Rocking and rolling and repeating over and over.Well advertise on the other stations. KDWBs general manager at the time, Gary Stevens, claimed that they did not buy WYOO-FM to shut down a competitor, but rather to take advantage of what they saw as a good deal. FM. And you can try it today. 980 AM was originally staid WPBC from 1949 to 1972. Matchbook images courtesy Pavek Museum of Broadcasting, In July 1948, Chuck Mulkern had a fifteen-minute show called Hillbilly Hits.. Sources are cited, if known. Preacher Paul (nee Ralph Hull) had come from KDWB and it appears that he was working at both stations until June 1965. Hagman had previously worked for WLOL, whose owner, Ralph Atlass, had adopted the Top Forty format during Hagmans time there from 1947 to 1952. The stations address was given as 287 E 6th Street, St. Paul. Crocker, and Brad Piras. Minneapolis black population had been consistently at or below 1 percent from 1870 to 1940. UP radio sparkles in Rod Trangards newscastsin exclusive Mutual news remotes . Another crazy promotion was the time Charlee Brown styled himself as the Emperor and threatened to take over the State of Wisconsin. A gunshot was heard and a policeman was hit in the arm or hand. 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. She was awarded a free turkey along with the very important can of cranberry sauce. I remember that the No. WDGY, Rock & Roll Radio, playing the hits of the '60s and '70s for the Twin Cities! ERP. Radiotapes.com has airchecks from 1957 of Steve Cannon and Leigh Kamman doing what was billed as the Twin Cities first and only Double Disk Jockey Show. Ft. 7013 N Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA 90042. 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. In January 1965 it was reported that staff had increased from 19 to 27 since Red Owl purchased the station in 1961. U100 Studio. The radio studios are on Utica Avenue South in St. Louis Park . Metro Student News, April 20, 1979. Metropolitan Radio moved to a new site, and built a new and modern transmission facility (4-tower complex west of Highway 100 in St. Louis Park) a broadcast service that brings it within clear signal range of thousands who could nevr before enjoy wtcn 1280 as easily as they wished. There were baffles designed to permit travel only in one direction, so a fire in the vent-work should have just traveled out. The reels are changed by an actual human person., Oldies, the all-timers but not whammo smashes, not instantly recognizable but they sold a lot., Top country hits new reels sent in weekly. I really dont remember which station I was on then. For airchecks and photos, a great site is: http://twincitiesradioairchecks.com/krsiandkfmx.html. One of the obstacles it ran into was resonating re-radiation from the Bloomington Water tower. In 2008, the station became WDGY after sister station 630 AM switched to Regional Mexican music, using the call letters WREY. 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. While a lot of money has gone down the drain, it looks like it has been well spent since the station is gaining solid acclaim in the Twin Cities, and some of the money should start to come back in over a period of the next few years., One fun item is from a Storz Stations Engineering Newsletter dated November 20, 1956. Photo from Judy Dibble via Rick Burnetts Twin Cities Radio Airchecks. ..This is the true story of the birth of U100. I actually have a WRCR pinback button that says IM A TEN-TEN TUNER WRCR 10-10 ST. PAUL, MINN.'. And this scene was a night scene. Oldies. 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. Article on Scott Burton's injury during a WDGY promotional event. [1] From politics, current events, science and the arts, 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. Paul Franklyn at 6 am, Jim Eckert at 9, Mort Garren at 11, Jim Eckert again at 1 pm, and Leigh Kamman at 4. The womens format bombed. So., Minneapolis, 5, MN. This venerable station was around for a long time, and occasionally tried on new names, including: This page, like this website, sticks to pre-1975, and tries to focus on popular music. The gun-toting news director? The station was five years in construction, delayed when its two towers in Eden Prairie fell. I was still in high school when this photo was taken. Eventually we had to accept the reality of what had happened. Larry Bentson, President. Today, the station is KTLK, News/Talk 1130, and uses a transmitter site in Credit River Township. Much More Music is simply that WDGY played, and is playing, more music with the bright pace of the modern sound. The transmitters were destroyed, as was the entire engineering area and furnace room. Try it for a week. Broadcasting Yearbooks for 1984 through 1987 show that the name had been changed when KDAN went dark in 1983. Jim Foster was the Program Director. It was on that day that Rob and Bill decided to emulate KFRC and use the phrase powerhouse. With Mike Siegelmans OK, they decided to call the new station Y100.. Reportedly one of them was a one hour program playing rockabilly and R&B perhaps the first in the area. Then, thinking he may have over-reacted, returned to the studio to start the next song. But that was overnights (considered a throwaway daypart by management) on a 50,000 watt station that reached from Canada to Cuba. Dan Pothier (pronounced Poh-SHAY) worked at the station around this time as well. Jay Philpott was the only holdover from the old format they had me doing 7 to Midnight until I left for WLOL in July 1980., KANO was Disk Jockey Rod Persons first radio job in 1959. Top Row: Step Up Movie, Steve Highsmith, Gregg Lindahl, Paul Johnson. One even has a snippet of Loni Anderson! 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. 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 format changed to classical music in 1961. My wife and I had long discussions late into the evening. Jones explained that Lanphier was a former Milwaukee radio and TV man, and would act as the station manager as well as owner. It was the old WPBC studio on Stinson Blvd., near Broadway, abandoned because of freeway construction. Well, at least with the progressive announcers on KRSI. On August 28, Will Jones published an extended interview with Skotch. The WDGY call letters lasted from 1925 until 1991, first at 1140kHz, then to its longtime home at 1130kHz beginning in 1941. Although FM radio is not on many car radio dials, it is found on other radios and most of the new hi-fi and stereo sets. It was baked in five pound slabs in a church basement and delivered just an hour before the deadline. in 1330s exciting sportscasts and weather reports. As a promotion, in November 1958 Jim Ramsburg cooked up the Radio Wonders basketball team. The entire concept, advertising and promotion was headed and created by Mike Siegelman, Rob Sherwood, and Bill Hartman. If he had opened that door, the back draft would have engulfed the engineer in flame. Blore doesnt mention that on the other side of the insert was an ad for a big, star-studded show that was to take place in both Minneapolis and St. Paul on the same night, September 18, 1959. KUXL and Preacher Paul Anthony are the sponsors. 1,135 Sq. The airchecks reflect a more middle-of-the-road format, but the Top 40 playlists from 1956-59 have a lot of rock n roll (with a polka thrown in for good measure). Studio and Transmitter were at 611 Frontenac Place, St. Paul. So they had to have an engineer on duty at the KRSI transmitter to change the store announcements that interrupted the music. What became of the building? The result of this was that our spot was on every radio station at the same time. Steve Bowman, Nancy Rosen, B.J. Minneapolis / St. Paul radio station WDGY 1130 AM survey chart for the week of 1970-02-13. Rock continued to do well in Minneapolis in the eighties. 63 thats easy to remember. The Record Rodeo show featured western, folk, and other typical American music on Saturday afternoon. In summary, it was a conservative, white bread market with only a handful of stations in those days., Although many give Storz the credit for inventing the Top 40 format, Haines asserts that it was already in place. Im guessing that KAAYs Beaker Street was influential here. Glad you got that right, as our listeners just couldnt figure it out. Some jingles too. When constructed, a Bloomington transmitter location made sense as there was little development to the south at the time. With a constant bombardment of loud jingles, the jocks would scream YEEEEWWWW ONE HUNDRED! and BOOGIE! when they werent giving the time, temperature (its 72 degrees in Frriiidleeeeey!) or bad jokes. Listen To Podcasts That Examine The Passion, Perseverance, And Power Of Black Culture! As always, they are free. And if I were Nancy Wilson, Id be a little ticked to have my song interrupted. Jeff Lonto: The ratings started to go up and so ownership and management had the bright idea of pulling the plug on the whole thing, changing the calls to KJJO-AM, and simulcasting FM sister station KJJO-FM (104.1). Seems to be half and half in the photo below, mid-1960s. 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. WeeGee tended to be a little more conservative than KDWB reportedly even their staff wore suits and ties, but that has been disputed. The other stations had an unwritten agreement not to play race music because they assumed the Twin Cities audience would be outraged. So two cops from the morals squad took the elevator and found 150 men and women, a four-piece band, 36 tables and a 15-foot liquor bar with 54 quarts of liquor, 21 bottles of beer. Clockwise from Jack are Bill Diehl, Don Kelly, Dan Daniel, Stanley Mack, and Ramsburg. I was a young kid when I first listened to WDGY and KDWB. Early disc jockeys were July 1, 1965 to November 14, 1966: Tom Kaye and Bob Lulline (1965 to 1966), Denny Long (1966 to 1967), Jay Daniels, Phil LaManne (1966 to 1968), Dick Daniels, Ed Lowell, Harvey Moss (1968 to 1969), and Doug White, Tony Young, Dee Carr, and Tom ONeal (1969 to 1970). Todd Storz had purchased this storied station, whose roots went back to 1923, and patterned it after his other rock n roll stations in New Orleans, Kansas City, and St. Louis. 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. It does appear that Kamman was still on the air at 3pm during the month of January 1965. You can still hear the Van Dyke and Martin banter. Preacher Paul was there three nights a week as a host, and on Saturday afternoons he broadcast from the place. But stay tuned. WDGY Jocks teamed up with professionals Ed Kalafat, Bobby Cox, Jim Springer, and Corky Devlin, possibly former Minneapolis Lakers. Reported the Minneapolis Star, The new station will go on the air in early May with a music format, said Herman, and not all that yakety-yak you hear on some stations. A 1972 article in the Echo opined that KDWB played new songs that were just released, while WDGY only played nationally-established music. On June 18, 1975, 1280 switched to NBCs News and Information Service (NIS). While newspaper listings are not 100 percent reliable, the Tribunes listings of Monday, November 11, 1963, reflect the old format, with Jim Eckert from 6 to 11 am, Mort Garren from 11 to 3, and Jack Hyatt at 3. ! Sam also remembered that the President of station owner Crowell-Collier was pretty mad, and annoyed when the guys on the golf course started calling him Cookie, but when he got to become a celebrity as the story went national, everyone job was safe. Congress amended the FCC Act in September 1960 to provide penalties short of license revocation for violations of FCC rules. Theairchecks on this not for profit web site were recorded off the air. If you look carefully, you can see the old WDGY transmitter through the studio glass. Guy Lombardo records were used as a transition between the hillbilly songs and religious programs, reported Will Jones in the Trib on August 18, 1952. First you will hear the turkey gobble sound indicating listeners should call Johnny to be a part of the WDGY Turkey Shoot. Back to the drama. Good New Show on KUXL: Saturday at 5:00 pm is the time to listen to all the old hits on Bill Blast Hits of the Past. The show, hosted by Al Collins of Music City, downtown Minneapolis, received good response from listeners. Nobody died. Listen To The Most Popular Podcasts On iHeartRadio! Will Jones reported that they would alternate with the local R&B group, the Amazers. This month the losses should be fairly slight and we have every hope that June will see the station in the black for the first time in a long time. Thanks again for the responseand thanks for the great website! The station then bought the syndicated program Music of Your Life from Al Ham. The biggest troublemakers appeared to be a group of about 30 from Minneapolis, dressed in boots, Levi jackets, blue jeans, and cowboy or Australian digger hats. There are some quality problems, different recorder. 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! Hennepin Ave. at the Lyndale bottleneck looking north. Paul.[5]. Johnny Canton is at the top left. KS95 was beginning to take hold. The production room was a wreck and there was no heat in the building. The following year, the station moved to 1140kHz. One was the Uncle Elmer Show. A rural comedy production? All stations will soon be equipped with an echo chamber for ON AIR use. Todd Mitchell found this article in the March 18, 1977, issue of Radio and Records, an industry newspaper. Coast to Coast AM Weekend Edition. He wanted ethnic shows in Polish, German, and Scandinavian. As always, these recordings will be available at no charge to you. I was driving my yellow Toronado through the spaghetti part of I-94 in St. Paul. Engineer Herb Schoenbohm, a jazz buff, started by emceeing a nightly 7 7:30 pm spot. VSNN had taken over the station on a management agreement and, in reality, nobody else at VSNN wanted the PD job. In addition to this web site creator's recorded aircheck collection, there are also manyairchecks that were recorded and submitted by friends and acquaintances, or contributed by other collectors. A Billboard Magazine from July 9, 1966 shows that it was a 250-watt independent station operating 15 hours/day. 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. The team could not play high school and college teams, but would go out to small towns for exhibition games. Contributed by John Pratt 12-6-07. WDGY- Don Martin contributed this undated photo from late 60's - early 70's, Don Martin contibuted this October 16, 1974 article on Twin Cities morning radio shows. The new owners immediately requested permission from the FCC to change the call letters back to WMIN. Hubbards Hundred Days was the headline in late 1973.. Tom Wynn at his current job at KFGO in Fargo ND. 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. It was Storzs fourth station. History The WDGY callsign was used for another well-known station in the area from 1925 until 1991 and broadcast at 1130 kHz. On the same day, Forrest Powers, TV and Radio reporter for the Minneapolis Star, indicated that the station would start broadcasting that weekend. I suppose at full speed, in December, the ride to Peoria would take 18 hours. Like an acid-etching, the events of that day in early December 1969 are sharp as cut crystal. 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