In late 1935 a new non-directional 226 Truscan Steel Vertical Radiator (tower) was erected at the site. What we didnt realize was how much unexpected publicity we would get in the Twin City newspapers and on TV. 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. (1960's). The names of the shows were pretty ambiguous: In most cases programs were identified by the names of the DJs: Personalities selling time in this 1953 broadcasting magazine were, January 19, 1953 ad Courtesy mnkidvid.com. Roof rebuilt. So., Minneapolis, 5, MN. Any white man who lingers momentarily over a Negro emphasis station hears poor programming and crummy talk, he hears low down music, and is left with the strong impression that they are really different. Image courtesy Jeff Lonto. Forrest Powers published his own interview with Ed Skotch on October 7, 1963, in the Star. The original WDGY DJs were Herb Oscar Anderson, Jack Thayer, Bill Bennett, Don Loughnane, Ralph Martin, and Len Bart. If we had to play junky music with morally degrading lyrics, wed get out of the business.. Contributed by John Pratt 12-6-07. Wee Gee spins the forgotten hits, the cruisin' classics, the legendary artists. Im guessing that KAAYs Beaker Street was influential here. 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. Thanks to all contributors. Website. Metro Student News, April 20, 1979. No audio, but the wires would vibrate in time to the modulation. Police said the wood snow fence frame beneath the paper had ignited at several points.. Install the free Online Radio Box application for your smartphone and listen to your favorite radio stations online - wherever you are! In 2008, the station became WDGY after sister station 630 AM switched to Regional Mexican music, using the call letters WREY. The first song was Bad Blood by Neil Sedaka. On August 28, 1981, the station was purchased by Soho Broadcasting, Stanley Soho, President. The WLOL Big 5 hosted the Royal Crown Cola Teen Roller Party at the Pastime Arena in St. Louis Park, Sundays from 2-5 pm, according to October and November 1957 music surveys. In 1948 the Sepia Serenade show featured black recording stars, Mondays and Wednesdays from 6:15 to 6:45 pm. For that matter, we were discouraged from using the term teenager too. In November 1977 the Insider reported that the station was working around to the album rock format from Top 40. Around the fall of 1979 it went to adult contemporary,: and they also picked up Bob Allards and Larry Kings talk shows in the late evening. He made a ton of money, eventually owning part of the Cleveland Nets World Tennis Team, Cleveland Indians, and Cleveland Cavaliers basketball team. Rob flew to Dallas to supervise cutting new jingles for Y100 at the media jingle production company PAMs. Bill Hartman commandeered the U of Minnesota theater production company to help create an exterior faade that would cover a small trailer to remote broadcast from the State Fair. At that point, having lost the opportunity to peacefully arrest the young man, the police decided to use nightsticks to bar the door to the hall, keeping the people in. WDGY Jocks teamed up with professionals Ed Kalafat, Bobby Cox, Jim Springer, and Corky Devlin, possibly former Minneapolis Lakers. KANO was Disk Jockey Rod Persons first radio job in 1959. And the response has been so good that the weekday evening jazz time may be extended. I didnt exit at McKnight drive. Scads of airchecks and music surveys are posted at, http://twincitiesradioairchecks.com/kdwb630tapes.html. Thanks so much for the response to my e-mail, and for the kind words. And, Im sure it was after checking with their attorney, one by one they dropped our little campaign. WLOLs Swing Club had Dan Anderson on Saturdays from noon to 6 pm., also Top 40 and then some.. Every sixth song was current. 11/22/1973 After all, its a thing to be able to sit down and listen to sides all day., There was also a Richard Nelson, who Connie Hechter at the Insider called Dick, but he actually was known as Admiral Richard E, and was on the air from 1966 to 1968, according to Curt Lundgren (who says he would cringe at the name Dick.). 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. With that in mind I had Charles Arlington record, as only he could, a theme line: Sixty Three. This survey provided by Steve Raymer of the Pavek Museum of Broadcasting. He did his own programming, and said he loved his job. WDGY "The Original Rock and Roll Station" U.S. Patent . In April 1963, the listings showed Jerry Boyum on from 6 to 10 am, Mort Garren from 10 to 2 pm, and John Sewall from 2 to 7 pm. Whatever the approach, it had to be as different as was our position on the dial. 1,135 Sq. Storz also ended the affiliation with the Mutual network. 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. Seriously, who thought progressive rock on AM was a good idea? In 1937 the station had a 15-minute program on Sundays featuring black singers that was advertised in the Minneapolis Spokesman. History The WDGY callsign was used for another well-known station in the area from 1925 until 1991 and broadcast at 1130 kHz. [2] The station can also be heard on 107.1 KTMY's HD2 channel in the Twin Cities.[3]. KRSI Radio was located at 4500 Excelsior Blvd. You can hear some of Herbs patter from September 7, 1956, on Tom Gavarass RadioTapes Web site: radiotapes.com/WDGY.html. The station was owned by the Peoples Broadcasting Company, founded by former WCCO announcer Bill Stewart and his wife Becky Ann. On October 3, 1955, an ad boasted that the station would play more music and had a new record library. You will hear the WeeGee $10,000 Record Stash promo and Johnny ply "1130 Caret Gold." band (which had necessitated the Mighty 1130s switch in the first place.) Most of them were from me. Out on the East Coast listeners heard the original version by the Moonglows. Dick Driscoll at WWTC in 1980, courtesy Jeff Lonto. For his Masters Thesis on the history of WDGY, Jerry Verne Haines interviewed WDGY announcer Leonard D. Bart on June 15, 1970. 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. Program directors like me used the more exclusive Gavin Report from Bill and Janet Gavin in San Francisco. The important goal was to cover the Twin Cities. See Top 30 and Top 40 countdowns from 1966 on Robb Henrys blog. They also reported that people were buying tickets for 50 cents entitling them to buy drinks. MONDAY, MONDAY - Mama's & Papa's. Tonight's Top 20 as heard on WeeGee Wayback Wonders! Each one of these selections was especially chosen by the WDGY All-Americans, and is performed by the original recording artists. Al, by the way, happens to be a very knowledgeable fella, record wise. Sweet Potato, September 1979. When did they first hear this new music that some loved, some hated, some called just a fad, but few could ignore? We ought to get him to tell people about how good things are when you reach 63. This shot of him in the WDGY DJ control room is one of the better quality shots showing the Gates control board. 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. The Greatest Hits of the 50s, 60s, and 70s. I guess. What Storz did was apply the Top 40 concept to rock n roll. The transmitter was destroyed by fire on February 23, 1933 and the station operated with WCCOs old transmitter. http://www.twincitiesradioairchecks.com/ (Rick Burnett). Proceeds would go to a charity mutually agreed upon by the two teams. The tap starts at 1:30 PM and goes about one hour with music in. Bottom Row: Dan Halyburton, Larry E. Cummins, Jimmy Reed. 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.). The format was Country With A Kick. There was a three tower directional array, and a transmitter that looked more like a refrigerator. He left in July 1957 to become Vice President of ABC in New York and was replaced by Jack Thayer. Below is a photo thats not too great, but hopefully shows how big the winning monster was. WWTC AM Radio is something of an oasis in the local radio market. Today, the station is KTLK, News/Talk 1130, and uses a transmitter site in Credit River Township. As part of the anniversary celebration, listeners were urged to send the station a birthday card with a favorite song from the last year, and if it was drawn the listener could win the Yesterhits Souvenir Album and a chance of winning one of six Hondas. 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. 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! Listen to Paul Geiger in the morning! The call letters were changed back to WMIN later that year. No audio, but the wires would vibrate in time to the modulation. We had been wounded, but we werent dead. 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. and went back to Mexico, this time to XERB, a 50,000 watt station in Tijuana. So stunned were most of us, the gravity of situation was difficult to grasp. Engineer Herb Schoenbohm, a jazz buff, started by emceeing a nightly 7 7:30 pm spot. The station began broadcasting on July 1, 1965, as WMKT. 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. It was fun, and by then, Charlie was on the mornings, and I did the news and the bits. Glover did most of his programming from his own record collection. And its guaranteed to relieve ennui! A 1972 article in the Echo opined that KDWB played new songs that were just released, while WDGY only played nationally-established music. A memo to the staff from Todd Storz dated May 28, 1956 singles out the gang at WDGY for a job well done. Don at WDGY newsroom mic. The team could not play high school and college teams, but would go out to small towns for exhibition games. David Hersk remembers that Edwards had a late night show where he called himself Uncle Merle and played plenty of rock n roll in 1954-55. Well, at least with the progressive announcers on KRSI. The DJ on the air, Ron Block, noticed the pall of smoke in the hallway and left the building. He also said that the Four Tops were two days away with an expected crowd of 2,000 or more at the Marigold Ballroom. Unfortunately, there is a short period of time with lower quality sound, which is corrected quickly. Whats especially weird about this photo is that it was posted to Facebook by Scott Kramer, who says: I am vacationing in Kauai and a person at our Luau had this in their camera. 1130 AM; Community content is available under CC-BY-SA unless otherwise noted. I was a young kid when I first listened to WDGY and KDWB. One highlight of the stations programming from about 1958 to 1973 was Leigh Kamman, whose jazz programs emanated from Freddys night club in Minneapolis and featured performances by Count Basie, Ramsey Lewis, Errol Garner, and Ella Fitzgerald. His shows were variously called, Steve Cannon was at WMIN from 1949 to 54. Consequently the launch of U100 was delayed three days. Coast to Coast AM is overnight talk radio with daytime ratings. 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. 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. Congress amended the FCC Act in September 1960 to provide penalties short of license revocation for violations of FCC rules. Minneapolis Star, Thursday, August 20, 1964. That UP radio uplift all the way. Donald K. Martin reading the news in the WDGY newsroom. The St. Paul Urban League and the St. Paul Human Rights Department also launched their own investigations. You can see the full shot of the turntables with their massive tone arms. Jim Peterson, station manager for the last year, said no matter how much sense it made, nobody would buy commercials for a little 1,000 watt, AM daytimer station. He actually bought the time from KUXL himself and sold commercials to pay for it. Storz also ended the affiliation with the Mutual network. It's like the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on the radio 24 hours a day. 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! Then there was alternating R&B and Rap at various intervals. 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. This heat siphoned off through ductwork that eventually combined with ductwork from the furnace and heating system. At least 48 times a day, if you happened to be tuning across the dial at that exact time all you could hear was the Colonel saying, You remember me? On March 7, 2017, WDGY discontinued broadcasting in HD and began broadcasting in C-QUAM AM stereo. It faded into obscurity shortly after its release.. 1967 bumper sticker courtesy Curt Lundgren. Yeah, but I hated newspaper advertising. The Impressions made an appearance at the Marigold on Sunday, April 11, 1965. On December 1, 1964, KEVE was changed to KQRS Quality Radio Station, still playing classical music. Contributed by John Pratt 12-6-07. And then almost overnight, or so it seemed, the jazz folk around town were talking about their station. By that time Elvis had hit it big with Heartbreak Hotel and Hound Dog a cover of a black record followed. Ten people were arrested, most for carrying firearms. He was keeping the call letters their full potential had never been fully utilized. Two off-duty policemen who were hired for the event came on the scene and took the gun away from him and tried to arrest him. CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE, This photo was taken as the car pulls into the driveway on a Richfield winter day. Minneapolis black population had been consistently at or below 1 percent from 1870 to 1940. More fire trucks. In 1956 the station also participated in the big Contest Craze that hit most of the areas radio stations. in St. Louis Park from May 16, 1958 (at 7am) to October 1972. [made possible by the late summer daytime hours] Now he also does a Saturday afternoon session from 1 to 5. KUXLs broadcast license was voluntarily assigned from Edward D. Skotch to Greater Happiness, Inc. (presumably his company) on October 7, 1963. I do not remember much about Gene Leader. Standing from left to right: Steve Shannon and Ed OBrien. Because the two signals arrived out of phase, they cancelled each other out. Is it possible Don glowed in the dark? Vineland Place and Oak Grove Street meet in front of WLOL with the Basilica of St. Mary visible in the background. At that time, the Twin Cities had only about nine stations, all AM, of course, with WCCO being the powerhouse. 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. Hagman had previously worked for WLOL, whose owner, Ralph Atlass, had adopted the Top Forty format during Hagmans time there from 1947 to 1952. Ad courtesy Jeff Lonto. 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. 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. Jimmy Reed cues up a record in the control room at WDGY in 1969. In the main studio, there was a sticky sap-like residue on everything. 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. We were kind of in the middle of 1965. It does appear that Kamman was still on the air at 3pm during the month of January 1965. 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. ARSA: ABOUT: SURVEYS: STATIONS: WDGY 1130 AM. (Thanks to David Hersk!). Brother Al Tedesco wanted to call it WPIG or WHOG, but Vic protested the barnyard connotation. This is the best I could do with the poor exposure using photo editing tools. Our family cabin was located north of Park Rapids. It was the old WPBC studio on Stinson Blvd., near Broadway, abandoned because of freeway construction. There is a promo of Jim Dandy announcing he was returning to WDGY (to fill the shift left by Rob Sherwood when he went to KDWB). 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. It was Storzs fourth station. Cap Cities/ABC's KQRS combo (1440 AM and 92.5 FM) was a solid top three station by the end of the decade, far ahead of http://twincitiesradioairchecks.com/kstpam70s.html. 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. While their job was to arrest one man with a gun, they instead barricaded the door of the hall with their night sticks and used tear gas to subdue the crowd. Coordinates: .mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}445805N 924001W / 44.96806N 92.66694W / 44.96806; -92.66694, For the radio station which held the WDGY callsign from 1926 to 1991, see, Learn how and when to remove these template messages, Learn how and when to remove this template message, http://hdradio.com/station_guides/widget.php?id=16, https://startribune.newspapers.com/image/186746317/?terms=wdgy&match=1, Radiotapes.com Historic Minneapolis/St. Billboards? WDGY 40 STAR SURVEY Week *Ending* May 7, 1966 1. Love it, Scott! Email : Jane@wdgyradio.com. In 1959, WDGY gained a formidable challenger when KDWB launched. I do believe we did have the first of the top forty station two man morning shows, at least in the Twin Cities, other than CCO. in Golden Valley was approved. They all said the same thing, essentially: screw your non-cancelable contract. A huge booklet issued in 1949 provides pictures of everyone involved in the station and all the reasons why America is better than any other country. Thinking about how to tell the good people of the Twin Cities there was some good radio on the South end of the dial was pretty much all I was thinking about. In 1966, he went to work for the then-popular station WDGY, which was 1130 on the AM dial, and. 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. A construction permit was granted to install a new transmitter and a permit was granted to increase power to 1kw on October 1, 1963. Once there, scroll down. I will cut in on occasion with additional/alternate information from Will Jones of the Minneapolis Tribune. 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. Top Row: Step Up Movie, Steve Highsmith, Gregg Lindahl, Paul Johnson. Bottom Row: Jenny Rein (secretary), Vic, Nick, ? I continued on Highway 12 to Radio Drive. The engineers labored through the night and the following night and on Tuesday, we signed back on. The creepy monstrosity below, entered by St. Michael Elementary School, was the winner. In 1959 it had a monthly newspaper called Big K News. The cookie was displayed in the lobby of the Foshay Tower, where viewers filched pieces of it until French dispatched a guard. He had to play the #1 song every hour, and the others at will. A 15-year-old polio victim was smashed, face-first, into the pavement and sent home bleeding. 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. People could come and watch Slim Jims show at the studios on 9th Street. After a years absence, Sam Sabean was hired back as a DJ and Station Manager, but he had to have a different name, so Sherwood was arbitrarily chosen. The company engineers actually had to install coils to de-tune the water tower before the license could be approved for 50kw operation. On about September 1, 1962, the AM station expanded to 24 hours. Save peace in the world. The KDAN Remote Caboose Studio was used in the early 1970s for commercial remote broadcasts and for broadcasting from the Minnesota State Fair. The memory music format was enlarged, a jingle by Herb Pilhofer was created, and talk shows were produced. Selby and Avon Streets. All stations will soon be equipped with an echo chamber for ON AIR use. 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