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(Storz died in 1964 at age 39.) Listen To Podcasts That Examine The Passion, Perseverance, And Power Of Black Culture! 1370 AM went through more ups and downs than probably any other local radio station. 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. Jimmy also tries to give away WDGY Fortune Phone Cash to the Williams family. The station began as WMIN in the summer of 1936, when St. Paul furniture retailer Edward Hoffman began broadcasting at 1370kHz. In January 1965 it was reported that staff had increased from 19 to 27 since Red Owl purchased the station in 1961. And as soon as he got that he would file for full-time operation and still more power. Subscribe Now To Listen Your Favorite Songs On Demand! In the first year they logged over a million calls to the Request Line: 920-9999. We needed new transmitters, new phones, new carpet, new roofs, new this and new that. Glory of Love by the Four Knights. 589 talking about this. The Twin City stations were all on the upper part of the dial at 1070, 1130, 1490, etc., but nothing below 1000. 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. Charlie playfully talked to Don about a glee club and does the Weatherball Weather, sponsored by North Western National Bank.."May We Help You Today." 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. Burke will proclaim KUXLs Preacher Paul regional king of rhythm and blues at the event. The ad campaign for 1964 was UP radio (imagine an arrow on the UP). And then almost overnight, or so it seemed, the jazz folk around town were talking about their station. In November 1977 the Insider reported that the station was working around to the album rock format from Top 40. Around the fall of 1979 it went to adult contemporary,: and they also picked up Bob Allards and Larry Kings talk shows in the late evening. Radio was going through a fearful period in the face of the TV monster, and Stewart and his co-owner wife, Becky Ann, urgently called their staff together. 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. This was on the grounds of the U.S. Silver Fox Farm, at the very northern border of the Village.The document below is the application to move the transmitter in 1927. WWTC started out as WTCN radio, 1280 kc AM. I do enjoy it! Think of it this way. Although he broadcast his morning show from there, there were reports that he went inside the adjacent Young-Quinlan-Rothschild building at night. UP radio sparkles in Rod Trangards newscastsin exclusive Mutual news remotes . Owned and operated by WRPX. The following Monday, 980 AM (WYOO-AM) came back on the air as WAYL. That address does not compute, but below is a photo of the Holiday Motor Hotel, described as being taken in 1955. No Top Forty. Performers included: These groups were well known in clubs like King Solomons Mines where Soul music was a staple. The facts, as reported in the newspapers and in investigative reports approximate these. 1936 ad below courtesy Jeff Lonto. In April 1957 the station was owned by the Franklin Broadcasting Co., William F. Johns, Jr., Vice President and General Manager. Alonzo himself was to do the afternoon drive. In 1962 WDGY broadcast the Vikings games. November 1966s In-Beat magazine included an interview with the stations new DJ and Program Manager, Ray Moss. Other Twin Cities station owners resented the attention WDGY received, but soon they too jumped on the top-40 bandwagon. Found on Radiotapes.com: Ballad of Minnesota!. Below is a photo thats not too great, but hopefully shows how big the winning monster was. Did they bring Imogene the horse inside Jennings? The brochure inside the box was a ticket to a huge rock n roll show that would kick off the station. On December 29, 1972, KUXL announced that it was abandoning rhythm & blues in favor of a telephone talk show. Courtesy Jeff Lonto. It was a small shack hoisted on a small tower on the corner of 9th and Nicollet. Unlike most metropolitan areas, the Twin Cities did not have a black radio station in the 1940s or 50s. The stations address was 611 Frontenac Place in St. Paul. The gun-toting news director? Then they would have to schlep the transmitter in a big box (about the size of a single hole outhouse) back to Minnesota. (Were they ahead of their time?) There were a bunch of people but no real activity. WISK, soon to be known as KDWB, was at 630, a spot no one in the listening area had ever heard, or even heard of. After a brief shutdown in 1993 due to business failure and the sale of WRPX, the station picked up the vacated WMIN call sign, which had a long history in the market. (From the A. Mintz Collection), Lunch with Donald K. Martin, Former WDGY Newsman and Morning Show Co-Host. (Minneapolis Star, April 30, 1975), During the show, black broadcast community news, and an educational series called Red, White and Blue in Black. The program also kept in touch with other black media programs like the black TV show, Harambee. He started the black show because whatever black programming there was was scattered a half hour on one station and 15 minutes on another. Art Hoehn and Ralph Hull left with Wolfman, either to Mexico or Southern California. The photo below was posted on Facebook by Paul Strickland, who says. The ad below from the October 12, 1963, TV Forecast promises 72 daily features. The music would continue to be in the pop album category, but each selection would contribute to the pattern of feature material. Scads of airchecks and music surveys are posted at, http://twincitiesradioairchecks.com/kdwb630tapes.html. It now programs its oldies format along with local hosts in-house. Donald K. Martin reading the news in the WDGY newsroom. WDGY "The Original Rock and Roll Station" Tom G. Morris was promoted to station manager and Robert E. Bowdan was named sales supervisor. WDGY "The Original Rock and Roll Station" . Screen grabs below courtesy Alan Freed. 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. Twin Cities News Talk Podcasts. 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. 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. Were starting a couple of weekend rhythm-and-blues shows as soon as we can get the records. In 1948 the Sepia Serenade show featured black recording stars, Mondays and Wednesdays from 6:15 to 6:45 pm. Program Director Sam Sherwood: I so remember how Don French was on the hot seat for getting hit by such a large prizehe and I argued: Ill take the hitno I willno no, I will and thats the way it went until the cookie picture hit the front pages of news papers across the country.THEN.we became heroes, both Don and I. 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.). Once there, scroll down. [1] Contents In April 1963, the listings showed Jerry Boyum on from 6 to 10 am, Mort Garren from 10 to 2 pm, and John Sewall from 2 to 7 pm. WDGY was the Twin Cities' first full-time Top 40 station, going on the air with its new format on February 6, 1956. The new owners immediately requested permission from the FCC to change the call letters back to WMIN. In 2014, the station began broadcasting in HD. Except that police reported that the incident only involved several youths. In 1968 Red Owl changed the station policy from middle of the road to all request oldies to try for a high enough rating to at least make the property salable. That November Ty Mack put in some hours, and it was now Autumn Serenade. Kash Box was apparently an advertising gimmick. From there he went on to be Milkman Sam until about 1956. All promos, commercials and music have been left in. 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. 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. (The top 40 announcers were a different breed, and we had little to do with each other off-the-air.). This first tape was recorded of the radio on June 4, 1973 from 10 AM to 11:30 AM with the music and commercials out. 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. He planned to conduct on-the-air happiness experiments twice a day. The contributer, 'wild wilson' a/k/a as'wildman' has his onw internet polka radio show. The station was also still playing Fibber McGee and Molly and The Lone Ranger.. He was in town doing two shows at the Flame Nightclub at 16th and Nicollet in downtown Minneapolis. The article in the Star Tribune outlined the new program: Drew Durigan: I DID hear them very well in 1988 as KMAP. The simple fact was that the black population was so small (less than one percent of the states population through 1970) that the community wasnt able to support one. Contests and Promotions. (Minneapolis Star, March 17, 1978). While there were clearly some country/western shows Saturday Hoedown, Western Favorites and perhaps some old time songs Tin Pan Allan was on a lot there were others with intriguing names: Most importantly, WMIN had three powerhouse disk jockeys: Bill Diehl worked at WMIN from 1948-49 and from 1951-55. In the wake of the incidents, a committee was formed by the St. Paul Urban Coalition to investigate them. In March 1970, two engineers struck for higher pay and the disk jockeys honored the picket line. 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). WDGY News Room Shot from DJ Control Room - 1969. The text is rather small; it reads: Today WWTC Radio trades violins for violence. Please enable JavaScript on your browser to best view this site. (Will Jones, Minneapolis Tribune). The concerts were advertised in the Minneapolis Spokesman, the citys African-American newspaper, but rarely in the mainstream dailies. The transmitters were destroyed, as was the entire engineering area and furnace room. Commercial from a 1988 Beta recording of the TV movie Leap of Faith on Minneapolis, Minnesota channel 4 WCCO-TV Ramsburg says, Let me put it this way it was all show-biz. Now that TV had grabbed everyones attention, and radio was just background music, he wanted to reverse the process and create The Nations Most Attention-Programmed Station. The key was to provide entertainment, but not with comedy or drama, but with ideas and thoughts. But, neither was it going to be a full-time jazz station as some had hoped. The colors range from bright to blue, from funny to warm, from entertaining to informative. I guess that means no music. 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. Top Row: Step Up Movie, Steve Highsmith, Gregg Lindahl, Paul Johnson. Our service costs about the same if you brought in that supertalented program director. Plus you eliminate the stuck records, scratchy music, the jarring jock. Finally, in the late 50s Sam Cooke broke the color barrier in the Midwest with You Send Me and black artists began to appear regularly on Top 40 charts. Oh, sure, was my response. Contributed by John Pratt 12-6-07. I leave it to smarter people than me to figure out the history of this craziest of stations. KANO was Disk Jockey Rod Persons first radio job in 1959. Oh the Cookie Station KDWB!!! On about September 1, 1962, the AM station expanded to 24 hours. The street address was 6541 Military Road. Im going to stop here I should have stopped long ago, since this website only goes to 1974. MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA Format: T40. I didnt exit at McKnight drive. On December 20, 1977, a permit was approved to change the tower location to 5650 St. Croix Ave. in Golden Valley. 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! 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. It was discovered during an antenna proof, when it was noticed there was a drop in signal strength in the main lobe and it was traced to this guys house. Luxurious digs, no? says Curt. If he had opened that door, the back draft would have engulfed the engineer in flame. Secret Stash indicates that Bob Smith arrived in January 1965. Years later, I learned the reason why. In a blurb in the Minneapolis Star (September 1, 1977), station manager Dale Webber was quoted as saying the reason for the change was getting out of the ridiculous Top 40 market. There were three other country stations on AM in the market at the time. MOST NEGRO OWNED RADIO STATIONS INSULT TO RACE IS CLAIM. 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. WMIN was reassigned to the 1400kHz in 1941. (Minneapolis Star, March 14, 1966). Charlie does a ply on the Chicken Man radio series by introducing Donald as "the most fantastic newsman the world has ever known." Contributed by John Pratt 12-6-07. 2 Beds. KQRS 92.5 FM started out as KEVE-AM on September 1, 1963. 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. Larry Bentson, President. You can still hear all George Young has to say on this clip. Metro Student News, April 20, 1979. They were to buy only where they could get exactly the same guaranteed times on all stations at one time. Listen to Paul Geiger in the morning! 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). Shows like Record Reville, Melody Mart, Platter Previews, The TNT Club, and mid-1955s Hot Corner dont give us much to go on as to their format. The slogan was 15 KSTPTHE MUSIC STATION., The Insider made note of the change to a rock format, playing a mix of current and older top 40. It was the same night Count Basie was at the Prom, and a conflict was feared, but Will Jones reported that Mr. Diddley drew 1,500 sweating youngsters, and the Count drew 1,350 oldsters. (Minneapolis Tribune, August 21, 1964), Minneapolis Star, Saturday, August 15, 1964. Always "WDGY" 1130 AM!!!! On August 28, Will Jones published an extended interview with Skotch. Back row: Randi Kirshbaum (KQ), John Fineberg and Richard E. Nelson (who was KQs production studio wizard). Preacher Paul reported that the show drew an audience of 5,000 people! While some of us labored shoveling and wives and girlfriends scrubbed the residue gunk off everything, KDWB, like a phoenix, was about to arise from the ashes. 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. Airchecks from 1964 indicate an emphasis on news and prophesy. Old Joe Clark played country music. WDGY- Don Martin contributed this undated photo from late 60's - early 70's, Don Martin contibuted this October 16, 1974 article on Twin Cities morning radio shows. The competition, sometimes friendly, sometimes not, resulted in memorable merchandising promotions and concerts. Many thanks to Jeff Lonto, who is one of the Cities experts on radio history, for much of the information cited here. The Original Rock and Roll Station. . Oldies. After several call letter changes, including WHAT and WGWY, Young settled on WDGY, which was based on his initials. Airchecks are samples of old radio recordings, with the music cut out. Record album issued by WWTC in 1981 image courtesy Jeff Lonto. 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. The music played was from Kammans own encyclopedic library of records, domestic and foreign. 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? 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. Lord Jeffrey, (Jeff Diamond) came to work at KUXL in 1967, when he was about 15 years old. 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. He was keeping the call letters their full potential had never been fully utilized. The owners brought in Robert Purcell to inject life in the station, and a friend who booked Country & Western touring shows told him that the area was one of the top in the country. KUXL hosted the Impressions at the Marigold Ballroom on January 22, 1967. WTCN was the home of Jack Thayer and Bill Diehl (before they moved over to WDGY) and had a lot of music shows with ambiguous titles. Formula 63 box, courtesy Sam Sherwood. And although this page is about the AM station, what the heck. Its unclear when KSTP started playing rock n roll. band (which had necessitated the Mighty 1130s switch in the first place.) No doubt the Random Ranch show was similar. Other Facebook stories of the strength of the transmission: In 1952 the station was sold to a group of four local businessmen, one of which was Clarence T. Hagman. On October 3, 1963, Forrest Powers reported in the Star that, Well soon be the happiest group of radio listeners in the country. At least 48 times a day, if you happened to be tuning across the dial at that exact time all you could hear was the Colonel saying, You remember me? In the fall of 1985, KQ adopted the Classic Rock format. Found on Radiotapes.com: Ballad of Minnesota!. and an occasional Top 10 tune. The KDAN Remote Caboose Studio was used in the early 1970s for commercial remote broadcasts and for broadcasting from the Minnesota State Fair. I hope you have some audio clean up program. What are we gonna do? He didnt want to scare people away, and he wanted to lure sponsors to the program. One early promotion involved a sticker that said KDWB is Everywhere. $630 would be awarded to the person who placed the sticker in the most unusual place, which turned out to be on the St. Paul Cathedral dome! Our normal 5,000 watt, 6 tower, highly directional radio station was now a 1,000-watt non-directional radio station. Though our names are nearly identical, we were two different people. I wonder how long this crazy schedule lasted! Crocker, and Brad Piras. And so goes the history of one of our most obscure radio stations. 1965 issue of Twin city a-Go Go magazine, Preacher Paul had a column called Hip. 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