WMIN was reassigned to the 1400kHz in 1941. Contributed by John Pratt 12-6-07. Consequently the launch of U100 was delayed three days. 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. Heres one of the dune buggies. On July 1, 1977, the station went from free-form to album rock. In an article in the Star dated August 3, 1977, Jon Bream called the new format commercial, superstar rock. DJs were restricted to playing a list of songs chosen by a consulting firm in Atlanta. Collins, a transmitter company located in Peoria, Ill., I think, had a 1,000-watt transmitter and a 630 crystal. To get us in the mood for another rock n roll station, they played Charlie Brown by the Coasters in French non-stop for several days. Engineer Herb Schoenbohm, a jazz buff, started by emceeing a nightly 7 7:30 pm spot. You can see the full shot of the turntables with their massive tone arms. 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. Herb Oscar Anderson was the first disk jockey on the air with the new Top 40 rock n roll format that morning, and the jocks and the new sounds boosted the station from a tepid Number 4 to second place behind behemoth WCCO. The station was nicknamed "WeeGee," the phonetic pronunciation of the call sign, and its format was near the top of the ratings for several years. That wouldnt happen until daylight. Minneapolis Star, Thursday, September 24, 1964. The transmitter and three-tower antenna array are located in New Hope on Winnetka Avenue north of 36th Avenue. The station was owned by the Peoples Broadcasting Company, founded by former WCCO announcer Bill Stewart and his wife Becky Ann. On November 8, 1954, WMIN hosted a four-hour remote from the new Melodee Record Shop at 704 Hennepin Ave., advertised in the Minneapolis Spokesman. And, those cops took $350 in cash. From politics, current events, science and the arts, 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. Some jingles too. He said Ronn the Rajah would broadcast from 1 to 2pm Monday through Friday, and then Ronn and Billy G the Prime Minister would alternate every half hour. For his Masters Thesis on the history of WDGY, Jerry Verne Haines interviewed WDGY announcer Leonard D. Bart on June 15, 1970. ! and the association never quit from New York to LAIt was the most visible thing we ever did..!!! So what if a top forty am radio station in Minneapolis/St. Shot of Johnny Canton's desk area at WDGY-AM when he was the music director. I had hired Don French to be the KDWB PD. In 1967, winning a Honda might have meant just a motorbike. CLICK ON IMAGES TO ENLARGE, WDGY Donald K. Martin contributed this undated from the late 60's - early 70's. There was the terrible smell of burnt paper and charred wood. In 1950 it was 1.3 percent, and in 1960 it grew to 2.5 percent. By 1972/1973, KRSI and KQRS had almost identical Progressive Rock shows. It's like the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on the radio 24 hours a day. The Beatles, Elton John, The Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, The Eagles, ZZ Top, David Bowie, Fleetwood Mac, Ike & Tina Turner, The Who, Rod Stewart, Diana Ross, Aretha Franklin, Bruce Springsteen, Carlos Santana, Billy Joel, The Doobie Brothers, The Steve Miller Band, The Beach Boys, Van Morrison, The Animals, Guess Who, Neil Diamond, Herman's Hermits, The Supremes, Sam and Dave, Stevie Wonder, The Four Seasons, Blood Sweat and Tears, The Allman Brothers, Johnny Rivers, Sonny and Cher, The Moody Blues, The Spinners, Grand Funk Railroad, Three Dog Night, The Box Tops, Chicago, Electric Light Orchestra and the list goes on. In his usual wry style, Irv describes how KRSIs General Manager, John Enoch, was testing Control Unit Model 901, which generated automated programming. The Temptations were scheduled to perform at the St. Paul Auditorium on July 12, 1965, sponsored by Preacher Paul and KUXL. 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. 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. Finally, in the late 50s Sam Cooke broke the color barrier in the Midwest with You Send Me and black artists began to appear regularly on Top 40 charts. 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. 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. Its dead, it just sits there. Soon, it was possible to see the lights on the six KDWB towers. Hobart also announced the increase in power. And its guaranteed to relieve ennui! We were kind of in the middle of 1965. The paper called the new WMINs format variety.. Lord Jeffrey, (Jeff Diamond) came to work at KUXL in 1967, when he was about 15 years old. 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. On May 27, 1965, Will Jones noted that with Daylight Savings Time and sundown getting later Billy G would be able to wail with the records from Cassius Bar until 9 pm. At the time he was operating two mobile discos called Soul on the Roll Disco Rendezvous.. Suddenly the voice of Metropolitan Radio is clear as a bell on the dial. Scads of airchecks and music surveys are posted at, http://twincitiesradioairchecks.com/kdwb630tapes.html. The station had a conglomeration of programs, ranging from waltzes, classical, show tunes, Tin Pan Alley, Hawaiian, religious, cowboy, and novelty. And if I were Nancy Wilson, Id be a little ticked to have my song interrupted. WDGY's Charlie Van Dyke & Donald K. Martin in the studio during their morning show. The first song was Bad Blood by Neil Sedaka. Bottom Row: Dan Halyburton, Larry E. Cummins, Jimmy Reed. As always, these recordings will be available at no charge to you. 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. A media phenomenon, Coast to Coast AM deals with UFO's, strange occurrences, life after death, and other unexplained (and often inexplicable) phenomena. 3 Beds. Most Top 40 and Rock listening had migrated to the FM band (which had necessitated the Mighty 1130s switch in the first place.) David Hersk, founder of North Minneapolis recording company Gaity Records, remembered that Edwards had a late night show where he called himself Uncle Merle and played plenty of R&B and rock n roll in 1954-55. In 1983 the station was sold to John and Kathleen Parker. Tom Wynn at his current job at KFGO in Fargo ND. To celebrate its first anniversary, WDGY is happy to present this album of YESTERHITS FROM YESTERDAY. It includes a collection of twelve of the greatest hits from the last year. WPBC (Peoples Broadcasting Co.) was owned and operated by Bill and Becky Ann Stewart and went on the air in October 1949. My wife and I had long discussions late into the evening. He made a ton of money, eventually owning part of the Cleveland Nets World Tennis Team, Cleveland Indians, and Cleveland Cavaliers basketball team. The stations address was given as 287 E 6th Street, St. Paul. Never would have believed this if I hadnt seen it with my own eyes!. It's the music that stands the test of time. The only coordination was (sometimes) the Pick Hit of The Week as a freebie to a record maker.. Thats what caused the severe distortion, despite registering a 4 on my Wards Airline signal strength scale of 1 to 5. WDGY was certainly a much different station pre-Beatles than it was as the 60's progressed. 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. Screen grabs below courtesy Alan Freed. Thanks so much for the response to my e-mail, and for the kind words. Lets hope this is sort of right. band (which had necessitated the Mighty 1130s switch in the first place.) 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. The station then bought the syndicated program Music of Your Life from Al Ham. One was the Uncle Elmer Show. A rural comedy production? Ed replaced Machine Gun Kelly when he split for KHJ. WCCO, by far the Twin Cities most powerful station, called us to express their outrage and to let us know, Were taking this whole fraudulent farce to the FCC. When such a strictly-top-40 station as WLOL decides to go in for the classics, it smacks of chaos rather than culture. The Temptations came to the Marigold on October 16, 1966, and police had to be called when 800 to 1,000 people on the sidewalk got impatient waiting to buy tickets at the one ticket booth. WDGY was the Twin Cities' first full-time Top 40 station, going on the air with its new format on February 6, 1956. The ad below is for Position 63, a rather suggestive takeoff of the popular Position 69 that every schoolboy loved to joke about. It changed its format to Golden Rock on October 1, 1979. I hope you enjoy them. In August 1957 the station claimed to be first with Twin Cities Housewives based on a telephone poll of 388 people. They want smooth, slick, uncluttered radio., Ad from Minneapolis/St. And although this page is about the AM station, what the heck. Whether this was related to the disturbance was not quite clear. John was a dear, dear friend who died way too young. And this scene was a night scene. A policeman knocked down pregnant woman, pulled her hair, and threw her into a wall. Todd Mitchell found this article in the March 18, 1977, issue of Radio and Records, an industry newspaper. 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. WMIN adopted an all news format in mid-July 1962. We plan to have him on two hours Saturday and two hours Sunday. Sherwood and the rest were at their antic best, cooking up contests and announcing test answers to kids. 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. In 1962 WDGY broadcast the Vikings games. Garcia was so good that Colonel Parker pulled him off early so he wouldnt upstage Presley. With a couple of partners he bought a radio station in Cincinnati and turned it around, selling it at a profit. 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. Here are some possibilities: Rock n rolls roots lie in pop, country, and most important, rhythm and blues. (Only eight stations in Minneapolis-St. Paul. It was never clear whether he used it or even who he was. Listen to Paul Geiger in the morning! The music was tailored to a more mature (18-25) audience, such as Pablo Cruise. In November of 1957 WLOL brought stereophonic radio to the Twin Cities. 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. Casey Kasems American Top 40 began broadcasting on KDWB on January 6, 1974. Rob and Hartman decided to use U100 because of the dial position on an FM tuner you barely had to turn the dial to fine-tune between 980 AM and 101.3 FM they were within a couple millimeters of being in line on a 1970s-style AM/FM stereo tuner. I guess. 9:00 AM-11:00 AM. The call letters WDGY were based on the name of the founder Dr. George . In April 1957 the station was owned by the Franklin Broadcasting Co., William F. Johns, Jr., Vice President and General Manager. Below is a photo thats not too great, but hopefully shows how big the winning monster was. 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 important goal was to cover the Twin Cities. 980 AM was originally staid WPBC from 1949 to 1972. How to get it to St. Paul? The company engineers actually had to install coils to de-tune the water tower before the license could be approved for 50kw operation. in 1330s exciting sportscasts and weather reports. It was fun, and by then, Charlie was on the mornings, and I did the news and the bits. Efforts to find out who was playing that night were fruitless. [made possible by the late summer daytime hours] Now he also does a Saturday afternoon session from 1 to 5. The frequency was originally 1140 kc. Probably poached from Facebook. Jack Nugent said they went from 13th in the market to 2nd in 105 days. WDGY, Rock and Roll Oldies Radio, playing the best oldies of the 1960s and 1970s for the Twin Cities! Rock. Bobby Freeman, who did Lets Do the Swim, came to the Marigold on Sunday, September 27, 1964. Radio was going through a fearful period in the face of the TV monster, and Stewart and his co-owner wife, Becky Ann, urgently called their staff together. This site does not charge any fees to listen to the posted recordings. But that was overnights (considered a throwaway daypart by management) on a 50,000 watt station that reached from Canada to Cuba. We thought you could come up with a new product called Formula 63. Or when Bill Bennett 2-6 cuts in on Nancy Wilsons HOW GLAD I AM to tell her about THE BOY FROM IMPANEMA. Minneapolis Star, Saturday, April 10, 1965. If you look carefully, you can see the old WDGY transmitter through the studio glass. CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE, This photo was taken as the car pulls into the driveway on a Richfield winter day. Curt discusses his early career and talks about his time at WDGY and shares some stories about the people he worked with during his career. Top Row: Arnie Peterson (sports), Gene Taylor, Sam Sabean, Jack Douglas. The station dropped its ABC affiliation on December 31, 1962 and began a format of light classical and easy listening, The Sound of Beautiful Music in March 1963. $755,000 Last Sold Price. I remember recording Rock Around the Clock from a WMIN broadcast on my Wilcox Gay recorder. Found on Radiotapes.com: Ballad of Minnesota!. He had to play the #1 song every hour, and the others at will. 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. In 1956 or 57 Zingale went to New York as an account executive and, with two others, bought a White Plains radio station. 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. This shot was taken around 1969 one weekend when Gene allowed some of my fellow pirate radio friends and me to visit him on the air. In January 1956 Will Jones of the Trib talks about KEYD radios new staff of imported hillbillies, Texas Bill Strength and Johnny T. from Tennessee. . Many thanks to Jeff Lonto, who is one of the Cities experts on radio history, for much of the information cited here. An undated report says KEVE did a remote broadcast from the Flame on Saturday nights from 10:30 to 11:30 pm. Bad luck was cited, as it was the Twin Cities 13th radio station, and Lanphier pointed out that if you added up 1570 it came to 13. Its complex. Minneapolis, MN. Kamman left for New York in 1950. 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. Perhaps, this is a temporary station problem. He had a pilots license so he rented an airplane and he and the engineer, Rey Lark, and someone else hopped in with Bob and flew through the night to Peoria where they picked up the transmitter. Those Yearbooks and a Minneapolis Star Tribune article dated April 30, 1988, provide the details below. He has been at KQRS in the Twin Cities for years, doing the morning show. Who had the key? 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. He wanted ethnic shows in Polish, German, and Scandinavian. Two white youths from upstate Minnesota were arrested in a house when spotted brandishing a shotgun on a balcony. I may get the dates wrong, but the devil is in the details and I am loaded with details. 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. The Insider reported that it was moving toward soft progressive in September 1971, when Dick Driscoll came back to the station after Dick had turned KQRS from classical to progressive. I sent time at my grandparents lake home on Rush Lake (60 miles north of St. Paul). After that theyve changed calls as often as formats and thats pretty frequent.. The photo below was posted on Facebook by Paul Strickland, who says. Thats why wed like to call your attention to the music of KEEY-AM at 1400 on your standard radio dial. Storz's stations were heavy on promotion, headline-grabbing contests, and high profile dee-jays (usually using echo-chamber microphones). Rhythm, a/k/a Joe Zingale, who played an honest-to-goodness Rhythm & Blues show, according to Sam Sherwood. A January 1957 ad touted The Latest Platters with the Lightest Chatter on Sam Sabeans morning show On the all new, brand new WISK. Thus incited, the crowd began yelling invectives at the police and throwing furniture at them. 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. I suppose at full speed, in December, the ride to Peoria would take 18 hours. I was the only one there with a GRTO [General Radiotelephone Operator license]. He tried to use the phones, but the wires all came into the building through the furnace room and they were already toast. The recordings on this site provide historical examples of Twin Cities radio and are intended for purposes of archival preservation and for research. In a column dated January 24, 1954, Will Jones of the Trib called Cannon a Hep Talking radio disk jockey.. Thermometer posted on Facebook by Jay Arnold. The station had a conglomeration of programs, ranging from waltzes, classical, show tunes, Tin Pan Alley, Hawaiian, religious, cowboy, and novelty. My DJ page tells me that Ronn the Rajah of Rhythm & Bluess real name was Ron Samuels the one who married Wonder Woman? By 1977, FM radio had arrived big-time in MSP. The Record Rodeo show featured western, folk, and other typical American music on Saturday afternoon. 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. After the news, you will hear the Charlie and Don jingle into the music. Thats easy to remember. Of course, we could say that sixty three times an hour, and if no one was listening, it wouldnt be that easy to remember. So, we had to do something to let people know we were there there. In the meantime, Rob flew to Dallas to recut the jingles. Some not so happily as others, he admits. You can hear some of Herbs patter from September 7, 1956, on Tom Gavarass RadioTapes Web site: radiotapes.com/WDGY.html. and Falvey Cross Road [Wayzata Blvd. As disasters go, this one wasnt even on the radar screen. Perry Como actually sort of rocked with a great tune called Tina . Some of the airchecks are off reel to reel tapesthat were recorded off the air by the web site creator. By that time Elvis had hit it big with Heartbreak Hotel and Hound Dog a cover of a black record followed. Locally owned and programmed. The concerts were advertised in the Minneapolis Spokesman, the citys African-American newspaper, but rarely in the mainstream dailies. 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. Miller estimated that there were an estimated 70 radio stations in the U.S. that programmed entirely for blacks, but felt that there werent more than a half-dozen of them that were sincere and tried to program up rather than shoot down. Announcers on white stations used their own names, while black DJs were given the name of a clown, a name in keeping with the false and grotesque stereotype of the idiotic smiling Negro. 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. KDWB Studios, 1976 Courtesy RadioTapes.com. May 17, 1965, saw the introduction of Billy G to the announcing staff, when the sun stayed up long enough for another shift. Again, I apologize for the quality. Congress amended the FCC Act in September 1960 to provide penalties short of license revocation for violations of FCC rules. 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 Tribune did not announce the approval until February 17, 1964. He was in town doing two shows at the Flame Nightclub at 16th and Nicollet in downtown Minneapolis. On WLOL. Our studios were at the transmitter at [Seventh and] Davern Street in St. Paul and engineers played both records and commercials.. Dick Driscoll at WWTC in 1980, courtesy Jeff Lonto. On the same day, Forrest Powers, TV and Radio reporter for the Minneapolis Star, indicated that the station would start broadcasting that weekend. Big Time TV left Chicago and so did Skotch, going out to the West Coast and working as a director until he decided to get out of the rat race and become his own boss. The radio studios are on Utica Avenue South in St. Louis Park . Listen to Paul Geiger in the morning! On about September 1, 1962, the AM station expanded to 24 hours. Secret Stash indicates that Bob Smith arrived in January 1965. The fire from the furnace traveled to the transmitters and out the intake vents. Whatever the approach, it had to be as different as was our position on the 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.. 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