Thanks to all contributors. Rhythm [in 1955] and played the real soul of rhythm and blues. Wedgy Devices - WEDGY12 & WEDGY23Cable Support Attachment Accessories for 600, 700, 800, 900 Series Wedgy Supports. The station dropped its ABC affiliation on December 31, 1962 and began a format of light classical and easy listening, The Sound of Beautiful Music in March 1963. Will Jones tells us that security was so tight that the 120,000 packages were stuffed at the Society for the Blind. and Falvey Cross Road [Wayzata Blvd. They all said the same thing, essentially: screw your non-cancelable contract. Contributed by John Pratt 12-6-07. In 1956 the station was sold to the Crowell-Collier publishing firm. It was delivered in the back of a pickup truck and weighed 2,300 pounds, made with 1,010 pounds of cookie mix, 725 pounds of powdered sugar, and 172 pounds of shortening. The Stewarts took a rather conservative approach in programming the station. Now that TV had grabbed everyones attention, and radio was just background music, he wanted to reverse the process and create The Nations Most Attention-Programmed Station. The key was to provide entertainment, but not with comedy or drama, but with ideas and thoughts. Staff included Gary (The Deacon) Johnson, a blind disc jockey. The November 10, 1970 recording was sitting in an unmarked reel to reel box had in storage. Along with enough news to give you information, but not anxiety. This survey provided by Steve Raymer of the Pavek Museum of Broadcasting. The important goal was to cover the Twin Cities. I hope you enjoy them. 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. Oh the Cookie Station KDWB!!! By 1977, FM radio had arrived big-time in MSP. You will also hear about his time as a morning co-host and hear him do some of the impressions from back then, including "Truman Compote," Sargent Schultz, and Preacher Paul. CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE, WDGY and KOMA Bumber Stickers. How to get it to St. Paul? Note the article actually prints his home address. ARSA: ABOUT: SURVEYS: STATIONS: WDGY 1130 AM. I got my First in 6 weeks at Brown Institute. As a promotion, in November 1958 Jim Ramsburg cooked up the Radio Wonders basketball team. A license to install a new transmitter was approved on June 29, 1964. Photo from Judy Dibble via Rick Burnetts Twin Cities Radio Airchecks. In addition to the ones listed below, Preacher Paul expressed an interest in booking act such as Chuck Jackson, Jimmy Reed, Junior Walker, Marv Johnson (he lost $20 on that show, he told Secret Stash), Al Green, Wilson Pickett (emceed by Lord Jeffrey), Fats Domino, the Supremes, Joe Hinton, and his pride and joy the Righteous Brothers. . In September 1956 a Will Jones item in the Trib referred to WMIN as the anti-Presley station, with a DJ called Alice Presley playing Benny Goodman records. What happened to the records? 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! Install the free Online Radio Box app for your smartphone and listen to your favorite radio stations online - wherever you are! 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. Coast to Coast AM is overnight talk radio with daytime ratings. Just tune to 1500 on your dial! The shows were identified by the name of the DJs, which included Morris, Rodger Kent, Riley, Valentine, and Ingram. Most of them were from me. An interesting headline in the March 11, 1973, Minneapolis Tribune was Automated Radio: Nobody is there by Irv Letofsky. Jimmy was good friends with Tac Hammer, who was working at request radio KRSI at the time and also a former KDWB-AM jock. That beam was so strong that the GROUNDWAVE signal made it at night in addition to the skywave signal. WWTC Stationery from 1979 (scoped!). It was baked in five pound slabs in a church basement and delivered just an hour before the deadline. Lets do bullets: Douglas Rice, Director of 3-man news department, General Manager: Robert W. Smith (Wolfman Jack). Each one of these selections was especially chosen by the WDGY All-Americans, and is performed by the original recording artists. Airchecks from 1964 indicate an emphasis on news and prophesy. Old Joe Clark played country music. In late 1935 a new non-directional 226 Truscan Steel Vertical Radiator (tower) was erected at the site. 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?. This is a shot of the transmitter site of WDGY/1130AM radio, along 35W at about 102nd Street. Dandy informs us that if we do not listen, he will tear our heads off. Courtesy Jeff Lonto. BB King performed at the Marigold on September 12, 1965. New furnace, electricity etc. 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. I found no other advertising in the Minneapolis papers, but the St. Paul papers are not online. This is Jim Dandy's (Jim Evarts) second time at WDGY-AM. The contributed recordings fromfriends and contributors of both airchecks and other material are greatly appreciated. Although he broadcast his morning show from there, there were reports that he went inside the adjacent Young-Quinlan-Rothschild building at night. Helen Reddy / I Am Woman: 1972-12-01: Albert Hammond / It Never Rains In Southern California: 1972-12-08: Albert Hammond . During the KFMX days, one of the frequent sponsors was the Leaning Post. They never expected the gigantic turnout, and the ultra-gigantic cookie that won the contest! 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. Proceeds would go to a charity mutually agreed upon by the two teams. Proceeds were to be divided between the Minneapolis and St. Paul Community Chests. We needed new transmitters, new phones, new carpet, new roofs, new this and new that. He had a pilots license so he rented an airplane and he and the engineer, Rey Lark, and someone else hopped in with Bob and flew through the night to Peoria where they picked up the transmitter. With a couple of partners he bought a radio station in Cincinnati and turned it around, selling it at a profit. The station again went dark, this time for good, but when? The St. Paul Urban League and the St. Paul Human Rights Department also launched their own investigations. Owned and operated by WRPX. Interestingly, he was listed as age 29, she 24. SOLD JUN 14, 2022. If he had opened that door, the back draft would have engulfed the engineer in flame. WDGY 1130 AM MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA Week: 1963-03-18 Format: T40 WDGY 1130 - MINNEAPOLIS - ST. PAUL TIGER TUNES WEEK BEGINNING MARCH 18, 1963 TW LW 1. Ike and Tina Turner appeared at the Minneapolis Auditorium under the auspices of Preacher Paul and KUXL on August 1, 1965. 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. In the summer, you waded through chest high weeds and as important as noting the amperage, was pulling (and, for sport, counting) any number of wood ticks that would jump on you for the ride (I counted 27 one day.). Almost everybody in the country who had anything at all ailing them, bought into the pitch. They promise infrequent and low-tone commercial announcements.. (1960's). After several call letter changes, including WHAT and WGWY, Young settled on WDGY, which was based on his initials. Apparently the station had a wide variety of programs. On WLOL. Nearby Recently Sold Homes. WDGY was the Twin Cities' first full-time Top 40 station, going on the air with its new format on February 6, 1956. WISK, soon to be known as KDWB, was at 630, a spot no one in the listening area had ever heard, or even heard of. Storz also ended the affiliation with the Mutual network. MOST NEGRO OWNED RADIO STATIONS INSULT TO RACE IS CLAIM. KQRS was close to adopting the SuperStars format, making them a major player. An envelope dated October 1, 1956, is addressed to 10350 Fremont Ave. Here in my file is a page out of the July 9, 1966, issue of Billboard magazine, where the information about KUXL lives. WDGY operated on a number of different frequencies before settling onto 1130 AM in 1941. . Skotch felt that once radio became a juke box and all talk was eliminated, the heart of radio was lost as well. cookies . Save peace in the world. On August 30, 1968, a concert and dance was held at Stem Hall at the St. Paul Auditorium, emceed by Jack Harris, a/k/a KUXL disc jockey Daddy Soul. A January 1957 ad touted The Latest Platters with the Lightest Chatter on Sam Sabeans morning show On the all new, brand new WISK. The first we hear of programming that was not Percy Faith and not (by this 21st Century womans standards) patronizing, comes in mid 1964. FM station (104.1) was KRSI-FM until 1974. Some of the airchecks are off reel to reel tapesthat were recorded off the air by the web site creator. Doing the research for this page has taken all of my resources, from the all-important Facebook, Star Tribune, and Wikipedia, broken links, bad info and all. The new owners immediately requested permission from the FCC to change the call letters back to WMIN. Garcia was so good that Colonel Parker pulled him off early so he wouldnt upstage Presley. The station was located at 8th and Wabasha in South St. Paul, conveniently adjacent to the stockyards. By the end of 1956 WMIN was participating in the contest craze and calling itself Music City.. band (which had necessitated the Mighty 1130s switch in the first place.) Also my parents listened to WDGY in the mid to late 50's and on the long drive to the lake as well. The Tams made an appearance on Sunday, August 23, 1964. Cap Cities/ABC's KQRS combo (1440 AM and 92.5 FM) was a solid top three station by the end of the decade, far ahead of Top Row: Arnie Peterson (sports), Gene Taylor, Sam Sabean, Jack Douglas. So., Minneapolis, 5, MN. Yonny Yonson played old time (polkas, waltzes and shoddiches) from 9 am to noon and 3-6 pm. With a constant bombardment of loud jingles, the jocks would scream YEEEEWWWW ONE HUNDRED! and BOOGIE! when they werent giving the time, temperature (its 72 degrees in Frriiidleeeeey!) or bad jokes. Broadcasting magazine, March 1960. Don French was the first Program Director. Shot of Johnny Canton's desk area at WDGY-AM when he was the music director. 980 AM was originally staid WPBC from 1949 to 1972. 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. The stations address was 611 Frontenac Place in St. Paul. In the main studio, there was a sticky sap-like residue on everything. WCOW, owned by the Tedesco brothers, was definitely a country make that a hillbilly station, with DJs named Sidesaddle Sore Sam (Sabean), Denver Don Doty, Buffalo Bob Montgomery, and Pecos Paul (Denault). Advertisement. Its IN but NOT far out!!!! Bowman image sent to me by John Pratt, formerly of WDGY. Countryside magazine, March 1976. The photo below of broadcasters Kenneth Wilson (standing) and Albert Vant Flash Washington, dated to the 1940s, suggests that R&B was available at least part time to listeners in Minneapolis. Ironically, he then started the next record, Na Na Kiss Him Goodbye by Steam and once again left the building. The TV station kept WTCN. Happy to find and post it prior to Johnny induction into the Pavek'sMuseum of Radio Broadcasting Hall of Fame. Except that police reported that the incident only involved several youths. Larry Bentson, President. Bo Diddley got the Marigold going on August 19, 1964. Rock continued to do well in Minneapolis in the eighties. Standing from left to right: Steve Shannon and Ed OBrien. Website. The WLOL staff believes that FM radio provides better reception and clearer tones than the AM frequencies. The facts, as reported in the newspapers and in investigative reports approximate these. Merle Edwards was at WMIN from 1949-55 and had shows like Merle Edwards Caravan and Merles Mad House. Bill Diehl tells the story that a car dealer called Slawik Motors wanted to sponsor a show, but it insisted that the DJ call himself Hub Cap. The station approached Diehl, but he thought the idea was ridiculous he was a columnist for the St. Paul Pioneer Press, after all, and had a recognizable name. That spring the station presented Saints baseball with Ray Christensen. 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. One 20-year-old was arrested. In 1933, Dr. Young was granted a license for W9XAT, an experimental mechanical television station. He was in town doing two shows at the Flame Nightclub at 16th and Nicollet in downtown Minneapolis. Will Jones reported that the ads were recorded by Dudley LeBlanc, the former Louisiana politician who sold Hadacol years ago. On August 28, 1981, the station was purchased by Soho Broadcasting, Stanley Soho, President. 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! Contributed by John Pratt 12-6-07. Hed also done some research in music therapy, and planned to play records for what they did for the listener. Much More Music is simply that WDGY played, and is playing, more music with the bright pace of the modern sound. In 1948 the Sepia Serenade show featured black recording stars, Mondays and Wednesdays from 6:15 to 6:45 pm. It was then owned by Todd Storz, one of the pioneers in programming to the baby boom generation with music that theretofor had been rarely heard on "white" radio stations. (1970's), The WDGY Production Room. He had to play the #1 song every hour, and the others at will. The photo below was posted on Facebook by Paul Strickland, who says. The call letters were changed back to WMIN later that year. They predicted that he and his music would be the wave of the future, and when we heard what he sang and how he sang it, we began to be concerned. It was sold to Park Broadcasting [Roy H. Park]. They conducted a Music Poll via a coupon in the papers where people could indicate their music preferences and help the station select what it would play on the air. The hallway down the middle of the building acted as a firebreak and the hardcore damage was on one side and just water and smoke damage on the other side. The station derives a portion of its programming from Scott Shannon 's The True Oldies Channel from ABC Radio. There is a promo of Jim Dandy announcing he was returning to WDGY (to fill the shift left by Rob Sherwood when he went to KDWB). You think that WDGY wasnt figuratively licking its chops? When such a strictly-top-40 station as WLOL decides to go in for the classics, it smacks of chaos rather than culture. KQRS 92.5 FM started out as KEVE-AM on September 1, 1963. Authorization is only required to store your personal settings. A Hammond RK4 reverberation unit has been ordered The echo unit will be .. controlled by push buttons installed at the news table and console. In late 1953 there were shows called Saturday Date and Rhythm at Random, but what they played is anyones guess. History The WDGY callsign was used for another well-known station in the area from 1925 until 1991 and broadcast at 1130 kHz. I thought if we could get somewhat organized on a daily continuous basis that it would be a step in the right direction. What about a transmitter? The new station would be broadcast at 1570 kilocycles, way at the top of the AM dial, at only 500 watts, daytime only. Because the two signals arrived out of phase, they cancelled each other out. In February 2022, the station resumed broadcasting in AM HD. Meanwhile, the Mayor and others defended the actions of the police and laid the blame squarely on the mob.. WWTC started out as WTCN radio, 1280 kc AM. The music first played on KUXL was of the Percy Faith/David Rose/Henry Mancini/Peggy Lee/Bing Crosby/Lawrence Welk fare. KS95 was beginning to take hold. 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. Ft. 7013 N Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA 90042. This billboard at 9th and Hennepin tells us that WTCNs radio and TV studios were at Radio City. In an article in the February 1972 Insider, Tom Murtha noted that Glover was the prime mover in bringing more diversified programming to local radio. Glover was not the first to present underground music in the Twin Cities when he took on the overnight shift in 1969, George Fisher at KQRS had already been playing a diverse selection of underground rock, jazz, blues and comedy (Firesign Theatre, Cheech and Chong) for a couple of years. In August 1927, WDGYs transmitter was moved to Superior Blvd. Okay, heres a puzzle. You can view more history by clicking the following web address:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KFAN_%28AM%29 And also at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WDGY. 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 : (KUXL is loaded with preachers earlier in the day, but most of them are called Brother or Doctor.) In July the McGuire Sisters were back with a song called Rhythm and Blues Somehow even they heard about it. Alan Freed posted the photo below of WWTCs control center taken in 1981. On December 29, 1972, KUXL announced that it was abandoning rhythm & blues in favor of a telephone talk show. November 1966s In-Beat magazine included an interview with the stations new DJ and Program Manager, Ray Moss. Front row John Hines and Larry Carolla. See the new transmitter here courtesy www.radiotapes.com, Aerial shot of the 9-tower array courtesy Tom Gavaras. A listener needed an FM radio tuned to WLOL and a standard radio tuned to KUOM for full stereophonic effect. Everyone seemed to be just milling about. WDGY Hit Car - Late 60's. Who is this guy? Imogene was giving free rides in the parking lot for a new ad campaign. Photo courtesy Jeff Neuberger. General Manager was Marlin D. Schlottman, formerly with WLOL. (Kamman left for New York in 1950 but came back to the station in 1956-58.). In 1966, he went to work for the then-popular station WDGY, which was 1130 on the AM dial, and. My DJ page tells me that Ronn the Rajah of Rhythm & Bluess real name was Ron Samuels the one who married Wonder Woman? The banner gives the shows host as Dave Reau, and the time slot as 11-11:15 am. How could this format possibly be a winner on AM? Nearby Recently Sold Homes. For his own protection, his real identity was kept secret. A lot of people thought it was a broadcast training center like Brown Institute or something. Harry Zimmerman was playing the Sweetest Music in Town., Something happened on January 14, 1957, but the ads werent clear. But, neither was it going to be a full-time jazz station as some had hoped. It made for a very fast, progressive Top 40 and far less corrupt than sales lists that could be influenced by cases of free product which is how payola really worked. Even among Storz stations, Ramsburg says that each individual station made up its own Top 40. WDGY 1130 AM is an online radio station broadcasts from Scottsdale, Arizona providing vintage music. 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