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Can't Get Used To Losing You - Andy Williams 5 4. (Helicopters had to be replaced by limos when things got too dangerous.) And well supply material so that listeners can excel in certain areas of conversation.. Front row: Susan Bradley and John Pete (KRSI). Because WTCN-TV was sold to a different company (Chris Craft Broadcast, Inc.), the two stations had to have different names. It gets better: Will Jones reported on November 27, 1964, that Leigh Kamman and Herb Schoenbaum had turned KUXL into an all-jazz station and breathed new life into it. 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." In January 1957 Will Jones of the Trib said that the station claimed that classical music has doubled its nighttime ratings in a matter of a few weeks. His programming was designed to help said housewife by becoming an intimate, informative close friend that will cloud out the things that bug her. The fire department didnt want us beginning the clean up until the inspector could make sure the building was safe to enter. No KDWB! Whether it actually had to pony up the $10,000 is unknown. Access Minnesota. She was awarded a free turkey along with the very important can of cranberry sauce. The presentation was tight, fast-paced and very up-front. The old transmitters produced a lot of heat. Oh wait! Im guessing that KAAYs Beaker Street was influential here. 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. 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. 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. 1 tune was Ernie Ford singing Mule Train, and can you imagine me calling from home on the phone that we werent playing Mule Train often enough? . There were a few periods of time when the studios were remotely located in (glassed-in) studios across from the 1st floor elevators of Metro Square shopping mall in downtown St. Paul. They were from Andover, MN. Hobart also announced the increase in power. 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 2014, the station began broadcasting in HD. He was program director from 1968-1971. End Of The World - Skeeter Davis 4 3. Rob flew to Dallas to supervise cutting new jingles for Y100 at the media jingle production company PAMs. Bill Hartman commandeered the U of Minnesota theater production company to help create an exterior faade that would cover a small trailer to remote broadcast from the State Fair. It had only 250 watts. Found on Radiotapes.com: Ballad of Minnesota!. After several call letter changes, including WHAT and WGWY, Young settled on WDGY, which was based on his initials. By that time Elvis had hit it big with Heartbreak Hotel and Hound Dog a cover of a black record followed. Top Row: Arnie Peterson (sports), Gene Taylor, Sam Sabean, Jack Douglas. It is licensed to Hudson, Wisconsin, three miles east of its studios in Lakeland, Minnesota. The stations music survey was Top 15 Teen Tunes, and included 5 Top Comers selected by a High School Panel of Experts. In August 1927, WDGYs transmitter was moved to Superior Blvd. At about 9:30 pm, someone with a shotgun wounded three police officers who, with about 20 others, were trying to break up a crowd of about 200 who had gathered at the site of a firebombing. Stand with Ukraine. The promotional flier or whatever below was posted on Facebook, and I dont know what the class designations mean. Although they play the jingle "The Music's on Us" you will hear a little more talk compared to the typical WDGY music format. Will Jones of the Trib noted on January 11, 1957, that the station suddenly decided to go to symphonic, opera and chamber music. WPBC: No, thats not a mistake. Unfortunately, there is a short period of time with lower quality sound, which is corrected quickly. Notice the Catman poster on the upper wall. The station was located at 8th and Wabasha in South St. Paul, conveniently adjacent to the stockyards. 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. Fortunately, the door blew open before he got there. Wayne Red Williams was Station Manager and Ray Christensen was Program Director. KDAN may not have been muchbut it provided me opportunity and a beginning. Id like to think that 8 Steps Down was some kind of cool jazz program with some Brubeck, some Mingus, etc., but theres no way to know unless someone out there remembers! Storz also ended the affiliation with the Mutual network. 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. Don at WDGY newsroom mic. 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. Imogene was giving free rides in the parking lot for a new ad campaign. Phone : (651) 436-4000. . Jeff Lonto: The ratings started to go up and so ownership and management had the bright idea of pulling the plug on the whole thing, changing the calls to KJJO-AM, and simulcasting FM sister station KJJO-FM (104.1). See Pavek Museum RadioHall of Fame inductee Dale Weber, one time WDGY General Manager,at the Pavek site: http://www.pavekmuseum.org/weber.htm (The 9/30/71 Dayton aircheckisfrom the A. Mintz Collection - The March 1973 tape was recorded off the air by Rick Burnett). (1970's), The WDGY Production Room. Photo courtesy Curt Lundgren a/k/a Evan Curfew. The names of the shows were pretty ambiguous: In most cases programs were identified by the names of the DJs: Personalities selling time in this 1953 broadcasting magazine were, January 19, 1953 ad Courtesy mnkidvid.com. The show was emceed by KUXLs Jack Harris and Billy G. Little Miltons hits were listed in an ad in the Insider as Were Going to Make It, Blind Man, and More and More.. Almost two years since her 20-year stint with KOOL 108 came to an end, Sue Falls is returning to Twin Cities airwaves. I stopped and visited him one morning, and he lowered a Bob Dylan album for me. This billboard at 9th and Hennepin tells us that WTCNs radio and TV studios were at Radio City. But that was overnights (considered a throwaway daypart by management) on a 50,000 watt station that reached from Canada to Cuba. Listen To The Most Popular Podcasts On iHeartRadio! Rhythm Of The Rain - Cascades 1 2. The station finally landed at the great 1130 on March 24, 1941, when all of the local stations were repositioned. Proceeds would go to a charity mutually agreed upon by the two teams. The small 1000 watt daytime station was located at 1470 on the AM Dial. Curt discusses his early career and talks about his time at WDGY and shares some stories about the people he worked with during his career. Download Our Free iHeartRadio App! They claimed to be running 5,000 watts. On the banner below is an outline of Downtown (St. The venerable family station bowed to pressure in 1954 and 55 and started playing rock n roll. They also reported that people were buying tickets for 50 cents entitling them to buy drinks. It provided music and information for and about black people in this city and around the world. Black, age 28, was a graduate of Brown Institute, and had been working at WCCO. Right on Super U became a catch phrase on the station and among its fans. In addition to this web site creator's recorded aircheck collection, there are also manyairchecks that were recorded and submitted by friends and acquaintances, or contributed by other collectors. But we also know that the Key Room program featured live performances by Augie Garcia, the Godfather of Twin Cities Rock n Roll, performing jump blues in 1954-55 from the River Road Club in Mendota. The stations license was always in the name of Universal Broadcasting during these years, so it is difficult to know what role Smith played at KUXL. Recorded of the air in March 1968. 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! Apparently the station had a wide variety of programs. Recording are from museum archives and provided courtesy of Steve Raymer and Daniel Henry at the. 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. The WLOL staff believes that FM radio provides better reception and clearer tones than the AM frequencies. He recently celebrated 25 years at KFGO. Its complex. People walking by the facility at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds would comment, what is this? U100 the twin cites powerhouse playing top 40 and album rock from the speakers with no one in the booth! But the advent of WDGY was the quantifiable arrival of the genre that influenced lifestyles, attitudes, fashion, language, and of course, radio formats for generations to come. It does appear that Kamman was still on the air at 3pm during the month of January 1965. No matter what I did, the signal was always distorted. The call letters were changed to WWTC on October 2, 1964, after the station was sold to Buckley-Jaeger Broadcasting. A history of the station prepared much later explained that: In 1956 the owners of WLOL AM added one of the first FM stations. Because AM 740 is a Canadian clear channel frequency, WDGY is a daytime-only station. Meanwhile, here are some of the dances the station sponsored. First air date. But Glover was probably the most popular and well-known. This ad appeared in March 1964. On November 18, 1973, KQ AM and FM began airing The National Lampoon Comedy Hour, a comedy show created specifically for radio by Michael ODonoghue, editor of The National Lampoon magazine. I went out to the lobby to see what they wanted an was totally surprised to see Little Jimmy Dickens! A lot of people thought it was a broadcast training center like Brown Institute or something. On December 29, 1972, KUXL announced that it was abandoning rhythm & blues in favor of a telephone talk show. Then on Wednesday, July 8, 1964, were back to the old KUXL! 1130 WDGY. But stay tuned. Two days before, Will Jones reported: Solomon Burke, who has taken to wearing kingly robes and calling himself King Solomon, is booked for a Friday night bash at the Pick-Nicollet Hotel, promoted by a young married folks group called The Weekenders. Photo by Steve Raymer. Jimmy also tries to give away WDGY Fortune Phone Cash to the Williams family. The feeling seemed to be we are not going to advertise on that station., Jim Ramsburg, an early WDGY jock, says we were given strict orders never to utter the phrase, Rock & Roll, because it was black slang for sex. I had to park on the highway and walk up the hill to the studios. Seven people were arrested the first night. SOLD JUN 13, 2022. WDGY operated on a number of different frequencies before settling onto 1130 AM in 1941. View more recently sold homes. 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. The station kept the name WDGY until 1991. He plays what the station management calls race music, and what is perpetrators call soul music. Commercial from a 1988 Beta recording of the TV movie Leap of Faith on Minneapolis, Minnesota channel 4 WCCO-TV Bowman image sent to me by John Pratt, formerly of WDGY. As disasters go, this one wasnt even on the radar screen. It broadcasts a conservative talk radio format to the Twin Cities radio market and is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. Wedgy Devices - WEDGY12 & WEDGY23Cable Support Attachment Accessories for 600, 700, 800, 900 Series Wedgy Supports. Not all of the airchecks on this site were in my original personal collection. In the summer, you waded through chest high weeds and as important as noting the amperage, was pulling (and, for sport, counting) any number of wood ticks that would jump on you for the ride (I counted 27 one day.). He left in July 1957 to become Vice President of ABC in New York and was replaced by Jack Thayer. Matchbook images courtesy Pavek Museum of Broadcasting, In July 1948, Chuck Mulkern had a fifteen-minute show called Hillbilly Hits.. Meanwhile, the old KUXL crew was plodding on. They promise infrequent and low-tone commercial announcements.. It held some interesting insights not revealed in the one Will Jones did (on August 18, above). For that matter, we were discouraged from using the term teenager too. Its unclear when KSTP started playing rock n roll. When WDGY began to play it, WDGY salesmen found an amazing reluctance on the part of advertisers to buy time on a station that was rated number two in the market. As you commented in Scott's Guest bookthey don't seem to do radio like that anymore. He was in town doing two shows at the Flame Nightclub at 16th and Nicollet in downtown Minneapolis. It had hope to start broadcasting a week ago but was held up by equipment delays. The format changed to classical music in 1961. The biggest troublemakers appeared to be a group of about 30 from Minneapolis, dressed in boots, Levi jackets, blue jeans, and cowboy or Australian digger hats. They both became enamored with an air check album that contained KFRC, the San Francisco powerhouse. It was a very high energy top 40 presentation featuring Dr. Don Rose and Ed OBrien. The most interesting thing about working there at the time was feeling the surge of relevance the station had regained on since taking on the Country format. Once there, scroll down. The station will feature top cuts from current albums along with a selection of singles, with no jingle package and segued sets. Will Jones announced the change in his column on June 18, 1963, and said that the format would go to country/western, folk and ethnic programming. I hope you have some audio clean up program. By the 1960s, the station didn't use the name itself, but the name stuck among people in the radio industry for many years to come. So., Minneapolis, 5, MN. There was a live broadcast at 9:15 a.m. and a performance at Graham Temple at 3 p.m. A December 1951 ad said [Cassiuss] Bamboo Room is KEYED for your enjoyment, which may or may not mean that there was a tie-in. Photo by John Glanton, courtesy Hennepin County Library, From 1946-1950 Leigh Kamman and Bob Smith hosted the We Call it Jazz Program, featuring live performances from the Treasure Inn, Calhoun Beach Hotel, and Radisson Hotel downtown. Ads to rent out the St. Louis Park studio appear in January 1973 and sometime between then and March 1973 the studio moved to Valley View Road in Eden Prairie. NIS ended in May 1977 but WWTC continued the all-news format with its own staff. The call letters of WTCN radio were changed to WWTC on October 2, 1964, after Time Life sold the station to Buckley-Jaeger Broadcasting. Seriously, who thought progressive rock on AM was a good idea? . Total information News, in-depth, authoritative, 1280s programming for metropolitan listeners has long been one of radios finest. This heat siphoned off through ductwork that eventually combined with ductwork from the furnace and heating system. Love it, Scott! I encourage you to check back from time to time. . R&B existed right here in the Twin Cities, but was apparently a well-kept secret. On December 10, 1962, the station launched one of those call-in shows where people argued with the host, who was called Norman Frederick. It also provided local-oriented public service information on groups like Y.E.S., Pharm House, Red Door, Womens Counseling Service, and more. The shooter was never identified. He tried to use the phones, but the wires all came into the building through the furnace room and they were already toast. He had a student pilots license and certainly shouldnt have been flying alone, in the night, in a storm, with passengers. Courtesy Jeff Lonto. It is imperative that this unit be installed as soon as possible when received.. What about a transmitter? 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. Buy spots on the other stations?? The ad below from the October 12, 1963, TV Forecast promises 72 daily features. So, our problem was not only to be the best station on the air there, we first had to let them know there was a there there. WDGY is the only AM radio station in the Minneapolis-St. Paul market that broadcasts in HD. One 20-year-old was arrested. Look Younger is on twice. Some notes about this copy. The new owner of KUXL, Universal Broadcasting, had its headquarters in Shreveport, Louisiana. Jackie Wilson was scheduled to perform at the Marigold on January 14, 1966, but didnt arrive until midnight, causing a near-riot at the ballroom when the 1,600 people in the audience became annoyed. Police were called and the City Council discussed the matter. That kind of ended when Mr. Purcell reminded them that WCCO, like every station, is required by FCC rules to know who their advertisers are. The program was one half hour long and started on October 17, 1964. In ad in the June 14, 1969, TV Digest pictures Tac Hammer, Rick Easton, Anthony Gee, Jim Reed, and Don Shore. See more of WDGY "The Original Rock and Roll . It was also described as 90 percent dance music in a TV interview on YouTube. Tom Kilbride was a DJ at KANO from 1960 to 1965. KUXL and Preacher Paul Anthony are the sponsors. The original call sign for the station's construction permit was WAOZ, but the station was never on the air with those call letters. What to do next? 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. The station had a country format at the time and was owned by Benita Soho of Los Angeles, doing business as Newport Broadcasting. But was this the first opportunity that Twin Citians had to hear what came to be known as rock n roll on the radio? Listen To Podcasts That Examine The Passion, Perseverance, And Power Of Black Culture! He has been at KQRS in the Twin Cities for years, doing the morning show. The photo below, provided by Jim Ramsburg to the Pavek Museum of Broadcasting, shows Jack Thayer holding the ball. 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. 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