The switch to talk was gradual over two years. To get us in the mood for another rock n roll station, they played Charlie Brown by the Coasters in French non-stop for several days. Meanwhile, the old KUXL crew was plodding on. Matter of fact, the spots started at 6 AM and by 10 seven of the eight stations had called the ad agency making all kinds of threats. 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. In a June 4, 1959, article in the St. Louis Park High School Echo, it was reported that the FM station would feature dance band music on Fridays and Saturdays. So they convinced Edwards to do it and he became Merle Hub Cap Edwards. Steve Bowman, Nancy Rosen, B.J. Never would have believed this if I hadnt seen it with my own eyes!. The station kept the name WDGY until 1991. Meanwhile, here are some of the dances the station sponsored. Wedgy Devices - WEDGY12 & WEDGY23Cable Support Attachment Accessories for 600, 700, 800, 900 Series Wedgy Supports. Jack Thayer had started his career here, from 1942-1951. King, right? I leave it to smarter people than me to figure out the history of this craziest of stations. SOLD JUN 14, 2022. This and other WDGY surveys can be see at the museum along with many other radio artifacts. Listen to Paul Geiger in the morning! He planned to conduct on-the-air happiness experiments twice a day. The license for that station expired in 1938, partly because mechanical television development was heavily discouraged by that point. The 1989 Broadcasting Yearbook reported that the station was now owned by Newport Broadcasting. The show was to start at 8 pm and take place at both the Minneapolis and St. Paul Auditoriums at the same time, with the stars shuttled by helicopter between them. 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! Paul Magazine, August 1978, courtesy Jeff Lonto. Our family cabin was located north of Park Rapids. Al, Nick, and Vic Tedesco, photo courtesy Pavek Museum of Broadcasting. No doubt the Random Ranch show was similar. [This was what Ed Skotch wanted to be The Nations Most Attention-Programmed Station, remember?] . In 1942, the station gained approval to broadcast at night. This billboard at 9th and Hennepin tells us that WTCNs radio and TV studios were at Radio City. was WeeGee getting ready for the country format switch? WDGY Survey with Photos of Curtis J. Johnson from June 13, 1969. Top O The Radio Dial. The actual graphics and billboards were created by Sid Rich and his advertising agency at the time in 1974. The recordings on this site provide historical examples of Twin Cities radio and are intended for purposes of archival preservation and for research. On November 3, 1972, the AM station was relaunched as WYOO, picking up an oldies format (with rock and roll included). 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. 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. . 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. Brother Al Tedesco wanted to call it WPIG or WHOG, but Vic protested the barnyard connotation. We did it. 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. Crocker, and Brad Piras. Contests and Promotions. Somewhere theres a story about how a station staffer would drive a dune buggy around town, and the listener who guessed closest to the number of miles driven at the end of the summer won the vehicle. This is the place where "it pays to listen." The rest of that Sunday night, people continued to mill about. Oldies. I remember singing Mack the Knife with my aunt as it was playing on WDGY during our ride back to St. Paul from Rush Lake one Sunday evening. Efforts to find out who was playing that night were fruitless. ..This is the true story of the birth of U100. The only coordination was (sometimes) the Pick Hit of The Week as a freebie to a record maker.. The music was tailored to a more mature (18-25) audience, such as Pablo Cruise. and went back to Mexico, this time to XERB, a 50,000 watt station in Tijuana. This station was pretty freewheeling and one could hear Jimmy Dean in the same breath as the Supremes. In April 1957 the station was owned by the Franklin Broadcasting Co., William F. Johns, Jr., Vice President and General Manager. He expected to shock some people that first day! 36 years later, Im still in the radio game with more than my fair share of terrific experiences. The call letters of WTCN radio were changed to WWTC on October 2, 1964, after Time Life sold the station to Buckley-Jaeger Broadcasting. According to PD Chuck Roberts, the new format is closer to AOR than Top 40 radio. Middle row: Steve Hatley, Cosmic Cowboy a/k/a Terry Roberts, Chuck Knapp & Charlie Bush. The Wolfman died on July 1, 1995. We were thinking about this positioning problem when Don remembered something which had been a national marketing phenomenon a few years earlier. in Golden Valley was approved. Another January 1957 ad said If You Dig Rhythm N Blues Mitchells the Most! In April 1973 there was an ad for WWTC Spectrum, If youre not thrilled with KSTP, WYOO, KEEY, or WLOL. All things to all people, apparently: Every twenty minutes its a different color of spectrum. CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE, This photo was taken as the car pulls into the driveway on a Richfield winter day. Feb 28, 2023. WDGY/1130 AM . There is a promo for WDGY's Easter Bunny contest, where you can win a McDonald's Easter Bunny. Fairchild subsequently dismissed the entire staff and overhauled both stations. In 1966, he went to work for the then-popular station WDGY, which was 1130 on the AM dial, and. He had to play the #1 song every hour, and the others at will. Storzs company, Mid-Continent Broadcasting, purchased WDGY on February 6, 1956 for $212,000. The program was one half hour long and started on October 17, 1964. I sent time at my grandparents lake home on Rush Lake (60 miles north of St. Paul). Bob Allards call-in show nearly caused a riot on July 14, 1978, when he hosted Nazi Steven Martinson. 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). KDWB went on the air on September 16, 1959, as a top 40 station. The WMIN call sign was used from 1936 until 1972 by the predecessor to today's 1400 KMNV, and the call sign was also briefly used for a shared-time television station on channel 11. WDGY went through several ownership changes until 1956, when it were purchased by Todd Storz' Storz Broadcasting, an Omaha-based owner of a five-to-seven-station group (the maximum number allowed in those days). The station finally landed at the great 1130 on March 24, 1941, when all of the local stations were repositioned. He was program director from 1968-1971. I guess. WDGY seemed to appeal to 18- to 35-year-old listeners while KDWB held a fair share of the teen audiences - considered hot properties during this period. Fortunately, the door blew open before he got there. Countryside magazine, March 1976. Ads to rent out the St. Louis Park studio appear in January 1973 and sometime between then and March 1973 the studio moved to Valley View Road in Eden Prairie. The very next day, November 13, 1963, the stations permit was approved to change its studio location and remote control point to the Golden Valley Inn, a motel at 4820 Olson Memorial Highway. A construction permit was granted to install a new transmitter and a permit was granted to increase power to 1kw on October 1, 1963. David Hersk remembers that Edwards had a late night show where he called himself Uncle Merle and played plenty of rock n roll in 1954-55. They were born in St. Pauls Swede Hollow. We hope you will enjoy our first birthday edition YESTERHITS FROM YESTERDAY and join us in listening to the second year of Much More Music on 1130 Radio WDGY. I was prensent at the studio when Jimmy and Tac coordinated play of the same record at the same time on both stations. Skotch was the highest-paid director-producer in Chicago, with as many as six shows he created, network and local, being aired in town every week. As always, much more information and many airchecks are available at www.radiotapes.com/wwtc.html and http://twincitiesradioairchecks.com/wwtc.html. A unique look at sports. He was not an on-air personality, although Secret Stash tells us that he once did a commercial in his normal voice and it was taped by a friend of Preacher Pauls who was learning how to run the board. When such a strictly-top-40 station as WLOL decides to go in for the classics, it smacks of chaos rather than culture. 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. My wife and I had long discussions late into the evening. The switch resulted in low ratings, according to an article in the Star Tribune on September 3, 1977. Jack Reynolds became General Manager in April 1971. The song list included such gems as You Clobbered Me, Ink Dries Quicker Than Tears, Lie Detector, and Take Your Cotton-Pickin Hands Off My Girl. The station had been playing some Top-10, Classical, semi-classical, some religious, etc. 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. It faded into obscurity shortly after its release.. Later WDGY would flip to a news/talk format; and finally, the adoption of sports talk as KFAN in 1991. Image courtesy Jeff Lonto. The epic blizzard of March 1965 prevented Bobby Blue Bland from making a KUXL-sponsored dance at the Marigold, but a local musician was found to substitute, admission price was lowered, and the event still drew 2,600 people. Nick came up with WCOW, which was deemed somehow more dignified. It was also appropriate: their records were labeled either O for Old Time or W for Western. Nearby homes similar to 5917 Fayette St have recently sold between $944K to $1,305K at an average of $570 per square foot. In the July 2, 1967, edition of the TMC Insider, we learn that KDWB went off the air last Friday when a 50-foot tower was blown down and fell on top of the stations studios. In 1976, U of M student Gregg Lindahl joined for summer employment as music director. Because WTCN-TV was sold to a different company (Chris Craft Broadcast, Inc.), the two stations had to have different names. Glover finally finally took two weeks vacation in New York City and never came back. [He became a freelance writer and contributing editor for Circus, a music magazine.]. King was also coming to the same ballroom on September 12. We may drop it from the top of Foshay, said Sherwood, Chuckling at the prospect of the worlds biggest pile of crumbs. Sam says that what actually happened to it was the cookie was picked by cargo plane at Twin Cities Airport and flown to the Ive Got A Secret Show in New York, MCd by the late Gary Moore and after that it was just disposed ofnot sure how but that was it!!. We kept professional secrets from each other, but otherwise we were just one big, happy family. Unfortunately, this shot suffers from poor exposure. He may have been a part owner of the company for a time, or he may have just been the station manager. You will also hear a commercial for a drive-in promoting a double feature rat movies (Ben) and that you can get free entrance if you bring your family cat. Thats what caused the severe distortion, despite registering a 4 on my Wards Airline signal strength scale of 1 to 5. I developed a format of album rock, blues, soul, some jazz, a bit of folk, classical, spoken word and anything I could find that interested listeners. In 1954 the call sign for 1400 AM briefly changed to WMNS, reflecting a change to a full service format of music, news and sports. As disasters go, this one wasnt even on the radar screen. A December 1, 1955, ad says Now All Day and announces DJs Texas Bill Strength and Johnny T from Tennessee, and Slim Jim. 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." Minneapolis Star, Saturday, April 10, 1965. Sixteen pastors gathered to support this action and expressed their concern that the investigation be impartial and representative. Youre not losing WWTC, youre gaining a KEEY. A listener needed an FM radio tuned to WLOL and a standard radio tuned to KUOM for full stereophonic effect. At that time the station was also playing show tunes, Lawrence Welk, and shows like Dragnet, Bob Hope, The Great Gildersleeve, and biographies. The first song was Bad Blood by Neil Sedaka. The initial format was apparently Modern Country. Courtesy Jeff Lonto. Thanks again for the responseand thanks for the great website! The two competitors seesawed back and forth in ratings supremacy for area teen and young adult audiences throughout the 1960s and '70s. the second line is pretty shocking: Skotchs research concluded that the suburban housewife was a lonely person was too busy to hear her troubles and who tied herself in knots over small problems. John Fine was also part of this tight social group. WDGY Jocks teamed up with professionals Ed Kalafat, Bobby Cox, Jim Springer, and Corky Devlin, possibly former Minneapolis Lakers. A newspaper schedule dated December 19, 1972, shows the same preacher tapes, as Ray Moss called them, from 6 am to 1 pm. This provides a historical look at the times. My wife and I had long discussions late into the evening. By 1981 it was back to Country, testified by Chris McKay: In 1981 I had just graduated from Brown Institute, and was the CHIEF ENGINEER at KDAN AM 1370! The feeling seemed to be we are not going to advertise on that station., Jim Ramsburg, an early WDGY jock, says we were given strict orders never to utter the phrase, Rock & Roll, because it was black slang for sex. Im guessing that KAAYs Beaker Street was influential here. Its dead, it just sits there. What we didnt realize was how much unexpected publicity we would get in the Twin City newspapers and on TV. The photo below was posted on Facebook by Paul Strickland, who says. 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. For airchecks and photos, a great site is: http://twincitiesradioairchecks.com/krsiandkfmx.html. In the September 1965 issue of Twin City a-Go Go magazine, Preacher Paul had a column called Heres Hip Happenings. At the end he talked about the concerts, and said that as he was writing the article, the most recent one was the Ike and Tina Turner concert on August 1. The station was licensed as 500-watt daytimer serving South St. Paul. 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. Photo dated November 6, 1942, courtesy Minnesota Historical Society. One more testament to the sheer effective radiated power in WDGYs nighttime lobe. 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 when youre there, youre a celebrity. The Twins management got riled at the implications that its star catcher and other players were hanging around a saloon, and protested, so the Preacher toned it down. KANO was Disk Jockey Rod Persons first radio job in 1959. WDGY-AM 1130 Perry St. John All Night Shift 5/12/63 The quality is not great on this recording, but you can still hear everything. Contributed by John Pratt 12-6-07. 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. [made possible by the late summer daytime hours] Now he also does a Saturday afternoon session from 1 to 5. He made a ton of money, eventually owning part of the Cleveland Nets World Tennis Team, Cleveland Indians, and Cleveland Cavaliers basketball team. Relieve Ennui today! Inside the box was a piece of paper on which there was a beautiful color picture of the Twin-Cities Radio Dial with a large arrow pointing to the left end of it and an invitation toCome on down. The station is the oldest continuously operating station in the state, dating to December 23, 1923 when Dr. George W. Young signed on with the call letters KFMT. He was in the middle of hiring, and was looking for a deep, authoritative, network kind of voice; a sirupy, romantic voice; and a thrid, more youthful and jolly voice. His shows were variously called Diehl n Music, Diehls Caravan, and Its Your Diehl., Steve Cannon was at WMIN from 1949-54. (Were they ahead of their time?) Hobart also announced the increase in power. Stephen B. Labunski was made General Manager. 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. It had hope to start broadcasting a week ago but was held up by equipment delays. 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). (Minneapolis Tribune, January 27, 1966). For more on Progressive/Underground Rock, see KRSI. Well, they didnt love it, and at noon on November 2, 1972, oldies station WYOO signed on for the first time with See You Later Alligator by Bill Haley and His Comets. If you suffer from lusterless, uninteresting radio, etc., etc., come on down and put a little color in your life.. The Original Rock and Roll Station. The address of the first transmitter and main studio was 7711 Sixth Ave. No. See the new transmitter here courtesy www.radiotapes.com, Aerial shot of the 9-tower array courtesy Tom Gavaras. Almost two years since her 20-year stint with KOOL 108 came to an end, Sue Falls is returning to Twin Cities airwaves. Dateline Minneapolis, March 13, 1966. 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. You can see the full shot of the turntables with their massive tone arms. In the first few months of operation, I would guess that WDGY probably lost as much money per month as any station in the history of radio. FM station (104.1) was KRSI-FM until 1974. As a promotion, in November 1958 Jim Ramsburg cooked up the Radio Wonders basketball team. Thinking about how to tell the good people of the Twin Cities there was some good radio on the South end of the dial was pretty much all I was thinking about. This was in the basement of the old bloominton studio/transmitter site. 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. (From the A. Mintz Collection), Lunch with Donald K. Martin, Former WDGY Newsman and Morning Show Co-Host. 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. In July 1969 the two were doing an underground show. Paul caught on fire and was off the air? The only coordination was (sometimes) the Pick Hit of The Week as a freebie to a record maker.. And you can try it today. For a short-lived, rather obscure radio station, a lot of activity was logged. The music first played on KUXL was of the Percy Faith/David Rose/Henry Mancini/Peggy Lee/Bing Crosby/Lawrence Welk fare. Bears' Plan For No. The stations music survey was Top 15 Teen Tunes, and included 5 Top Comers selected by a High School Panel of Experts. A few days later, WPBC-FM became WRAH and programmed an automated album oriented rock format. WMIN adopted an all news format in mid-July 1962. While newspaper listings are not 100 percent reliable, the Tribunes listings of Monday, November 11, 1963, reflect the old format, with Jim Eckert from 6 to 11 am, Mort Garren from 11 to 3, and Jack Hyatt at 3. The station had a conglomeration of programs, ranging from waltzes, classical, show tunes, Tin Pan Alley, Hawaiian, religious, cowboy, and novelty. This photo was taken in 1969 after he came back to replace Rob Sherwood when he left for KDWB-AM. Most Top 40 and Rock listening had migrated to the FM band (which had necessitated the Mighty 1130s switch in the first place.) As an example when your unpredictable Carson Rennie of 6-10 spins a yarn about Aunt Julias first trip to the Twin Cities. Thats easy to remember. Of course, we could say that sixty three times an hour, and if no one was listening, it wouldnt be that easy to remember. So, we had to do something to let people know we were there there. Follow the link to read the story of this long-running radio show. It held some interesting insights not revealed in the one Will Jones did (on August 18, above). Not all of the airchecks on this site were in my original personal collection. With the aid of conviction to principle, an innovative approach to tweaking the automation to liven up the sound and programming our own currents and recurrents, p*ss, vinegar and a well-crafted letter and position paper to Jim Duncan, then R&Rs Country Editor, we managed to get KDAN appointed as the 75th Country reporter for the fledgling trade paper. ERP. Good New Show on KUXL: Saturday at 5:00 pm is the time to listen to all the old hits on Bill Blast Hits of the Past. The show, hosted by Al Collins of Music City, downtown Minneapolis, received good response from listeners. But Glover was probably the most popular and well-known. What about a transmitter? In July the McGuire Sisters were back with a song called Rhythm and Blues Somehow even they heard about it. It had 50,000 watts during the day and 25,000 at night. Johnson mostly played what was termed easy-listening jazz: Isaac Hayes, Shirley Bassey, George Benson, Herbie Mann, Herbie Hancock, etc. CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE, WDGY Air Staff 1986. WDGY, Rock & Roll Radio, playing the hits of the '60s and '70s for the Twin Cities! Don's mother preferred that he work at a country station. Casey Kasems American Top 40 began broadcasting on KDWB on January 6, 1974. This has been the only transmitter location for the station since it signed on the air. It had only 250 watts. 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