In about November 1973, the WMIN call letters moved to 1010kc (formerly polka and country station WJSW). It is owned by WRPX, inc. and airs a Classic Hits/Oldies radio format. Nearby Recently Sold Homes. What would a black station been like if we had had one in the 1950s? 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. Coast to Coast AM is overnight talk radio with daytime ratings. Original staff consisted of Rob Sherwood, Jeff MotherRobins, Benny Blore (Bill Hartman) Jerry Brook, U.S. An underlying cause was said to be the overall condition of the Selby-Dale area. The policemen called for backup and the melee started. They never expected the gigantic turnout, and the ultra-gigantic cookie that won the contest! Paul?) In 1967, winning a Honda might have meant just a motorbike. WDGY/1130 AM . The format on the 500 watt station was folksy to the point where it may have out-folksied WCCO. WDGY 40 STAR SURVEY Week *Ending* May 7, 1966 1. King, right? http://twincitiesradioairchecks.com/wdgy1130tapes.html. Middle row: Steve Hatley, Cosmic Cowboy a/k/a Terry Roberts, Chuck Knapp & Charlie Bush. The very next day, November 13, 1963, the stations permit was approved to change its studio location and remote control point to the Golden Valley Inn, a motel at 4820 Olson Memorial Highway. Ray left in June 1957 because he was too busy with baseball and was replaced by Jim Boysen. The cookie was displayed in the lobby of the Foshay Tower, where viewers filched pieces of it until French dispatched a guard. Preacher Paul is no preacher. The song list included such gems as You Clobbered Me, Ink Dries Quicker Than Tears, Lie Detector, and Take Your Cotton-Pickin Hands Off My Girl. The station had been playing some Top-10, Classical, semi-classical, some religious, etc. Storzs company, Mid-Continent Broadcasting, purchased WDGY on February 6, 1956 for $212,000. In 1966, he went to work for the then-popular station WDGY, which was 1130 on the AM dial, and. Jim Dandy, Perry St. John, Scott Burton, George Young, B. Mason Dean. The roof hadnt collapsed, but the rafters were charred black. Some of the airchecks are off reel to reel tapesthat were recorded off the air by the web site creator. There were a bunch of people but no real activity. The station's studios and offices are in Lakeland, Minnesota, while its transmitter is off Commerce Drive near Interstate 94 in Hudson. In August 1957 the station claimed to be first with Twin Cities Housewives based on a telephone poll of 388 people. That beam was so strong that the GROUNDWAVE signal made it at night in addition to the skywave signal. Below is a listing of stations available in the metro area. As always, much more information and many airchecks are available at www.radiotapes.com/wwtc.html and http://twincitiesradioairchecks.com/wwtc.html. On February 26, 1964, Randall Hobart of the Star reported that Ed Skotch credited his women-oriented programming for a 480 percent increase in business since he took over the station. 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. This billboard at 9th and Hennepin tells us that WTCNs radio and TV studios were at Radio City. In his usual wry style, Irv describes how KRSIs General Manager, John Enoch, was testing Control Unit Model 901, which generated automated programming. Now Im back to tell you about a product, guaranteed to cure an even bigger problem. Peterson gave the example of Hamms and Grain Belt beer highly patronized by the black community, but refused to buy time on the station. Larry Bentson, President. The feeling seemed to be we are not going to advertise on that station., Jim Ramsburg, an early WDGY jock, says we were given strict orders never to utter the phrase, Rock & Roll, because it was black slang for sex. Hubbards Hundred Days was the headline in late 1973.. 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. The ad below was placed during the Cuban Missile Crisis: The ad below is from the Minneapolis Herald, the replacement paper started when the Star and Tribune were on strike in 1962. Covering black music was standard operating procedure in those days Pat Boone made a fortune covering Fats Domino records. WDGY Jimmy open his 1st show at WDGY he stated he was "..out on pass from the suburban rest-home." 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.. What we didnt realize was how much unexpected publicity we would get in the Twin City newspapers and on TV. By 1977, FM radio had arrived big-time in MSP. Preacher Paul is a disc jockey. I thought if we could get somewhat organized on a daily continuous basis that it would be a step in the right direction. In the September 1971 Insider, reviewer Will Shapira profiled W. Amos Johnson, who did a two-hour jazz show on KUXL each Sunday. April 17, 1973, ad image courtesy Mark Luebker. The WYOO call sign has resided on an FM talk station in Panama City, Florida since 1993. Not all of the airchecks on this site were in my original personal collection. $755,000 Last Sold Price. Program Director Sam Sherwood: I so remember how Don French was on the hot seat for getting hit by such a large prizehe and I argued: Ill take the hitno I willno no, I will and thats the way it went until the cookie picture hit the front pages of news papers across the country.THEN.we became heroes, both Don and I. CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE, WDGY Hit Car Photo Contributor, Wild Wilson. 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. The radios had to be placed at one end of a room 6-8 feet apart and the listener had to stand about 10-15 feet away. The text is rather small; it reads: Today WWTC Radio trades violins for violence. Then on Wednesday, July 8, 1964, were back to the old KUXL! Jim du Bois (Right), President and CEO of the Minnesota Broadcastors Association at a May 4th 2007 breakfast meeting with me (Rick Burnett). Theres a ton of stories circulating about Top 40 began inspired by an Omaha tavern juke box, developed by a college statistical department, guided by BBDOs Hit Parade formula for Lucky Strike you name it. The original call sign was KFMT, broadcasting at 1300kHz. . But Glover was probably the most popular and well-known. In 1967 KQ-FM made its first foray into album rock with its Night Watch program, broadcasting from midnight to 5 am. KDWB went on the air on September 16, 1959, as a top 40 station. After that theyve changed calls as often as formats and thats pretty frequent.. The company engineers actually had to install coils to de-tune the water tower before the license could be approved for 50kw operation. 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. Its MODERN but MILD! The Original Rock and Roll Station. One 20-year-old was arrested. WDGY: Dick Driscoll remembers trying to sneak in some peppier tunes in the mid- 1950s, to his bosss chagrin. Minneapolis Star, Thursday, August 20, 1964. 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. Most important, WMIN had some powerhouse disk jockeys: Bill Diehl tells the story about a car dealership called Slawik Motors that wanted to sponsor a show, but 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. KANO was located in Anoka, with the studio and tower located on a gravel road just north of the Anoka County Fairgrounds in present-day Ramsey. 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. They also played some Whoopie John and Frankie Yankovic for the polka crowd. 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. Peterson said R&B never even paid salaries. From 1 to 3, Mike Cunningham would be on the air, and then from 3 to 5, Paul Helm, the man people loved to hate. Garcia was so good that Colonel Parker pulled him off early so he wouldnt upstage Presley. 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! The Colonel loved the whole idea and agreed to do it. Skotch was the highest-paid director-producer in Chicago, with as many as six shows he created, network and local, being aired in town every week. The station was five years in construction, delayed when its two towers in Eden Prairie fell. In 1974 the Wolfman was into many projects, including a weekly syndicated show that was broadcast here on KDWB. The precursor to KDWB was founded in 1951 by Nick, Vic and Al Tedesco, sons of Italian immigrants from the province of Calabria. WDGY "The Original Rock and Roll Station" . Or so reported the Minneapolis Star the next day. ! and the association never quit from New York to LAIt was the most visible thing we ever did..!!! The Impressions made an appearance at the Marigold on Sunday, April 11, 1965. watts) you could hardly pick up the station 5 miles to the south of the site, but the signal had an effective radiated power of 300,000 watts to the north and went right over the North Pole into the Soviet Union. (Minneapolis Tribune, January 2, 1973), For the first time since 1973, black music was again on the radio, with a new disc jockey named Pharoah Black (nee Thornton Jones). A history of the station prepared much later explained that: In 1956 the owners of WLOL AM added one of the first FM stations. What are we gonna do? 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. Its called, Formula 63. Thats why wed like to call your attention to the music of KEEY-AM at 1400 on your standard radio dial. Yusef Mgeni, a radio-television program supervisor for U of M station KUOM and member of the Malcom X Pan Afrikan Institute, found the argument lacking, going so far as to accuse program director Mike Cunningham of having racist and oppressive views.. Yonny Yonson played old time (polkas, waltzes and shoddiches) from 9 am to noon and 3-6 pm. The fire from the furnace traveled to the transmitters and out the intake vents. 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. The facts, as reported in the newspapers and in investigative reports approximate these. 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. So., Minneapolis, 5, MN. 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. CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE, WDGY Air Staff 1986. It was the old WPBC studio on Stinson Blvd., near Broadway, abandoned because of freeway construction. WDGY was certainly a much different station pre-Beatles than it was as the 60's progressed. decade KDWB-FM was picked up by Chancellor Media. But if you listen to radio to soothe your nerves, reports of mideast tension, recession and crime just might produce the opposite effect. On April 13, 1968, Billboard reported that Ray Moss had gone to California for a job with XERB, but returned quickly and with a new name: Daddy Soul. The Insider reported that Moss became the new music director in April 1968, and was on-air from 3 to 7, Monday through Friday. Although I dont normally provide snapshots of FM stations, this one is pretty interesting. The St. Paul Urban League and the St. Paul Human Rights Department also launched their own investigations. Although I adored KLBB, which 1400AM took on in 1981. Kamman left for New York in 1950. ARSA: ABOUT: SURVEYS: STATIONS: WDGY 1130 AM. WCOW was renamed WISK in May 1956, and affiliated with the Mutual network, late of WDGY. Thus incited, the crowd began yelling invectives at the police and throwing furniture at them. In 1973-75 Chuck Knapp and Charlie Bush in the morning, Machine Gun Kelly and others livened things up. For some country airchecks from 1963 and for two Music Surveys from 1974, see http://twincitiesradioairchecks.com/ktcrfmtapes.html, For several Music Surveys from the early 1970s, see http://www.radiotapes.com/surveys.html. No audio, but the wires would vibrate in time to the modulation. It was fun, and by then, Charlie was on the mornings, and I did the news and the bits. In April 1957 the station was owned by BVM Broadcasting Co. and Victor Tedesco was General Manager, replacing Sam Sabean. Download Our Free iHeartRadio App! Station Frequency Format . In September 1962 it was advertised as the only all news station in the country. Without their help, the site would have many less pages of radio history. But late at night, if the conditions were right, Minnesotans could hear all kinds of music through the airwaves from all parts of the United States country blues from Arkansas, R&B from WLAC in Nashville, and maybe even some doo-wop from back East. In August, 1965, Texas Bill Strength went on the air at WMIN after being with KEYD/KEVE (1955 to 1958) and KTCR (1962 to 1965). 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. It held some interesting insights not revealed in the one Will Jones did (on August 18, above). 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