Seven ways to listen:FM 92.1, FM 103.7, AM 740, FM 107.1 HD2, Live Stream at WDGYradio.com, Smart Speakers through TuneIn and the WDGY Phone App. CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE, One of the last music surveys published by WDGY. Sixteen pastors gathered to support this action and expressed their concern that the investigation be impartial and representative. Preacher Paul is a disc jockey. I do believe we did have the first of the top forty station two man morning shows, at least in the Twin Cities, other than CCO. That address does not compute, but below is a photo of the Holiday Motor Hotel, described as being taken in 1955. Somewhere theres a story about how a station staffer would drive a dune buggy around town, and the listener who guessed closest to the number of miles driven at the end of the summer won the vehicle. 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. All we have are newspaper listings, but on Tuesday, July 7, 1964, there is a full day of Ed Skotchs programming for women, from 6 am until 4 pm when jazz takes over. WDGY's Charlie Van Dyke & Donald K. Martin in the studio during their morning show. It was emceed by Jack with KUXL, and is believed to be the first appearance of Brown in the Twin Cities. It had hope to start broadcasting a week ago but was held up by equipment delays. Thought I would share. Yonny Yonson played old time (polkas, waltzes and shoddiches) from 9 am to noon and 3-6 pm. In January 1971 the station started to gradually move away from the oldies and gradually more toward album cuts. A media phenomenon, Coast to Coast AM deals with UFO's, strange occurrences, life after death, and other unexplained (and often inexplicable) phenomena. The last listing in the paper as WMKT was April 11, 1970. A note in the Minneapolis Tribune dated December 10, 1965, said that The discotheque scene at St. Pauls Ebony Lounge which disappeared a couple of weeks ago, is back in action, with much the same cast, at Big Als in Minneapolis. WDGY, Rock & Roll Radio, playing the hits of the '60s and '70s for the Twin Cities! Wayne Red Williams was Station Manager and Ray Christensen was Program Director. 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. MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA Format: T40. There were many parts of our regular signal area where we were missing. Or when Bill Bennett 2-6 cuts in on Nancy Wilsons HOW GLAD I AM to tell her about THE BOY FROM IMPANEMA. 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. WDGY can be heard around the clock on two FM translator stations: 92.1 W221BS from St. Paul and 103.7 W279DD from Hudson. What happened makes a big diferencce to those who know and like good radio. Tune to the wtcn 1280 signal. The Strib is online now! In 1968 Red Owl changed the station policy from middle of the road to all request oldies to try for a high enough rating to at least make the property salable. Bowman image sent to me by John Pratt, formerly of WDGY. And when youre there, youre a celebrity. The Twins management got riled at the implications that its star catcher and other players were hanging around a saloon, and protested, so the Preacher toned it down. David Hersk remembers that Edwards had a late night show where he called himself Uncle Merle and played plenty of rock n roll in 1954-55. Take the elevator, said the sign. 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. Photo from Judy Dibble via Rick Burnetts Twin Cities Radio Airchecks. Wikipedia says that the station went through jazz, and all news formats. Storz's stations were heavy on promotion, headline-grabbing contests, and high profile dee-jays (usually using echo-chamber microphones). The station had signed off the air at 11 p.m. when I did evenings until I was offered the overnight slot with Musicland as a sponsor. This format gradually morphed into the sports talk format, and the calls were changed to KFAN in 1991. He's So Fine - Chiffons 9 5. Ill tell it right when I find it again. In the July 2, 1967, edition of the TMC Insider, we learn that KDWB went off the air last Friday when a 50-foot tower was blown down and fell on top of the stations studios. In the photo below, the KUXL trailer is in the parking area behind the building. 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. At the time he was operating two mobile discos called Soul on the Roll Disco Rendezvous.. The why behind a cheeseburger. What Storz did was apply the Top 40 concept to rock n roll. Rocking and rolling and repeating over and over.Well advertise on the other stations. Wedgy Devices for a variety of Electrical, Low Voltage, Plumbing, Piping, Mechanical, HVAC, Fire Protection and other construction applications using Wedgy Cable Supports. The creepy monstrosity below, entered by St. Michael Elementary School, was the winner. WMIN adopted an all news format in mid-July 1962. [2] The station can also be heard on 107.1 KTMY's HD2 channel in the Twin Cities.[3]. From politics, current events, science and the arts, Forrest Powers published his own interview with Ed Skotch on October 7, 1963, in the Star. One of the obstacles it ran into was resonating re-radiation from the Bloomington Water tower. 2005. 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. In a column dated January 24, 1954, Will Jones of the Trib called Cannon a Hep Talking radio disk jockey.. They shied away from the likes of Elvis Presley and most early rock and roll music, which they described as junky music with morally degrading lyrics. Their philosophy extended to commercials as well, to the point that they rejected advertising from beer and tobacco companies. I sure miss those days. This is a shottaken at the St. Paul Winter Carnival. 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. Meanwhile, Preacher Paul was bugged at being in a hot studio from 2 to 6, so starting in mid-June he was going out in a mobile trailer to broadcast from various outdoor locations around the Twin Cities. 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. Four businesses were fire-bombed and fire trucks were met with sniper fire but no one was injured. By 1977, FM radio had arrived big-time in MSP. His programming was designed to help said housewife by becoming an intimate, informative close friend that will cloud out the things that bug her. Oh wait! Jim du Bois (Right), President and CEO of the Minnesota Broadcastors Association at a May 4th 2007 breakfast meeting with me (Rick Burnett). That beam was so strong that the GROUNDWAVE signal made it at night in addition to the skywave signal. 1936 ad below courtesy Jeff Lonto. (The name change from WISK was reflected in the radio listings in the newspaper on September 19.) They continued to run the spots. (Phones at fire departments all across the vast Twin Cities area rang causing a ton of confusion as to just exactly where there was a fire.) All rights reserved. As for ownership, that, too, is a jumble. The turning point came one night around Christmas 1955 when we turned in the Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey Show on TV and they had on Elvis Presley, Stewart remembered. In February 2022, the station resumed broadcasting in AM HD. In the first few months of operation, I would guess that WDGY probably lost as much money per month as any station in the history of radio. 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? I continued on Highway 12 to Radio Drive. Freed: KDAN, being a daytimer, was a perfect station to shoot at because it was off the air from sunset to sunrise, so a film shoot wouldnt interfere with normal operations if the filming was overnight. In the first year they logged over a million calls to the Request Line: 920-9999. Ill tell it right when I find it again. The station finally landed at the great 1130 on March 24, 1941, when all of the local stations were repositioned. The request line was started in February 1968, with oldies and not just the same old ones being their mainstay. I was still in high school when this photo was taken. 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. Jim Peterson, station manager for the last year, said no matter how much sense it made, nobody would buy commercials for a little 1,000 watt, AM daytimer station. Happy to find and post it prior to Johnny induction into the Pavek'sMuseum of Radio Broadcasting Hall of Fame. Its Ipanema, not Impanema. On December 1, 1964, KEVE was changed to KQRS Quality Radio Station, still playing classical music. Click on Photo to go to a site with old bloomington antenna site and transmitter photos put together by Aaron White. Stand with Ukraine. In 1951 Ray Christenson was voted the most popular classical and semi-classical disk jockey in the State of Minnesota. At the time, Ray was also teaching diction to the students of Helen Stefan Model and Finishing School. No signal. 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 Twin City stations were all on the upper part of the dial at 1070, 1130, 1490, etc., but nothing below 1000. 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. Our family cabin was located north of Park Rapids. More fire trucks. Secret Stash indicates that Bob Smith arrived in January 1965. September 18, 1964. WDGY station changed to a country music format in September 1977, around the time when most music stations began shifting onto the FM band. 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. What about a transmitter? Midge was the luck caller who got to shoot the turkey. 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. The show was not widely advertised. One Saturday afternoon I was alone in the station working the 2 to 6 PM shift when two men came in the front door. As far back as 1950 promoters Rufus Webster and D.P. 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. I took this from a flight I took in 1977. WDGY - The Original Rock and Roll Station. June 18, WWTC radio replaces every bit of music with news. I hope you enjoy them. Everyone agreed that this guy could sell anybody anything. 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 site does not charge any fees to listen to the posted recordings. Always a different color of Twin Cities life. The stations music survey was Top 15 Teen Tunes, and included 5 Top Comers selected by a High School Panel of Experts. About 350 young people, mostly black (Ill use that word instead of the word Negro used at that time) were in attendance. "WDGY Means the Most Music and the Most Money." KDWBs listeners were gradually migrating to the FM signal. It was Helm that people petitioned to have on the station more than anything, after trying him out on a trial basis starting in the middle of 1972. Whats more, we do it selectively enough to fill just the news you want. The gun-toting news director? WTCN was the home of Jack Thayer and Bill Diehl (before they moved over to WDGY) and had a lot of music shows with ambiguous titles. And well supply material so that listeners can excel in certain areas of conversation.. It faded into obscurity shortly after its release.. It was fun, and by then, Charlie was on the mornings, and I did the news and the bits. Doing the research for this page has taken all of my resources, from the all-important Facebook, Star Tribune, and Wikipedia, broken links, bad info and all. (Helicopters had to be replaced by limos when things got too dangerous.) 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. In February 1963, familiar names Stanley Mack and Lou House were on the air. The call letters were also WLOL. 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. MOST NEGRO OWNED RADIO STATIONS INSULT TO RACE IS CLAIM. Top Row: Arnie Peterson (sports), Gene Taylor, Sam Sabean, Jack Douglas. It will be historical and contemporary, sweet, hot, lowdown, enlightened Chicago style or very cool. In April 1929 the frequency apparently became 1180. The contributed recordings fromfriends and contributors of both airchecks and other material are greatly appreciated. The music first played on KUXL was of the Percy Faith/David Rose/Henry Mancini/Peggy Lee/Bing Crosby/Lawrence Welk fare. In late 1935 a new non-directional 226 Truscan Steel Vertical Radiator (tower) was erected at the site. Nicked named Wildman, he has an internet polka show. You can still hear all George Young has to say on this clip. 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. (Guess who said that?) He didnt want to scare people away, and he wanted to lure sponsors to the program. I always respected his unusually creative approach to all things radio. The Wolfman died on July 1, 1995. Back to the drama. The call letters of WTCN radio were changed to WWTC on October 2, 1964, after Time Life sold the station to Buckley-Jaeger Broadcasting. KUXL sponsored dances at various venues, and brought in national acts. You will hear Curt share stories on WDGY personalities, including Jim Dandy, Rich Holter, George Young and others. 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. 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. The only coordination was (sometimes) the Pick Hit of The Week as a freebie to a record maker.. There is a promo of Jim Dandy announcing he was returning to WDGY (to fill the shift left by Rob Sherwood when he went to KDWB). If it doesnt do, Ill be back in the rat race.. J. Warren Burke was brought in as general manager to revamp the station. Johnny does a live Tastee Bread "Baked While You Sleep" spot, but the tape run out before he gets to finish. You can hear some of Herbs patter from September 7, 1956, on Tom Gavarass RadioTapes Web site: radiotapes.com/WDGY.html. In addition to the ones listed below, Preacher Paul expressed an interest in booking act such as Chuck Jackson, Jimmy Reed, Junior Walker, Marv Johnson (he lost $20 on that show, he told Secret Stash), Al Green, Wilson Pickett (emceed by Lord Jeffrey), Fats Domino, the Supremes, Joe Hinton, and his pride and joy the Righteous Brothers. WDGY was certainly a much different station pre-Beatles than it was as the 60's progressed. 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. Jack Thayer was on three different times during the day, Frank Beutel with a show called Just Easy, Swing Club: David Hersk remembers Bob Bradley playing R&B in 54 and 55. The small 1000 watt daytime station was located at 1470 on the AM Dial. Seriously, who thought progressive rock on AM was a good idea? History The WDGY callsign was used for another well-known station in the area from 1925 until 1991 and broadcast at 1130 kHz. There were a bunch of people but no real activity. Thats what caused the severe distortion, despite registering a 4 on my Wards Airline signal strength scale of 1 to 5. As a promotional gimmick, Skotch planned to distribute 100,000 happiness charts, which supposedly predicts the days when a person will feel cheerful or grumpy. These summaries focus on the 1950s through the 1970s, with an emphasis on trying to figure out which stations might have played rhythm & blues, rockabilly, or straight-on rock n roll before WDGY, the first full-time rock n roll station, hit the airwaves in February 1956. Probably poached from Facebook. Despite the stations weak signal, the show received over 1,500 letters in four months. To protect stations also on 1130 to the south and east, most of the power was directed north. We kept professional secrets from each other, but otherwise we were just one big, happy family. Storz also ended the affiliation with the Mutual network. And as many times I tried to get Jim Jennings to talk to me, he ducked me every time. (Were they ahead of their time?) One more testament to the sheer effective radiated power in WDGYs nighttime lobe. I remember recording Rock Around the Clock from a WMIN broadcast on my Wilcox- Gay recorder. Because the two signals arrived out of phase, they cancelled each other out. Nearby homes similar to 5917 Fayette St have recently sold between $944K to $1,305K at an average of $570 per square foot. Fan Feed More The OFFICIAL Fictional Radio Stations Wiki. 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). Not knowing when he was writing the article, one would suppose that the Four Tops was between Ike and Tina and B.B. decade KDWB-FM was picked up by Chancellor Media. Jones described him as a mild-mannered, blond, pipe-smoking sort, who grew up in Chicago and worked in radio as a writer, director, and producer on radio shows and in TV when that city was its center of the early 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. The station began broadcasting on July 1, 1965, as WMKT. 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