Some notes about this copy. Photo by Greg Helgeson, Minnesota Music magazine, Bumper sticker @ 1980 1984. Once there, scroll down. So., Minneapolis, 5, MN. Thanks to all contributors. Jimmy also tries to give away WDGY Fortune Phone Cash to the Williams family. Police said the wood snow fence frame beneath the paper had ignited at several points.. The call letters of KUXL changed to KYCR on May 19, 1988. Unlike in 2017, C-QUAM AM stereo did not return. Listen to our News/Talk 1130 WISN podcasts here! 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. 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. Found on Radiotapes.com: Ballad of Minnesota!. When the oldies format of WYOO started to slide in the ratings, more MOR music was added, but ratings slid even further. 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. WDGY Jocks teamed up with professionals Ed Kalafat, Bobby Cox, Jim Springer, and Corky Devlin, possibly former Minneapolis Lakers. Stand with Ukraine. If you look carefully, you can see the old WDGY transmitter through the studio glass. The September 22, 1958 survey advertised Down Beat, the Longest radio show in the Twin Cities. It was also the Twin Cities ONLY station with Future-Phonic Sound. The disk jockeys were Ralf Smith, Jere Smith, Dan Allan, Jack Douglas, and Lou House. Its unclear when KSTP started playing rock n roll. It was the same night Count Basie was at the Prom, and a conflict was feared, but Will Jones reported that Mr. Diddley drew 1,500 sweating youngsters, and the Count drew 1,350 oldsters. (Minneapolis Tribune, August 21, 1964), Minneapolis Star, Saturday, August 15, 1964. Tom Wynn at his current job at KFGO in Fargo ND. 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. Glory of Love by the Four Knights. Trongard, not Trangard. Jack Reynolds became General Manager in April 1971. November 1966s In-Beat magazine included an interview with the stations new DJ and Program Manager, Ray Moss. Listeners remember taping the show and playing it the next day for friends. On other pages of this site I also have some airchecks (in addition to tape from my personal collection)I obtained directly from others. You can hear some of Herbs patter from September 7, 1956, on Tom Gavarass RadioTapes Web site: radiotapes.com/WDGY.html. SOLD JUN 14, 2022. ' (April 13, 1965). Photo from Judy Dibble via Rick Burnetts Twin Cities Radio Airchecks. The shooter was never identified. Hubbards Hundred Days was the headline in late 1973.. Format was Urban and they were targeting inner city Minneapolis. . It was taken with one of those Mid-1960's Polaroid cameras. 1130 kHz (also on HD Radio) 106.1 WLHS-FM-HD4. WDGY was different pre-Beatles. We asked them what WPBC should be playing and it was almost unanimous that we should play the Top 40, rock and roll I remember that the No. (Guess who said that?) I took this from a flight I took in 1977. On December 1, 1964, KEVE was changed to KQRS Quality Radio Station, still playing classical music. Install the free Online Radio Box application for your smartphone and listen to your favorite radio stations online - wherever you are! He's So Fine - Chiffons 9 5. This is getting to be kind of a bandwagon, and a worthwhile one, even if it does come as a result of the desperate try-anything state of things in todays radio business. The station began as WMIN in the summer of 1936, when St. Paul furniture retailer Edward Hoffman began broadcasting at 1370kHz. Courtesy Jeff Lonto. Click on a station below for history, photos, etc. This a recnet PR photo. 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! That night God must have liked bubble gum music because his gentle hand protected that flight. Shapira wrote about how difficult it was to sustain a jazz show in Minneapolis, and how Johnson, first hired early in 1971 to do the news, wanted to give it a try. On August 26, 1974, live at the Minnesota State Fair, the oldies format became boogie, with KDWB alumnus Rob Sherwood heading up a wild and crazy format as U100. Ill tell it right when I find it again. Bob Short bought the station from Buckley Broadcasting in early (in or before March) 1978. But the Country format was gaining acceptance among older baby-boomers and melding that growth with WDGYs big 50,000-watt signal gave new purpose to the station and validation to a growing, willing audience that perhaps Country musics time was coming. In February 2017, WDGY added another FM translator, W221BS 92.1, broadcasting from an antenna atop Wells Fargo Place in Downtown St. 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. Thus incited, the crowd began yelling invectives at the police and throwing furniture at them. The Stewarts took a rather conservative approach in programming the station. The brochure inside the box was a ticket to a huge rock n roll show that would kick off the station. And the response has been so good that the weekday evening jazz time may be extended. Optometrist George W. Young started radio station KMFT in 1923; his first broadcast was on January 13, 1924 from his house at 2219 N. Bryant. The number 1 song that week was When by the Kalin Twins; Elvis had two songs, Ricky Nelson, Bobby Darin, and Duane Eddy were represented as well. The new U100 quickly became the topic of conversation throughout the area with its rowdy, outrageous mix of Top 40 and hard rock. We are a resilient species arent we? Secret Stash, Volume 1, Issue 1 (September 25, 2012), says that Kosofsky was the Chairman of Universal Broadcasting, and that his brother-in-law, Howard Warshaw, was the President. 980 AM was originally staid WPBC from 1949 to 1972. 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. In fact, all were in their 20s. No audio, but the wires would vibrate in time to the modulation. The station had a conglomeration of programs, ranging from waltzes, classical, show tunes, Tin Pan Alley, Hawaiian, religious, cowboy, and novelty. The format on the 500 watt station was folksy to the point where it may have out-folksied WCCO. The best of what youre about to give up on WWTC is what we play all the time on KEEY. The gun-toting news director? There is a promo for WDGY's Easter Bunny contest, where you can win a McDonald's Easter Bunny. Well, at least with the progressive announcers on KRSI. Even the disk jockeys werent let in on it until that morning. Following Young's death in 1945, his estate sold the station. And they would play some jazz, depending on which of the announcers was on or what day of the week or what time of the day it was, youd turn the radio on and hear something different.. When Hagman moved to WDGY, he brought the Top Forty concept with him, as well as the Mutual Broadcasting System, which aired programs like Queen for a Day and Sergeant Preston of the Yukon. A schedule from April 1955 shows Eddie Cantor and a lot of Springtime Serenade, but also shows just identified by the DJ (Bill Rudd and Irv Smith put in a lot of time.). 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. The station put on its salesmen, some, like Stan Mack, were former jocks. Jim du Bois (Right), President and CEO of the Minnesota Broadcastors Association at a May 4th 2007 breakfast meeting with me (Rick Burnett). In May 2006 the recordings started to beconverted to MP3 andsharedhere. WDGY/1130 AM . As you commented in Scott's Guest bookthey don't seem to do radio like that anymore. He recently celebrated 25 years at KFGO. At the time it was programming Classical music. WDGY 40 STAR SURVEY Week *Ending* May 7, 1966 1. Part of the plan was to tape all of the features for syndication and he figured there were 200 stations that could make good use of the material. The show was emceed by KUXLs Jack Harris and Billy G. Little Miltons hits were listed in an ad in the Insider as Were Going to Make It, Blind Man, and More and More.. The daytimer station was authorized for 1,000 watts. We have no airchecks, but ratings books from 1953 to 1955 do give us the names of programs that give hints as to what they were playing: KEYD was primarily a country station, with shows by Slim Jim and the Vagabond Kid and programs called Record Rodeo and Random Ranch. Stephen B. Labunski was made General Manager. Sometime between March 1976 and January/February 1979, the station flipped to Disco. 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 Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. Let us assume that the mighty CCO did not dabble in such vulgar music and focus on the others. And then he said that B.B. And as soon as he got that he would file for full-time operation and still more power. She was awarded a free turkey along with the very important can of cranberry sauce. Seriously, who thought progressive rock on AM was a good idea? Contributed by John Pratt 12-6-07. The station's studios and offices are in Lakeland, Minnesota, while its transmitter is off Commerce Drive near Interstate 94 in Hudson. Leigh Kamman left to join KEVE, which became KQRS. KDWBs listeners were gradually migrating to the FM signal. (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. Solomon Burke performed on May 28, 1965. In 1956 the station was sold to the Crowell-Collier publishing firm. I know nothing about Billy G! The Strib is online now! The following account was taken from Rob Sherwoods blog: I was listening to WLOL, a smallish AMer that at that time was doing Talk Radio. I was still in high school when this photo was taken. Out of reflex, I punched the 63 button and silence. 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. in the Minneapolis northwest terminal district practically from scratch, and most of the personnel acted as stockholders, officers of the corporation, and on-air talent. Don Martin_________________________________________Thanks Don for letting me share on the site. The station will feature top cuts from current albums along with a selection of singles, with no jingle package and segued sets. Seriously, who thought progressive rock on AM was a good idea? Interestingly enough, in my KUXL file I found an article from the Minneapolis Spokesman, the black communitys weekly newspaper, dated December 26, 1958. The actual graphics and billboards were created by Sid Rich and his advertising agency at the time in 1974. Disc Jockey Fat Daddy (a/k/a Jimmy Smith) cited statistics that out of 32,000 blacks in the potential audience, between 10,000 and 15,000 listened to the station. You can see another photo of Tom Wynn and his on air partner by clicking the following web address: http://www.kfgo.com/pages/tomanddankfgo.html. And this scene was a night scene. A 1972 article in the Echo opined that KDWB played new songs that were just released, while WDGY only played nationally-established music. In November 1957 Jerry Cunning did Night Watch, Twin Cities first all-night record party Top 40 and then some from 11 pm to 6 am. From the early 1940s to the early 70s the brothers owned and operated 11 radio stations throughout the Upper Midwest. Once in there, though, it was kind of cozy. We did it. Dateline Minneapolis, March 13, 1966. Most of them were from me. 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. $1,175,000 Last Sold Price. It broadcasts a conservative talk radio format to the Twin Cities radio market and is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. I didnt exit at McKnight drive. The Insider reported that Evan Curfew was playing a Solid Gold Oldies All Request show on Saturdays from 1 5 (am or pm?) Jim Ramsburg says that in 1956 we pulled our own music from the big record library with no rules or restrictions. Lets hope this is sort of right. The other stations had an unwritten agreement not to play race music because they assumed the Twin Cities audience would be outraged. 11:00 AM-2:00 PM. Paul Franklyn at 6 am, Jim Eckert at 9, Mort Garren at 11, Jim Eckert again at 1 pm, and Leigh Kamman at 4. 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. [1] Contents I asked a black friend of mine how her father heard his music in the 40s and 50s, and he said that Pullman porter friends of his would bring them in on the train from Chicago. This heat siphoned off through ductwork that eventually combined with ductwork from the furnace and heating system. MONDAY, MONDAY - Mama's & Papa's. Tonight's Top 20 as heard on WeeGee Wayback Wonders! An ad from October 1976 describes the playlist as Folk, Jazz, Blues, Totally Album-Oriented The Fine Rock Station. DJs could play anything they liked and anything that pleased the stations audience. Jeff Lonto: KDAN was depicted as an FM underground rock station, the complete opposite of what it actually was. They claimed to be running 5,000 watts. On the banner below is an outline of Downtown (St. Scads of airchecks and music surveys are posted at, http://twincitiesradioairchecks.com/kdwb630tapes.html. The decision of the police to bar the door and throw teargas into the hall was roundly criticized. Newspapers? CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE, WDGY Hit Car Photo Contributor, Wild Wilson. Super U100, the Twin Cities powerhouse was the original catch phrase, used on-air and in promotion and advertising beginning on August 26, 1974. WDGY 1130 Tapes This Site Primarily Contains a Collection of Airchecks of Numerous Twin Cities (Minneapolis/St. 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. This billboard at 9th and Hennepin tells us that WTCNs radio and TV studios were at Radio City. He tried to use the phones, but the wires all came into the building through the furnace room and they were already toast. I was prensent at the studio when Jimmy and Tac coordinated play of the same record at the same time on both stations. The purpose of this site is to provide radio history and intendedfor purposes of archival preservation and research.Windows Media Player works well to play these MP3 files, and depending on your internet settings, will start streaming the file once the link is clicked, Some files are large and may take time to open. Subscribe Now To Listen Your Favorite Songs On Demand! The call letters were changed to WWTC on October 2, 1964, after the station was sold to Buckley-Jaeger Broadcasting. He didnt plan to start his new programming until he got a power increase from 500kw to 1,000kw. We chatted and laughed on the air for about 15 minutes, talking about his devilish upbringing, singing at the Grand Ole Opry, the weekend shows at the Flame and played his latest recording. I suppose at full speed, in December, the ride to Peoria would take 18 hours. Paul airchecks dating back to 1924 including WDGY and other Twin Cities radio stations, Oldiesloon.com, featuring information about former Twin Cities Top 40 stations, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=WDGY&oldid=1134539013, This page was last edited on 19 January 2023, at 05:18. 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. The material was from the then-unpublished autobiography that appeared as Okay, Okay, I Wrote the Book in 2012. The St. Paul Urban League and the St. Paul Human Rights Department also launched their own investigations. 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. For his own protection, his real identity was kept secret. 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. James Brown and His Revue appeared at the Minneapolis Auditorium on April 25, 1967. There were a bunch of people but no real activity. 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. WDGY at one time carried "The True Oldies Channel" programmed by New York City DJ Scott Shannon. Don at WDGY newsroom mic. Despite the stations weak signal, the show received over 1,500 letters in four months. MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA Format: T40. And it was Snyder Drug Stores. I do enjoy it! Other early DGY personalities were Bill Armstrong, Jack Thayer, Bill Bennett, Don Loughnane, and Stanley Mack. And, I can confirm that the man was everything his name implied: he was Little (411 tall), Jimmy (for James Cecil), and he admittedly was full of the Dickens. But thats another story. In the summer of 1973 KSTP entered the top-40 competition with rapid-fire disk jockeys playing records in uninterrupted clusters. For his Masters Thesis on the history of WDGY, Jerry Verne Haines interviewed WDGY announcer Leonard D. Bart on June 15, 1970. It was discovered during an antenna proof, when it was noticed there was a drop in signal strength in the main lobe and it was traced to this guys house. The 9-tower array beaming 50,000 watts was used to produce one of the most restrictive signals in the USA. Wee Gee spins the forgotten hits, the cruisin' classics, the legendary artists. 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