The important goal was to cover the Twin Cities. Screen grab from the movie Purple Haze. Image courtesy Alan Freed. He was a captivating jock on WDGY. John Fine was also part of this tight social group. Our family cabin was located north of Park Rapids. 1370 AM went through more ups and downs than probably any other local radio station. Jim Dandy, Perry St. John, Scott Burton, George Young, B. Mason Dean. The owners brought in Robert Purcell to inject life in the station, and a friend who booked Country & Western touring shows told him that the area was one of the top in the country. In 1948 the Sepia Serenade show featured black recording stars, Mondays and Wednesdays from 6:15 to 6:45 pm. Unlike most metropolitan areas, the Twin Cities did not have a black radio station in the 1940s or 50s. 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. When even a little pimple of a disaster like this strikes, people rise to the occasion. This is WWTC Spectrum. 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. Jim provided this aircheck of Johnny Canton. Found on Radiotapes.com: Ballad of Minnesota!. In the wake of the incidents, a committee was formed by the St. Paul Urban Coalition to investigate them. 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. This is a list of AM radio stations in the United States having call signs beginning with the letters WA to WF. . He came with no radio training at all in fact, he was a bartender but the station executives were impressed with his verbal fluency and vast knowledge of music. Four people were killed when their light plane, flying in a blinding snowstorm, hit a guy wire holding up one of KDWBs radio towers in Woodbury. The tap starts at 1:30 PM and goes about one hour with music in. By 1977, FM radio had arrived big-time in MSP. Johnny Canton in the main WDGY Control Room (1970's), WDGY's Donald K. Martin at the newsroom mic. On April 28, 1977, there was a voluntary relinquishment of positive control of Universal from Kosofsky to Miriam Warshaw, if Im reading this right. 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. Those Yearbooks and a Minneapolis Star Tribune article dated April 30, 1988, provide the details below. Jones explained that Lanphier was a former Milwaukee radio and TV man, and would act as the station manager as well as owner. The state of the art facilities were dismantled, salvaged and/or destroyed to make room for the construction of the-then State Farm Insurance Companies regional headquarters. The creepy monstrosity below, entered by St. Michael Elementary School, was the winner. 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. He recently celebrated 25 years at KFGO. Back to the drama. Billboards? Apparently all this time, the station was still owned by Universal Broadcasting, which, when it was purchased, was controlled by Marvin Kosofsky. The station had a conglomeration of programs, ranging from waltzes, classical, show tunes, Tin Pan Alley, Hawaiian, religious, cowboy, and novelty. WDGY 1130 AM is an online radio station broadcasts from Scottsdale, Arizona providing vintage music. Oops! WMIN had several shows that might have included some jump tunes. The why behind a cheeseburger. Scads of airchecks and music surveys are posted at, http://twincitiesradioairchecks.com/kdwb630tapes.html. Wedgy Devices for a variety of Electrical, Low Voltage, Plumbing, Piping, Mechanical, HVAC, Fire Protection and other construction applications using Wedgy Cable Supports. WDGY Hit Car - Late 60's. Who is this guy? They would play pranks like play the identical songs for an hour and see if anyone noticed. 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. band (which had necessitated the Mighty 1130s switch in the first place.) Kamman also hosted the Swing Club Program. Ironically, the abandoned WDGY call letters were quickly picked up by the former rival station at 630 kHz. Although we think of WDGY as the Twin Cities first rock n roll station, it was not at all clear at the time. Bad luck was cited, as it was the Twin Cities 13th radio station, and Lanphier pointed out that if you added up 1570 it came to 13. I continued on Highway 12 to Radio Drive. The general manager (Mike Sigelman) and program director (Rob Sherwood) (1974), both hired from established Top 40 station KDWB, felt a major change needed to be made. 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 . On October 30, 2021, WDGY once again discontinued broadcasting in HD Radio. Much later, in 1977, Kosofsky would transfer his shares to Miriam Warshaw. In 1956 the station was sold to the Crowell-Collier publishing firm. This aircheck in two parts is presented un-scoped. 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. Not sure where the photo above came from. By 1955 the station was starting to play covers of rock n roll in with Perry Como and Doris Day. KYCR changed to KDIZ on December 24, 2015. It held some interesting insights not revealed in the one Will Jones did (on August 18, above). Casey Kasems American Top 40 began broadcasting on KDWB on January 6, 1974. Unfortunately, by September 1976, the programs two advertising contracts had expired, and Adams was unable to find new sponsors. In addition to this web site creator's recorded aircheck collection, there are also manyairchecks that were recorded and submitted by friends and acquaintances, or contributed by other collectors. WDGY's longtime Top 40 format came to an end at 3 pm, September 2, 1977. in Golden Valley was approved. 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. 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. Paul radio stations featuring recordings dating back to 1924, with many from the 19. The station was owned by the Peoples Broadcasting Company, founded by former WCCO announcer Bill Stewart and his wife Becky Ann. You will hear the WeeGee $10,000 Record Stash promo and Johnny ply "1130 Caret Gold." Donuts Douglas (news man) Later on, the following talent also became a part of the station: Jerry St. James, Mesa Kincaid, Patrick M. Cookin' McKay, Chucker Morgan, and Jo Jo Gunne. Unfortunately, this shot suffers from poor exposure. 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. Ill always be grateful for the little station in the funky building on Military Road in Newport. The first two sites below focus of Twin Cities radio stations, while the third is mostly national. decade KDWB-FM was picked up by Chancellor Media. Contact me at Rick(at)HotMail.com --- NOTE Replace "(at)" with @ when typing email address, Curtis J. Johnson, Former WDGY 20/20 Newscaster. 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.. 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. The Original Rock and Roll Station. the Harmonicats. Steve Bowman, Nancy Rosen, B.J. The Insider reported that it was moving toward soft progressive in September 1971, when Dick Driscoll came back to the station after Dick had turned KQRS from classical to progressive. Top Row: Step Up Movie, Steve Highsmith, Gregg Lindahl, Paul Johnson. In the meantime, it was Zingale who arranged for Augie Garcia to open for Elvis when the King came to town in May 1956. And he skipped out on the landlord, too. In April 1957 the station was owned by BVM Broadcasting Co. and Victor Tedesco was General Manager, replacing Sam Sabean. Herb Oscar Anderson was the first disk jockey on the air with the new Top 40 rock n roll format that morning, and the jocks and the new sounds boosted the station from a tepid Number 4 to second place behind behemoth WCCO. Much of the following information about this ever-changing station comes from Jeff Lontos book Fiasco at 1280, The Rise and Hard Fall of a Twin Cities Radio Station, available through the Pavek Museum of Broadcasting. Each one of these selections was especially chosen by the WDGY All-Americans, and is performed by the original recording artists. The program was one half hour long and started on October 17, 1964. 1/6/1961 Bill Diehl - 23 MB 7/10/1963 Bill Diehl - 8 MB (provided by Phil Kitchen) - February 1964 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. A policeman knocked down pregnant woman, pulled her hair, and threw her into a wall. The agency negotiated non-cancellable contracts with all eight of the Twin City Stations. Courtesy Jeff Lonto. The team could not play high school and college teams, but would go out to small towns for exhibition games. This a recnet PR photo. Yusef Mgeni, a radio-television program supervisor for U of M station KUOM and member of the Malcom X Pan Afrikan Institute, found the argument lacking, going so far as to accuse program director Mike Cunningham of having racist and oppressive views.. He made a ton of money, eventually owning part of the Cleveland Nets World Tennis Team, Cleveland Indians, and Cleveland Cavaliers basketball team. But we also know that the Key Room program featured live performances by Augie Garcia, the Godfather of Twin Cities Rock n Roll, performing jump blues in 1954-55 from the River Road Club in Mendota. The text of the ad below, which comes courtesy of Jeff Lonto, reads: WLOLs catchy UP radio flavor has a way of titillating you with surprises. I had to park on the highway and walk up the hill to the studios. Listen to Paul Geiger in the morning! 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). Most important, WMIN had some powerhouse disk jockeys: Bill Diehl tells the story about a car dealership called Slawik Motors that wanted to sponsor a show, but 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. In about November 1973, the WMIN call letters moved to 1010kc (formerly polka and country station WJSW). Its dead, it just sits there. Ad from the Hopkins Sun, May 2, 1968, courtesy Jeff Lonto; also in Minnetonka Herald, February 22, 1968, Image courtesy Pavek Museum of Broadcasting, In 1969 KRSI issued a two-record compilation of oldies called the KRSI Request Album. The photo below is from the album. I took this from a flight I took in 1977. One contest in 1963 was a challenge to bake the worlds biggest Christmas Cookie. Johnny does a live Tastee Bread "Baked While You Sleep" spot, but the tape run out before he gets to finish. Published in the Star Tribune on 3/30/2008. Following this change, the WDGY call letters were ironically adopted by KDWB for the 630 kHz frequency. 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. WDGY (740 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Hudson, Wisconsin, and serving the Minneapolis-St. Paul radio market. As disasters go, this one wasnt even on the radar screen. 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. Then they would have to schlep the transmitter in a big box (about the size of a single hole outhouse) back to Minnesota. The new owners immediately requested permission from the FCC to change the call letters back to WMIN. 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. That clock is probably showing real time. Call or Text The Studio Line (651) 564-9349 Trusted Partners We Play The Hits! He truly loves the business. 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. Special thanks to Jeff Lonto and Alan Freed! In the fall of 1985, KQ adopted the Classic Rock format. Jack Reynolds became General Manager in April 1971. What should have been a fun night turned into two nights of fear, anger, and violence not only because of a situation handled poorly but because of underlying conditions that faced black communities all across the country. The turntables are in the left foreground. Fan Feed More The OFFICIAL Fictional Radio Stations Wiki. JoJo Gunne was the last jock. This is a shot of the transmitter site of WDGY/1130AM radio, along 35W at about 102nd Street. In September 1962 it was advertised as the only all news station in the country. Download Our Free iHeartRadio App! At night (with 25,000 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. In 1962 WDGY broadcast the Vikings games. WLOL-FM (99.5) (Means Fine Music) was up and running in 1956. Jim Dandy, Perry St. John, Scott Burton, George Young, B. Mason Dean. I was a young kid when I first listened to WDGY and KDWB. Then on Wednesday, July 8, 1964, were back to the old KUXL! As always, much more information and many airchecks are available at www.radiotapes.com/wwtc.html and http://twincitiesradioairchecks.com/wwtc.html. The exact date of the change seems a little murky (unlike the very sharp change to country below), but experts say it was probably in January 1977. It was never clear whether he used it or even who he was. It was sold to Park Broadcasting [Roy H. Park]. He taped the call, didn't know it was me, and used it on the air. 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. You will hear Jimmy promote the "All Americans,"you will hear one of the first Gatorade commercials and you will hear the WDGY promo for the WDGY Power Poll where one could win a Craig color TV (I thought this was radio?). JAVASCRIPT IS DISABLED. An historical archive of surveys and nostalgia from radio station WDGY 1130 AM, Minneapolis / St. Paul. As always, they are free. . Alan Freed posted the photo below of WWTCs control center taken in 1981. Radio was going through a fearful period in the face of the TV monster, and Bill Stewart and his co-owner wife, Becky Ann, urgently called their staff together. Ike and Tina Turner appeared at the Minneapolis Auditorium under the auspices of Preacher Paul and KUXL on August 1, 1965. The precursor to KDWB was founded in 1951 by Nick, Vic and Al Tedesco, sons of Italian immigrants from the province of Calabria. A couple years back I brought you Serutan, the product guaranteed to cure what ails you. We plan to have him on two hours Saturday and two hours Sunday. Garcia was so good that Colonel Parker pulled him off early so he wouldnt upstage Presley. 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. 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. It was fun, and by then, Charlie was on the mornings, and I did the news and the bits. You will enjoy tuning up to the quality sound of sound radio programming on KUXL. 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. This is a shottaken at the St. Paul Winter Carnival. It is owned by WRPX, inc. and airs a Classic Hits/Oldies radio format. WDGY (630 kHz AM, "Radio Rey") is a small Spanish-language radio station with studios located on Lake Street in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Humor from a local Twin City news item. The new station would be broadcast at 1570 kilocycles, way at the top of the AM dial, at only 500 watts, daytime only. This one, courtesy Sam Sabean, is entitled Hobo Sam and His Bum Program. Al Tedesco purchased the station in 1968. As a promotion, in November 1958 Jim Ramsburg cooked up the Radio Wonders basketball team. 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.). 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. Heres a story from Rod, taken from Bullerdash, the newsletter for KSTP Pioneers: I ran the mid-day shift from 10 AM to 2 PM. On June 18, 1975, 1280 switched to NBCs News and Information Service (NIS). Never would have believed this if I hadnt seen it with my own eyes!. The initial format was apparently Modern Country. What to do next? Theairchecks on this not for profit web site were recorded off the air. This site does not charge any fees to listen to the posted recordings. 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. J. Warren Burke was brought in as general manager to revamp the station. We were on the air. KDWB went off the air at 5:21 PM, Sunday Afternoon, and was back on the air on Tuesday. 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. Phone : (651) 436-4000. . 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." . The best of what youre about to give up on WWTC is what we play all the time on KEEY. 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. Remember Bob? Hammer and Reed had come over from KDWB in 1968. Oh, sure, was my response. WDGY's old Bloomington studio/transmitter site sign. 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. The Record Rodeo show featured western, folk, and other typical American music on Saturday afternoon. The call letters were changed back to WMIN later that year. The station again went dark, this time for good, but when? Nobody died. Im going to jump back a little into the chronology of events at the station after listing all of the concerts I could find. The small 1000 watt daytime station was located at 1470 on the AM Dial. WDGY operated on a number of different frequencies before settling onto 1130 AM in 1941. A media phenomenon, Coast to Coast AM deals with UFO's, strange occurrences, life after death, and other unexplained (and often inexplicable) phenomena. Seriously, who thought progressive rock on AM was a good idea? Johnson mostly played what was termed easy-listening jazz: Isaac Hayes, Shirley Bassey, George Benson, Herbie Mann, Herbie Hancock, etc. 1 Pick Revealed: Report Feb 27, 2023. The Big 5 jocks were Bob Bradley, Leigh Kamman, Don Kelly, Steve Cannon, and Jerry Cunning. Rhythm Of The Rain - Cascades 1 2. But that was overnights (considered a throwaway daypart by management) on a 50,000 watt station that reached from Canada to Cuba. It was to be a program format, readily identifiable concentrating on jazz, according to Burke. 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. For his Masters Thesis on the history of WDGY, Jerry Verne Haines interviewed WDGY announcer Leonard D. Bart on June 15, 1970. I went out to the lobby to see what they wanted an was totally surprised to see Little Jimmy Dickens! band (which had necessitated the Mighty 1130s switch in the first place.) KRSI Radio was located at 4500 Excelsior Blvd. At that point, having lost the opportunity to peacefully arrest the young man, the police decided to use nightsticks to bar the door to the hall, keeping the people in. It is imperative that this unit be installed as soon as possible when received.. Below is a listing of stations available in the metro area. In 1933, Dr. Young was granted a license for W9XAT, an experimental mechanical television station. (Helicopters had to be replaced by limos when things got too dangerous.) Burke will proclaim KUXLs Preacher Paul regional king of rhythm and blues at the event. 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. 63 thats easy to remember. Matchbook images courtesy Pavek Museum of Broadcasting, In July 1948, Chuck Mulkern had a fifteen-minute show called Hillbilly Hits.. Wedgy Devices - WEDGY12 & WEDGY23Cable Support Attachment Accessories for 600, 700, 800, 900 Series Wedgy Supports. A police command post was set up at the St. Paul Cathedral, and two-man tear gas units were sent around, with police at every intersection. It's like the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on the radio 24 hours a day. The switch resulted in low ratings, according to an article in the Star Tribune on September 3, 1977. The Original Rock and Roll Station. 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." Access Minnesota is a 30-minute public affairs program airing on Minnesota radio and TV stations. 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. Sign-on was at 6 AM followed by five minutes of news and then country-western music for 55 minutes. He becomes Uncle Snuffy, Radio Daddy-O, The Cat Man. He said that his stations was making a profit from its enlightened programming and others that followed are probably doing the same. Enter Bob Reed the news director. I was able to get this shot during a visit to see Jimmy Reed. 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 Happy to find and post it prior to Johnny induction into the Pavek'sMuseum of Radio Broadcasting Hall of Fame. Minneapolis, MN. WDGY/1130 AM . See Top 30 and Top 40 countdowns from 1966 on Robb Henrys blog. 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