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.. The switch to talk was gradual over two years. At night, WDGY was very strong, but could never be received clearly. A search through the Broadcast Yearbooks and the Star Tribune turn up no evidence that the FCC ever raised the stations hours or wattage, so KMAP was apparently operating beyond the parameters of its license. Wednesday, February 10, 1965, was the first day the newspaper schedule showed Paul Anthonys name. One of the obstacles it ran into was resonating re-radiation from the Bloomington Water tower. After a couple of changes the call letters became WDGY (Dr. George Young) in 1926. Mob violence ensued and the car of KSTP-TV newsman Dave Margeson was smashed by rocks and a piece of wood; he was treated and released from the hospital. 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. Not sure where the photo above came from. Doubleday Broadcasting, owner of KDWB, wasnt actively seeking an FM station at the time but offered to buy 101.3 FM in February 1976 after they were offered a rather generous deal for $750,000 that included WYOO-FM and the building in Eagan that housed both stations. Skotchs idea was to create something new. 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. Tune in, now . 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. One early promotion involved a sticker that said KDWB is Everywhere. $630 would be awarded to the person who placed the sticker in the most unusual place, which turned out to be on the St. Paul Cathedral dome! They claimed to be running 5,000 watts. On the banner below is an outline of Downtown (St. If you suffer from lusterless, uninteresting radio, etc., etc., come on down and put a little color in your life.. Midge was the luck caller who got to shoot the turkey. That kind of ended when Mr. Purcell reminded them that WCCO, like every station, is required by FCC rules to know who their advertisers are. Johnson mostly played what was termed easy-listening jazz: Isaac Hayes, Shirley Bassey, George Benson, Herbie Mann, Herbie Hancock, etc. Cars were prevented from coming into the area from Interstate 94 at the Dale Street exit. 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. The station was innovative in its promotions, had legendary DJs, features like Solid Gold Weekends, and at least two airings of The History of Rock n Roll, an all-encompassing rockumentary.. MONDAY, MONDAY - Mama's & Papa's. Tonight's Top 20 as heard on WeeGee Wayback Wonders! Half an hour later, police were called to break up the crowd of 200 who had gathered outside the Ballroom when an unidentified youth discharged a fountain pen tear gas gun. 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. They broke through one of the doors, and then the police decided to keep them back by lobbing teargas into the crowd. Jim provided this aircheck of Johnny Canton. By the 1960s, the station didn't use the name itself, but the name stuck among people in the radio industry for many years to come. It wasnt until 1964 that the community could support a station that played music that was primarily by and for the black community, and by that time young white listeners were embracing black music as well. Scripts saved all these years by DJ John Evans list songs such as: WLOL had lots of shows with tantalizing names, such as Top Tunes, Roys Record Shop, Todays Hits, Top Ten, Hit Parade, and Off the Record. My wife and I had long discussions late into the evening. The text is rather small; it reads: Today WWTC Radio trades violins for violence. Top Row: Step Up Movie, Steve Highsmith, Gregg Lindahl, Paul Johnson. The decision was made to change to a Top 40/hard rock format, in contrast to what they saw as the rigid, bland presentation of other similar stations in town. [1] The competition, sometimes friendly, sometimes not, resulted in memorable merchandising promotions and concerts. From the Yesterhits of Yesterday compilation issued in 1967: In June of 1966, WDGY began programming Much More Music for its listeners in the Twin City Area. The Original Rock and Roll Station. 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. Bill Diehl worked at WMIN from 1948 to 49 and from 1951 to 55. View more recently sold homes. The November 10, 1970 recording was sitting in an unmarked reel to reel box had in storage. An envelope dated October 1, 1956, is addressed to 10350 Fremont Ave. The station derives a portion of its programming from Scott Shannon 's The True Oldies Channel from ABC Radio. Call sign: WDGY Frequency: 740 AM City of license: Hudson, WI Format: Oldies Owner: WRPX Area Served: Minneapolis-St. Paul Sister stations: 94.9 El Rey Contact Address: 300 St Croix Trail S, Lakeland, MN 55043 Phone: (651) 436-4000 Bobby Freeman, who did Lets Do the Swim, came to the Marigold on Sunday, September 27, 1964. Unlike most metropolitan areas, the Twin Cities did not have a black radio station in the 1940s or 50s. Screen grabs below courtesy Alan Freed. As for our own radio stations, there were about nine to choose from the mighty WCCO (which had nothing remotely like rock n roll) and those listed below. He truly loves the business. Lets do bullets: Douglas Rice, Director of 3-man news department, General Manager: Robert W. Smith (Wolfman Jack). Suddenly it was true, 63 thats easy to remember. Alonzo himself was to do the afternoon drive. Image courtesy Jeff Lonto, Adult Standards, February 1980 to 1982. Always "WDGY" 1130 AM!!!! So stunned were most of us, the gravity of situation was difficult to grasp. Don at WDGY newsroom mic. Photo courtesy Minnesota Historical Society. 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. Call them, not me. Below is a photo of at least part of the family and shows how close the staffs of the two competitors were. Contests and Promotions. Because WTCN-TV was sold to a different company (Chris Craft Broadcast, Inc.), the two stations had to have different names. And, as we all know, anything that is natures own is good for what ails you. The rest is exhausting please see Wikipedia for further/better history! It is owned by WRPX, inc. and airs a Classic Hits / Oldies radio format. The photo below, provided by Jim Ramsburg to the Pavek Museum of Broadcasting, shows Jack Thayer holding the ball. 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. ERP. 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 format on the 500 watt station was folksy to the point where it may have out-folksied WCCO. in Golden Valley, across from the Point Supper Club. After the wayward flight to Illinois and a non-stop trek through Wisconsin, the transmitter arrived, tied to a U-Haul trailer pulled by a rental car. For that matter, we were discouraged from using the term teenager too. 3D WALKTHROUGH. . In August 1962 the station was identifying itself as Time-Life Broadcasting Inc. At that time an ad appeared with the following text: What happened to wtcn 1280? But late at night, if the conditions were right, Minnesotans could hear all kinds of music through the airwaves from all parts of the United States country blues from Arkansas, R&B from WLAC in Nashville, and maybe even some doo-wop from back East. The new owners immediately requested permission from the FCC to change the call letters back to WMIN. [made possible by the late summer daytime hours] Now he also does a Saturday afternoon session from 1 to 5. Preacher Paul is a disc jockey. 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. Bottom Row: Jenny Rein (secretary), Vic, Nick, ? A huge booklet issued in 1949 provides pictures of everyone involved in the station and all the reasons why America is better than any other country. And, I can confirm that the man was everything his name implied: he was Little (411 tall), Jimmy (for James Cecil), and he admittedly was full of the Dickens. But thats another story. Kamman left for New York in 1950. The promotional piece below pictures the stations initial staff. No matter what I did, the signal was always distorted. 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. On the same day, Forrest Powers, TV and Radio reporter for the Minneapolis Star, indicated that the station would start broadcasting that weekend. Perry Como actually sort of rocked with a great tune called Tina . The stations address was 611 Frontenac Place in St. Paul. Jim Ramsburg says that in 1956 we pulled our own music from the big record library with no rules or restrictions. The action was finally granted on July 19, 1961. A December 1, 1955, ad says Now All Day and announces DJs Texas Bill Strength and Johnny T from Tennessee, and Slim Jim. We plan to have him on two hours Saturday and two hours Sunday. Heres a story from Rod, taken from, http://twincitiesradioairchecks.com/wwtc.html, http://twincitiesradioairchecks.com/wmin.html, http://twincitiesradioairchecks.com/wdgy1130tapes.html, http://twincitiesradioairchecks.com/ktcrfmtapes.html, http://twincitiesradioairchecks.com/kqrsphotostapes.html. 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. In 1978, promoter Tom Tipton noted that KUXL played only 11 hours of soul music per week. No KDWB! The Beatles, Elton John, The Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, The Eagles, ZZ Top, David Bowie, Fleetwood Mac, Ike & Tina Turner, The Who, Rod Stewart, Diana Ross, Aretha Franklin, Bruce Springsteen, Carlos Santana, Billy Joel, The Doobie Brothers, The Steve Miller Band, The Beach Boys, Van Morrison, The Animals, Guess Who, Neil Diamond, Herman's Hermits, The Supremes, Sam and Dave, Stevie Wonder, The Four Seasons, Blood Sweat and Tears, The Allman Brothers, Johnny Rivers, Sonny and Cher, The Moody Blues, The Spinners, Grand Funk Railroad, Three Dog Night, The Box Tops, Chicago, Electric Light Orchestra and the list goes on. Follow the link to read the story of this long-running radio show. Fan Feed More The OFFICIAL Fictional Radio Stations Wiki. Photo provided by Mark Vollmer to Radio Tapes. I will cut in on occasion with additional/alternate information from Will Jones of the Minneapolis Tribune. Tweedle Dee, not by LaVern Baker or even Georgia Gibbs, but by someone named Vicky Young. It's like the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on the radio 24 hours a day. In January 1965 it was reported that staff had increased from 19 to 27 since Red Owl purchased the station in 1961. A construction permit was granted to install a new transmitter and a permit was granted to increase power to 1kw on October 1, 1963. Glory of Love by the Four Knights. Contributed by John Pratt 12-6-07. 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. Jones explained how Schoenbohm (whom he calls Dave for some reason) and Kamman had talked the management into limited hours for jazz, and then slowly increased. This first tape was recorded off the air in March 1973. Frequency. For a short-lived, rather obscure radio station, a lot of activity was logged. The new owner of KUXL, Universal Broadcasting, had its headquarters in Shreveport, Louisiana. 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. 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. 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, Both KFMX 104.1 and KRSI 950 am flipped to Music of Your Life as KRSI AM-FM that day, with Don Shore as the Program Director and morning host. Bob Short bought the station from Buckley Broadcasting in early (in or before March) 1978. Charlie playfully talked to Don about a glee club and does the Weatherball Weather, sponsored by North Western National Bank.."May We Help You Today." KDWB Studios, 1976 Courtesy RadioTapes.com. WMIN aired a pop music Spanish-language format as "La Nueva Ley" until November 14, 2005. Jay Philpott was the only holdover from the old format they had me doing 7 to Midnight until I left for WLOL in July 1980., KANO was Disk Jockey Rod Persons first radio job in 1959. I did it several times before Scott discovered it was actually me, and that's what started me doing character bits for his show. Let us assume that the mighty CCO did not dabble in such vulgar music and focus on the others. Rock. So what if a top forty am radio station in Minneapolis/St. Although I adored KLBB, which 1400AM took on in 1981. Address : PO Box 25130 St Paul, MN 55125. Dr. Young cycled through the names WHAT, WGWY ("W-George W. Young"), and finally WDGY ("W-Dr. George Young") in the next two years until being chastised by the government for changing too frequently. other options The list of performers runs the gamut of the important influences on rock n roll; Bullmoose Jackson, LaVern Baker, Ruth Brown, Earl Bostic, Dinah Washington, Wynonie Harris, Johnny Otis, James Moody, Louis Jordan, the Clovers, Amos Milburn, Percy Mayfield, Johnny Ace, the Orioles, the Ravens, B.B. ARSA: ABOUT: SURVEYS: STATIONS: WDGY 1130 AM. Because AM 740 is a Canadian clear channel frequency, WDGY is a daytime-only station. When Hagman moved to WDGY, he brought the Top Forty concept with him, as well as the Mutual Broadcasting System, which aired programs like Queen for a Day and Sergeant Preston of the Yukon. A schedule from April 1955 shows Eddie Cantor and a lot of Springtime Serenade, but also shows just identified by the DJ (Bill Rudd and Irv Smith put in a lot of time.). Jeff Lonto explains: To plan a schedule of programming consisting of things women supposedly would like, the station hired male psychologist Dr. Jacob Berg, whom management said would provide psychoanalyzed programming. In addition, the new format included horoscopes, James Aldens advice to the anguished and lovelorn, two-minute newscasts and editorials slanted toward the womans point of view, and 60-second lectures on sex, marriage and family problems. Courtesy Jeff Lonto. The transmitter was destroyed by fire on February 23, 1933 and the station operated with WCCOs old transmitter. Whats especially weird about this photo is that it was posted to Facebook by Scott Kramer, who says: I am vacationing in Kauai and a person at our Luau had this in their camera. It gets better: Will Jones reported on November 27, 1964, that Leigh Kamman and Herb Schoenbaum had turned KUXL into an all-jazz station and breathed new life into it. On March 7, 2017, WDGY discontinued broadcasting in HD and began broadcasting in C-QUAM AM stereo. 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. So they convinced Edwards to do it and he became Merle Hub Cap Edwards. A moment later we were both rolling on the floor, rocking with laughter. Both KFMX 104.1 and KRSI 950 am flipped to Music of Your Life as KRSI AM-FM that day, with Don Shore as the Program Director and morning host. Without their help, the site would have many less pages of radio history. WWTC started out as WTCN radio, 1280 kc AM. It does appear that Kamman was still on the air at 3pm during the month of January 1965. Take the elevator, said the sign. 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. In 1966, he went to work for the then-popular station WDGY, which was 1130 on the AM dial, and. Bo Diddley got the Marigold going on August 19, 1964. If you look carefully, you can see the old WDGY transmitter through the studio glass. 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. The simple fact was that the black population was so small (less than one percent of the states population through 1970) that the community wasnt able to support one. Visit http://www.radiotapes.com for historic airchecks of Minneapolis/St. Don Martin_________________________________________Thanks Don for letting me share on the site. I went out to the lobby to see what they wanted an was totally surprised to see Little Jimmy Dickens! Photo courtesy Pavek Museum of Broadcasting. Todd Mitchell found this article in the March 18, 1977, issue of Radio and Records, an industry newspaper. Todd Storz had purchased this storied station, whose roots went back to 1923, and patterned it after his other rock n roll stations in New Orleans, Kansas City, and St. Louis. . A fair portion of its signal pointed away from populated areas, making it audible only to its intended audience in South and West St. Paul. 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. This shot was taken around 1969 one weekend when Gene allowed some of my fellow pirate radio friends and me to visit him on the air. 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. His programming was designed to help said housewife by becoming an intimate, informative close friend that will cloud out the things that bug her. The why behind recent legislation. The stations request to change the location of the studio to 5730 Duluth Street in Golden Valley was approved on October 14, 1969. Youll LOVE IT!!!!! All the ways to listen: Seven ways to listen: FM 92.1, FM 103.7, AM 740, FM 107.1 HD2, Live Stream at WDGYradio.com, Smart Speakers through TuneIn and the WDGY Phone App. 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. Seems to be half and half in the photo below, mid-1960s. The manager was Roger D. Wilson, and in an ad for sales people he called the station Katy Radio.. KQRS was close to adopting the SuperStars format, making them a major player. The precursor to KDWB was founded in 1951 by Nick, Vic and Al Tedesco, sons of Italian immigrants from the province of Calabria. What happened makes a big diferencce to those who know and like good radio. They never expected the gigantic turnout, and the ultra-gigantic cookie that won the contest! 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. In May 1961 it was purchased by Red Owl Stores, Inc. which was seeking diversified subsidiaries. That wouldnt happen until daylight. A 1969 shot of me (Rick Burnett a/k/a Rick Mason) when I was visiting the studio. I do know that Nancy Rosens name is spelled wrong. You can still hear all George Young has to say on this clip. This a recnet PR photo. 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. In January 1973, KUXL officially went out of the R&B business at least for a while and began a talk show format. Im guessing that KAAYs Beaker Street was influential here. In 1959 it had a monthly newspaper called Big K News. I have absolutely no idea what is going on here. (Both recordings from the A. Mintz Collection). Presumably the shows Cannonball Express and Cannon Fodder were his. On WLOL. Although we think of WDGY as the Twin Cities first rock n roll station, it was not at all clear at the time. Sources are cited, if known. Curt Lundgren, who would go on the air as Evan Curfew, tells us that the studio was in the basement of the South Side Lumberyard Building, right behind McCarthys Restaurant on what is now 394. This station was pretty freewheeling and one could hear Jimmy Dean in the same breath as the Supremes. Bowman image sent to me by John Pratt, formerly of WDGY. WDGY-AM Hal Raymond 7/9/63 KDWB-AM 630 St. Paul (Woodbury) They were to buy only where they could get exactly the same guaranteed times on all stations at one time. 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. Today, the station is KTLK, News/Talk 1130, and uses a transmitter site in Credit River Township. Oh so many levels. The station was located at 8th and Wabasha in South St. Paul, conveniently adjacent to the stockyards. I hope you enjoy them. Sign-on was at 6 AM followed by five minutes of news and then country-western music for 55 minutes. (Helicopters had to be replaced by limos when things got too dangerous.) Soon they added Monday Night Sports Talk with Reusse and Soucheray but continued to play music until news and talk completely took over in August 1981. 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. Later WDGY would flip to a news/talk format; and finally, the adoption of sports talk as KFAN in 1991. Steele (Steve Gibbons) Art Snow (The all night snowman) Scott Cannon, the Tall (Brother Bob) Robert Hall, Doug McKinnon, (Captain Billy in the morning) Michael J. decade KDWB-FM was picked up by Chancellor Media. 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