As it stood, it was then peppered with public service announcements rather than the preferred commercials. 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. You can hear some of Herbs patter from September 7, 1956, on Tom Gavarass RadioTapes Web site: radiotapes.com/WDGY.html. See Top 30 and Top 40 countdowns from 1966 on Robb Henrys blog. It is believed that the first transmission of the 120- or 125-line systemprobably the first telecast in Minnesotaoccurred on August 4 of that year, featuring a handshake between WDGY station personality Clellan Card and Minneapolis mayor William Kunze. Those Yearbooks and a Minneapolis Star Tribune article dated April 30, 1988, provide the details below. U100 Studio. It was baked in five pound slabs in a church basement and delivered just an hour before the deadline. [1] Contents JAVASCRIPT IS DISABLED. The cops busted four men and three women for selling liquor without a license (and on a Sunday!). Below is a photo of at least part of the family and shows how close the staffs of the two competitors were. (Minneapolis Tribune, September 7, 1976), Pharoah Black introduced Earth Wind and Fire, with the Emotions and Wild Cherry at their October 7, 1976, concert at the Met Center. Think of all the bad karma we collected every time we played Puppy Love by Donny Osmond. 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. Click on a station below for history, photos, etc. The baffles failed. They built their studio on Stinson Blvd. Minneapolis Star, Saturday, April 10, 1965. 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. The report of the St. Paul Urban Coalition, headed by Arthur S. Fleming, President of Macalester College, was released in March 1969 and echoed the first but was much more detailed and damning. 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. Ill tell it right when I find it again. It is licensed to Hudson, Wisconsin, three miles east of its studios in Lakeland, Minnesota. WPBC: No, thats not a mistake. The station's studios and offices are in Lakeland, Minnesota, while its transmitter is off Commerce Drive near Interstate 94 in Hudson. In 1968 Red Owl changed the station policy from middle of the road to all request oldies to try for a high enough rating to at least make the property salable. In 1953-55 announcers included Howard Viken, Don Riley, Harry Zimmerman, Slim Jim Iverson, and Slim Jims brother the Vagabond Kid. Rock n roll came roaring into the Twin Cities like a full force gale on February 6, 1956, when WDGY, 1130 AM, became a Storz station. He was program director from 1968-1971. WDGY can be heard around the clock on two FM translator stations: 92.1 W221BS from St. Paul and 103.7 W279DD from Hudson. They are posted here for historical examples of top 40 radio from one of the originators, Storz. A few days later, WPBC-FM became WRAH and programmed an automated album oriented rock format. The music spanned the black musical spectrum, from bebop to pop, delta blues to Motown, Dixieland to the Philadelphia disco sound, said Adams. A touch of Formula 63 is the perfect way to brighten up your mundane day. In 1957-58 WMIN put weekly ads in the Minneapolis Spokesman, the citys black-owned newspaper, urging readers to listen to Lou House, possibly the only black DJ in the market. such tangy extras are part of ear-tickling, toe -tapping UP radio. Johnny Canton in the WDGY control room. 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. The format changed to classical music in 1961. 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. Al, by the way, happens to be a very knowledgeable fella, record wise. You can see the full shot of the turntables with their massive tone arms. One was a big man about 64 tall, the other much shorter and wearing a white Stetson hat, white boots and a red and white country-western outfit that was so loaded with rhinestones that he literally shimmered when he walked. 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. On December 10, 1962, the station launched one of those call-in shows where people argued with the host, who was called Norman Frederick. His wry, understated wit, carefully studied word choice, and RELAXED delivery won him a following unheard of since the days of Murray-go-round on KDWB and Throckmorton at WLOL. This station was pretty freewheeling and one could hear Jimmy Dean in the same breath as the Supremes. At the time he was operating two mobile discos called Soul on the Roll Disco Rendezvous.. Download Our Free iHeartRadio App! Tom Wynn at his current job at KFGO in Fargo ND. The station again went dark, this time for good, but when? However, they were not playing records by local groups Earl Trout III told the Insider that the station was on a tighter playlist.. The Stewarts had worked at WCCO in various capacities since 1944. (1970's), The WDGY Production Room. KUXL sponsored dances at various venues, and brought in national acts. The reels are changed by an actual human person., Oldies, the all-timers but not whammo smashes, not instantly recognizable but they sold a lot., Top country hits new reels sent in weekly. WCOW Staff @ 1953, courtesy Vic Tedesco. Preacher Paul. Perhaps, this is a temporary station problem. 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. 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. In 1967, winning a Honda might have meant just a motorbike. The team could not play high school and college teams, but would go out to small towns for exhibition games. was WeeGee getting ready for the country format switch? Rhythm Of The Rain - Cascades 1 2. 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. Storz also ended the affiliation with the Mutual network. Published in the Star Tribune on 3/30/2008. As a promotional gimmick, Skotch planned to distribute 100,000 happiness charts, which supposedly predicts the days when a person will feel cheerful or grumpy. Im going to stop here I should have stopped long ago, since this website only goes to 1974. The crowd moved west down 4th Street, smashing store windows, until they got to the Selby-Dale neighborhood, where many of the Citys 10,000 black people lived in what could only be described as a ghetto. It changed its format to Golden Rock on October 1, 1979. The Gavins sold their mimeographed service to one station per market and it was kind of a co-op into which we all poured our tips. Engineer Herb Schoenbohm, a jazz buff, started by emceeing a nightly 7 7:30 pm spot. On September 2, 1951, the station sponsored a concert by the Blind Boys, advertised in the Minneapolis Spokesman. The schedule on December 30, 1971, shows Rhythm & Blues programming from 1pm until dark and 6 am until 6:45 am. Once in there, though, it was kind of cozy. On December 1, 1964, KEVE was changed to KQRS Quality Radio Station, still playing classical music. Minneapolis, MN. 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. This left KEYD (soon to become KEVE) as the only full time C&W station. 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. The station signed on with a cowbell. 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. Tune to the wtcn 1280 signal. In August 1927, WDGYs transmitter was moved to Superior Blvd. Midge was the luck caller who got to shoot the turkey. The other stations had an unwritten agreement not to play race music because they assumed the Twin Cities audience would be outraged. R&B existed right here in the Twin Cities, but was apparently a well-kept secret. No lights. The format was Country With A Kick. There was a three tower directional array, and a transmitter that looked more like a refrigerator. Harry Zimmerman was playing the Sweetest Music in Town., Something happened on January 14, 1957, but the ads werent clear. CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE. 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. UP radio sparkles in Rod Trangards newscastsin exclusive Mutual news remotes . In January 1965 it was reported that staff had increased from 19 to 27 since Red Owl purchased the station in 1961. The facts, as reported in the newspapers and in investigative reports approximate these. They were attacked by about 20 men who tried to retrieve the gun. The entire concept, advertising and promotion was headed and created by Mike Siegelman, Rob Sherwood, and Bill Hartman. The turning point came one night around Christmas 1955 when we turned in the Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey Show on TV and they had on Elvis Presley, Stewart remembered. Some not so happily as others, he admits. And so goes the history of one of our most obscure radio stations. 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. 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. The policemen called for backup and the melee started. I will cut in on occasion with additional/alternate information from Will Jones of the Minneapolis Tribune. In 2008, the station became WDGY after sister station 630 AM switched to Regional Mexican music, using the call letters WREY. WDGY Radio is a Oldies radio station serving Minneapolis-St. Paul. Miller estimated that there were an estimated 70 radio stations in the U.S. that programmed entirely for blacks, but felt that there werent more than a half-dozen of them that were sincere and tried to program up rather than shoot down. Announcers on white stations used their own names, while black DJs were given the name of a clown, a name in keeping with the false and grotesque stereotype of the idiotic smiling Negro. When the oldies format of WYOO started to slide in the ratings, more MOR music was added, but ratings slid even further. Al Tedesco purchased the station in 1968. If you look carefully, you can see the old WDGY transmitter through the studio glass. This provides a historical look at the times. For airchecks and photos, a great site is: http://twincitiesradioairchecks.com/krsiandkfmx.html. Thanks to all contributors. CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE, WDGY Guides, Bohaty-Douglas-Olson, 1982. Personnel listed were: The stations format was described in the Yearbook as Urban Contemporary. WDGY-AM 1130 Sign-Off, 1970 - YouTube This sign-off announcement from a radio station in Minneapolis (now News/Talk KTCN) is one of many audio files preserved at:http://www.radiotapes.comNo. June 18, WWTC radio replaces every bit of music with news. John was a dear, dear friend who died way too young. The material was from the then-unpublished autobiography that appeared as Okay, Okay, I Wrote the Book in 2012. In the 60 I later converted to KDWB, but still listened to WDGY. Sources are cited, if known. In July the McGuire Sisters were back with a song called Rhythm and Blues Somehow even they heard about it. I stopped and visited him one morning, and he lowered a Bob Dylan album for me. September 18, 1964. Below are the same four staff members that were pictured in the piece above, in a print ad. That UP radio uplift all the way. So they convinced Edwards to do it and he became Merle Hub Cap Edwards. Jimmy and his agent were out visiting stations that played country-western music and promoting his latest record. Read more about the show in 1955, and about Zingale under Twin Cities Disc Jockeys. Talk about a time frame, eh?) This was in the basement of the old bloominton studio/transmitter site. 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. Its president was Marvin Kosofsky, who said he was not going to change the jazz programming, which had been taken over by Art Hoehn and Paul Franklyn. You will hear Curt share stories on WDGY personalities, including Jim Dandy, Rich Holter, George Young and others. In 1959-1960 KEVE had a Sunday remote broadcast from the Fireside in Fridley. As they were limited by their then-daytime only license at 980 AM, they started up WPBC-FM at 101.3 MHz in August 1959, simulcasting the AM station. He was in town doing two shows at the Flame Nightclub at 16th and Nicollet in downtown Minneapolis. Unfortunately, by September 1976, the programs two advertising contracts had expired, and Adams was unable to find new sponsors. CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE. 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. So maybe well never know. The request line was started in February 1968, with oldies and not just the same old ones being their mainstay. An underlying cause was said to be the overall condition of the Selby-Dale area. WMIN was still resisting the rock n roll bandwagon in January 1957, when it was playing Easy Listening. Preacher Paul was there three nights a week as a host, and on Saturday afternoons he broadcast from the place. No Top Forty. But that was overnights (considered a throwaway daypart by management) on a 50,000 watt station that reached from Canada to Cuba. 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. But Glover was probably the most popular and well-known. So, our problem was not only to be the best station on the air there, we first had to let them know there was a there there. WWTC AM Radio is something of an oasis in the local radio market. Will Jones reported that the ads were recorded by Dudley LeBlanc, the former Louisiana politician who sold Hadacol years ago. The call letters of KUXL changed to KYCR on May 19, 1988. In ad in the June 14, 1969, TV Digest pictures Tac Hammer, Rick Easton, Anthony Gee, Jim Reed, and Don Shore. The broadcast license was cancelled by the FCC in February 1991. On October 10, 1958, the station was moved from 1590 to 630 kc (Channel 63). But in Minneapolis-St. Paul a good part of the year was snowbound and it was really hard to see the billboards through all that sleet. 1130 AM; Community content is available under CC-BY-SA unless otherwise noted. The WLOL staff believes that FM radio provides better reception and clearer tones than the AM frequencies. The promotional piece below pictures the stations initial staff. 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. In contrast to WCCO and KSTP, WPBC carried no network programming, and were live and local all day. The call letters of WTCN radio were changed to WWTC on October 2, 1964, after Time Life sold the station to Buckley-Jaeger Broadcasting. Wedgy Devices - WEDGY12 & WEDGY23Cable Support Attachment Accessories for 600, 700, 800, 900 Series Wedgy Supports. The old tower was removed and a new tower erected. In April 1957 the station was owned by the BFR Broadcasting Corp., N.L. How to get it to St. Paul? 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?. That wouldnt happen until daylight. . Below is a listing of stations available in the metro area. The station kept the name WDGY until 1991. Eight Miracle Mile merchants sponsored the program. Well, at least with the progressive announcers on KRSI. BB King performed at the Marigold on September 12, 1965. Oldies. But its also a dance session. I have absolutely no idea what is going on here. The switch resulted in low ratings, according to an article in the Star Tribune on September 3, 1977. Fire trucks are on the scene and well up-date you as additional details come in.. Owned and operated by WRPX. On July 1, 1977, the station went from free-form to album rock. In an article in the Star dated August 3, 1977, Jon Bream called the new format commercial, superstar rock. DJs were restricted to playing a list of songs chosen by a consulting firm in Atlanta. When WDGY began to play it, WDGY salesmen found an amazing reluctance on the part of advertisers to buy time on a station that was rated number two in the market. See www.radiotapes.com/WDGY.html for airchecks and much more, including the very entertaining history of the station written by Haines. At about 9:30 pm, someone with a shotgun wounded three police officers who, with about 20 others, were trying to break up a crowd of about 200 who had gathered at the site of a firebombing. She was awarded a free turkey along with the very important can of cranberry sauce. Yeah, but I hated newspaper advertising. 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. 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. In fact, all were in their 20s. 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. Back to the drama. After a couple of changes the call letters became WDGY (Dr. George Young) in 1926. As for ownership, that, too, is a jumble. Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha!!! KTLK (1130 kHz) - branded News/Talk AM 1130 - is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Minneapolis, Minnesota. 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.]. The biggest troublemakers appeared to be a group of about 30 from Minneapolis, dressed in boots, Levi jackets, blue jeans, and cowboy or Australian digger hats. WDGY (740 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Hudson, Wisconsin, and serving the Minneapolis-St. Paul radio market. At night, WDGY was very strong, but could never be received clearly. 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. The new station would be broadcast at 1570 kilocycles, way at the top of the AM dial, at only 500 watts, daytime only. 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?). One day the station was just there, offering gimmicky, women-slanted programs, not attracting much attention. In April 1929 the frequency apparently became 1180. We do know that the station was playing rock n roll from the WMIN Top 40 dated August 4, 1958. Rocking and rolling and repeating over and over.Well advertise on the other stations. As the tower hit, a light fixture fell and narrowly missed Bob Morgan, who was on the air talking about the weather.. Don at WDGY newsroom mic. Once there, scroll down. 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. The St. Paul Urban League and the St. Paul Human Rights Department also launched their own investigations. The station will feature top cuts from current albums along with a selection of singles, with no jingle package and segued sets. Image courtesy Jeff Lonto, Adult Standards, February 1980 to 1982. This is a shot of the transmitter site of WDGY/1130AM radio, along 35W at about 102nd Street. Here in my file is a page out of the July 9, 1966, issue of Billboard magazine, where the information about KUXL lives. Seriously, who thought progressive rock on AM was a good idea? To protect stations also on 1130 to the south and east, most of the power was directed north. Donald K. Martin and Rick Burnett, July 7th, 2008, Mike Cunningham (Left) andJim du Bois (Richt) in the studio with Donald K. Martin, WDGY December 1972 Survey Contributed by Donald K. Martin, WDGY December 1972 Survey Back Cover (page 4), WDGY - Don Martin in undated photo he contributed. Take the elevator, said the sign. The manager was Roger D. Wilson, and in an ad for sales people he called the station Katy Radio.. Click on Photo to go to a site with old bloomington antenna site and transmitter photos put together by Aaron White. 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