The owner, Midcontinent Media, sold the property. The format on the 500 watt station was folksy to the point where it may have out-folksied WCCO. Middle row: Steve Hatley, Cosmic Cowboy a/k/a Terry Roberts, Chuck Knapp & Charlie Bush. In 1983 the station was sold to John and Kathleen Parker. 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. Visit http://www.radiotapes.com for historic airchecks of Minneapolis/St. Top Row: Arnie Peterson (sports), Gene Taylor, Sam Sabean, Jack Douglas. Lets hope this is sort of right. What are we gonna do? In late 1935 a new non-directional 226 Truscan Steel Vertical Radiator (tower) was erected at the site. On this tape you will catch Johnny in the middle of a WeeGee Triple Power Play at the home of the "Twin Cities Most Music." What to do next? Listeners remember taping the show and playing it the next day for friends. (Storz died in 1964 at age 39.) A free sample is waiting for you at any Provident Drug Store. On the day the station switched over, rival station KEEY, published this rather gruesome ad. Im guessing that KAAYs Beaker Street was influential here. The request line was started in February 1968, with oldies and not just the same old ones being their mainstay. 63 thats easy to remember. In 1949 the station moved its transmitter and studio to a new multi-tower array described as at 102nd and Bloomington Freeway/Lyndale Freeway/35W. It was taken with one of those Mid-1960's Polaroid cameras. In August 1962 the station was identifying itself as Time-Life Broadcasting Inc. At that time an ad appeared with the following text: What happened to wtcn 1280? Much More Music is simply that WDGY played, and is playing, more music with the bright pace of the modern sound. Ill always be grateful for the little station in the funky building on Military Road in Newport. I leave it to smarter people than me to figure out the history of this craziest of stations. Fire trucks are on the scene and well up-date you as additional details come in.. And its guaranteed to relieve ennui! I stopped and visited him one morning, and he lowered a Bob Dylan album for me. Bottom Row: Jenny Rein (secretary), Vic, Nick, ? 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. New furnace, electricity etc. 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. They also reported that people were buying tickets for 50 cents entitling them to buy drinks. That November Ty Mack put in some hours, and it was now Autumn Serenade. Kash Box was apparently an advertising gimmick. The station was also still playing Fibber McGee and Molly and The Lone Ranger.. Helen Reddy / I Am Woman: 1972-12-01: Albert Hammond / It Never Rains In Southern California: 1972-12-08: Albert Hammond . But Glover was probably the most popular and well-known. At that time, the Twin Cities had only about nine stations, all AM, of course, with WCCO being the powerhouse. In an article in the February 1972 Insider, Tom Murtha noted that Glover was the prime mover in bringing more diversified programming to local radio. Glover was not the first to present underground music in the Twin Cities when he took on the overnight shift in 1969, George Fisher at KQRS had already been playing a diverse selection of underground rock, jazz, blues and comedy (Firesign Theatre, Cheech and Chong) for a couple of years. On January 15, 1969, Minnesota Human Rights Commissioner Frank C. Kent announced that Ray Moss, who had charged KUXL with discriminatory practice in employment when it discharged him, had been been restored to his position. The company engineers actually had to install coils to de-tune the water tower before the license could be approved for 50kw operation. September 7, 1963s listings showed: But things were moving along. WDGY is the only AM radio station in the Minneapolis-St. Paul market that broadcasts in HD. Meanwhile, the engineer, who had been in the tower field, returned to the building and was just seconds from opening the back door. Please enable JavaScript on your browser to best view this site. In 1954 the call sign for 1400 AM briefly changed to WMNS, reflecting a change to a full service format of music, news and sports. 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. Talk about a time frame, eh?) 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. Pine was known for making people mad, and Dick Driscoll tells of coming on the air after Pine and having people call to yell at him for things Pine said. Whether it actually had to pony up the $10,000 is unknown. I purchased some of the WDGY airchecks from collector Arron Mintz in Maine. Stand with Ukraine. The 9-tower array beaming 50,000 watts was used to produce one of the most restrictive signals in the USA. Our studios were at the transmitter at [Seventh and] Davern Street in St. Paul and engineers played both records and commercials.. One of the obstacles it ran into was resonating re-radiation from the Bloomington Water tower. This is the place where "it pays to listen." On October 3, 1963, Forrest Powers reported in the Star that, Well soon be the happiest group of radio listeners in the country. King was also coming to the same ballroom on September 12. It was the same night Count Basie was at the Prom, and a conflict was feared, but Will Jones reported that Mr. Diddley drew 1,500 sweating youngsters, and the Count drew 1,350 oldsters. (Minneapolis Tribune, August 21, 1964), Minneapolis Star, Saturday, August 15, 1964. On August 30, 1968, a concert and dance was held at Stem Hall at the St. Paul Auditorium, emceed by Jack Harris, a/k/a KUXL disc jockey Daddy Soul. ! 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. In June 1959 the Tedescos sold the station to Crowell-Collier, owner of the legendary KFWB in Los Angeles. 1370 AM went through more ups and downs than probably any other local radio station. In 1962 WDGY broadcast the Vikings games. They were from Andover, MN. Matchbook images courtesy Pavek Museum of Broadcasting, In July 1948, Chuck Mulkern had a fifteen-minute show called Hillbilly Hits.. Although we think of WDGY as the Twin Cities first rock n roll station, it was not at all clear at the time. Tune to the wtcn 1280 signal. Ike and Tina Turner appeared at the Minneapolis Auditorium under the auspices of Preacher Paul and KUXL on August 1, 1965. 1130 AM; Community content is available under CC-BY-SA unless otherwise noted. You will hear the WeeGee $10,000 Record Stash promo and Johnny ply "1130 Caret Gold." The promotional piece below pictures the stations initial staff. 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). Bob Mitchells show was on Saturdays from 1-5 PM. Dr. Young died in 1945 and the station was transferred to the Twin City Broadcasting Corporation 1946. Jimmy Reed was originally at KDWB-AM 630 before coming to WDGY 1130 onSeptember 23, 1969. Luxurious digs, no? says Curt. Joe came from Cleveland, Ohio, and was a time salesman for WCOW and he just got this wild idea about playing that music. Optometrist George W. Young started radio station KMFT in 1923; his first broadcast was on January 13, 1924 from his house at 2219 N. Bryant. Consequently the launch of U100 was delayed three days. WDGY - The Original Rock and Roll Station. In February 2017, WDGY added another FM translator, W221BS 92.1, broadcasting from an antenna atop Wells Fargo Place in Downtown St. Seems to be half and half in the photo below, mid-1960s. The problem was that by the time he got to a place that had soul food, it was all gone. The show was to start at 8 pm and take place at both the Minneapolis and St. Paul Auditoriums at the same time, with the stars shuttled by helicopter between them. On the second tape from 1971, I noticed Bob Dayton has some spots with a county twang. In about 1970 there was a shake-up of personnel. Then, on Tuesday, November 12, 1963, we see a completely new kind of schedule a Happiness Schedule! 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. Thus incited, the crowd began yelling invectives at the police and throwing furniture at them. CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE, WDGY Guides, Bohaty-Douglas-Olson, 1982. Some of the soon to be converted files includemore airchecks of DJ's from WDGY, KDWB and others. Try some Red Owl green beans. (blah blah). The license for that station expired in 1938, partly because mechanical television development was heavily discouraged by that point. Every sixth song was current. They were attacked by about 20 men who tried to retrieve the gun. Note the article actually prints his home address. This format gradually morphed into the sports talk format, and the calls were changed to KFAN in 1991. 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. Though our names are nearly identical, we were two different people. Don Morrison of the Star revealed even better news in his 2 Cents Worth entertainment column on June 20, 1964. Hagman had previously worked for WLOL, whose owner, Ralph Atlass, had adopted the Top Forty format during Hagmans time there from 1947 to 1952. Also appearing were the Amazers. Long hours! June 18, WWTC radio replaces every bit of music with news. We dug up the Colonel, I called and told him what we had in mind. and Falvey Cross Road [Wayzata Blvd. CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE, 1969 photo of Jim Dandy at the control board in the Bloomington studios, Jay J. To protect stations also on 1130 to the south and east, most of the power was directed north. Please enable JavaScript on your browser to best view this site. Joe Edwards does the news outro, ending this segment of WDGY's 20/20 News. They look really young. 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. Donald K. Martin reading the news in the WDGY newsroom. Not knowing when he was writing the article, one would suppose that the Four Tops was between Ike and Tina and B.B. Did the snakes and ticks take over the studio? You can still hear the Van Dyke and Martin banter. Bo Diddley by (are you ready?) The turntables are in the left foreground. No audio, but the wires would vibrate in time to the modulation. Most Top 40 and Rock listening had migrated to the FM band (which had necessitated the Mighty 1130s switch in the first place.) . http://twincitiesradioairchecks.com/kstpam70s.html. Jeff Lonto explains: To plan a schedule of programming consisting of things women supposedly would like, the station hired male psychologist Dr. Jacob Berg, whom management said would provide psychoanalyzed programming. In addition, the new format included horoscopes, James Aldens advice to the anguished and lovelorn, two-minute newscasts and editorials slanted toward the womans point of view, and 60-second lectures on sex, marriage and family problems. The stations were reminded that they had a non-cancelable contract. 1951 Photo courtesy Minnesota Historical Society. WDGY/Minneapolis has modified its Top 40 format to an AOR-slanted approach. The fire department didnt want us beginning the clean up until the inspector could make sure the building was safe to enter. Todd Mitchell found this article in the March 18, 1977, issue of Radio and Records, an industry newspaper. On March 7, 2017, WDGY discontinued broadcasting in HD and began broadcasting in C-QUAM AM stereo. I remember recording Rock Around the Clock from a WMIN broadcast on my Wilcox- Gay recorder. Oh, sure, was my response. Today, the station is KTLK, News/Talk 1130, and uses a transmitter site in Credit River Township. This photo was taken in 1969 after he came back to replace Rob Sherwood when he left for KDWB-AM. 11/22/1973 . Five or six foxes shake and gyrate on the stage each night to KUXL records, and Jones assures us they are the liveliest of them all. The manager was Roger D. Wilson, and in an ad for sales people he called the station Katy Radio.. Ads to rent out the St. Louis Park studio appear in January 1973 and sometime between then and March 1973 the studio moved to Valley View Road in Eden Prairie. 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 Due to the re-heightened awareness of HD broadcasting on AM surrounding the October 27, 2020 FCC vote to approve voluntary all-digital broadcasting by AM stations, WDGY resumed an HD Radio signal on November 17, 2020. That address does not compute, but below is a photo of the Holiday Motor Hotel, described as being taken in 1955. I know nothing about Billy G! The station played Country music with a heavy emphasis on local North Suburban news and sports. Remember that this website only goes up to 1974, and I did do a thorough search on Newspapers.com for KUXL and other offshoots. Ed replaced Machine Gun Kelly when he split for KHJ. At about 9:30 pm, someone with a shotgun wounded three police officers who, with about 20 others, were trying to break up a crowd of about 200 who had gathered at the site of a firebombing. Slogan. JAVASCRIPT IS DISABLED. Johnny Canton is at the top left. The WDGY call letters lasted from 1925 until 1991, first at 1140kHz, then to its longtime home at 1130kHz beginning in 1941. Meanwhile, the old KUXL crew was plodding on. 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.). What happened to the records? Other Twin Cities station owners resented the attention WDGY received, but soon they too jumped on the top-40 bandwagon. Years later, I learned the reason why. Covering black music was standard operating procedure in those days Pat Boone made a fortune covering Fats Domino records. The Strib is online now! Advertisement. It is imperative that this unit be installed as soon as possible when received.. Wedgy Devices for a variety of Electrical, Low Voltage, Plumbing, Piping, Mechanical, HVAC, Fire Protection and other construction applications using Wedgy Cable Supports. Well, I found no evidence whatsoever of the Four Tops show, but I did find this: On August 23, 1965, a fracas broke out involving 400-500 young people throwing eggs and rocks at cars, about a block from the Marigold Ballroom. Courtesy Jeff Lonto. Midge was the luck caller who got to shoot the turkey. Donuts Douglas (news man) Later on, the following talent also became a part of the station: Jerry St. James, Mesa Kincaid, Patrick M. Cookin' McKay, Chucker Morgan, and Jo Jo Gunne. An interesting headline in the March 11, 1973, Minneapolis Tribune was Automated Radio: Nobody is there by Irv Letofsky. 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. Harry Zimmerman was playing the Sweetest Music in Town., Something happened on January 14, 1957, but the ads werent clear. It wasnt long before the radio stations heard about the fact that they were advertising a competing radio station. Unlike in 2017, C-QUAM AM stereo did not return. Dick Driscoll at WWTC in 1980, courtesy Jeff Lonto. Theairchecks on this not for profit web site were recorded off 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! In 2008, the station became WDGY after sister station 630 AM switched to Regional Mexican music, using the call letters WREY. The result of this was that our spot was on every radio station at the same time. In 1978, promoter Tom Tipton noted that KUXL played only 11 hours of soul music per week. Peterson gave the example of Hamms and Grain Belt beer highly patronized by the black community, but refused to buy time on the station. The DJs chose the music, which was 80 percent pop standard and 20 percent contemporary. Donald Perry was the General Manager. According to PD Chuck Roberts, the new format is closer to AOR than Top 40 radio. the Harmonicats. The following account was taken from Rob Sherwoods blog: I was listening to WLOL, a smallish AMer that at that time was doing Talk Radio. 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. By the 1960s, the station didn't use the name itself, but the name stuck among people in the radio industry for many years to come. A search through the Broadcast Yearbooks and the Star Tribune turn up no evidence that the FCC ever raised the stations hours or wattage, so KMAP was apparently operating beyond the parameters of its license. 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. There were baffles designed to permit travel only in one direction, so a fire in the vent-work should have just traveled out. Black brought major R&B acts to the Labor Temple on 4th Street SE in Minneapolis. I was able to get this shot during a visit to see Jimmy Reed. Nearby Recently Sold Homes. Twin Cities News Talk Podcasts. Their playlist is appealing, though their disk jockeys are somewhat obnoxious., Chuck Knapp: Fun times is rock & roll with the very talented 15/KSTP The Music Station staff in 1975. More than a nostalgia station, more than a mixture of rock n roll history and local rock trivia, TC offers listeners personality programming and a fun sense of belonging to a rock n roll community. He made a ton of money, eventually owning part of the Cleveland Nets World Tennis Team, Cleveland Indians, and Cleveland Cavaliers basketball team. Dont ask me what that all means. WDGY Jimmy open his 1st show at WDGY he stated he was "..out on pass from the suburban rest-home." It also provided local-oriented public service information on groups like Y.E.S., Pharm House, Red Door, Womens Counseling Service, and more. A media phenomenon, Coast to Coast AM deals with UFO's, strange occurrences, life after death, and other unexplained (and often inexplicable) phenomena. The disturbance was considered contained by 2:30 am. Leigh (pronounced Lay) Kamman had presented jazz shows for years, lately on KSTP radio until that station summarily fired him along with a number of longtime staff for some unknown reason. The Wolfman died on July 1, 1995. Im sorry the ad below is so hard to read. But stay tuned. 2,838 Sq. 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. Because WTCN-TV was sold to a different company (Chris Craft Broadcast, Inc.), the two stations had to have different names. 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. Preacher Paul was there three nights a week as a host, and on Saturday afternoons he broadcast from the place. Top O The Radio Dial. Brother Al Tedesco wanted to call it WPIG or WHOG, but Vic protested the barnyard connotation. 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. Mort Garren left but stayed on at KMSP-TV, so apparently he was working at both places. The Sisters version sold six times better. The colors range from bright to blue, from funny to warm, from entertaining to informative. I guess that means no music. It had 50,000 watts during the day and 25,000 at night. In late 1953 there were shows called Saturday Date and Rhythm at Random, but what they played is anyones guess. I remember recording Rock Around the Clock from a WMIN broadcast on my Wilcox Gay recorder. Well, they got out of the rock n roll business but stayed in the radio business until November 1972, when the station was sold and became WYOO. Some jingles too. In 1959-1960 KEVE had a Sunday remote broadcast from the Fireside in Fridley. CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE, WDGY's Johnny Dollar in a promotional photo from the mid-60's. was WeeGee getting ready for the country format switch? Staff included Gary (The Deacon) Johnson, a blind disc jockey. $755,000 Last Sold Price. In February 2022, the station resumed broadcasting in AM HD. The decision was made to change to a Top 40/hard rock format, in contrast to what they saw as the rigid, bland presentation of other similar stations in town. The best of what youre about to give up on WWTC is what we play all the time on KEEY. See more about Harris under his listing on the Disc Jockey page. 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