3 Beds. Alan Freed posted the photo below of WWTCs control center taken in 1981. WDGY went through several ownership changes until 1956, when it were purchased by Todd Storz' Storz Broadcasting, an Omaha-based owner of a five-to-seven-station group (the maximum number allowed in those days). Will Jones reported in his column on March 12, 1964: Of all the new for-women-only features on KUXL, the station reports the ladies are most interested in a feature called The Unbelievable, Yet it Happened. Its about the supernatural. CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE, 1969 photo of Jim Dandy at the control board in the Bloomington studios, Jay J. This site does not charge any fees to listen to the posted recordings. Jones explained that Lanphier was a former Milwaukee radio and TV man, and would act as the station manager as well as owner. Proceeds would go to a charity mutually agreed upon by the two teams. KDWBs listeners were gradually migrating to the FM signal. Dan Pothier (pronounced Poh-SHAY) worked at the station around this time as well. After becoming VP and General Manager, I made sales calls in all the major markets and it never failed.Sam Sherwood?!!! WDGY 1130 AM MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA Week: 1963-03-18 Format: T40 WDGY 1130 - MINNEAPOLIS - ST. PAUL TIGER TUNES WEEK BEGINNING MARCH 18, 1963 TW LW 1. A daily show dedicated to Whoopie John records, Melody Hall with Mort Garren, 11 to 3 pm, Album Parade with Jack Hyatt, 3 to 8 pm, German, Polish, Country, Old-Time: 15 percent, Shows with Don Hawkins, Johnny Morris, and Jimmy Valentine, Shows with Henry J. Taylor, Bill Ingram, and Don Riley, Suburban Editorial, with editors of 12 suburban newspapers editorializing on the air throughout the week, A two-hour show featuring audience calls discussing some controversial or current issue, The all-time, sock, dynamite hits, on 15 reels of tape, 32 or 33 songs to a reel. I love Will Jones, but this one is listed under Weekend girlwatching tip. MCP. Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha!!! His shows were variously called, Steve Cannon was at WMIN from 1949 to 54. Each episode focuses on the issues, people and stories that impact the state. Today, the station is KTLK, News/Talk 1130, and uses a transmitter site in Credit River Township. But if you listen to radio to soothe your nerves, reports of mideast tension, recession and crime just might produce the opposite effect. 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. The call letters were changed back to WMIN later that year. Tom G. Morris was promoted to station manager and Robert E. Bowdan was named sales supervisor. At night, WDGY was very strong, but could never be received clearly. 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. In 1967, winning a Honda might have meant just a motorbike. King, right? KANO was started in 1956 by Jack Lemme, who owned a radio station in Little Falls. 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. [4] Faced with much stronger competition on the FM dial, WDGY adopted a country music format, which continued well into the 1980s. Fan Feed More The OFFICIAL Fictional Radio Stations Wiki. Apparently all this time, the station was still owned by Universal Broadcasting, which, when it was purchased, was controlled by Marvin Kosofsky. 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. The rest of that Sunday night, people continued to mill about. John Fineberg was at both stations during those years and described a KQRSI (KQRS and KRSI) family. Most Top 40 and Rock listening had migrated to the FM band (which had necessitated the Mighty 1130s switch in the first place.) Station manager Jim Peterson said the change, effective January 1, 1973, will involve afternoon programming only, with religious programs to stay on the stations schedule until 1 pm daily. Special thanks to Jim du Bois for the use of the recording studio & to Donald K. Martin and Mike Cunningham for spending timein the interest to preserve some of the Twin Cities radio history. Kamman also hosted the Swing Club Program. The quality is not great on this recording, but you can still hear everything. About 350 young people, mostly black (Ill use that word instead of the word Negro used at that time) were in attendance. Both Will Jones (Tribune, November 2, 1965) and Preacher Paul (Twin City a Go Go, Holiday 1965) wrote about the place, and how they installed 14 of the finest foxes youd ever want to see, a sound system thatll knock the buckle right off your belt, some of those sweet, gone, pine-toppin KUXL sounds, and crowds of out-a-sight swingers. Ray left in June 1957 because he was too busy with baseball and was replaced by Jim Boysen. Today, the station is KTLK, News/Talk 1130, and uses a transmitter site in Credit River Township. Beatles Concert Photos of the Fab Four in 1966 with local radio talend from Cleveland's WIXY radio - Note a young Johnny Canton and Jerry Brooke who both went on to work at WDGY. Congress amended the FCC Act in September 1960 to provide penalties short of license revocation for violations of FCC rules. The station was the first to put in the companys prepackaged Great American Country service. Whats more, we do it selectively enough to fill just the news you want. Sincerely by the McGuire Sisters. 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. The report of the St. Paul Urban Coalition, headed by Arthur S. Fleming, President of Macalester College, was released in March 1969 and echoed the first but was much more detailed and damning. Contributed by John Pratt 12-6-07. Charlie does a ply on the Chicken Man radio series by introducing Donald as "the most fantastic newsman the world has ever known." Peterson gave the example of Hamms and Grain Belt beer highly patronized by the black community, but refused to buy time on the station. After a years absence, Sam Sabean was hired back as a DJ and Station Manager, but he had to have a different name, so Sherwood was arbitrarily chosen. The colors range from bright to blue, from funny to warm, from entertaining to informative. I guess that means no music. (Were they ahead of their time?) 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 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? We thought Formula 63 with the Colonel was really a good way to introduce our station. The turntables (pre-historic CD players) are out of the shot to his left side. As far back as 1950 promoters Rufus Webster and D.P. Radio and Records magazine, March 18, 1977, courtesy Todd Mitchell, Only reference to Y-11 that came up in a search of the Strib. You will hear Curt share stories on WDGY personalities, including Jim Dandy, Rich Holter, George Young and others. Bo Diddley by (are you ready?) The station began as WMIN in the summer of 1936, when St. Paul furniture retailer Edward Hoffman began broadcasting at 1370kHz. The fire department didnt want us beginning the clean up until the inspector could make sure the building was safe to enter. Today, the station is KTLK, News/Talk 1130, and uses a transmitter site in Credit River Township. Formula 63, will relieve ennui he promised right from the first moment you try it. Some of the soon to be converted files includemore airchecks of DJ's from WDGY, KDWB and others. Okay, heres a puzzle. As for our own radio stations, there were about nine to choose from the mighty WCCO (which had nothing remotely like rock n roll) and those listed below. band (which had necessitated the Mighty 1130s switch in the first place.) He broadcast over the radio that there was a fire at KDWB, no joke, and that someone should call the fire department. At that time the station was also playing show tunes, Lawrence Welk, and shows like Dragnet, Bob Hope, The Great Gildersleeve, and biographies. 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. November 1966s In-Beat magazine included an interview with the stations new DJ and Program Manager, Ray Moss. Commercial from a 1988 Beta recording of the TV movie Leap of Faith on Minneapolis, Minnesota channel 4 WCCO-TV A 1972 article in the Echo opined that KDWB played new songs that were just released, while WDGY only played nationally-established music. Top Row: Step Up Movie, Steve Highsmith, Gregg Lindahl, Paul Johnson. In late 1935 a new non-directional 226 Truscan Steel Vertical Radiator (tower) was erected at the site. He left in July 1957 to become Vice President of ABC in New York and was replaced by Jack Thayer. KQRS 92.5 FM started out as KEVE-AM on September 1, 1963. This shot of him in the WDGY DJ control room is one of the better quality shots showing the Gates control board. Although I dont normally provide snapshots of FM stations, this one is pretty interesting. KQRS was close to adopting the SuperStars format, making them a major player. When constructed, a Bloomington transmitter location made sense as there was little development to the south at the time. KDWB went off the air at 5:21 PM, Sunday Afternoon, and was back on the air on Tuesday. Minneapolis, MN. It will be historical and contemporary, sweet, hot, lowdown, enlightened Chicago style or very cool. Jimmy Reed let me sit in his chair, but did not let me go on the air. The schedule on December 30, 1971, shows Rhythm & Blues programming from 1pm until dark and 6 am until 6:45 am. 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. Guaranteed to make life more fun. With the aid of conviction to principle, an innovative approach to tweaking the automation to liven up the sound and programming our own currents and recurrents, p*ss, vinegar and a well-crafted letter and position paper to Jim Duncan, then R&Rs Country Editor, we managed to get KDAN appointed as the 75th Country reporter for the fledgling trade paper. (Minneapolis Daily Herald, August 8, 1962). A 15-year-old polio victim was smashed, face-first, into the pavement and sent home bleeding. The music first played on KUXL was of the Percy Faith/David Rose/Henry Mancini/Peggy Lee/Bing Crosby/Lawrence Welk fare. The Strib is online now! The first we hear of programming that was not Percy Faith and not (by this 21st Century womans standards) patronizing, comes in mid 1964. Screen grab from the movie Purple Haze. Image courtesy Alan Freed. Our playlist stores a WDGY track list for the past 7 days. 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. Enter Bob Reed the news director. 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. Well, at least with the progressive announcers on KRSI. Standing from left to right: Steve Shannon and Ed OBrien. The old tower was removed and a new tower erected. Image courtesy Alan Freed. A unique look at sports. Lord Jeffrey, (Jeff Diamond) came to work at KUXL in 1967, when he was about 15 years old. 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. What happened to the records? Since KDWB did not cover the area as well as WDGY, that was the station my uncle listened to continuously. Paul caught on fire and was off the air? WDGY moved from 1130 to 630 AM and became sports station KFAN. So they convinced Edwards to do it and he became Merle Hub Cap Edwards. John Fine was also part of this tight social group. From the early 1940s to the early 70s the brothers owned and operated 11 radio stations throughout the Upper Midwest. Studio and Transmitter were at 611 Frontenac Place, St. Paul. One letter to the editor mourned the Death of Jazz, praised Herb Schoenbaum and Leigh Kamman, who gave much to the betterment of good music in the Twin Cities, and directed particular admiration to Paul Franklyn, who flew the jazz banner through the wildest change of station ownership and programming this city has ever seen. (Minneapolis Star, December 28, 1964). Talk about a time frame, eh?) Jack Thayer had started his career here, from 1942-1951. 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. 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. From there he went on to be Milkman Sam until about 1956. At the time he was operating two mobile discos called Soul on the Roll Disco Rendezvous.. WDGY, - , , OnlineRadioBox.com . KUXL hosted the Impressions at the Marigold Ballroom on January 22, 1967. The switch was preceded by a five minute retrospective radio collage of the history of WDGY, and the first song played was John Denvers Thank God Im a Country Boy.. 36 years later, Im still in the radio game with more than my fair share of terrific experiences. 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. A 1969 shot of me (Rick Burnett a/k/a Rick Mason) when I was visiting the studio. Its the swinginest!, In March 1958, WLOLs catchphrases were The Best Sound for Miles and Miles Around and Bigger, Better, Brighter than Ever.. By 1981 it was back to Country, testified by Chris McKay: In 1981 I had just graduated from Brown Institute, and was the CHIEF ENGINEER at KDAN AM 1370! Unfortunately, there is a short period of time with lower quality sound, which is corrected quickly. Our studios were at the transmitter at [Seventh and] Davern Street in St. Paul and engineers played both records and commercials.. I was prensent at the studio when Jimmy and Tac coordinated play of the same record at the same time on both stations. The Pavek Museum of Broadcasting has radio station ratings books that list programs from 1953 to 1955. 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. Because AM 740 is a Canadian clear channel frequency, WDGY is a daytime-only station. 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