WDGY News Room Shot from DJ Control Room - 1969. Kammans show, called KUXL Jazz Club, began on Monday, June 22, and aired Monday through Friday 4 pm to sundown and at 5 pm on Saturdays following Herb Schoenbaums Jazz Festival.. He stayed until February 1978. SOLD JUN 14, 2022. I do know that Nancy Rosens name is spelled wrong. Hes still sick of The Wayward Wind., As for where the lists came from, Ramsburg explains, Juke box operators depended on Cash Box, which was a few weeks faster with sales figures than Billboard. No lights. On August 13, 1968, KDWB started programming underground music from midnight to 5 am. . My DJ page tells me that Ronn the Rajah of Rhythm & Bluess real name was Ron Samuels the one who married Wonder Woman? WDGY was different pre-Beatles. So they convinced Edwards to do it and he became Merle Hub Cap Edwards. At night, WDGY was very strong, but could never be received clearly. In the July 2, 1967, edition of the TMC Insider, we learn that KDWB went off the air last Friday when a 50-foot tower was blown down and fell on top of the stations studios. Jack Thayer had started his career here, from 1942-1951. The article in the Star Tribune outlined the new program: Drew Durigan: I DID hear them very well in 1988 as KMAP. Will Jones reported that they would alternate with the local R&B group, the Amazers. While some of us labored shoveling and wives and girlfriends scrubbed the residue gunk off everything, KDWB, like a phoenix, was about to arise from the ashes. Merle Edwards was at WMIN from 1949-55 and had shows like Merle Edwards Caravan and Merles Mad House. Bill Diehl tells the story that a car dealer called Slawik Motors wanted to sponsor a show, but it insisted that the DJ call himself Hub Cap. The station approached Diehl, but he thought the idea was ridiculous he was a columnist for the St. Paul Pioneer Press, after all, and had a recognizable name. The company engineers actually had to install coils to de-tune the water tower before the license could be approved for 50kw operation. On April 28, 1977, there was a voluntary relinquishment of positive control of Universal from Kosofsky to Miriam Warshaw, if Im reading this right. From the Yesterhits of Yesterday compilation issued in 1967: In June of 1966, WDGY began programming Much More Music for its listeners in the Twin City Area. A 15-year-old polio victim was smashed, face-first, into the pavement and sent home bleeding. As a courtesy, once we had been exposed, the agency called them apologetically offering to rescind the non-cancelable clause. ARSA: ABOUT: SURVEYS: STATIONS: WDGY 1130 AM. The call letters were changed to WWTC on October 2, 1964, after the station was sold to Buckley-Jaeger Broadcasting. A spokesman for the station said: Were promoting a better brand of music because we believe that most teenagers are getting tired of rock n roll. and the slogan Beat of the Cities., Alan Freed at KMAPs booth at Riverfest, Harriet Island, 1988. Another view of the Holiday Motor Hotel, Golden Valley, Jack Hyatt and Hugh Cardenas selecting records at the new studio in Golden Valley. I was the only one there with a GRTO [General Radiotelephone Operator license]. Radio was going through a fearful period in the face of the TV monster, and Bill Stewart and his co-owner wife, Becky Ann, urgently called their staff together. 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. Storz also ended the affiliation with the Mutual network. JAVASCRIPT IS DISABLED. Jimmy also worked at KDWB-AM and KRSI prior to this gig. VSNN had taken over the station on a management agreement and, in reality, nobody else at VSNN wanted the PD job. It will be historical and contemporary, sweet, hot, lowdown, enlightened Chicago style or very cool. It's the music that stands the test of time. An underlying cause was said to be the overall condition of the Selby-Dale area. The DJ on the air, Ron Block, noticed the pall of smoke in the hallway and left the building. In 1967, winning a Honda might have meant just a motorbike. 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. The fire from the furnace traveled to the transmitters and out the intake vents. They were to buy only where they could get exactly the same guaranteed times on all stations at one time. There were going to be 27 separate short entertainment features every day, ranging from the supernatural to what makes raindrops round. See www.radiotapes.com/WDGY.html for airchecks and much more, including the very entertaining history of the station written by Haines. Its IN but NOT far out!!!! Hed also done some research in music therapy, and planned to play records for what they did for the listener. and Falvey Cross Road [Wayzata Blvd. The first lineup of DJs was Hall Murray, Phil Page, Sam Sherwood, Bob Chasteen, Bob Friend, Randy Cook, and Dick Halvorson John McCrae was the first General Manager, and Sam Sherwood held that position throughout the 60s. Stand with Ukraine. 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. Suddenly the voice of Metropolitan Radio is clear as a bell on the dial. In fact, all were in their 20s. Alan Freed: Al Alonzo still owes many of us our final paychecks. A Hammond RK4 reverberation unit has been ordered The echo unit will be .. controlled by push buttons installed at the news table and console. Todd Storz was an heir to the Storz Beer Co. out of Omaha, Nebraska. Doubleday Broadcasting, owner of KDWB, wasnt actively seeking an FM station at the time but offered to buy 101.3 FM in February 1976 after they were offered a rather generous deal for $750,000 that included WYOO-FM and the building in Eagan that housed both stations. He's So Fine - Chiffons 9 5. Dick Driscoll at WWTC in 1980, courtesy Jeff Lonto. In 1956 the station also participated in the big Contest Craze that hit most of the areas radio stations. Meanwhile, they borrowed a little trailer studio from someone and that was our production room for the next month or so. Todd Mitchell found this article in the March 18, 1977, issue of Radio and Records, an industry newspaper. In the first year they logged over a million calls to the Request Line: 920-9999. The station had a country format at the time and was owned by Benita Soho of Los Angeles, doing business as Newport Broadcasting. Rocking and rolling and repeating over and over.Well advertise on the other stations. 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. Johnny does a live Tastee Bread "Baked While You Sleep" spot, but the tape run out before he gets to finish. Clockwise from Jack are Bill Diehl, Don Kelly, Dan Daniel, Stanley Mack, and Ramsburg. The Star Tribune article also reported that Al Alonzo reported to Newport. One early promotion involved a sticker that said KDWB is Everywhere. $630 would be awarded to the person who placed the sticker in the most unusual place, which turned out to be on the St. Paul Cathedral dome! Today, the station is KTLK, News/Talk 1130, and uses a transmitter site in Credit River Township. Coast to Coast AM Weekend Edition. Airchecks from 1955 57 on www.radiotapes.com seem to indicate that the music was pretty middle-of-the-road, but they did play Hound Dog on September 7, 1956 Its #1! The station was DJ-driven, with a July 2, 1956 ad touting the Fabulous 4+1: Herb Oscar Anderson, Don Loughnane, Jack Thayer, Bill Armstrong, and Bill Bennett. The St. Paul Urban League and the St. Paul Human Rights Department also launched their own investigations. Competition was fierce with five rock radio stations at the time, and compared to U100, WDGY, KDWB and KSTP seemed a bit tame in their original on-air presentation. Sincerely by the McGuire Sisters. The memory music format was enlarged, a jingle by Herb Pilhofer was created, and talk shows were produced. . He came with no radio training at all in fact, he was a bartender but the station executives were impressed with his verbal fluency and vast knowledge of music. WDGY 1130 Minneapolis (Scroll Down For Airchecks), WDGY was owned by Storz Broadcasting and when they started it jukebox format of plying the hits again and again, they gave WCCO a run for the money. 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. Most of them were from me. I hope to get some late 60's clips up on the site soon. They look really young. In July 1956 the station stopped playing all night country & western, with Harry Zimmerman playing an hour of jazz, and hour of show tunes, and two hours of country. 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. In the photo below, the KUXL trailer is in the parking area behind the building. Once in there, though, it was kind of cozy. The music ran a slow speed on gigantic tape reels. In 1949 the station moved its transmitter and studio to a new multi-tower array described as at 102nd and Bloomington Freeway/Lyndale Freeway/35W. Curtis J Johnson, formerly of WDGY. On April 18, 1994, after 36 years, the 630kHz frequency went dark. and went back to Mexico, this time to XERB, a 50,000 watt station in Tijuana. WCOW was renamed WISK in May 1956, and affiliated with the Mutual network, late of WDGY. Coast to Coast AM is overnight talk radio with daytime ratings. They would play pranks like play the identical songs for an hour and see if anyone noticed. What happened makes a big diferencce to those who know and like good radio. Airchecks from 1964 indicate an emphasis on news and prophesy. Old Joe Clark played country music. 63 thats easy to remember. 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. WMIN adopted an all news format in mid-July 1962. As always, they are free. WDGY went through several ownership changes until 1956, when it were purchased by Todd Storz' Storz Broadcasting, an Omaha-based owner of a five-to-seven-station group (the maximum number allowed in those days). But stay tuned. Not all of the airchecks on this site were in my original personal collection. After 64 years of dormancy, an amateur radio group in the area acquired the W9XAT call sign in 2002 with the intention of using it for mechanical and narrow-bandwidth TV experiments. Heres one of the dune buggies. The street address was 6541 Military Road. He now does a morning news/talk show in Fargo. and an occasional Top 10 tune. The owner, Midcontinent Media, sold the property. Ramsburg says, Let me put it this way it was all show-biz. Collins, a transmitter company located in Peoria, Ill., I think, had a 1,000-watt transmitter and a 630 crystal. Glad you got that right, as our listeners just couldnt figure it out. decade KDWB-FM was picked up by Chancellor Media. It was Helm that people petitioned to have on the station more than anything, after trying him out on a trial basis starting in the middle of 1972. Other early DGY personalities were Bill Armstrong, Jack Thayer, Bill Bennett, Don Loughnane, and Stanley Mack. The format of the station is actually kind of ambiguous in this ad from the Minneapolis Daily Herald from September 13, 1962: Hear it Yourself Tune up to 1570 on your radio dial where you are never more than 2 minutes away from the Hi-Fi sound of good music, Associated Press news on the hour and half hour, latest in sports on the quarter hour. 1130 WDGY. When such a strictly-top-40 station as WLOL decides to go in for the classics, it smacks of chaos rather than culture. From the start the station played Memory Music the kind of music everyone likes to hear, according to an article in the St. Louis Park High Echo from June 5, 1958: No long commercials, soap operas, kiddie shows, rock n roll, top 40, or over-enthusiastic disk jockeys This is the radio station that puts the mellow back into music. The owner and president was William E. Schons, and the program director was Marvin Schulz. Heres a group shot of the Country WDGY airstaff from late 1978 or early 1979, taken at a Conway Twitty concert at the Minneapolis Auditorium. Engineer Herb Schoenbohm, a jazz buff, started by emceeing a nightly 7 7:30 pm spot. In 1978, promoter Tom Tipton noted that KUXL played only 11 hours of soul music per week. From an ad from May 1970: WDGYA Touch of Taste.. WDGY: Dick Driscoll remembers trying to sneak in some peppier tunes in the mid- 1950s, to his bosss chagrin. People walking by the facility at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds would comment, what is this? U100 the twin cites powerhouse playing top 40 and album rock from the speakers with no one in the booth! A note in the Minneapolis Tribune dated December 10, 1965, said that The discotheque scene at St. Pauls Ebony Lounge which disappeared a couple of weeks ago, is back in action, with much the same cast, at Big Als in Minneapolis. The names of the programs may give an indication of what the station was like, apparently dispensing a lot of wisdom and advice. The station derives a portion of its programming from Scott Shannon 's The True Oldies Channel from ABC Radio. One of the big sponsors was the Celebrity Lounge, where you could hang out with the owners, Minnesota Twin Earl Battey and former Gopher quarterback Sandy Stephens. A few days later, WPBC-FM became WRAH and programmed an automated album oriented rock format. 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. Contributed by John Pratt 12-6-07. There is a promo for WDGY's Easter Bunny contest, where you can win a McDonald's Easter Bunny. Later they would admit that the Todd Storz they often disparaged very well may have saved radio at a time when television was stealing its audience. Luxurious digs, no? says Curt. The station played four categories of Country: Drake-Chenaults sales manager explained that if a station tried to duplicate the format live, youd have to get supertalented country jocks, a top-notch country producer and all the other things. 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. 1400 AM changed its call letters again in January 1972 to KEEY AM, to match that of its FM sister station, and installed a soft rock format separate of the FM, which aired Beautiful Music. In an interview given for the Rondo Oral History Project of the Minnesota Historical Society, Yusef Mgeni remembered that KUXL was a strange hybrid type of station. (Only eight stations in Minneapolis-St. Paul. 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. Storzs company, Mid-Continent Broadcasting, purchased WDGY on February 6, 1956 for $212,000. This one, courtesy Sam Sabean, is entitled Hobo Sam and His Bum Program. Donald K. Martin reading the news in the WDGY newsroom. 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. MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA Format: T40. Reportedly one of them was a one hour program playing rockabilly and R&B perhaps the first in the area. Fortunately, the door blew open before he got there. KANO was started in 1956 by Jack Lemme, who owned a radio station in Little Falls. A policeman knocked down pregnant woman, pulled her hair, and threw her into a wall. Nicked named Wildman, he has an internet polka show. The result of this was that our spot was on every radio station at the same time. You will enjoy tuning up to the quality sound of sound radio programming on KUXL. . Three informative features were broadcast every hour each day to draw attention to commercial messages. Bo Diddley got the Marigold going on August 19, 1964. J. Warren Burke was brought in as general manager to revamp the station. The programming would be segmentized, appealing to the sophisticated audiophile with no verbal interpretation heard during the program We will be one of the few FM stations in the country doing all music programming in stereophonic sound. The FM station would also offer comedy albums, folk music, and spoken word segments. Thanks again for the responseand thanks for the great website! Call sign: WDGY Frequency: 740 AM City of license: Hudson, WI Format: Oldies Owner: WRPX Area Served: Minneapolis-St. Paul Sister stations: 94.9 El Rey Contact Address: 300 St Croix Trail S, Lakeland, MN 55043 Phone: (651) 436-4000 This aircheck in two parts is presented un-scoped. 11:00 AM-2:00 PM. could get them on my Lloyds Transistor Six when the batteries were dead., I dated a girl who lived on Fremont Ave. between 101st & 102nd streets. Unlike in 2017, C-QUAM AM stereo did not return. WDGY 1130 AM MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA Week: 1963-03-18 Format: T40 WDGY 1130 - MINNEAPOLIS - ST. PAUL TIGER TUNES WEEK BEGINNING MARCH 18, 1963 TW LW 1. The brochure inside the box was a ticket to a huge rock n roll show that would kick off the station. The precursor to KDWB was founded in 1951 by Nick, Vic and Al Tedesco, sons of Italian immigrants from the province of Calabria. Right on Super U became a catch phrase on the station and among its fans. The music would continue to be in the pop album category, but each selection would contribute to the pattern of feature material. Found on Radiotapes.com: Ballad of Minnesota!. The Temptations were scheduled to perform at the St. Paul Auditorium on July 12, 1965, sponsored by Preacher Paul and KUXL. ..This is the true story of the birth of U100. History The WDGY callsign was used for another well-known station in the area from 1925 until 1991 and broadcast at 1130 kHz. It changed its format to Golden Rock on October 1, 1979. 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.. The ever-blessed Will Jones announced on June 5, 1964: KUXL is airing jazz. Nearby Recently Sold Homes. WDGY "The Original Rock and Roll Station" The Original Rock and Roll Station--Shows. Much later, in 1977, Kosofsky would transfer his shares to Miriam Warshaw. 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 Hammond RK4 reverberation unit has been ordered The echo unit will be .. controlled by push buttons installed at the news table and console. $1,175,000 Last Sold Price. It was never clear whether he used it or even who he was. $755,000 Last Sold Price. By the 1960s, the station didn't use the name itself, but the name stuck among people in the radio industry for many years to come. The KDAN Remote Caboose Studio was used in the early 1970s for commercial remote broadcasts and for broadcasting from the Minnesota State Fair. There were baffles designed to permit travel only in one direction, so a fire in the vent-work should have just traveled out. After that theyve changed calls as often as formats and thats pretty frequent.. In May 2006 the recordings started to beconverted to MP3 andsharedhere. The only coordination was (sometimes) the Pick Hit of The Week as a freebie to a record maker.. He may have been a part owner of the company for a time, or he may have just been the station manager. Don French was the first Program Director. In April 1929 the frequency apparently became 1180. King, right? They are posted here for historical examples of top 40 radio from one of the originators, Storz. I remember recording Rock Around the Clock from a WMIN broadcast on my Wilcox Gay recorder. He was in the middle of hiring, and was looking for a deep, authoritative, network kind of voice; a sirupy, romantic voice; and a thrid, more youthful and jolly voice. Wonderful WeeGee, home of the boss jocks like Johnny Canton, hit its stride in the 60s, competing neck and neck with KDWB. Photo courtesy Curt Lundgren a/k/a Evan Curfew. WDGY Survey with Photos of Curtis J. Johnson from June 13, 1969. Our playlist stores a WDGY track list for the past 7 days. He left in July 1957 to become Vice President of ABC in New York and was replaced by Jack Thayer. Reinhard Steinley became the first General Manager of WCOW on July 1, 1951. 50,000 watts. Wayne Red Williams was Station Manager and Ray Christensen was Program Director. Once outside the missiles became rocks. Labor Temple, third floor. This left KEYD (soon to become KEVE) as the only full time C&W station. In November 1963 the Program Director was Jerry Cunning and the General Manager was Robert J. Mutual was dropped and the station adopted a for women only format. There, at 63, where no Minnesotan had gone before. One of the obstacles it ran into was resonating re-radiation from the Bloomington Water tower. The other stations had an unwritten agreement not to play race music because they assumed the Twin Cities audience would be outraged. In 1949 the station moved its transmitter and studio to a new multi-tower array described as at 102nd and Bloomington Freeway/Lyndale Freeway/35W. Is it possible Don glowed in the dark? Station Frequency Format . No doubt the Random Ranch show was similar. In 2014, the station began broadcasting in HD. It had 5,000 watts, daytime only. No audio, but the wires would vibrate in time to the modulation. In 1956 or 57 Zingale went to New York as an account executive and, with two others, bought a White Plains radio station. See www.radiotapes.com/WDGY.html for airchecks and much more, including the very entertaining history of the station written by Haines. 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. WLOL-FM (99.5) (Means Fine Music) was up and running in 1956. A fellow out of Texas, after first commissioning himself a Colonel, was bottling what was essentially sweet prune juice, calling it Serutan, and telling the great American radio audience over and over again, day after day, Serutan is Natures spelled backwards. Back to the drama. The new schedule kept the morning religious shows, which did have sponsors and paid the bills. They also reported that people were buying tickets for 50 cents entitling them to buy drinks. But its also a dance session. Pleased by the response to a recent project on emotionally induced illness, Skotch said the station will devote another day to the subject in the near future. In April 1957 the studio was in the Builders Exchange Building in downtown Minneapolis, and the transmitter was described as WDGY Transmitter Plant, Oxboro, Minn. BB King performed at the Marigold on September 12, 1965. Email : Jane@wdgyradio.com. Broadcasting Yearbooks for 1984 through 1987 show that the name had been changed when KDAN went dark in 1983. At the time it was billed as The New WDGY Your Radioactive Station! Top 40s available from July 21, 1956 on do show that the playlist was definitely rock n roll, although they played a lot of cover versions and a lot of schmaltz. One song in 57 looks suspiciously local: Paddlin Ingabord Home by Ole The Singing Janitor. I dont recall if he spent 21 days up there, but it was a while. A KDWB Fabulous Forty survey that Don donated to the Pavek Museum of Broadcasting called the shack a four-story-high flag pole playhouse. John Pratt saved an article from the Minneapolis Star reporting that four hoodlums set the crepe-paper wrapping on the 40-ft. pole on fire. And although much of the 96-page report centered on the disturbances themselves, the committee had plenty to say about discrimination patterns in housing, education, recreation, employment, welfare, and police-community relations, and includes recommendations for improvement in those areas.. One even has a snippet of Loni Anderson! His shows were variously called, Steve Cannon was at WMIN from 1949 to 54. Since it was the only bid submitted, they were handed a building worth $35,000, complete with air conditioning, transmitting equipment, control board, and paneled studios and offices. For $7,000 they moved the entire concrete block structure 25 miles across town. A 1969 shot of me (Rick Burnett a/k/a Rick Mason) when I was visiting the studio. One contest in 1963 was a challenge to bake the worlds biggest Christmas Cookie. Tom was a grad of Richard Brown's American Istitute of the Air, a predecessor to Brown Institute. 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