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WDGY 40 STAR SURVEY Week *Ending* May 7, 1966 1. ARSA: ABOUT: SURVEYS: STATIONS: WDGY 1130 AM. Don reminded me about the Colonel and his pitch prowess. 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. Now Im back to tell you about a product, guaranteed to cure an even bigger problem. What Storz did was apply the Top 40 concept to rock n roll. 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." Many thanks to Jeff Lonto, who is one of the Cities experts on radio history, for much of the information cited here. Part of the plan was to tape all of the features for syndication and he figured there were 200 stations that could make good use of the material. This was a fun station. The glass in the ticket booth was broken in two places, but Ballroom manager Elmer Larson insisted that there was no danger of the crowd getting out of hand and that the booth broke because it was poorly constructed. One person was sought for breach of the peace. Al, Nick, and Vic Tedesco, photo courtesy Pavek Museum of Broadcasting. Rocking and rolling and repeating over and over.Well advertise on the other stations. Below is a photo thats not too great, but hopefully shows how big the winning monster was. When Hagman moved to WDGY, he brought the Top Forty concept with him, as well as the Mutual Broadcasting System, which aired programs like Queen for a Day and Sergeant Preston of the Yukon. A schedule from April 1955 shows Eddie Cantor and a lot of Springtime Serenade, but also shows just identified by the DJ (Bill Rudd and Irv Smith put in a lot of time.). Photo courtesy Pavek Museum of Broadcasting. FM. The stations request to change the location of the studio to 5730 Duluth Street in Golden Valley was approved on October 14, 1969. He did his own programming, and said he loved his job. He finally had some blackeyed peas on New Years Eve, and other successes after that. He was in town doing two shows at the Flame Nightclub at 16th and Nicollet in downtown Minneapolis. 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. 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). I encourage you to check back from time to time. Bill Diehl worked at WMIN from 1948 to 49 and from 1951 to 55. Everyone made up and by 1972 (and probably before) the station had a Super Shooters basketball team. Who had the key? Thanks again for the responseand thanks for the great website! This get together included Jim du Bois, currently CEO and President of the Minnesota Broadcasters Association & formerly of KTCR-FM, WDGY, & K102, Mike Cunningham, former KTCR-FM Operations Manager, and myself, Rick Burnett (also formerly of KTCR-FM).Don talks about his early days in Iowa and tells how very disappointed his mother was when Don failed to get a job at country station KTCR-AM in 1963; instead he got a job at KDWB. What happened makes a big diferencce to those who know and like good radio. Collins, a transmitter company located in Peoria, Ill., I think, had a 1,000-watt transmitter and a 630 crystal. Then, on Tuesday, November 12, 1963, we see a completely new kind of schedule a Happiness Schedule! In July 1957 Kamman was doing the noon to 2pm show from Southdale, just off the Garden Court. It changed its format to Golden Rock on October 1, 1979. JoJo Gunne was the last jock. 1130 AM; Community content is available under CC-BY-SA unless otherwise noted. Mort Garren left but stayed on at KMSP-TV, so apparently he was working at both places. Did they bring Imogene the horse inside Jennings? 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 General Manager was Marlin D. Schlottman, formerly with WLOL. The stations address was given as 287 E 6th Street, St. Paul. The small 1000 watt daytime station was located at 1470 on the AM Dial. During the next two years, U100 quickly became the most talked-about and Number one rated radio station in town. Croix Valley area on December 14, 1983. 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 1956 the station also participated in the big Contest Craze that hit most of the areas radio stations. It was the old WPBC studio on Stinson Blvd., near Broadway, abandoned because of freeway construction. 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 station began broadcasting on July 1, 1965, as WMKT. In April 1929 the frequency apparently became 1180. One more testament to the sheer effective radiated power in WDGYs nighttime lobe. The competition clobbered WDGY, which succumbed in 1977. (Storz died in 1964 at age 39.) We ran through the frigid Minnesota December weather to get to the production room. It was emceed by Jack with KUXL, and is believed to be the first appearance of Brown in the Twin Cities. In 2008, the station became WDGY after sister station 630 AM switched to Regional Mexican music, using the call letters WREY. Not sure what this is announcing. They look really young. Covering black music was standard operating procedure in those days Pat Boone made a fortune covering Fats Domino records. You will also hear about his time as a morning co-host and hear him do some of the impressions from back then, including "Truman Compote," Sargent Schultz, and Preacher Paul. cookies . On November 16, 1965, the 2:00 listing in the newspaper for KUXL simply read R&B Express., Apparently the scene with the Fourteen Foxes didnt last too long. (Helicopters had to be replaced by limos when things got too dangerous.) The creepy monstrosity below, entered by St. Michael Elementary School, was the winner. The number 1 song that week was When by the Kalin Twins; Elvis had two songs, Ricky Nelson, Bobby Darin, and Duane Eddy were represented as well. WDGY (740 AM, " The True Oldies Channel ") is a daytime-only oldies radio station serving the Minneapolis-St. Paul area of Minnesota. Think of all the bad karma we collected every time we played Puppy Love by Donny Osmond. Police said they did not use tear gas to break up the crowd. Or so reported the Minneapolis Tribune, the day after that. November 1966s In-Beat magazine included an interview with the stations new DJ and Program Manager, Ray Moss. It was started through his Minneapolis Brokers Association, which bought the two-hour Sunday time slot from KUXL after Adams and his associates sold enough advertising. He was not an on-air personality, although Secret Stash tells us that he once did a commercial in his normal voice and it was taped by a friend of Preacher Pauls who was learning how to run the board. And, those cops took $350 in cash. Jimmy was good friends with Tac Hammer, who was working at request radio KRSI at the time and also a former KDWB-AM jock. Two of them, a married couple, were from Minneapolis, and they had a loaded submachine gun in the trunk of their car and a .45 pistol under the seat. The street address was 6541 Military Road. (Thanks to David Hersk!). This first tape was recorded off the air in March 1973. To get us in the mood for another rock n roll station, they played Charlie Brown by the Coasters in French non-stop for several days. Radio was going through a fearful period in the face of the TV monster, and Bill Stewart and his co-owner wife, Becky Ann, urgently called their staff together. you dont have to listen to rock and roll! Stuart A. Lindman with photos of Steve Cannon, Merle Hub Cap Edwards, and Bill Diehl, 1949. One more testament to the sheer effective radiated power in WDGYs nighttime lobe. By 1977, FM radio had arrived big-time in MSP. The format on the 500 watt station was folksy to the point where it may have out-folksied WCCO. WDGY: Dick Driscoll remembers trying to sneak in some peppier tunes in the mid- 1950s, to his bosss chagrin. Bill Hartman, as promotion director, convinced Rob and Mike that it was very important to launch the new station at the Minnesota State Fair, exposing the new format to 1.3 million people that attended the fair for 12 days at the end of August to Labor Day every year. The ad below boasts of their KUXL award for excellence in musical instruction. The station played Country music with a heavy emphasis on local North Suburban news and sports. People could come and watch Slim Jims show at the studios on 9th Street. They are posted here for historical examples of top 40 radio from one of the originators, Storz. Jerry Telser, 10-2 electrifying the afternoon airwavesJohn Pete, 6-Midnight seasoning your evening with top pop hitswide-eyed George Murphy, holding sway with the night people from midnight to dawn. Preacher Paul is no preacher. TeleVue magazine, 1980. From an ad from May 1970: WDGYA Touch of Taste.. Today, the station is KTLK, News/Talk 1130, and uses a transmitter site in Credit River Township. A unique look at sports. It's the music that stands the test of time. See the new transmitter here courtesy www.radiotapes.com, Aerial shot of the 9-tower array courtesy Tom Gavaras. Grew up listening to Jonny on my school bus. The station derives a portion of its programming from Scott Shannon 's The True Oldies Channel from ABC Radio. 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 turntables are in the left foreground. Screen grab from the movie Purple Haze. Image courtesy Alan Freed. The first station in the country to receive disciplinary action was KDWB. I was the only one there with a GRTO [General Radiotelephone Operator license]. See the new transmitter here courtesy www.radiotapes.com, Aerial shot of the 9-tower array courtesy Tom Gavaras. It made for a very fast, progressive Top 40 and far less corrupt than sales lists that could be influenced by cases of free product which is how payola really worked. Even among Storz stations, Ramsburg says that each individual station made up its own Top 40. Radio contacts Time in Minneapolis: 13:28, 02.27.2023 Install the free Online Radio Box application for your smartphone and listen to your favorite radio stations online - wherever you are! KDWB went on the air on September 16, 1959, as a top 40 station. The hallway down the middle of the building acted as a firebreak and the hardcore damage was on one side and just water and smoke damage on the other side. 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. New furnace, electricity etc. Rhythm. Here was a country station, WCOW, and on Saturday afternoon and evening, along came Mr. Efforts to find out who was playing that night were fruitless. Will Jones dedicated most of his April 22, 1965, column to the station, saying, Life is simpler on KUXL. He declared that hip teenagers were abandoning the standard rock n roll stations late in the afternoon to tune in to Preacher Paul Anthony. The original call sign was KFMT, broadcasting at 1300kHz. An obvious reference to his old employing station. July 12, 1964, brought the advent of Arthur Hoehn, who would become Fat Daddy Washington as the station became more black oriented. See Top 30 and Top 40 countdowns from 1966 on Robb Henrys blog. On December 10, 1962, the station launched one of those call-in shows where people argued with the host, who was called Norman Frederick. Haines wrote: Rock and roll had a difficult entry into the Twin Cities market. In contrast to WCCO and KSTP, WPBC carried no network programming, and were live and local all day. They built their studio on Stinson Blvd. The stations were reminded that they had a non-cancelable contract. 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. But in Minneapolis-St. Paul a good part of the year was snowbound and it was really hard to see the billboards through all that sleet. Rock station WDGY - which can be heard on metro area FM dials at 92.1, 103.7, and 107.1HD2, as well as at 740 AM - announced on Monday that Sue Falls is the new host of its weekday 11:30 a.m. show, slotting in between Morning Drive host Dr. Don Michaels and Afternoon Drive . In late 1935 a new non-directional 226 Truscan Steel Vertical Radiator (tower) was erected at the site. was? The next night, violence continued on its own momentum. Long hours! Jimmy Reed cues up a record in the control room at WDGY in 1969. 3D WALKTHROUGH. In aSeptember 2006 email Tom sent to me, he states he has been on the air for 48 years and is currently at KFGO in Fargo doing a morning news/talk show. Almost two years since her 20-year stint with KOOL 108 came to an end, Sue Falls is returning to Twin Cities airwaves. In a 1972 article the Insider noted the leaky roof and yellowed wallpaper at the aging studio in St. Louis Park. In April 1957 the station was owned by the Franklin Broadcasting Co., William F. Johns, Jr., Vice President and General Manager. WDGY, Rock and Roll Oldies Radio, playing the best oldies of the 1960s and 1970s for the Twin Cities! Ed replaced Machine Gun Kelly when he split for KHJ. John Fine was also part of this tight social group. Here in my file is a page out of the July 9, 1966, issue of Billboard magazine, where the information about KUXL lives. WDGY operated on eight frequencies [1] by the time it settled on 1180 AM. The following is from an email dated September 19, 2007, from Chuck Blore to Rick Burnett describing the Formula 63 and 63 Thats Easy to Remember promotions that Blore devised when KDWB first went on the air. 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. Will Jones tells us that security was so tight that the 120,000 packages were stuffed at the Society for the Blind. And as many times I tried to get Jim Jennings to talk to me, he ducked me every time. WMIN adopted an all news format in mid-July 1962. Joe then took it a step further and booked the St. Paul Auditorium for a rhythm and blues show with great locals such as Augie Garcia. Radio Stations in Minneapolis-Saint Paul, MN Radio stations sorted by popularity Twin Cities News Talk KTLK 1130 AM News/Talk KFAN 100.3 FM KFXN-FM 100.3 FM Sports K-LOVE Radio Contemporary Christian K102 KEEY-FM 102.1 FM Country Music 94.9 El Rey WREY 630 FM Regional Mexican CBS Sports Radio Sports AM 1280 The Patriot WWTC 1280 AM News/Talk Sign-on was at 6 AM followed by five minutes of news and then country-western music for 55 minutes. By 1977, FM radio had arrived big-time in MSP. A touch of Formula 63 is the perfect way to brighten up your mundane day. The station signed on with a cowbell. The best of what youre about to give up on WWTC is what we play all the time on KEEY. On WLOL. The first tape was recorded off the air on February 21, 1973 and is a good quality recording. Trongard, not Trangard. The Big 5 jocks were Bob Bradley, Leigh Kamman, Don Kelly, Steve Cannon, and Jerry Cunning. WDGY at one time carried "The True Oldies Channel" programmed by New York City DJ Scott Shannon. 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. I had hired Don French to be the KDWB PD. Roof rebuilt. Most Top 40 and Rock listening had migrated to the FM band (which had necessitated the Mighty 1130s switch in the first place.) Top of a Top 40 from August 1956, courtesy of the Pavek Museum of Broadcasting. 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. In September/October 1957 it announced new programming, with more music, more news, more often. By October it was a big-time rock n roll station, at least until that December, with DJs Rog Kent, Don Hawkins and Harry Zimmerman. KTCR signed on on April 5, 1962, as a Country station. Jim du Bois (Right), President and CEO of the Minnesota Broadcastors Association at a May 4th 2007 breakfast meeting with me (Rick Burnett). Locally owned and programmed. I remember singing Mack the Knife with my aunt as it was playing on WDGY during our ride back to St. Paul from Rush Lake one Sunday evening. In ad in the June 14, 1969, TV Digest pictures Tac Hammer, Rick Easton, Anthony Gee, Jim Reed, and Don Shore. The news is left in and you will hear about the big CPI index increase. Can't Get Used To Losing You - Andy Williams 5 4. Oldies. 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. He was keeping the call letters their full potential had never been fully utilized. Donald K. Martin reading the news in the WDGY newsroom. 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