We were kind of in the middle of 1965. Much later, in 1977, Kosofsky would transfer his shares to Miriam Warshaw. Never would have believed this if I hadnt seen it with my own eyes!. To protect stations also on 1130 to the south and east, most of the power was directed north. The gun-toting news director? He left in July 1957 to become Vice President of ABC in New York and was replaced by Jack Thayer. The original WDGY DJs were Herb Oscar Anderson, Jack Thayer, Bill Bennett, Don Loughnane, Ralph Martin, and Len Bart. They built their studio on Stinson Blvd. He also said that the Four Tops were two days away with an expected crowd of 2,000 or more at the Marigold Ballroom. The station was licensed as 500-watt daytimer serving South St. Paul. WDGY "The Original Rock and Roll Station" The Original Rock and Roll Station--Shows. [1] Contents Probably poached from Facebook. 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. The most interesting thing about working there at the time was feeling the surge of relevance the station had regained on since taking on the Country format. Our family cabin was located north of Park Rapids. The shooter was never identified. (And where would they get eggs?) Channel 63 was back! This a recnet PR photo. in Golden Valley was approved. 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. Program directors like me used the more exclusive Gavin Report from Bill and Janet Gavin in San Francisco. Follow the link to read the story of this long-running radio show. Two of them, a married couple, were from Minneapolis, and they had a loaded submachine gun in the trunk of their car and a .45 pistol under the seat. internet settings, will start streaming the file once the link is clicked, Some files are large and may take time to open. KUXL sponsored dances at various venues, and brought in national acts. 2 Beds. The station was one of the first stations in the country to program rock and roll music in a top 40 format in the mid 1950s. 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. In 1942, the station gained approval to broadcast at night. How could this format possibly be a winner on AM? WDGY was the Twin Cities' first full-time Top 40 station, going on the air with its new format on February 6, 1956. I encourage you to check back from time to time. 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. In 1956 the station also participated in the big Contest Craze that hit most of the areas radio stations. They broke through one of the doors, and then the police decided to keep them back by lobbing teargas into the crowd. In August, 1965, Texas Bill Strength went on the air at WMIN after being with KEYD/KEVE (1955 to 1958) and KTCR (1962 to 1965). 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. Some jingles too. Is it possible Don glowed in the dark? Heres one of the dune buggies. Unlike in 2017, C-QUAM AM stereo did not return. 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. Our service costs about the same if you brought in that supertalented program director. Plus you eliminate the stuck records, scratchy music, the jarring jock. After he left WDGY, he actually called me a few times from his new position in Washington DC to have me do some bits for him over the phone. The show was called Rhythm n Blues Time. We asked them what WPBC should be playing and it was almost unanimous that we should play the top 40, rock and roll, Stewart recalled. Unfortunately, Mike Siegelman received a letter of cease and desist from Heftel communications in Miami, which owned Y100 Miami. Rob and Bill were in a state of shock, and the decision was made to not launch the station on the first day of the State Fair. King, right? CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE. Top of a Top 40 from August 1956, courtesy of the Pavek Museum of Broadcasting. Jim Ramsburg says that in 1956 we pulled our own music from the big record library with no rules or restrictions. Mid 60's photo of WDGY's Johnny Dollar on the back of a Honda being driven by a constest winner. This format gradually morphed into the sports talk format, and the calls were changed to KFAN in 1991. An invaluable source of information about the history of WDGY comes from a Masters Thesis written by Jerry Verne Haines in 1970. He spoke about the dangers of ennui, tedium and boredom and how these things could absolutely dull your life. But that was overnights (considered a throwaway daypart by management) on a 50,000 watt station that reached from Canada to Cuba. 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. 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. 36 years later, Im still in the radio game with more than my fair share of terrific experiences. In 1967, winning a Honda might have meant just a motorbike. The street address was 6541 Military Road. Reinhard Steinley became the first General Manager of WCOW on July 1, 1951. Airchecks from 1955 57 on www.radiotapes.com seem to indicate that the music was pretty middle-of-the-road, but they did play Hound Dog on September 7, 1956 Its #1! The station was DJ-driven, with a July 2, 1956 ad touting the Fabulous 4+1: Herb Oscar Anderson, Don Loughnane, Jack Thayer, Bill Armstrong, and Bill Bennett. 50,000 watts. The studio, transmitter, and a 3-tower directional antenna array were located off Military Road in Woodbury (just east of Newport). The format of the station is actually kind of ambiguous in this ad from the Minneapolis Daily Herald from September 13, 1962: Hear it Yourself Tune up to 1570 on your radio dial where you are never more than 2 minutes away from the Hi-Fi sound of good music, Associated Press news on the hour and half hour, latest in sports on the quarter hour. WDGY 1130 AM is an online radio station broadcasts from Scottsdale, Arizona providing vintage music. Last week Ed Skotch of KUXL announced plans to introduce features designed to cheer up the lonely housewives, and now Bill Stewart of WPBC says he has started a new format of happy music and other features of make people feel better.. 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. Then, thinking he may have over-reacted, returned to the studio to start the next song. 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. Following this change, the WDGY call letters were ironically adopted by KDWB for the 630 kHz frequency. WDGY, Rock and Roll Oldies Radio, playing the best oldies of the 1960s and 1970s for the Twin Cities! Soon, it was possible to see the lights on the six KDWB towers. The program director, Rob Sherwood, used this opportunity to abruptly change the format of both stations, debuting the AM and FM simulcast of Super U100 with a Joe Cocker song and a two-minute montage of the new stations new jingles. 1/6/1961 Bill Diehl - 23 MB 7/10/1963 Bill Diehl - 8 MB (provided by Phil Kitchen) - February 1964 Nearby Recently Sold Homes. This is getting to be kind of a bandwagon, and a worthwhile one, even if it does come as a result of the desperate try-anything state of things in todays radio business. Formula 63, will relieve ennui he promised right from the first moment you try it. Im guessing that KAAYs Beaker Street was influential here. ! and the association never quit from New York to LAIt was the most visible thing we ever did..!!! The mother of all remotes was when several people from the station took over the Ebony Lounge, which was located in St. Paul over Roadbuddys Barbeque. In March 1958 WLOL hosted the Royal Crown Cola Bandstand at the Marigold Ballroom, with DJs Dan Anderson and Don Dahl, Sunday afternoons from 2 to 5pm. The Broadcasting Yearbook for 1983 indicates that the format was country. 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. Here is what had happened. Subscribe Now To Listen Your Favorite Songs On Demand! Don K. Martin is in this photo. Todd Storz was an heir to the Storz Beer Co. out of Omaha, Nebraska. The shows were identified by the name of the DJs, which included Morris, Rodger Kent, Riley, Valentine, and Ingram. More than a nostalgia station, more than a mixture of rock n roll history and local rock trivia, TC offers listeners personality programming and a fun sense of belonging to a rock n roll community. Tweedle Dee, not by LaVern Baker or even Georgia Gibbs, but by someone named Vicky Young. Not all of the airchecks on this site were in my original personal collection. The turntables are in the left foreground. Like an acid-etching, the events of that day in early December 1969 are sharp as cut crystal. Optometrist George W. Young started radio station KMFT in 1923; his first broadcast was on January 13, 1924 from his house at 2219 N. Bryant. CLICK TO ENLARGE, Donald K. Martin at The Pavek Hall of Fame Dinner, October 2006. Peterson said R&B never even paid salaries. From 1 to 3, Mike Cunningham would be on the air, and then from 3 to 5, Paul Helm, the man people loved to hate. Contributed by John Pratt 12-6-07. In 1976, U of M student Gregg Lindahl joined for summer employment as music director. If he plays Polk music, He must be a true Minnesotan. An invaluable source of information about the history of WDGY comes from a Masters Thesis written by Jerry Verne Haines in 1970. As for ownership, that, too, is a jumble. As Hartman and a crew worked 24 hours to changed all the logos and artwork on the broadcast trailer, it was a very hectic time for this brand-new, soon to be record-breaking FM station. The stations schedule wasnt printed in the Tribune until December 10, 1961. Although FM radio is not on many car radio dials, it is found on other radios and most of the new hi-fi and stereo sets. Admission was 50 cents and open to teens age 16 and over. TeleVue magazine, 1980. Don at WDGY newsroom mic. What Storz did was apply the Top 40 concept to rock n roll. This month the losses should be fairly slight and we have every hope that June will see the station in the black for the first time in a long time. Seven people were arrested the first night. The Insider reported that Evan Curfew was playing a Solid Gold Oldies All Request show on Saturdays from 1 5 (am or pm?) Disc Jockey Fat Daddy (a/k/a Jimmy Smith) cited statistics that out of 32,000 blacks in the potential audience, between 10,000 and 15,000 listened to the station. Performers included: These groups were well known in clubs like King Solomons Mines where Soul music was a staple. Article on Scott Burton's injury during a WDGY promotional event. . 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! A construction permit was granted to install a new transmitter and a permit was granted to increase power to 1kw on October 1, 1963. His shows were variously called, Steve Cannon was at WMIN from 1949 to 54. It now programs its oldies format along with local hosts in-house. KS95 was beginning to take hold. Some of the soon to be converted files includemore airchecks of DJ's from WDGY, KDWB and others. WWTC Stationery from 1979 (scoped!). The Pavek Museum of Broadcasting has radio station ratings books that list programs from 1953 to 1955. Storz also ended the affiliation with the Mutual network. The first two sites below focus of Twin Cities radio stations, while the third is mostly national. 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. The station had a country format at the time and was owned by Benita Soho of Los Angeles, doing business as Newport Broadcasting. More great stuff is on http://twincitiesradioairchecks.com/wdgy1130tapes.html. If he had opened that door, the back draft would have engulfed the engineer in flame. However, they were not playing records by local groups Earl Trout III told the Insider that the station was on a tighter playlist.. Not sure exactly when these recording ran on WDGY. Jeff Lonto says that they became a middle-of-the-road music station for years, also carrying NBC news and NBCs Monitor on weekends. It was emceed by Jack with KUXL, and is believed to be the first appearance of Brown in the Twin Cities. It also aired sports talk at various times as well as leasing time to two groups that eventually purchased their own full-time frequencies: "Straight Talk Radio" (later on 950 KTNF) and "Relevant Radio" (later on 1330 WLOL). During the next two years, U100 quickly became the most talked-about and Number one rated radio station in town. Theairchecks on this not for profit web site were recorded off the air. I will cut in on occasion with additional/alternate information from Will Jones of the Minneapolis Tribune. Preacher Paul (nee Ralph Hull) had come from KDWB and it appears that he was working at both stations until June 1965. 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. It is owned by WRPX, inc. and airs a Classic Hits / Oldies radio format. One highlight of the stations programming from about 1958 to 1973 was Leigh Kamman, whose jazz programs emanated from Freddys night club in Minneapolis and featured performances by Count Basie, Ramsey Lewis, Errol Garner, and Ella Fitzgerald. 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. The station will feature top cuts from current albums along with a selection of singles, with no jingle package and segued sets. The radio studios are on Utica Avenue South in St. Louis Park . In May 2006 the recordings started to beconverted to MP3 andsharedhere. In April 1957 the studio was in the Builders Exchange Building in downtown Minneapolis, and the transmitter was described as WDGY Transmitter Plant, Oxboro, Minn. A 1969 shot of me (Rick Burnett a/k/a Rick Mason) when I was visiting the studio. Thought I would share. Commercial from a 1988 Beta recording of the TV movie Leap of Faith on Minneapolis, Minnesota channel 4 WCCO-TV Contact me at Rick(at)HotMail.com --- NOTE Replace "(at)" with @ when typing email address, Curtis J. Johnson, Former WDGY 20/20 Newscaster. After a brief shutdown in 1993 due to business failure and the sale of WRPX, the station picked up the vacated WMIN call sign, which had a long history in the market. He planned to conduct on-the-air happiness experiments twice a day. On October 28, 2006 Johnny Canton was inducted intoPavek's Museum of Radio Broadcasting Hall of Fame. They also played some Whoopie John and Frankie Yankovic for the polka crowd. It's the music that stands the test of time. According to PD Chuck Roberts, the new format is closer to AOR than Top 40 radio. Ironically, he then started the next record, Na Na Kiss Him Goodbye by Steam and once again left the building. WPBC: No, thats not a mistake. (Were they ahead of their time?) Unfortunately, this shot suffers from poor exposure. It is imperative that this unit be installed as soon as possible when received.. They would play pranks like play the identical songs for an hour and see if anyone noticed. The only coordination was (sometimes) the Pick Hit of The Week as a freebie to a record maker.. Those shows included: TV Forecast, October 12, 1963, courtesy Jeff Lonto. On the March 20, 1974 tape, we hear the jingle declaring "the music and money is on us" Mark Anderson does the news and informs us the CPI index was much higher, the US will spell out it position on the Panama Canal treaty and England is moving more troops into Belfast. and Louisiana] in St. Louis Park. One of the obstacles it ran into was resonating re-radiation from the Bloomington Water tower. The Twin City a Go Go January 1966 issue mentioned this station and its DJs: Dean Alexander, Dave Charles, Will Grassman, Myrna Jean, Oliver Towne (nee Gareth Hebert), Don Riley, Bob Leonard, and Charles Conrad. It was Percy Faith type music. On November 8, 1954, WMIN hosted a four-hour remote from the new Melodee Record Shop at 704 Hennepin Ave., advertised in the Minneapolis Spokesman. WDGY "The Original Rock and Roll Station" . Everyone seemed to be just milling about. Funny thing, it turned out that Bob Reed didnt have a pilots license. No matter what I did, the signal was always distorted. James Brown and His Revue appeared at the Minneapolis Auditorium on April 25, 1967. Al Tedesco purchased the station in 1968. 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. Kamman left for New York in 1950. In 1953-55 announcers included Howard Viken, Don Riley, Harry Zimmerman, Slim Jim Iverson, and Slim Jims brother the Vagabond Kid. probably not. The Catman was Tom Bernard who at one time was a record rep (Capitol Records, I think). Rock continued to do well in Minneapolis in the eighties. WDGY operated on eight frequencies [1] by the time it settled on 1180 AM. After a couple of changes the call letters became WDGY (Dr. George Young) in 1926. Alan Freed posted the photo below of WWTCs control center taken in 1981. In Will Joness interview of December 10, 1964, station owner Kosofsky said that out of the first 65 or 75 top markets in the country, ours was the only one that didnt have a rhythm & blues station. Found on Radiotapes.com: Ballad of Minnesota!. KUXLs Preacher Paul is promoting it once more., Oh Oh. Kosofsky owned several other stations that catered to listener minorities, and the company represented a string of 30 special-interest stations. 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. Alan Freed: Al Alonzo still owes many of us our final paychecks. He was a captivating jock on WDGY. According to PD Chuck Roberts, the new format is closer to AOR than Top 40 radio. Theres a ton of stories circulating about Top 40 began inspired by an Omaha tavern juke box, developed by a college statistical department, guided by BBDOs Hit Parade formula for Lucky Strike you name it. Airchecks are samples of old radio recordings, with the music cut out. Steve Bowman, Nancy Rosen, B.J. 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. Im sorry the ad below is so hard to read. This address doesnt exist as Highway 55 was expanded. 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.). I was prensent at the studio when Jimmy and Tac coordinated play of the same record at the same time on both stations. Almost two years since her 20-year stint with KOOL 108 came to an end, Sue Falls is returning to Twin Cities airwaves. The Stewarts took a rather conservative approach in programming the station. KQRS 92.5 FM started out as KEVE-AM on September 1, 1963. To call attention to WDGY's new identity, Storz kicked off a cash giveaway contest craze that would involve almost every other station in the Twin Cities and force hopeful listeners to "stay tuned." . Im going to stop here I should have stopped long ago, since this website only goes to 1974. The problem was that by the time he got to a place that had soul food, it was all gone. was WeeGee getting ready for the country format switch? 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