Not sure exactly when these recording ran on WDGY. [In 1961, when the KFWB was having labor trouble, the owner shipped some Minnesota DJs to LA to cover.] One more testament to the sheer effective radiated power in WDGYs nighttime lobe. (KUXL is loaded with preachers earlier in the day, but most of them are called Brother or Doctor.) Wonderful WeeGee, home of the boss jocks like Johnny Canton, hit its stride in the 60s, competing neck and neck with KDWB. For that matter, we were discouraged from using the term teenager too. Top Row: Step Up Movie, Steve Highsmith, Gregg Lindahl, Paul Johnson. The tap starts at 1:30 PM and goes about one hour with music in. But if you listen to radio to soothe your nerves, reports of mideast tension, recession and crime just might produce the opposite effect. On August 13, 1968, KDWB started programming underground music from midnight to 5 am. We Play The Hits! The call letters of KUXL changed to KYCR on May 19, 1988. Thanks again for the responseand thanks for the great website! This is Jim Dandy's (Jim Evarts) second time at WDGY-AM. Todd Storz was an heir to the Storz Beer Co. out of Omaha, Nebraska. Curtis J. Johnson sits down with Twin Cities Radio Airchecks website creator, Rick Burnett to discuss his career in radio, starting from high-school with concentration on his work at WDGY in the late 1960's as a 20/20 newsman. Photo from Judy Dibble via Rick Burnetts Twin Cities Radio Airchecks. The daytimer station was authorized for 1,000 watts. And the response has been so good that the weekday evening jazz time may be extended. Well, there is an Alan Freed in Minneapolis, but hes not the guy! This was a fun station. The November 10, 1970 recording was sitting in an unmarked reel to reel box had in storage. On October 16, 1964, Will Jones announced that: Jazzman Rio Pardo has undertaken a new KUXL show, heard at 10:30 am each Saturday and Sunday, called Flying Along With Rio. He stresses soul-jazz and airs a bulletin-board feature for the Negro community. in St. Louis Park from May 16, 1958 (at 7am) to October 1972. Wonder what E.I.I. The station is the oldest continuously operating station in the state, dating to December 23, 1923 when Dr. George W. Young signed on with the call letters KFMT. The quality is not great on this recording, but you can still hear everything. 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. 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. The entire concept, advertising and promotion was headed and created by Mike Siegelman, Rob Sherwood, and Bill Hartman. I actually have a WRCR pinback button that says IM A TEN-TEN TUNER WRCR 10-10 ST. PAUL, MINN.'. Paul Magazine, August 1978, courtesy Jeff Lonto. After several call letter changes, including WHAT and WGWY, Young settled on WDGY, which was based on his initials. Always a different color of Twin Cities life. Everything was ready and in place on the first day of the Minnesota State Fair, and Rob had the format and jingles ready to go on the air. In 1974 the Wolfman was into many projects, including a weekly syndicated show that was broadcast here on KDWB. Thats why wed like to call your attention to the music of KEEY-AM at 1400 on your standard radio dial. In 1967, winning a Honda might have meant just a motorbike. 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. Glover finally finally took two weeks vacation in New York City and never came back. [He became a freelance writer and contributing editor for Circus, a music magazine.]. This is WWTC Spectrum. A history of the station prepared much later explained that: In 1956 the owners of WLOL AM added one of the first FM stations. Quick installation and adjustment. The recordings of the contributors to this web site who recorded them off the air may show up on other sites. In August 1927, WDGYs transmitter was moved to Superior Blvd. The jocks shouted, snarled and chanted the KSTP slogan that was spilling from billboards and buses all over town, according to a 1977 Strib article. But the Country format was gaining acceptance among older baby-boomers and melding that growth with WDGYs big 50,000-watt signal gave new purpose to the station and validation to a growing, willing audience that perhaps Country musics time was coming. 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. 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. $755,000 Last Sold Price. The music played was from Kammans own encyclopedic library of records, domestic and foreign. [2] Years later, I learned the reason why. 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. the second line is pretty shocking: Skotchs research concluded that the suburban housewife was a lonely person was too busy to hear her troubles and who tied herself in knots over small problems. Larry Bentson, President. The WLOL staff believes that FM radio provides better reception and clearer tones than the AM frequencies. . 1130 WDGY. KTCR signed on on April 5, 1962, as a Country station. This may or may not be the building in another iteration. Contact me at Rick(at)HotMail.com --- NOTE Replace "(at)" with @ when typing email address, Curtis J. Johnson, Former WDGY 20/20 Newscaster. WLOLs Swing Club had Dan Anderson on Saturdays from noon to 6 pm., also Top 40 and then some.. JoJo Gunne was the last jock. Although authorized for only 500 watts from midnight to 4am, it had been broadcasting at full 5,000 watt strength since Crowell-Collier Broadcasting bought the station in late 1959. If we had to play junky music with morally degrading lyrics, wed get out of the business. If he plays Polk music, He must be a true Minnesotan. A newspaper schedule dated December 19, 1972, shows the same preacher tapes, as Ray Moss called them, from 6 am to 1 pm. We needed new transmitters, new phones, new carpet, new roofs, new this and new that. 1 Bath. WDGY-AM (1130): 1/6/1958 Bill Diehl Show - 9 MB (provided by Helen Diehl and Tom Oszman of TCMediaNow) Includes commercials for Hi-Spot Lemon Soda from Canada Dry, Dodge Dealers and Red Devil Soot Remover. KEEY seemed to specialize in handing out these FM radio station directories, which seem to me to advertise the competition more than anything else. Unfortunately the photos arent dated, but we do know that the band formed in 1954 when Augie returned from Korea. 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. U.S. Patent . The rest of that Sunday night, people continued to mill about. 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. The music spanned the black musical spectrum, from bebop to pop, delta blues to Motown, Dixieland to the Philadelphia disco sound, said Adams. ARSA: ABOUT: SURVEYS: STATIONS: 1970-02-13 WDGY 1130 AM ( Minneapolis / St. Paul, Minnesota ) TW LW ARTIST TITLE WKS NOTES; 1: 4 : Sly & The Family Stone: Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) 1: 4 : Sly & The Family Stone: Everybody Is A Star: 2: 1 : This billboard at 9th and Hennepin tells us that WTCNs radio and TV studios were at Radio City. Broadcasting magazine, March 1960. My wife and I had long discussions late into the evening. Courtesy of the museum archives provided by Steve Raymer and Daniel Henry at the. In March 1958 WLOL hosted the Royal Crown Cola Bandstand at the Marigold Ballroom, with DJs Dan Anderson and Don Dahl, Sunday afternoons from 2 to 5pm. Airchecks from 1964 indicate an emphasis on news and prophesy. Old Joe Clark played country music. Following Young's death in 1945, his estate sold the station. The station was nicknamed "WeeGee," the phonetic pronunciation of the call sign, and its format was near the top of the ratings for several years. 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. When the oldies format of WYOO started to slide in the ratings, more MOR music was added, but ratings slid even further. The only coordination was (sometimes) the Pick Hit of The Week as a freebie to a record maker.. A memo to the staff from Todd Storz dated May 28, 1956 singles out the gang at WDGY for a job well done. Some not so happily as others, he admits. Click on the following web address for the museum: http://www.pavekmuseum.org/2006HOF1.htm and click on the following address to see the museum's entire Hall of Fame: http://www.pavekmuseum.org/hall.htm. In the September 1971 Insider, reviewer Will Shapira profiled W. Amos Johnson, who did a two-hour jazz show on KUXL each Sunday. Johnny is on the rear of the bike. WDGY Survey with Photos of Curtis J. Johnson from June 13, 1969. I purchased some of the WDGY airchecks from collector Arron Mintz in Maine. 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. Contributed by John Pratt 12-6-07. It is owned by WRPX, inc. and airs a Classic Hits / Oldies radio format. Note the article actually prints his home address. I encourage you to check back from time to time. 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. The competition, sometimes friendly, sometimes not, resulted in memorable merchandising promotions and concerts. RecordedMay 12, 1963. The new owner of KUXL, Universal Broadcasting, had its headquarters in Shreveport, Louisiana. While their job was to arrest one man with a gun, they instead barricaded the door of the hall with their night sticks and used tear gas to subdue the crowd. Johnny Canton in the main WDGY Control Room (1970's), WDGY's Donald K. Martin at the newsroom mic. The format on the 500 watt station was folksy to the point where it may have out-folksied WCCO. The first tape was recorded off the air on February 21, 1973 and is a good quality recording. So., Minneapolis, 5, MN. This shot of him in the WDGY DJ control room is one of the better quality shots showing the Gates control board. Slogan. In April 1957 the studio was in the Builders Exchange Building in downtown Minneapolis, and the transmitter was described as WDGY Transmitter Plant, Oxboro, Minn. By 1955 the station was starting to play covers of rock n roll in with Perry Como and Doris Day. What should have been a fun night turned into two nights of fear, anger, and violence not only because of a situation handled poorly but because of underlying conditions that faced black communities all across the country. In November 1962 the call letters were changed to KTWN. He made a ton of money, eventually owning part of the Cleveland Nets World Tennis Team, Cleveland Indians, and Cleveland Cavaliers basketball team. Its president was Marvin Kosofsky, who said he was not going to change the jazz programming, which had been taken over by Art Hoehn and Paul Franklyn. 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. Skotch felt that once radio became a juke box and all talk was eliminated, the heart of radio was lost as well. A fellow out of Texas, after first commissioning himself a Colonel, was bottling what was essentially sweet prune juice, calling it Serutan, and telling the great American radio audience over and over again, day after day, Serutan is Natures spelled backwards. They were born in St. Pauls Swede Hollow. Eventually we had to accept the reality of what had happened. The new station would be broadcast at 1570 kilocycles, way at the top of the AM dial, at only 500 watts, daytime only. An ad from October 1976 describes the playlist as Folk, Jazz, Blues, Totally Album-Oriented The Fine Rock Station. DJs could play anything they liked and anything that pleased the stations audience. and went back to Mexico, this time to XERB, a 50,000 watt station in Tijuana. Other short subjects would include Can You Explain It? a feature dealing with supernatural occurrences, and Curiosity Corner, a show touching on nature and science. A 1972 article in the Echo opined that KDWB played new songs that were just released, while WDGY only played nationally-established music. The station put on its salesmen, some, like Stan Mack, were former jocks. 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. 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