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KYCR changed to KDIZ on December 24, 2015. Because the two signals arrived out of phase, they cancelled each other out. The colors range from bright to blue, from funny to warm, from entertaining to informative. I guess that means no music. The venerable family station bowed to pressure in 1954 and 55 and started playing rock n roll. Contributed by John Pratt 12-6-07. Jimmy Reed was originally at KDWB-AM 630 before coming to WDGY 1130 onSeptember 23, 1969. Call or Text The Studio Line (651) 564-9349 Trusted Partners We Play The Hits! On March 7, 2017, WDGY discontinued broadcasting in HD and began broadcasting in C-QUAM AM stereo. There is a promo of Jim Dandy announcing he was returning to WDGY (to fill the shift left by Rob Sherwood when he went to KDWB). 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. The decision of the police to bar the door and throw teargas into the hall was roundly criticized. We needed new transmitters, new phones, new carpet, new roofs, new this and new that. in 1330s exciting sportscasts and weather reports. Vineland Place and Oak Grove Street meet in front of WLOL with the Basilica of St. Mary visible in the background. WDGY Hit Car - Late 60's. Who is this guy? He had a student pilots license and certainly shouldnt have been flying alone, in the night, in a storm, with passengers. I will cut in on occasion with additional/alternate information from Will Jones of the Minneapolis Tribune. Listen to Paul Geiger in the morning! The old transmitters produced a lot of heat. 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. Jay Philpott was the only holdover from the old format they had me doing 7 to Midnight until I left for WLOL in July 1980., KANO was Disk Jockey Rod Persons first radio job in 1959. 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. By that time Elvis had hit it big with Heartbreak Hotel and Hound Dog a cover of a black record followed. In the September 1965 issue of Twin City a-Go Go magazine, Preacher Paul had a column called Heres Hip Happenings. At the end he talked about the concerts, and said that as he was writing the article, the most recent one was the Ike and Tina Turner concert on August 1. A lot of people thought it was a broadcast training center like Brown Institute or something. 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. Back to the drama. Jim du Bois (Right), President and CEO of the Minnesota Broadcastors Association at a May 4th 2007 breakfast meeting with me (Rick Burnett). A September 21, 1958 playlist shows jocks Bob Bradley, Tom Wynn, Jim Boysen, Dan Anderson, and Sandy Singer. He has been at KQRS in the Twin Cities for years, doing the morning show. 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. In a column dated January 24, 1954, Will Jones of the, Merle Edwards was at WMIN from 1949 to 55 and had shows like, Michael Scroggins, General and Program Manager, Program Director, Jean Myts, Commercial Manager and News Director, Al Alonzo, Vice President and Program Director (also identified as General Manager by the, Mornings featured DJs Larry Fitzgerald and DonOvan Staar Johnson, formerly of KMOJ. Consequently the launch of U100 was delayed three days. was? Paul caught on fire and was off the air? WDGY Jimmy open his 1st show at WDGY he stated he was "..out on pass from the suburban rest-home." See www.radiotapes.com/WDGY.html for airchecks and much more, including the very entertaining history of the station written by Haines. No signal. The KDAN Remote Caboose Studio was used in the early 1970s for commercial remote broadcasts and for broadcasting from the Minnesota State Fair. Wonderful WeeGee, home of the boss jocks like Johnny Canton, hit its stride in the 60s, competing neck and neck with KDWB. Meanwhile, the old KUXL crew was plodding on. An envelope dated October 1, 1956, is addressed to 10350 Fremont Ave. We are a resilient species arent we? We have no airchecks, but ratings books from 1953 to 1955 do give us the names of programs that give hints as to what they were playing: KEYD was primarily a country station, with shows by Slim Jim and the Vagabond Kid and programs called Record Rodeo and Random Ranch. The music ranges from the swingtime of the late thirties to the jazz of today. WDGY was certainly a much different station pre-Beatles than it was as the 60's progressed. Similar to the biggest Christmas cookie contest of 1963, in 1973 the station sponsored a contest for the biggest snowman. Presumably the shows Cannonball Express and Cannon Fodder were his. The new manager of operations was William Stewart, ironically replacing WPBC owner Bill (and wife Becky Ann) Stewart. You will hear Curt share stories on WDGY personalities, including Jim Dandy, Rich Holter, George Young and others. Listen to Paul Geiger in the morning! In 1948 the Sepia Serenade show featured black recording stars, Mondays and Wednesdays from 6:15 to 6:45 pm. 1,135 Sq. Because the two signals arrived out of phase, they cancelled each other out. The brochure inside the box was a ticket to a huge rock n roll show that would kick off the station. Nobody died. Two off-duty policemen who were hired for the event came on the scene and took the gun away from him and tried to arrest him. Later they would admit that the Todd Storz they often disparaged very well may have saved radio at a time when television was stealing its audience. It had 5,000 watts, daytime only. 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. Broadcasting magazine, March 1960. WLOL-AM (We Love Our Listeners) was out of the rock n roll market and became the Twin Cities first all-talk station in 1967. In April 1957 the station was owned by the Franklin Broadcasting Co., William F. Johns, Jr., Vice President and General Manager. 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. Paul radio stations featuring recordings dating back to 1924, with many from the 19. WDGY is the only AM radio station in the Minneapolis-St. Paul market that broadcasts in HD. Nicked named Wildman, he has an internet polka show. The Twin City a Go Go January 1966 issue mentioned this station and its DJs: Dean Alexander, Dave Charles, Will Grassman, Myrna Jean, Oliver Towne (nee Gareth Hebert), Don Riley, Bob Leonard, and Charles Conrad. 11:00 AM-2:00 PM. 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. This survey provided by Steve Raymer of the Pavek Museum of Broadcasting. 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. Photo provided by Mark Vollmer to Radio Tapes. On August 22, 1978, a construction permit was approved to increase the stations power to 2.5 kw. Then I was given stacks of albums of rock, bands from primarily the West Coast, to audition and play once my show began that Spring. Photo by Steve Raymer. Some of the airchecks are off reel to reel tapesthat were recorded off the air by the web site creator. Merle introduced me when I called in, and gave me five seconds of dead air to start my home recorder at 78 rpm.. The transmitter location was .3 miles north from the intersection of Sixth Ave. North and Highway 100 in Golden Valley, and the transmitter would be remotely controlled from the studio. 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. A newspaper schedule dated December 19, 1972, shows the same preacher tapes, as Ray Moss called them, from 6 am to 1 pm. in February 1968. Johnny is on the rear of the bike. 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. WCOW was a precursor to KDWB, so it must have been another station. Contact me at Rick(at)HotMail.com --- NOTE Replace "(at)" with @ when typing email address, Curtis J. Johnson, Former WDGY 20/20 Newscaster. Tom Kilbride was a DJ at KANO from 1960 to 1965. Not all of the airchecks on this site were in my original personal collection. The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. No Top Forty. King, and the Spaniels are perhaps the best known. I have absolutely no idea what is going on here. 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.. Airchecks are samples of old radio recordings, with the music cut out. Our studios were at the transmitter at [Seventh and] Davern Street in St. Paul and engineers played both records and commercials.. Jack Nugent said they went from 13th in the market to 2nd in 105 days. Radiotapes.com has an aircheck by DJ Phil Conklin playing The Music You Wanna Hear, submitted by Al Arneson. For airchecks and photos, a great site is: http://twincitiesradioairchecks.com/krsiandkfmx.html. 1130 WDGY. The control board, counters, carts, walls, microphone, everything. The production room was a wreck and there was no heat in the building. Photo by Greg Helgeson, Minnesota Music magazine, Bumper sticker @ 1980 1984. 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. We dug up the Colonel, I called and told him what we had in mind. OUR SURVEYS FOR WDGY; . 589 talking about this. Like an acid-etching, the events of that day in early December 1969 are sharp as cut crystal. Bob Mitchells show was on Saturdays from 1-5 PM. To promote the contest the jocks would ride around on a float in rush hour handing out stickers, hopelessly tying up traffic. A December 1, 1955, ad says Now All Day and announces DJs Texas Bill Strength and Johnny T from Tennessee, and Slim Jim. If it doesnt do, Ill be back in the rat race.. He was hired to do the jazz show, but moved to take over the R&B show when that opened up. Al, Nick, and Vic Tedesco, photo courtesy Pavek Museum of Broadcasting. On August 26, 1974, live at the Minnesota State Fair, the oldies format became boogie, with KDWB alumnus Rob Sherwood heading up a wild and crazy format as U100. Heres a photo of the KANO VW bus from July 1963, with his wife, sister, and daughter. The memory music format was enlarged, a jingle by Herb Pilhofer was created, and talk shows were produced. The station began as WMIN in the summer of 1936, when St. Paul furniture retailer Edward Hoffman began broadcasting at 1370kHz. In July the McGuire Sisters were back with a song called Rhythm and Blues Somehow even they heard about it. He tried to use the phones, but the wires all came into the building through the furnace room and they were already toast. All except for a little country station called K-COW. WDGY at one time carried "The True Oldies Channel" programmed by New York City DJ Scott Shannon. 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 engineers labored through the night and the following night and on Tuesday, we signed back on. I was prensent at the studio when Jimmy and Tac coordinated play of the same record at the same time on both stations. He was in the middle of hiring, and was looking for a deep, authoritative, network kind of voice; a sirupy, romantic voice; and a thrid, more youthful and jolly voice. Disc Jockey Fat Daddy (a/k/a Jimmy Smith) cited statistics that out of 32,000 blacks in the potential audience, between 10,000 and 15,000 listened to the station. It was then owned by Todd Storz, one of the pioneers in programming to the baby boom generation with music that theretofor had been rarely heard on "white" radio stations. In 1976, U of M student Gregg Lindahl joined for summer employment as music director. Legendary Call Letters and an incredible heritage. Preacher Paul is a disc jockey. The Original Rock and Roll Station. So., Minneapolis, 5, MN. Happy to find and post it prior to Johnny induction into the Pavek'sMuseum of Radio Broadcasting Hall of Fame. The format changed to classical music in 1961. Photo dated November 6, 1942, courtesy Minnesota Historical Society. The Gavins sold their mimeographed service to one station per market and it was kind of a co-op into which we all poured our tips. Rhythm. 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