Wednesday, February 10, 1965, was the first day the newspaper schedule showed Paul Anthonys name. See more of WDGY "The Original Rock and Roll . Rock. WDGY, Rock & Roll Radio, playing the hits of the '60s and '70s for the Twin Cities! Todd Mitchell found this article in the March 18, 1977, issue of Radio and Records, an industry newspaper. I developed a format of album rock, blues, soul, some jazz, a bit of folk, classical, spoken word and anything I could find that interested listeners. This format gradually morphed into the sports talk format, and the calls were changed to KFAN in 1991. Another genre could be nascent Rhythm & Blues. The fact that there were no lights did not compute until I heard the news guy on WLOL say, The radio station studios of KDWB burst into flame this afternoon. As an added advantage, U100 was the first Twin Cities top 40 station to broadcast simulcast on the FM dial in stereo (in addition to 980 AM). Click here for the story of a strange radio show that was sponsored by Daytons and aired on KDWB for four months in 1968. That clock is probably showing real time. They claimed to be running 5,000 watts. On the banner below is an outline of Downtown (St. Here are some possibilities: Rock n rolls roots lie in pop, country, and most important, rhythm and blues. On the same day, Forrest Powers, TV and Radio reporter for the Minneapolis Star, indicated that the station would start broadcasting that weekend. Whatever the approach, it had to be as different as was our position on the dial. Interestingly enough, in my KUXL file I found an article from the Minneapolis Spokesman, the black communitys weekly newspaper, dated December 26, 1958. 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. It was perhaps the only American commercial radio station the Russians had to jam to prevent their people from hearing all that decadent American Rock & Roll! In 1973-75 Chuck Knapp and Charlie Bush in the morning, Machine Gun Kelly and others livened things up. Three informative features were broadcast every hour each day to draw attention to commercial messages. One day the station was just there, offering gimmicky, women-slanted programs, not attracting much attention. Once outside the missiles became rocks. Our family cabin was located north of Park Rapids. The WMIN call sign was used from 1936 until 1972 by the predecessor to today's 1400 KMNV, and the call sign was also briefly used for a shared-time television station on channel 11. The stations request to change the location of the studio to 5730 Duluth Street in Golden Valley was approved on October 14, 1969. When constructed, a Bloomington transmitter location made sense as there was little development to the south at the time. The transmitters were destroyed, as was the entire engineering area and furnace room. I was prensent at the studio when Jimmy and Tac coordinated play of the same record at the same time on both stations. What happened makes a big diferencce to those who know and like good radio. And as soon as he got that he would file for full-time operation and still more power. Then they would have to schlep the transmitter in a big box (about the size of a single hole outhouse) back to Minnesota. WDGY Jocks teamed up with professionals Ed Kalafat, Bobby Cox, Jim Springer, and Corky Devlin, possibly former Minneapolis Lakers. He left in July 1957 to become Vice President of ABC in New York and was replaced by Jack Thayer. And, those cops took $350 in cash. Proceeds would go to a charity mutually agreed upon by the two teams. In late 1935 a new non-directional 226 Truscan Steel Vertical Radiator (tower) was erected at the site. See the new transmitter here courtesy www.radiotapes.com, Aerial shot of the 9-tower array courtesy Tom Gavaras. Paul Johnson recalls the remote surroundings of the transmitter and other memories of the tiny station: To make a once-per-day required base current reading at the bottom of the center tower meant you had to trudge through chest-deep snow in the winter. Bobby Blue Bland might have been the first KUXL show, appearing on July 22, 1964. The original WDGY DJs were Herb Oscar Anderson, Jack Thayer, Bill Bennett, Don Loughnane, Ralph Martin, and Len Bart. Top Row: Arnie Peterson (sports), Gene Taylor, Sam Sabean, Jack Douglas. September 18, 1964. No signal. 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. WDGY (740 AM, " The True Oldies Channel ") is a daytime-only oldies radio station serving the Minneapolis-St. Paul area of Minnesota. (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.) Suddenly it was true, 63 thats easy to remember. In the first year they logged over a million calls to the Request Line: 920-9999. Swinging through the Heights area the freeway ended and became Highway 12. In 1948 the Sepia Serenade show featured black recording stars, Mondays and Wednesdays from 6:15 to 6:45 pm. WDGY's Charlie Van Dyke & Donald K. Martin in the studio during their morning show. KQRS was close to adopting the SuperStars format, making them a major player. WCOW, owned by the Tedesco brothers, was definitely a country make that a hillbilly station, with DJs named Sidesaddle Sore Sam (Sabean), Denver Don Doty, Buffalo Bob Montgomery, and Pecos Paul (Denault). The original call sign for the station's construction permit was WAOZ, but the station was never on the air with those call letters. Merle introduced me when I called in, and gave me five seconds of dead air to start my home recorder at 78 rpm.. 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. Thank goodness for Will Jones! 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. Perry Como actually sort of rocked with a great tune called Tina . The studio and transmitter were located at 158 N. White Bear Ave., St. Paul. 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. $755,000 Last Sold Price. (Only eight stations in Minneapolis-St. Paul. Studio and Transmitter were at 611 Frontenac Place, St. Paul. In July 1966 (Smith sold out to Kosofsky?) November 1966s In-Beat magazine included an interview with the stations new DJ and Program Manager, Ray Moss. Courtesy of the museum archives provided by Steve Raymer and Daniel Henry at the. WDGY: 740 AM: Oldies: Borgan Broadcasting: KUOM "770 Radio K" 770 AM 100.7 FM, 106.5 FM, 104.5 FM: . Allegedly, the Stewarts would go so far as to use the sharp end of a compass to scratch away the grooves of tracks on albums that didnt meet their standards of nice music, in order to prevent rebellious D.J.s from playing them. Art Hoehn and Ralph Hull left with Wolfman, either to Mexico or Southern California. The call letters were changed back to WMIN later that year. Nearby Recently Sold Homes. Donald K. Martin reading the news in the WDGY newsroom. 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. At the same time, the station will be entering the background music field, supplying a separate channel of music to supermarkets, offices, plants, and other installations, reported the Minneapolis Daily Herald on August 8, 1962. One young man was in a rest room with some others who were drinking, and he flashed a gun. The station had a country format at the time and was owned by Benita Soho of Los Angeles, doing business as Newport Broadcasting. On August 28, Will Jones published an extended interview with Skotch. In January 1971 the station started to gradually move away from the oldies and gradually more toward album cuts. Storz's stations were heavy on promotion, headline-grabbing contests, and high profile dee-jays (usually using echo-chamber microphones). See Top 30 and Top 40 countdowns from 1966 on Robb Henrys blog. There is a promo for WDGY's Easter Bunny contest, where you can win a McDonald's Easter Bunny. Fairchild contemplated selling the station. In about November 1973, the WMIN call letters moved to 1010kc (formerly polka and country station WJSW). It faded into obscurity shortly after its release.. Ramsburg says, Let me put it this way it was all show-biz. No matter what I did, the signal was always distorted. Theserecordings are not intended to by used by others for commercial purposes. And well supply material so that listeners can excel in certain areas of conversation.. 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. See www.radiotapes.com/WDGY.html for airchecks and much more, including the very entertaining history of the station written by Haines. 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. Contributed by John Pratt 12-6-07. The address of the first transmitter and main studio was 7711 Sixth Ave. No. 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. As always, they are free. The station played Country music with a heavy emphasis on local North Suburban news and sports. Because AM 740 is a Canadian clear channel frequency, WDGY is a daytime-only station. After a couple of changes the call letters became WDGY (Dr. George Young) in 1926. Despite the high hopes for I-95, it only lasted until February 2, 1980. I have absolutely no idea what is going on here. The music played was from Kammans own encyclopedic library of records, domestic and foreign. Minneapolis has been kind of a combination rat race and three ring circus since the New WDGY started, but the tremendous amount of work being done is paying off in increased ratings and business every month. At the time he was operating two mobile discos called Soul on the Roll Disco Rendezvous.. Never would have believed this if I hadnt seen it with my own eyes!. Kamman produced live broadcasts from Mitchs Roadhouse in Mendota and hung out at the Club Casino in the Hotel St. Paul where the big bands played. The show was not widely advertised. I found no other advertising in the Minneapolis papers, but the St. Paul papers are not online. 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. Rocking and rolling and repeating over and over.Well advertise on the other stations. It was also described as 90 percent dance music in a TV interview on YouTube. The new station would be broadcast at 1570 kilocycles, way at the top of the AM dial, at only 500 watts, daytime only. My DJ page tells me that Ronn the Rajah of Rhythm & Bluess real name was Ron Samuels the one who married Wonder Woman? The station put on its salesmen, some, like Stan Mack, were former jocks. In a column dated January 24, 1954, Will Jones of the Trib called Cannon a Hep Talking radio disk jockey.. I did it several times before Scott discovered it was actually me, and that's what started me doing character bits for his show. 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. Meanwhile the station was being sold, and they moved over to KQRS (which was then KEVE) to continue playing jazz after dark fell and KUXL was off the air. Article on Scott Burton's injury during a WDGY promotional event. Charlie playfully talked to Don about a glee club and does the Weatherball Weather, sponsored by North Western National Bank.."May We Help You Today." April 17, 1973, ad image courtesy Mark Luebker. 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. Well hear more from Preacher Paul down below. WWTC AM Radio is something of an oasis in the local radio market. Wonderful WeeGee, home of the boss jocks like Johnny Canton, hit its stride in the 60s, competing neck and neck with KDWB. [In 1961, when the KFWB was having labor trouble, the owner shipped some Minnesota DJs to LA to cover.] This ad appeared in March 1964. You will hear Johnny's brief Art Fern imitation and at 5:30 he will say hi to the Twin Cities in a slightly similar fashion as a competing DJ did. Its billed as the Ike and Tina Turner Revue, complete with nine-piece band, singers Bobby John and Jimmy Thomas and a girl trio called the Ikettes. Bob Smith had created his Wolfman Jack character in 1958 at the 250,000 watt border blaster station XERF in Mexico, just over the border from Del Rio, Texas. The Stewarts had worked at WCCO in various capacities since 1944. 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. Whats more, we do it selectively enough to fill just the news you want. A unique look at sports. 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. The new U100 quickly became the topic of conversation throughout the area with its rowdy, outrageous mix of Top 40 and hard rock. Paul.[5]. 2 Beds. The next morning we were all there and I still remember seeing Howie Anderson shoveling the wreckage out the engineering entrance. They were born in St. Pauls Swede Hollow. was WeeGee getting ready for the country format switch? 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. In February 1963, familiar names Stanley Mack and Lou House were on the air. WDGY-AM 1130 Sign-Off, 1970 - YouTube This sign-off announcement from a radio station in Minneapolis (now News/Talk KTCN) is one of many audio files preserved at:http://www.radiotapes.comNo. (The top 40 announcers were a different breed, and we had little to do with each other off-the-air.). Back row: Randi Kirshbaum (KQ), John Fineberg and Richard E. Nelson (who was KQs production studio wizard). In November 1977 the Insider reported that the station was working around to the album rock format from Top 40. Around the fall of 1979 it went to adult contemporary,: and they also picked up Bob Allards and Larry Kings talk shows in the late evening. During the KFMX days, one of the frequent sponsors was the Leaning Post. CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE, This photo was taken as the car pulls into the driveway on a Richfield winter day. The actual graphics and billboards were created by Sid Rich and his advertising agency at the time in 1974. 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. I will cut in on occasion with additional/alternate information from Will Jones of the Minneapolis Tribune. 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. See www.radiotapes.com/WDGY.html for airchecks and much more, including the very entertaining history of the station written by Haines. A moment later we were both rolling on the floor, rocking with laughter. The stations address was given as 287 E 6th Street, St. Paul. The transmitter and three-tower antenna array are located in New Hope on Winnetka Avenue north of 36th Avenue. Much More Music is simply that WDGY played, and is playing, more music with the bright pace of the modern sound. Other Twin Cities station owners resented the attention WDGY received, but soon they too jumped on the top-40 bandwagon. After several call letter changes, including WHAT and WGWY, Young settled on WDGY, which was based on his initials. One more testament to the sheer effective radiated power in WDGYs nighttime lobe. Another view of the Holiday Motor Hotel, Golden Valley, Jack Hyatt and Hugh Cardenas selecting records at the new studio in Golden Valley. U100 signed off for the last time at midnight on Wednesday September 15, 1976. It discussed an article in the December 3, 1958 issue of Variety, in which Richard J. Miller, president of St. Louis radio station KXLW claimed that: most Negro emphasis radio is a cheap insult to Negroes, a source of self-generated bigotry, religious quackery, charlatanism, and a wallow of ugly, primitive and harmful sounds. I suppose at full speed, in December, the ride to Peoria would take 18 hours. The text is rather small; it reads: Today WWTC Radio trades violins for violence. Find out by playing this clip. I do enjoy it! Will Jones tells us that security was so tight that the 120,000 packages were stuffed at the Society for the Blind. Wedgy Devices for a variety of Electrical, Low Voltage, Plumbing, Piping, Mechanical, HVAC, Fire Protection and other construction applications using Wedgy Cable Supports. WDGY was certainly a much different station pre-Beatles than it was as the 60's progressed. Image courtesy Jeff Lonto. At every Provident Drug Store (not the real name) was a giant stack of tiny boxes beneath a huge sign saying, Free Samples of Formula 63. This time he was planning to do the same with KUXL, only without partners, using his life savings. Note that one of the attributes of the station mentioned in the ad above is Awards. The call letters WDGY were based on the name of the founder Dr. George . The switch resulted in low ratings, according to an article in the Star Tribune on September 3, 1977. We ran through the frigid Minnesota December weather to get to the production room. On April 18, 1994, after 36 years, the 630kHz frequency went dark. 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. KTLK (1130 kHz) - branded News/Talk AM 1130 - is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Minneapolis, Minnesota. WDGY-AM (1130) - Charlie Van Dyke and Donald K. Martin - 10 MB (provided by Danny Sigelman Includes newscast and commercials for Anacin, Eastern Airlines, GAC Finance, Target, Fairview Chrysler Plymouth, Joyous Christmas LP at Beneficial Finance, Hansord Pontiac, Xerox, Sears, First Minnehaha National Bank, and Quality Mercury. From 1973 to 1976 it was strictly Country. After that theyve changed calls as often as formats and thats pretty frequent.. Bill Diehl worked at WMIN from 1948 to 49 and from 1951 to 55. The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. His wry, understated wit, carefully studied word choice, and RELAXED delivery won him a following unheard of since the days of Murray-go-round on KDWB and Throckmorton at WLOL. Is it possible Don glowed in the dark? The result of this was that our spot was on every radio station at the same time. 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. 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. Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha!!! I asked a black friend of mine how her father heard his music in the 40s and 50s, and he said that Pullman porter friends of his would bring them in on the train from Chicago. The Stewarts took a rather conservative approach in programming the station. All except for a little country station called K-COW. At night, WDGY was very strong, but could never be received clearly. 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. Cream City purchased the station from Franklin Broadcasting of New York. Eight Miracle Mile merchants sponsored the program. Scads of airchecks and music surveys are posted at, http://twincitiesradioairchecks.com/kdwb630tapes.html. The Future is Now (bbzztt) The Future is Y-11, At 3 pm, September 2, 1977, the station changed its format again, this time to country. Minneapolis / St. Paul radio station WDGY 1130 AM survey chart for the week of 1970-02-13. The frequency was originally 1140 kc. The Colonel became famous and very rich. In fact, I was just doing news in the mornings, when Scott was doing his morning show, and then one day, I secretly called his special phone line to record my imitation of Truman Capote, with a comment for Scott. We kept professional secrets from each other, but otherwise we were just one big, happy family. Most Top 40 and Rock listening had migrated to the FM band (which had necessitated the Mighty 1130s switch in the first place.) They conducted a Music Poll via a coupon in the papers where people could indicate their music preferences and help the station select what it would play on the air. (From the A. Mintz Collection), Lunch with Donald K. Martin, Former WDGY Newsman and Morning Show Co-Host. 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. In 1967, winning a Honda might have meant just a motorbike. The new owner of KUXL, Universal Broadcasting, had its headquarters in Shreveport, Louisiana. In April 1957 the station was owned by the BFR Broadcasting Corp., N.L. . On December 20, 1977, a permit was approved to change the tower location to 5650 St. Croix Ave. in Golden Valley. On October 3, 1963, Forrest Powers reported in the Star that, Well soon be the happiest group of radio listeners in the country. Oops! Its complex. It is owned by WRPX, inc. and airs a Classic Hits/Oldies radio format. Glad you got that right, as our listeners just couldnt figure it out. The general manager (Mike Sigelman) and program director (Rob Sherwood) (1974), both hired from established Top 40 station KDWB, felt a major change needed to be made. Like an acid-etching, the events of that day in early December 1969 are sharp as cut crystal. WDGY can be heard around the clock on two FM translator stations: 92.1 W221BS from St. Paul and 103.7 W279DD from Hudson. Below is a listing of stations available in the metro area. Photo provided by Mark Vollmer to Radio Tapes. They were to buy only where they could get exactly the same guaranteed times on all stations at one time. The colors range from bright to blue, from funny to warm, from entertaining to informative. I guess that means no music. MOST NEGRO OWNED RADIO STATIONS INSULT TO RACE IS CLAIM. Tom Wynn at his current job at KFGO in Fargo ND. It was fun, and by then, Charlie was on the mornings, and I did the news and the bits. (Will Jones, Minneapolis Tribune). 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. 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. Back to the drama. The term we are using to describe this particular form of AOR is Coloradio. Our research and general observations indicate that this is the direction of AM Top 40 radio, so we may as well start now.. I was a young kid when I first listened to WDGY and KDWB. The Twin City stations were all on the upper part of the dial at 1070, 1130, 1490, etc., but nothing below 1000. Also, a fun fact is that in October 1964, wide-eyed George Murphy (something you cant see on radio) became Dino Day and began hosting A Date With Dino on Channel 9 TV. 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. When the oldies format of WYOO started to slide in the ratings, more MOR music was added, but ratings slid even further. I do not remember much about Gene Leader. Charlie does a ply on the Chicken Man radio series by introducing Donald as "the most fantastic newsman the world has ever known." The Temptations were scheduled to perform at the St. Paul Auditorium on July 12, 1965, sponsored by Preacher Paul and KUXL. Mon 13.02 Tue 14.02 Wed 15.02 Thu 16.02 Fri 17.02 Sat 18.02 Sun 19.02 Show by radio station time ( now in Minneapolis 16:44) Unfortunately, the radio station did not provide a playlist for this day. 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