1130 AM; Community content is available under CC-BY-SA unless otherwise noted. 980 AM was originally staid WPBC from 1949 to 1972. On December 1, 1964, KEVE was changed to KQRS Quality Radio Station, still playing classical music. The show, Pharoah Blacks Soul Til Sundown, began on May 1, 1975, and ran from 7 pm until sundown. The station signed on with a cowbell. We are a resilient species arent we? Sweet Potato, September 1979. The only coordination was (sometimes) the Pick Hit of The Week as a freebie to a record maker.. See Top 30 and Top 40 countdowns from 1966 on Robb Henrys blog. 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. Bob Short bought the station from Buckley Broadcasting in early (in or before March) 1978. The recordings on this site provide historical examples of Twin Cities radio and are intended for purposes of archival preservation and for research. One of the obstacles it ran into was resonating re-radiation from the Bloomington Water tower. An undated report says KEVE did a remote broadcast from the Flame on Saturday nights from 10:30 to 11:30 pm. MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA Format: T40. Trongard, not Trangard. In the photo below, the KUXL trailer is in the parking area behind the building. In February 2017, WDGY added another FM translator, W221BS 92.1, broadcasting from an antenna atop Wells Fargo Place in Downtown St. We needed new transmitters, new phones, new carpet, new roofs, new this and new that. U100 Studio. It was to be a program format, readily identifiable concentrating on jazz, according to Burke. Much later, in 1977, Kosofsky would transfer his shares to Miriam Warshaw. Is it possible Don glowed in the dark? What are we gonna do? Alan Freed posted the photo below of WWTCs control center taken in 1981. WPBC (Peoples Broadcasting Co.) was owned and operated by Bill and Becky Ann Stewart and went on the air in October 1949. They were born in St. Pauls Swede Hollow. JAVASCRIPT IS DISABLED. On December 9, 1938, Tom Colemans Famous Swing Trio, with Florence Ward, appeared at a dance at Pioneer Hall, 588 Rondo, advertised as being broadcast on WMINs Down Beat Program. In ad in the June 14, 1969, TV Digest pictures Tac Hammer, Rick Easton, Anthony Gee, Jim Reed, and Don Shore. He truly loves the business. But the advent of WDGY was the quantifiable arrival of the genre that influenced lifestyles, attitudes, fashion, language, and of course, radio formats for generations to come. The action was finally granted on July 19, 1961. Bad news from Wikipedia: Despite receiving positive reviews in some mainstream publishings, Purple Haze was a flop. 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!!. During the next two years, U100 quickly became the most talked-about and Number one rated radio station in town. I remember recording Rock Around the Clock from a WMIN broadcast on my Wilcox- Gay recorder. Back row: Randi Kirshbaum (KQ), John Fineberg and Richard E. Nelson (who was KQs production studio wizard). 1945. KRSIs owner, Park Broadcasting, which owned 18 radio and TV stations in 11 cities, asked Drake-Chenault Enterprises of Los Angeles to install one of its systems. The following Monday, 980 AM (WYOO-AM) came back on the air as WAYL. Following this change, the WDGY call letters were ironically adopted by KDWB for the 630 kHz frequency. Think of all the bad karma we collected every time we played Puppy Love by Donny Osmond. ARSA: ABOUT: SURVEYS: STATIONS: WDGY 1130 AM. The original call sign for the station's construction permit was WAOZ, but the station was never on the air with those call letters. Luxurious digs, no? says Curt. Supposedly, a gentleman that lived within the main lobe of the pattern had decided to wind copper around his attic and, with an appropriate capacitor, made a tuned circuit at 1130 which allowed him to power his florescent lights. The station's studios and offices are in Lakeland, Minnesota, while its transmitter is off Commerce Drive near Interstate 94 in Hudson. When even a little pimple of a disaster like this strikes, people rise to the occasion. 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. By that time Elvis had hit it big with Heartbreak Hotel and Hound Dog a cover of a black record followed. 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. WDGY "The Original Rock and Roll Station" The Original Rock and Roll Station--Shows. This is a shottaken at the St. Paul Winter Carnival. An underlying cause was said to be the overall condition of the Selby-Dale area. Efforts to find out who was playing that night were fruitless. No doubt the Random Ranch show was similar. Contributed by John Pratt 12-6-07. It was Storzs fourth station. In 1956 or 57 Zingale went to New York as an account executive and, with two others, bought a White Plains radio station. (Minneapolis Star, March 17, 1978). You can see the full shot of the turntables with their massive tone arms. The station pushed the technological limits of the day and provided a lot of interesting exercises for WDGY engineers, but Dr. Young never got into regular broadcasts. Ed Skotch gave up the ghost on December 1, 1964, when he voluntarily assigned his license to Universal Broadcasting Co. of Minneapolis-St. Paul, Inc. As usual, Will Jones spells it out for us in his column of December 10, 1964. An October 1949 ad in the Trib called it The Northwest Empire Station and morning shows featured Irene and Lou, hillbilly favorites; Sschunemans Red Rooster Hour; and Johnny Aarthun, popular singer of old-country songs. Interestingly enough, in my KUXL file I found an article from the Minneapolis Spokesman, the black communitys weekly newspaper, dated December 26, 1958. 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. According to PD Chuck Roberts, the new format is closer to AOR than Top 40 radio. They continued to run the spots. Shows like Record Reville, Melody Mart, Platter Previews, The TNT Club, and mid-1955s Hot Corner dont give us much to go on as to their format. The license for that station expired in 1938, partly because mechanical television development was heavily discouraged by that point. So they had to have an engineer on duty at the KRSI transmitter to change the store announcements that interrupted the music. 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. Stuart A. Lindman with photos of Steve Cannon, Merle Hub Cap Edwards, and Bill Diehl, 1949. Tom G. Morris was promoted to station manager and Robert E. Bowdan was named sales supervisor. At night, WDGY was very strong, but could never be received clearly. The text is rather small; it reads: Today WWTC Radio trades violins for violence. It was also described as 90 percent dance music in a TV interview on YouTube. Not sure where the photo above came from. Harry Zimmerman was playing the Sweetest Music in Town., Something happened on January 14, 1957, but the ads werent clear. Charlie Smith and Preacher Paul Sunday swing thing. Theserecordings are not intended to by used by others for commercial purposes. 1 Pick Revealed: Report Feb 27, 2023. But, neither was it going to be a full-time jazz station as some had hoped. (Only eight stations in Minneapolis-St. Paul. An article in the Star said the show included skits, blackouts, parodies on talk and telephone shows, and interviews. Although the show was an hour long, KQ began by airing a half-hour version at 10 pm on Sundays. WDGY/Minneapolis has modified its Top 40 format to an AOR-slanted approach. 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. Fire trucks are on the scene and well up-date you as additional details come in.. Another view of the Holiday Motor Hotel, Golden Valley, Jack Hyatt and Hugh Cardenas selecting records at the new studio in Golden Valley. Wonder what E.I.I. July 12, 1964, brought the advent of Arthur Hoehn, who would become Fat Daddy Washington as the station became more black oriented. I was still in high school when this photo was taken. Formula 63 box, courtesy Sam Sherwood. An historical archive of surveys and nostalgia from radio station WDGY 1130 AM, Minneapolis / St. Paul. More recently, KFAN experienced severe storm damage in April 2004 at their transmission site, with four out of nine antennas at their directional array in Credit River Township (near Prior Lake, Minnesota) getting blown down. I stopped and visited him one morning, and he lowered a Bob Dylan album for me. Click on a station below for history, photos, etc. Garcia was so good that Colonel Parker pulled him off early so he wouldnt upstage Presley. Inside of Formula 63 package, courtesy Sam Sherwood. The Broadcasting Yearbook for 1983 indicates that the format was country. Our playlist stores a WDGY track list for the past 7 days. 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! I was a young kid when I first listened to WDGY and KDWB. 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 can be heard around the clock on two FM translator stations: 92.1 W221BS from St. Paul and 103.7 W279DD from Hudson. 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. The studio, transmitter, and a 3-tower directional antenna array were located off Military Road in Woodbury (just east of Newport). Without their help, the site would have many less pages of radio history. [This was what Ed Skotch wanted to be The Nations Most Attention-Programmed Station, remember?] Here is a newspaper ad from Sam Sabean of the WCOW jocks from 1955. 2 Baths. In May 2006 the recordings started to beconverted to MP3 andsharedhere. Killed were the pilot, Thomas B. Leivermann, his daughter and son, and his sons girlfriend. Preacher Paul is no preacher. In April 1929 the frequency apparently became 1180. WWTC Stationery from 1979 (scoped!). $1,175,000 Last Sold Price. http://www.twincitiesradioairchecks.com/ (Rick Burnett). The music played was from Kammans own encyclopedic library of records, domestic and foreign. The names of the programs may give an indication of what the station was like, apparently dispensing a lot of wisdom and advice. The whole tower and Reeds escape rope would have burned had the wood had a chance to get a good start. Reed slept through the whole thing. And then, nothing. And he noted that it was difficult to even find R&B records in town. James Brown and His Revue appeared at the Minneapolis Auditorium on April 25, 1967. Im guessing that KAAYs Beaker Street was influential here. Thanks again for the responseand thanks for the great website! In 1966, he went to work for the then-popular station WDGY, which was 1130 on the AM dial, and. Legendary Call Letters and an incredible heritage. 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. On August 28, 1981, the station was purchased by Soho Broadcasting, Stanley Soho, President. And, as we all know, anything that is natures own is good for what ails you. (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. Joe came from Cleveland, Ohio, and was a time salesman for WCOW and he just got this wild idea about playing that music. But then on May 2, 1988, new life came to our little station in the form of KMAP. 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. 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. The new owners immediately requested permission from the FCC to change the call letters back to WMIN. We do know that the station was playing rock n roll from the WMIN Top 40 dated August 4, 1958. Below is a photo of at least part of the family and shows how close the staffs of the two competitors were. By 1977, FM radio had arrived big-time in MSP. On April 13, 1968, Billboard reported that Ray Moss had gone to California for a job with XERB, but returned quickly and with a new name: Daddy Soul. The Insider reported that Moss became the new music director in April 1968, and was on-air from 3 to 7, Monday through Friday. In 1954 and 55 Bob Bradley and Jerry Cunning played R&B tunes. . King, right? KANO was started in 1956 by Jack Lemme, who owned a radio station in Little Falls. It was automated country with a Schaffer pegboard sequencing unit when I was given the duty of being the stations Program Director in early 1975 added to my duties of being production coordinator for the short-lived Viking State News Network. Im sorry the ad below is so hard to read. The gun-toting news director? ..This is the true story of the birth of U100. The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. The story from Wikipedia: (Punctuation fixed by me). (Phones at fire departments all across the vast Twin Cities area rang causing a ton of confusion as to just exactly where there was a fire.) A Billboard Magazine from July 9, 1966 shows that it was a 250-watt independent station operating 15 hours/day. The building itself was very dark. So what if a top forty am radio station in Minneapolis/St. Dr. Young died in 1945 and the station was transferred to the Twin City Broadcasting Corporation 1946. They used KUOM AM instead of WLOL AM because they did not want to scare away their AM Top 40 listeners by playing even only one hour of the FMs classical music. The memory music format was enlarged, a jingle by Herb Pilhofer was created, and talk shows were produced. They are posted here for historical examples of top 40 radio from one of the originators, Storz. The old tower was removed and a new tower erected. The music was tailored to a more mature (18-25) audience, such as Pablo Cruise. Dick Driscoll at WWTC in 1980, courtesy Jeff Lonto. This venerable station was around for a long time, and occasionally tried on new names, including: This page, like this website, sticks to pre-1975, and tries to focus on popular music. A few days later, WPBC-FM became WRAH and programmed an automated album oriented rock format. Schedules and staff were changing that winter of 1965, with Preacher Paul slipping into semi-retirement, working only Saturdays from 1 to 5:30, remotely from the Ebony Lounge. The rest is exhausting please see Wikipedia for further/better history! Once in there, though, it was kind of cozy. You will enjoy tuning up to the quality sound of sound radio programming on KUXL. I found no other advertising in the Minneapolis papers, but the St. Paul papers are not online. The station was located at 8th and Wabasha in South St. Paul, conveniently adjacent to the stockyards. A media phenomenon, Coast to Coast AM deals with UFO's, strange occurrences, life after death, and other unexplained (and often inexplicable) phenomena. It is imperative that this unit be installed as soon as possible when received.. Unfortunately, this shot suffers from poor exposure. U100 signed off for the last time at midnight on Wednesday September 15, 1976. Contests and Promotions. The new owner of KUXL, Universal Broadcasting, had its headquarters in Shreveport, Louisiana. 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 call letters were changed back to WMIN later that year. Everyone seemed to be just milling about. Over the next few days, the cleaning and repairing continued. It has been my opinion that a big lightning storm in July 1989 was an excuse for the station to shut down operation. Stronger, clearer than ever before. 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. And its guaranteed to relieve ennui! It's like the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on the radio 24 hours a day. The year closes out with the Fontane Sisters back with Seventeen, a pretty good song if done by Boyd Bennett and His Rockets, a rockabilly band. Its unclear when KSTP started playing rock n roll. As for our own radio stations, there were about nine to choose from the mighty WCCO (which had nothing remotely like rock n roll) and those listed below. This billboard at 9th and Hennepin tells us that WTCNs radio and TV studios were at Radio City. 1951 Photo courtesy Minnesota Historical Society. In 1962 WDGY broadcast the Vikings games. 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. 2 Beds. That beam was so strong that the GROUNDWAVE signal made it at night in addition to the skywave signal. The Tams made an appearance on Sunday, August 23, 1964. CLICK ON IMAGES TO ENLARGE, WDGY Donald K. Martin contributed this undated from the late 60's - early 70's. A search through the Broadcast Yearbooks and the Star Tribune turn up no evidence that the FCC ever raised the stations hours or wattage, so KMAP was apparently operating beyond the parameters of its license. Some not so happily as others, he admits. They shied away from the likes of Elvis Presley and most early rock and roll music, which they described as junky music with morally degrading lyrics. Their philosophy extended to commercials as well, to the point that they rejected advertising from beer and tobacco companies. The station derives a portion of its programming from Scott Shannon 's The True Oldies Channel from ABC Radio. When constructed, a Bloomington transmitter location made sense as there was little development to the south at the time. He had a student pilots license and certainly shouldnt have been flying alone, in the night, in a storm, with passengers. One day the station was just there, offering gimmicky, women-slanted programs, not attracting much attention. Rhythm [in 1955] and played the real soul of rhythm and blues. WDGY moved from 1130 to 630 AM and became sports station KFAN. The State put it up for sale, and three cheeky guys, Roger Wilson, William Woods, and Dave Herman, put in a bid for $200. Call them, not me. The station was fined $10,000 in March 1961 for exceeding its authorized power in nighttime operations. Cream City purchased the station from Franklin Broadcasting of New York. After becoming VP and General Manager, I made sales calls in all the major markets and it never failed.Sam Sherwood?!!! Authorization is only required to store your personal settings. 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. Don and I had both been part of the KTSA deejay team in San Antonio a couple of years earlier. WDGY Jocks teamed up with professionals Ed Kalafat, Bobby Cox, Jim Springer, and Corky Devlin, possibly former Minneapolis Lakers. 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. The Twin Cities has many FM and AM radio stations. He made a ton of money, eventually owning part of the Cleveland Nets World Tennis Team, Cleveland Indians, and Cleveland Cavaliers basketball team. 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. Only the snakes know for sure. Also appearing were the Amazers. Wikipedia says that the station went through jazz, and all news formats. The Insider reported that Evan Curfew was playing a Solid Gold Oldies All Request show on Saturdays from 1 5 (am or pm?) In early 1976, Fairchild Industries decided to put both stations on the market. SOLD JUN 14, 2022. Labor Temple, third floor. While a lot of money has gone down the drain, it looks like it has been well spent since the station is gaining solid acclaim in the Twin Cities, and some of the money should start to come back in over a period of the next few years., One fun item is from a Storz Stations Engineering Newsletter dated November 20, 1956. WDGY-AM Hal Raymond 7/9/63 KDWB-AM 630 St. Paul (Woodbury) The Record Rodeo show featured western, folk, and other typical American music on Saturday afternoon. When the oldies format of WYOO started to slide in the ratings, more MOR music was added, but ratings slid even further. Without their help, the site would have many less pages of radio history. Call or Text The Studio Line (651) 564-9349 Trusted Partners We Play The Hits! This is borne out by the number of Grand Ole Opry touring shows that came through in those days. Swinging through the Heights area the freeway ended and became Highway 12. Kamman left for New York in 1950. On this tape you will catch Johnny in the middle of a WeeGee Triple Power Play at the home of the "Twin Cities Most Music." Fairchild subsequently dismissed the entire staff and overhauled both stations. Ramsburg says, Let me put it this way it was all show-biz. Although authorized for only 500 watts from midnight to 4am, it had been broadcasting at full 5,000 watt strength since Crowell-Collier Broadcasting bought the station in late 1959. Photo courtesy St. Paul Police Historical Society. Meanwhile, here are some of the dances the station sponsored. Look Younger is on twice. 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. 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. This address doesnt exist as Highway 55 was expanded. 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. Follow the link to read the story of this long-running radio show. 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 broadcast license was cancelled by the FCC in February 1991. 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! On January 15, 1969, Minnesota Human Rights Commissioner Frank C. Kent announced that Ray Moss, who had charged KUXL with discriminatory practice in employment when it discharged him, had been been restored to his position. 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. I suppose at full speed, in December, the ride to Peoria would take 18 hours. Funny thing, it turned out that Bob Reed didnt have a pilots license. Interestingly, he was listed as age 29, she 24. Metropolitan Radio. . The street address was 6541 Military Road. Thus incited, the crowd began yelling invectives at the police and throwing furniture at them. The recordings of the contributors to this web site who recorded them off the air may show up on other sites. The concerts were advertised in the Minneapolis Spokesman, the citys African-American newspaper, but rarely in the mainstream dailies. I had hired Don French to be the KDWB PD. Ironically, WCOW eventually morphed into rock n roll station KDWB in 1959. 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. Police said they did not use tear gas to break up the crowd. Or so reported the Minneapolis Tribune, the day after that. (Minneapolis Tribune, January 16, 1969). Yeah, but I hated newspaper advertising. We had been wounded, but we werent dead. In 1974 the Wolfman was into many projects, including a weekly syndicated show that was broadcast here on KDWB. other options 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. On October 3, 1963, Forrest Powers reported in the Star that, Well soon be the happiest group of radio listeners in the country. You think that WDGY wasnt figuratively licking its chops? Paul) Radio Stations, Some Recorded Off The Air by Rick Burnett and Many Others Recorded or Provided by Other Contributors to This Site (see footnote at bottom). In late 1935 a new non-directional 226 Truscan Steel Vertical Radiator (tower) was erected at the site. I took this from a flight I took in 1977. On the same day, Forrest Powers, TV and Radio reporter for the Minneapolis Star, indicated that the station would start broadcasting that weekend. It was sold to Park Broadcasting [Roy H. Park]. With a couple of partners he bought a radio station in Cincinnati and turned it around, selling it at a profit. 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. Almost everybody in the country who had anything at all ailing them, bought into the pitch. The schedule on December 30, 1971, shows Rhythm & Blues programming from 1pm until dark and 6 am until 6:45 am. A Hammond RK4 reverberation unit has been ordered The echo unit will be .. controlled by push buttons installed at the news table and console. Top O The Radio Dial. The station was nicknamed "WeeGee," the phonetic pronunciation of the call sign, and its format was near the top of the ratings for several years. John Fineberg was at both stations during those years and described a KQRSI (KQRS and KRSI) family. There were a few periods of time when the studios were remotely located in (glassed-in) studios across from the 1st floor elevators of Metro Square shopping mall in downtown St. Paul. ! Sam also remembered that the President of station owner Crowell-Collier was pretty mad, and annoyed when the guys on the golf course started calling him Cookie, but when he got to become a celebrity as the story went national, everyone job was safe. The 9-tower array beaming 50,000 watts was used to produce one of the most restrictive signals in the USA. Roof rebuilt. 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