In April 1957 the station was owned by BVM Broadcasting Co. and Victor Tedesco was General Manager, replacing Sam Sabean. In 1959 it had a monthly newspaper called Big K News. SOLD JUN 13, 2022. Forrest Powers published his own interview with Ed Skotch on October 7, 1963, in the Star. After becoming VP and General Manager, I made sales calls in all the major markets and it never failed.Sam Sherwood?!!! Tom has been in radio for 48 years and was at WDGY in the early 60's. Don Martin_________________________________________Thanks Don for letting me share on the site. His shows were variously called Diehl n Music, Diehls Caravan, and Its Your Diehl., Steve Cannon was at WMIN from 1949-54. Perry Como actually sort of rocked with a great tune called Tina . Yeah, but I hated newspaper advertising. You can hear some of Herbs patter from September 7, 1956, on Tom Gavarass RadioTapes Web site: radiotapes.com/WDGY.html. The fire from the furnace traveled to the transmitters and out the intake vents. The glass in the ticket booth was broken in two places, but Ballroom manager Elmer Larson insisted that there was no danger of the crowd getting out of hand and that the booth broke because it was poorly constructed. One person was sought for breach of the peace. I know nothing about Billy G! Courtesy of the museum archives provided by Steve Raymer and Daniel Henry at the. KUXLs broadcast license was voluntarily assigned from Edward D. Skotch to Greater Happiness, Inc. (presumably his company) on October 7, 1963. WeeGee tended to be a little more conservative than KDWB reportedly even their staff wore suits and ties, but that has been disputed. In 1969, WDGY's production room was located in the basement. [In 1961, when the KFWB was having labor trouble, the owner shipped some Minnesota DJs to LA to cover.] Also, a fun fact is that in October 1964, wide-eyed George Murphy (something you cant see on radio) became Dino Day and began hosting A Date With Dino on Channel 9 TV. Ft. 7013 N Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA 90042. Perhaps, this is a temporary station problem. In August 1957 the station claimed to be first with Twin Cities Housewives based on a telephone poll of 388 people. 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. Somewhere theres a story about how a station staffer would drive a dune buggy around town, and the listener who guessed closest to the number of miles driven at the end of the summer won the vehicle. Performers included: These groups were well known in clubs like King Solomons Mines where Soul music was a staple. (Helicopters had to be replaced by limos when things got too dangerous.) Slogan. Lets do bullets: Douglas Rice, Director of 3-man news department, General Manager: Robert W. Smith (Wolfman Jack). It was Tiger Radio. This time he was planning to do the same with KUXL, only without partners, using his life savings. Although he broadcast his morning show from there, there were reports that he went inside the adjacent Young-Quinlan-Rothschild building at night. Johnny Canton is at the top left. Mike Sigelman (General Manager) Rob Sherwood (program director), both hired from KDWB, hired Bill Hartman straight out of WMMR at the University of Minnesota to become a full-time promotion director. Freed: KDAN, being a daytimer, was a perfect station to shoot at because it was off the air from sunset to sunrise, so a film shoot wouldnt interfere with normal operations if the filming was overnight. That November Ty Mack put in some hours, and it was now Autumn Serenade. Kash Box was apparently an advertising gimmick. 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. Commercial from a 1988 Beta recording of the TV movie Leap of Faith on Minneapolis, Minnesota channel 4 WCCO-TV The slogan was 15 KSTPTHE MUSIC STATION., The Insider made note of the change to a rock format, playing a mix of current and older top 40. The creepy monstrosity below, entered by St. Michael Elementary School, was the winner. Jack Hazlett was Station and Sales Manager, and Ralph R. Smith was Program Director. An undated report says KEVE did a remote broadcast from the Flame on Saturday nights from 10:30 to 11:30 pm. How to get it to St. Paul? CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE, WDGY Air Staff 1986. K-COW said, Uh uh! It wasnt long before the radio stations heard about the fact that they were advertising a competing radio station. In September/October 1957 it announced new programming, with more music, more news, more often. By October it was a big-time rock n roll station, at least until that December, with DJs Rog Kent, Don Hawkins and Harry Zimmerman. On WLOL. Top of a Top 40 from August 1956, courtesy of the Pavek Museum of Broadcasting. WDGY, Rock and Roll Oldies Radio, playing the best oldies of the 1960s and 1970s for the Twin Cities! An underlying cause was said to be the overall condition of the Selby-Dale area. The term we are using to describe this particular form of AOR is Coloradio. Our research and general observations indicate that this is the direction of AM Top 40 radio, so we may as well start now.. Peterson gave the example of Hamms and Grain Belt beer highly patronized by the black community, but refused to buy time on the station. Unfortunately, this shot suffers from poor exposure. Thanks to all contributors. The new schedule kept the morning religious shows, which did have sponsors and paid the bills. in February 1968. decade KDWB-FM was picked up by Chancellor Media. They conducted a Music Poll via a coupon in the papers where people could indicate their music preferences and help the station select what it would play on the air. That spring the station presented Saints baseball with Ray Christensen. And then he said that B.B. WPBC: No, thats not a mistake. Photo courtesy Pavek Museum of Broadcasting. Will Jones tells us that security was so tight that the 120,000 packages were stuffed at the Society for the Blind. The Colonel became famous and very rich. The recordings of the contributors to this web site who recorded them off the air may show up on other sites. They look really young. KDWB had a prime spot at the State Fair in 1973, one of the great Teen Fair years. WDGY (740 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Hudson, Wisconsin, and serving the Minneapolis-St. Paul radio market. See Pavek Museum RadioHall of Fame inductee Dale Weber, one time WDGY General Manager,at the Pavek site: http://www.pavekmuseum.org/weber.htm (The 9/30/71 Dayton aircheckisfrom the A. Mintz Collection - The March 1973 tape was recorded off the air by Rick Burnett). 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. The Original Rock and Roll Station Contact Us By 1972/1973, KRSI and KQRS had almost identical Progressive Rock shows. As an example when your unpredictable Carson Rennie of 6-10 spins a yarn about Aunt Julias first trip to the Twin Cities. Minneapolis Star, Thursday, August 20, 1964. The Wolfman died on July 1, 1995. 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. Meanwhile the station was being sold, and they moved over to KQRS (which was then KEVE) to continue playing jazz after dark fell and KUXL was off the air. Today, the station is KTLK, News/Talk 1130, and uses a transmitter site in Credit River Township. On November 30, 1969, fire spread through the KDWB studio, destroying two transmitters and shutting it down for two days. Save peace in the world. Despite the stations weak signal, the show received over 1,500 letters in four months. 11/22/1973 Some notes about this copy. For more on Progressive/Underground Rock, see KRSI. Jimmy Reed let me sit in his chair, but did not let me go on the air. Suddenly it was true, 63 thats easy to remember. I worked with Jim when he was at KTCR-FM. The request line was started in February 1968, with oldies and not just the same old ones being their mainstay. KUXL and Preacher Paul Anthony are the sponsors. 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. The contributed recordings fromfriends and contributors of both airchecks and other material are greatly appreciated. That November Ty Mack put in some hours, and it was now Autumn Serenade. Kash Box was apparently an advertising gimmick. Not all of the airchecks on this site were in my original personal collection. It was started through his Minneapolis Brokers Association, which bought the two-hour Sunday time slot from KUXL after Adams and his associates sold enough advertising. I was prensent at the studio when Jimmy and Tac coordinated play of the same record at the same time on both stations. 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. The ad below from the October 12, 1963, TV Forecast promises 72 daily features. Now Im back to tell you about a product, guaranteed to cure an even bigger problem. Personnel listed were: The stations format was described in the Yearbook as Urban Contemporary. The roof hadnt collapsed, but the rafters were charred black. Oops! 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. 1951 Photo courtesy Minnesota Historical Society. At the time it was programming Classical music. I remember that the No. WCOW was a precursor to KDWB, so it must have been another station. Though our names are nearly identical, we were two different people. WDGY at one time carried "The True Oldies Channel" programmed by New York City DJ Scott Shannon. They claimed to be running 5,000 watts. On the banner below is an outline of Downtown (St. It is imperative that this unit be installed as soon as possible when received.. Its MODERN but MILD! Ramsburg says, Let me put it this way it was all show-biz. Larry Bentson, President. And it is impossible to do a newspaper search on Bob Smith. He did continue to make Wolfman tapes in the Golden Valley studio and ship them to Mexico. See Top 30 and Top 40 countdowns from 1966 on Robb Henrys blog. Coast to Coast AM is overnight talk radio with daytime ratings. Its billed as the Ike and Tina Turner Revue, complete with nine-piece band, singers Bobby John and Jimmy Thomas and a girl trio called the Ikettes. Once outside the missiles became rocks. In November 1963 the Program Director was Jerry Cunning and the General Manager was Robert J. ..This is the true story of the birth of U100. WDGY "The Original Rock and Roll Station" Image courtesy Alan Freed. They made a big pot of it at noon, and when it was gone, it was gone, seldom lasting past 5pm. Contests and Promotions. Tweedle Dee, not by LaVern Baker or even Georgia Gibbs, but by someone named Vicky Young. It was fun, and by then, Charlie was on the mornings, and I did the news and the bits. Also my parents listened to WDGY in the mid to late 50's and on the long drive to the lake as well. One day the station was just there, offering gimmicky, women-slanted programs, not attracting much attention. On his first day found in the newspaper, he was on in front of the Polish Hour and the Methodist Church, both 90 minute shifts in the morning. Guaranteed to make life more fun. Jack Reynolds became General Manager in April 1971. Radio Stations in Minneapolis-Saint Paul, MN Radio stations sorted by popularity Twin Cities News Talk KTLK 1130 AM News/Talk KFAN 100.3 FM KFXN-FM 100.3 FM Sports K-LOVE Radio Contemporary Christian K102 KEEY-FM 102.1 FM Country Music 94.9 El Rey WREY 630 FM Regional Mexican CBS Sports Radio Sports AM 1280 The Patriot WWTC 1280 AM News/Talk I had hired Don French to be the KDWB PD. The switch was preceded by a five minute retrospective radio collage of the history of WDGY, and the first song played was John Denvers Thank God Im a Country Boy.. (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. The station kept the name WDGY until 1991. Soon, it was possible to see the lights on the six KDWB towers. Our family cabin was located north of Park Rapids. Dont ask me what that all means. WDGY 1130 AM is an online radio station broadcasts from Scottsdale, Arizona providing vintage music. 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. The music was my kind of music, actuallyother than classical music. The mother of all remotes was when several people from the station took over the Ebony Lounge, which was located in St. Paul over Roadbuddys Barbeque. It made its final move to 1130 AM in 1941 as required by the North American Radio Broadcasting Agreement (NARBA) under which most American, Canadian and Mexican AM radio stations changed frequencies. Yonny Yonson played old time (polkas, waltzes and shoddiches) from 9 am to noon and 3-6 pm. Photos from the Minnesota Historical Society show the Augie Garcia Quintet performing at the River Road Club in Mendota in front of a banner that says they were featured on the Key Room Show on KEYD-AM. The control board, counters, carts, walls, microphone, everything. In late 1935 a new non-directional 226 Truscan Steel Vertical Radiator (tower) was erected at the site. The call letters were changed back to WMIN later that year. Fire trucks are on the scene and well up-date you as additional details come in.. Johnny does a live Tastee Bread "Baked While You Sleep" spot, but the tape run out before he gets to finish. In July the McGuire Sisters were back with a song called Rhythm and Blues Somehow even they heard about it. The facts, as reported in the newspapers and in investigative reports approximate these. On November 7, 1961, Will Jones reported in his entertainment column in the Minneapolis Tribune that the station was still awaiting its approval from the FCC to go on the air. [2] Jimmy was good friends with Tac Hammer, who was working at request radio KRSI at the time and also a former KDWB-AM jock. WLOL FM and KUOM AM cooperated to create the stereophonic sound. 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. It does appear that Kamman was still on the air at 3pm during the month of January 1965. Suddenly the voice of Metropolitan Radio is clear as a bell on the dial. Contributed by John Pratt 12-6-07. 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." . Johnny Canton in the main WDGY Control Room (1970's), WDGY's Donald K. Martin at the newsroom mic. The company engineers actually had to install coils to de-tune the water tower before the license could be approved for 50kw operation. WLOL first went on the air on June 6, 1940. Heres the story from Jim Stokes: KRSI originated Red Owl Stores storecast from their transmitter on what is called subcarrier. You can look it up. 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. Trongard, not Trangard. After the wayward flight to Illinois and a non-stop trek through Wisconsin, the transmitter arrived, tied to a U-Haul trailer pulled by a rental car. Fairchild subsequently dismissed the entire staff and overhauled both stations. Once in there, though, it was kind of cozy. On October 3, 1955, an ad boasted that the station would play more music and had a new record library. Jim Dandy, Perry St. John, Scott Burton, George Young, B. Mason Dean. This site does not charge any fees to listen to the posted recordings. Curtis J Johnson, formerly of WDGY. In March 1958 WLOL hosted the Royal Crown Cola Bandstand at the Marigold Ballroom, with DJs Dan Anderson and Don Dahl, Sunday afternoons from 2 to 5pm. Selby and Avon Streets. 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. He did his own programming, and said he loved his job. A Hammond RK4 reverberation unit has been ordered The echo unit will be .. controlled by push buttons installed at the news table and console. Article on Scott Burton's injury during a WDGY promotional event. 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. But, neither was it going to be a full-time jazz station as some had hoped. The presentation was tight, fast-paced and very up-front. This and other WDGY surveys can be see at the museum along with many other radio artifacts. Glad you got that right, as our listeners just couldnt figure it out. The fact of the matter is that 40 records plus a few extras (or extra commercials) conveniently fit into the three 55 minute periods that made up each afternoons Top 40 Show. He also says that the concept of only playing 40 records was blasphemy in the business. A daily show dedicated to Whoopie John records, Melody Hall with Mort Garren, 11 to 3 pm, Album Parade with Jack Hyatt, 3 to 8 pm, German, Polish, Country, Old-Time: 15 percent, Shows with Don Hawkins, Johnny Morris, and Jimmy Valentine, Shows with Henry J. Taylor, Bill Ingram, and Don Riley, Suburban Editorial, with editors of 12 suburban newspapers editorializing on the air throughout the week, A two-hour show featuring audience calls discussing some controversial or current issue, The all-time, sock, dynamite hits, on 15 reels of tape, 32 or 33 songs to a reel. So many questions. 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. Out on the East Coast listeners heard the original version by the Moonglows. 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. Years later, I learned the reason why. The frequency was originally 1140 kc. band (which had necessitated the Mighty 1130s switch in the first place.) The original WDGY DJs were Herb Oscar Anderson, Jack Thayer, Bill Bennett, Don Loughnane, Ralph Martin, and Len Bart. You will hear Curt share stories on WDGY personalities, including Jim Dandy, Rich Holter, George Young and others. No electricity. 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. In July 1969 the two were doing an underground show. 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. WDGY-AM 1130 Perry St. John All Night Shift 5/12/63 The quality is not great on this recording, but you can still hear everything. The gun-toting news director? They would play pranks like play the identical songs for an hour and see if anyone noticed. Todd Mitchell found this article in the March 18, 1977, issue of Radio and Records, an industry newspaper. In 1962 WDGY broadcast the Vikings games. 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. You will enjoy tuning up to the quality sound of sound radio programming on KUXL. The station will feature top cuts from current albums along with a selection of singles, with no jingle package and segued sets. The manager was Roger D. Wilson, and in an ad for sales people he called the station Katy Radio.. The station's studios and offices are in Lakeland, Minnesota, while its transmitter is off Commerce Drive near Interstate 94 in Hudson. Unfortunately, the American Research Bureau came in at fewer than 1,000 listeners at 3 pm on a week day. 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.]. 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. WDGY/Minneapolis has modified its Top 40 format to an AOR-slanted approach. It discussed an article in the December 3, 1958 issue of Variety, in which Richard J. Miller, president of St. Louis radio station KXLW claimed that: most Negro emphasis radio is a cheap insult to Negroes, a source of self-generated bigotry, religious quackery, charlatanism, and a wallow of ugly, primitive and harmful sounds. Program directors like me used the more exclusive Gavin Report from Bill and Janet Gavin in San Francisco. Johnny is on the rear of the bike. The station again went dark, this time for good, but when? This format gradually morphed into the sports talk format, and the calls were changed to KFAN in 1991. The station played Country music with a heavy emphasis on local North Suburban news and sports. Tom was a grad of Richard Brown's American Istitute of the Air, a predecessor to Brown Institute. They were born in St. Pauls Swede Hollow. After the news, you will hear the Charlie and Don jingle into the music. General Manager was Marlin D. Schlottman, formerly with WLOL. The station had signed off the air at 11 p.m. when I did evenings until I was offered the overnight slot with Musicland as a sponsor. 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. I actually have a WRCR pinback button that says IM A TEN-TEN TUNER WRCR 10-10 ST. PAUL, MINN.'. 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. Somewhere theres a story about how a station staffer would drive a dune buggy around town, and the listener who guessed closest to the number of miles driven at the end of the summer won the vehicle. Screen grabs below courtesy Alan Freed. $755,000 Last Sold Price. They built their studio on Stinson Blvd. Minneapolis has been kind of a combination rat race and three ring circus since the New WDGY started, but the tremendous amount of work being done is paying off in increased ratings and business every month. A policeman knocked down pregnant woman, pulled her hair, and threw her into a wall. Seven ways to listen: FM 92.1, FM 103.7, AM 740, FM 107.1 HD2, Live Stream at WDGYradio.com, Smart Speakers through TuneIn and the WDGY Phone App. Kamman also hosted the Swing Club Program. WDGY (630 kHz AM, "Radio Rey") is a small Spanish-language radio station with studios located on Lake Street in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He didnt plan to start his new programming until he got a power increase from 500kw to 1,000kw. The initial format was apparently Modern Country. A unique look at sports. Right on Super U became a catch phrase on the station and among its fans. Image courtesy Jeff Lonto, Adult Standards, February 1980 to 1982. KQRS was close to adopting the SuperStars format, making them a major player. This was on the grounds of the U.S. Silver Fox Farm, at the very northern border of the Village.The document below is the application to move the transmitter in 1927. Proceeds were to be divided between the Minneapolis and St. Paul Community Chests. All stations will soon be equipped with an echo chamber for ON AIR use. WDGY, - , , OnlineRadioBox.com . The studio, transmitter, and a 3-tower directional antenna array were located off Military Road in Woodbury (just east of Newport). Jackie Wilson was scheduled to perform at the Marigold on January 14, 1966, but didnt arrive until midnight, causing a near-riot at the ballroom when the 1,600 people in the audience became annoyed. Police were called and the City Council discussed the matter. Always "WDGY" 1130 AM!!!! 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