns for exhibition games. Reinhard Steinley became the first General Manager of WCOW on July 1, 1951. It was great to have lunch with Donald K. Martinand talk about his career in broadcasting, which includes several stations in the Twin Cities. Will Jones reported in his column on March 12, 1964: Of all the new for-women-only features on KUXL, the station reports the ladies are most interested in a feature called The Unbelievable, Yet it Happened. Its about the supernatural. Radio and Records magazine, March 18, 1977, courtesy Todd Mitchell, Only reference to Y-11 that came up in a search of the Strib. Curtis J Johnson, formerly of WDGY. [1] Contents Is it possible Don glowed in the dark? You think that WDGY wasnt figuratively licking its chops? Their playlist is appealing, though their disk jockeys are somewhat obnoxious., Chuck Knapp: Fun times is rock & roll with the very talented 15/KSTP The Music Station staff in 1975. 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. The contributed recordings fromfriends and contributors of both airchecks and other material are greatly appreciated. On April 28, 1977, there was a voluntary relinquishment of positive control of Universal from Kosofsky to Miriam Warshaw, if Im reading this right. I took this from a flight I took in 1977. I was prensent at the studio when Jimmy and Tac coordinated play of the same record at the same time on both stations. From 1969 to mid 1970, Tony Glover held down the midnight to 6 am shift. 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. The Wolfman died on July 1, 1995. Shot of Johnny Canton's desk area at WDGY-AM when he was the music director. The next morning we were all there and I still remember seeing Howie Anderson shoveling the wreckage out the engineering entrance. At about 9:30 pm, someone with a shotgun wounded three police officers who, with about 20 others, were trying to break up a crowd of about 200 who had gathered at the site of a firebombing. Following Young's death in 1945, his estate sold the station. The stations license was always in the name of Universal Broadcasting during these years, so it is difficult to know what role Smith played at KUXL. You will hear Johnny's brief Art Fern imitation and at 5:30 he will say hi to the Twin Cities in a slightly similar fashion as a competing DJ did. I dont recall if he spent 21 days up there, but it was a while. A KDWB Fabulous Forty survey that Don donated to the Pavek Museum of Broadcasting called the shack a four-story-high flag pole playhouse. John Pratt saved an article from the Minneapolis Star reporting that four hoodlums set the crepe-paper wrapping on the 40-ft. pole on fire. She was awarded a free turkey along with the very important can of cranberry sauce. It was automated country with a Schaffer pegboard sequencing unit when I was given the duty of being the stations Program Director in early 1975 added to my duties of being production coordinator for the short-lived Viking State News Network. Note the article actually prints his home address. Sign-on was at 6 AM followed by five minutes of news and then country-western music for 55 minutes. Brother Al Tedesco wanted to call it WPIG or WHOG, but Vic protested the barnyard connotation. A 1972 article in the Echo opined that KDWB played new songs that were just released, while WDGY only played nationally-established music. Meanwhile, they borrowed a little trailer studio from someone and that was our production room for the next month or so. 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