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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. 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. WPBC: No, thats not a mistake. On the March 20, 1974 tape, we hear the jingle declaring "the music and money is on us" Mark Anderson does the news and informs us the CPI index was much higher, the US will spell out it position on the Panama Canal treaty and England is moving more troops into Belfast. This is a list of AM radio stations in the United States having call signs beginning with the letters WA to WF. We were kind of in the middle of 1965. The original WDGY DJs were Herb Oscar Anderson, Jack Thayer, Bill Bennett, Don Loughnane, Ralph Martin, and Len Bart. http://www.twincitiesradioairchecks.com/ (Rick Burnett). An October 1949 ad in the Trib called it The Northwest Empire Station and morning shows featured Irene and Lou, hillbilly favorites; Sschunemans Red Rooster Hour; and Johnny Aarthun, popular singer of old-country songs. He promised: One day it may be modern, the next day flavor of blues. Jack Hazlett was Station and Sales Manager, and Ralph R. Smith was Program Director. This heat siphoned off through ductwork that eventually combined with ductwork from the furnace and heating system. I hope to get some late 60's clips up on the site soon. In a June 4, 1959, article in the St. Louis Park High School Echo, it was reported that the FM station would feature dance band music on Fridays and Saturdays. Haines wrote: Rock and roll had a difficult entry into the Twin Cities market. By that time Elvis had hit it big with Heartbreak Hotel and Hound Dog a cover of a black record followed. Its IN but NOT far out!!!! And its guaranteed to relieve ennui! When WDGY began to play it, WDGY salesmen found an amazing reluctance on the part of advertisers to buy time on a station that was rated number two in the market. 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. The transmitter was destroyed by fire on February 23, 1933 and the station operated with WCCOs old transmitter. Not sure where the photo above came from. WMIN had several shows that might have included some jump tunes. The report by the St. Paul Human Rights Department, released in February 1969, placed the blame for the disturbances mainly on how the police handled it. OUR SURVEYS FOR WDGY; . Front row: Susan Bradley and John Pete (KRSI). Along with enough news to give you information, but not anxiety. (The station, planning to syndicate its features nationally, has been looking for a mature, friendly, relaxed male voice in these parts. On September 2, 1951, the station sponsored a concert by the Blind Boys, advertised in the Minneapolis Spokesman. Email : Jane@wdgyradio.com. Not sure exactly when these recording ran on WDGY. History The WDGY callsign was used for another well-known station in the area from 1925 until 1991 and broadcast at 1130 kHz. 11/22/1973 WPBC (Peoples Broadcasting Co.) was owned and operated by Bill and Becky Ann Stewart and went on the air in October 1949. Theairchecks on this not for profit web site were recorded off the air. Johnny does a live Tastee Bread "Baked While You Sleep" spot, but the tape run out before he gets to finish. The control board (using slider pots) was in the left middle of the shot and two reel to reels in the middle right. Jimmy was good friends with Tac Hammer, who was working at request radio KRSI at the time and also a former KDWB-AM jock. Ive been ignoring this station because I couldnt believe that Bill and Becky Ann would ever broadcast anything resembling rock n roll, but listen to this, from an article of the TV section of the Minneapolis Tribune, September 7, 1969: Anybody who has heard WPBC in recent years might have found it ludicrous to have listed to founder-owner Bill Steward the other morning as he remembered the tough radio days of 1954 and 1955. In 1980 KDAN was airing the syndicated Wolfman Jack Show. Should you have any aircheck of Twin Cities radio stations, let me know and I may be able to include them at this site. The station was five years in construction, delayed when its two towers in Eden Prairie fell. The music was tailored to a more mature (18-25) audience, such as Pablo Cruise. Stephen B. Labunski was made General Manager. And he noted that it was difficult to even find R&B records in town. Protests of the new format came in the form of resignations of staff, pickets, KQ Sucks t-shirts, loss of advertisers, and the formation of an organization called People for Progressive Radio, which strove to bring the free-form format back, either at KQ or otherwise. Back row: Randi Kirshbaum (KQ), John Fineberg and Richard E. Nelson (who was KQs production studio wizard). 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. 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. In late 1976/early 1977, the station rebranded itself as Y-11 (never losing its WDGY call letters) and switched to a progressive rock, album-oriented format. The precursor to KDWB was founded in 1951 by Nick, Vic and Al Tedesco, sons of Italian immigrants from the province of Calabria. The switch resulted in low ratings, according to an article in the Star Tribune on September 3, 1977. I was driving my yellow Toronado through the spaghetti part of I-94 in St. Paul. Listen to our News/Talk 1130 WISN podcasts here! WDGY "The Original Rock and Roll Station" The Original Rock and Roll Station--Shows. The music first played on KUXL was of the Percy Faith/David Rose/Henry Mancini/Peggy Lee/Bing Crosby/Lawrence Welk fare. The Broadcasting Yearbook for 1983 indicates that the format was country. The station kept the name WDGY until 1991. On December 20, 1977, a permit was approved to change the tower location to 5650 St. Croix Ave. in Golden Valley. Jim provided this aircheck of Johnny Canton. Im sorry the ad below is so hard to read. The request line was started in February 1968, with oldies and not just the same old ones being their mainstay. Staff included Gary (The Deacon) Johnson, a blind disc jockey. To protect stations also on 1130 to the south and east, most of the power was directed north. The station's studios and offices are in Lakeland, Minnesota, while its transmitter is off Commerce Drive near Interstate 94 in Hudson. 1967 bumper sticker courtesy Curt Lundgren. Think of it this way. Im guessing that KAAYs Beaker Street was influential here. The article in the Star Tribune outlined the new program: Drew Durigan: I DID hear them very well in 1988 as KMAP. Contributed by John Pratt 12-6-07. (Will Jones, Minneapolis Tribune). There were fire trucks everywhere. WDGY "The Original Rock and Roll Station" . in 1330s exciting sportscasts and weather reports. King was also coming to the same ballroom on September 12. Curtis J Johnson, formerly of WDGY. Charlie Smith and Preacher Paul Sunday swing thing. The old tower was removed and a new tower erected. The station then bought the syndicated program Music of Your Life from Al Ham. As far back as 1950 promoters Rufus Webster and D.P. Checker recording star Little Milton, with local band Maurice McKinnis and His Fabulous Blazers, appeared at a dance at the Minneapolis Armory on Friday, April 12, 1968. MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA Format: T40. I was able to get this shot during a visit to see Jimmy Reed. Another genre could be nascent Rhythm & Blues. The promotional flier or whatever below was posted on Facebook, and I dont know what the class designations mean. An envelope dated October 1, 1956, is addressed to 10350 Fremont Ave. As always, much more information and many airchecks are available at www.radiotapes.com/wwtc.html and http://twincitiesradioairchecks.com/wwtc.html. Meanwhile, the engineer, who had been in the tower field, returned to the building and was just seconds from opening the back door. The station was also still playing Fibber McGee and Molly and The Lone Ranger.. Without their help, the site would have many less pages of radio history. He stayed until February 1978. The tap starts at 1:30 PM and goes about one hour with music in. When constructed, a Bloomington transmitter location made sense as there was little development to the south at the time. RecordedMay 12, 1963. WMIN adopted an all news format in mid-July 1962. The photo below was posted on Facebook by Paul Strickland, who says. They would play pranks like play the identical songs for an hour and see if anyone noticed. It was Percy Faith type music. The show was emceed by KUXLs Jack Harris and Billy G. Little Miltons hits were listed in an ad in the Insider as Were Going to Make It, Blind Man, and More and More.. Joe came from Cleveland, Ohio, and was a time salesman for WCOW and he just got this wild idea about playing that music. Rhythm [in 1955] and played the real soul of rhythm and blues. It is owned by WRPX, inc. and airs a Classic Hits/Oldies radio format. 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. The photo below was posted on Facebook by Paul Strickland, who says. A Hammond RK4 reverberation unit has been ordered The echo unit will be .. controlled by push buttons installed at the news table and console. I did it several times before Scott discovered it was actually me, and that's what started me doing character bits for his show. KDWB had a prime spot at the State Fair in 1973, one of the great Teen Fair years. 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. This first tape was recorded of the radio on June 4, 1973 from 10 AM to 11:30 AM with the music and commercials out. An underlying cause was said to be the overall condition of the Selby-Dale area. In 1956 the station was sold to the Crowell-Collier publishing firm. The cookie was displayed in the lobby of the Foshay Tower, where viewers filched pieces of it until French dispatched a guard. Although we think of WDGY as the Twin Cities first rock n roll station, it was not at all clear at the time. Paul) Radio Stations, Some Recorded Off The Air by Rick Burnett and Many Others Recorded or Provided by Other Contributors to This Site (see footnote at bottom). Thats what caused the severe distortion, despite registering a 4 on my Wards Airline signal strength scale of 1 to 5. The frequency was originally 1140 kc. On December 10, 1962, the station launched one of those call-in shows where people argued with the host, who was called Norman Frederick. Today, the station is KTLK, News/Talk 1130, and uses a transmitter site in Credit River Township. The Impressions made an appearance at the Marigold on Sunday, April 11, 1965. In 1933, Dr. Young was granted a license for W9XAT, an experimental mechanical television station. Because WTCN-TV was sold to a different company (Chris Craft Broadcast, Inc.), the two stations had to have different names. The turning point came one night around [January 1956] when we tuned in the Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey Show on TV and they had on Elvis Presley They predicted that he and his music would be the wave of the future, and when we heard what he sang and how he sang it, we began to be concerned. The station had a conglomeration of programs, ranging from waltzes, classical, show tunes, Tin Pan Alley, Hawaiian, religious, cowboy, and novelty. 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. 1130 kHz (also on HD Radio) 106.1 WLHS-FM-HD4. [1] Contents The station in the early years played a variety of middle of the road pop music and standards, and was even considered an innovator in the concept of singing jingles. Brother Al Tedesco wanted to call it WPIG or WHOG, but Vic protested the barnyard connotation. Other short subjects would include Can You Explain It? a feature dealing with supernatural occurrences, and Curiosity Corner, a show touching on nature and science. They were attacked by about 20 men who tried to retrieve the gun. 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. Despite the stations weak signal, the show received over 1,500 letters in four months. It was emceed by Jack with KUXL, and is believed to be the first appearance of Brown in the Twin Cities. Al, Nick, and Vic Tedesco, photo courtesy Pavek Museum of Broadcasting. An interesting headline in the March 11, 1973, Minneapolis Tribune was Automated Radio: Nobody is there by Irv Letofsky. Unfortunately, there is a short period of time with lower quality sound, which is corrected quickly. 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. KUXLs Preacher Paul is promoting it once more., Oh Oh. Later WDGY would flip to a news/talk format; and finally, the adoption of sports talk as KFAN in 1991. On October 10, 1958, the station was moved from 1590 to 630 kc (Channel 63). It was automated country with a Schaffer pegboard sequencing unit when I was given the duty of being the stations Program Director in early 1975 added to my duties of being production coordinator for the short-lived Viking State News Network. A few days later, WPBC-FM became WRAH and programmed an automated album oriented rock format. Heres a story from Rod, taken from Bullerdash, the newsletter for KSTP Pioneers: I ran the mid-day shift from 10 AM to 2 PM. Some not so happily as others, he admits. I was a young kid when I first listened to WDGY and KDWB. Let us assume that the mighty CCO did not dabble in such vulgar music and focus on the others. WDGY-AM 1130 Perry St. John All Night Shift 5/12/63 The quality is not great on this recording, but you can still hear everything. September 7, 1963s listings showed: But things were moving along. Special thanks to Jeff Lonto and Alan Freed! The Colonel loved the whole idea and agreed to do it. Covering black music was standard operating procedure in those days Pat Boone made a fortune covering Fats Domino records. The entire concept, advertising and promotion was headed and created by Mike Siegelman, Rob Sherwood, and Bill Hartman. WDGY/1130 AM . It was an overnight smash. Since KDWB did not cover the area as well as WDGY, that was the station my uncle listened to continuously. Courtesy Jeff Lonto. He had a student pilots license and certainly shouldnt have been flying alone, in the night, in a storm, with passengers. No signal. WDGY - The Original Rock and Roll Station. The first of the stations catchphrases was My Mommy Listens to KDWB., Ad from September 19, 1959 courtesy Jeff Lonto. The first we hear of programming that was not Percy Faith and not (by this 21st Century womans standards) patronizing, comes in mid 1964. 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. Every sixth song was current. 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. Sweet Potato, September 1979. The baffles failed. The stations R&B programming had averaged about two hours daily during recent months when the stations sign-off time local sunset had been late afternoon. Forrest Powers of the Star filed his report on March 17, 1964, explaining how Ed Skotch was doing market research with a group of 40 housewives. There was apparently a change of heart; ads from the mid 50s asked: tired of one-note guitar players and hiccup singers?, like to crawl in a hole when you hear rock and roll?. Preacher Paul reported that the show drew an audience of 5,000 people! Countryside magazine, March 1976. When the oldies format of WYOO started to slide in the ratings, more MOR music was added, but ratings slid even further. K-COW said, Uh uh! According to the April 13, 1968, issue of Billboard, Chess Records artist Jack Harris is now doing a show on the R&B station Jack Harris, the proprietor of Black & Proud records, became Daddy Soul. The Insider said that he was on-air just an hour a day during the week and from 1 to 3:30 on Saturdays. Some of the airchecks are off reel to reel tapesthat were recorded off the air by the web site creator. NIS ended in May 1977 but WWTC continued the all-news format with its own staff. KTLK (1130 kHz) - branded News/Talk AM 1130 - is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Minneapolis, Minnesota. 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. 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 call letters were changed back to WMIN later that year. In July the McGuire Sisters were back with a song called Rhythm and Blues Somehow even they heard about it. 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. Okay, heres a puzzle. Below is a photo of at least part of the family and shows how close the staffs of the two competitors were. The station was the first to put in the companys prepackaged Great American Country service. As it stood, it was then peppered with public service announcements rather than the preferred commercials. Proceeds would go to a charity mutually agreed upon by the two teams. The engineers labored through the night and the following night and on Tuesday, we signed back on. For awhile they called the AM station KEVE and the FM station KADM Adam and Eve in the Valley. The two stations were simulcasting classical music when they both went to KQRS. A January 1957 ad touted The Latest Platters with the Lightest Chatter on Sam Sabeans morning show On the all new, brand new WISK. Donald plays godfather with his "Don" imitation and asks Charlie "What is black and blue and floats?" On October 30, 2021, WDGY once again discontinued broadcasting in HD Radio. Storz's stations were heavy on promotion, headline-grabbing contests, and high profile dee-jays (usually using echo-chamber microphones). The station played Country music with a heavy emphasis on local North Suburban news and sports. 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. Please enable JavaScript on your browser to best view this site. He's So Fine - Chiffons 9 5. I have a few examples, but dont have the provenance they probably came from Jeff Lonto. Meanwhile, here are some of the dances the station sponsored. This and other WDGY surveys can be see at the museum along with many other radio artifacts. Jack Nugent said they went from 13th in the market to 2nd in 105 days. Sources are cited, if known. The jocks shouted, snarled and chanted the KSTP slogan that was spilling from billboards and buses all over town, according to a 1977 Strib article. broadcasters Kenneth Wilson (standing) and Albert Vant Flash Washington, dated to the 1940s, suggests that R&B was available at least part time to listeners in Minneapolis. Dateline Minneapolis, March 13, 1966. 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. Much More Music is simply that WDGY played, and is playing, more music with the bright pace of the modern sound. The Gavins sold their mimeographed service to one station per market and it was kind of a co-op into which we all poured our tips. 1370 AM went through more ups and downs than probably any other local radio station. In 1966, he went to work for the then-popular station WDGY, which was 1130 on the AM dial, and. 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