WDGY at one time carried "The True Oldies Channel" programmed by New York City DJ Scott Shannon. No matter what I did, the signal was always distorted. Generally, WDGY came in second in overall audience ratings to market-dominant, clear-channel WCCO. I sent time at my grandparents lake home on Rush Lake (60 miles north of St. Paul). You will hear Jimmy promote the "All Americans,"you will hear one of the first Gatorade commercials and you will hear the WDGY promo for the WDGY Power Poll where one could win a Craig color TV (I thought this was radio?). I remember that the No. 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. BB King performed at the Marigold on September 12, 1965. In addition to the ones listed below, Preacher Paul expressed an interest in booking act such as Chuck Jackson, Jimmy Reed, Junior Walker, Marv Johnson (he lost $20 on that show, he told Secret Stash), Al Green, Wilson Pickett (emceed by Lord Jeffrey), Fats Domino, the Supremes, Joe Hinton, and his pride and joy the Righteous Brothers. What Storz did was apply the Top 40 concept to rock n roll. There was the terrible smell of burnt paper and charred wood. Radiotapes.com has airchecks from 1957 of Steve Cannon and Leigh Kamman doing what was billed as the Twin Cities first and only Double Disk Jockey Show. Apparently WPBC was trying to hang on: an ad in what appears to be called WPBC Metropolitan Magazine, dated April 1972, says: WPBC MAKES THIS BOLD CLAIM: IF you are an ADULT .. who likes POPULAR MUSIC from TODAY and YESTERDAY but your nerves cant stand the LOUD NOISY TEEN-AGE MUSIC.. YOU WILL LOVE the GENTLE TENDER TOUCHING RELAXING selection of EASY LISTENING POPULAR MUSIC on WPBC AM and FM STEREO! Donald K. Martin and Rick Burnett, July 7th, 2008, Mike Cunningham (Left) andJim du Bois (Richt) in the studio with Donald K. Martin, WDGY December 1972 Survey Contributed by Donald K. Martin, WDGY December 1972 Survey Back Cover (page 4), WDGY - Don Martin in undated photo he contributed. Although the records say that KUXL was granted the license to increase its power to 1000 watts on October 1, 1963, Will Jones of the Tribune did not announce the approval until February 17, 1964. (Storz died in 1964 at age 39.) They made a big pot of it at noon, and when it was gone, it was gone, seldom lasting past 5pm. Everyone seemed to be just milling about. Top Row: Step Up Movie, Steve Highsmith, Gregg Lindahl, Paul Johnson. Even the disk jockeys werent let in on it until that morning. I stopped and visited him one morning, and he lowered a Bob Dylan album for me. I did not get to talk to the Twin Cities until 1972 when I was hired as a part-time DJ at KTCR-FM, a country station in Minneapolis. A lot of people thought it was a broadcast training center like Brown Institute or something. 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. I took this from a flight I took in 1977. That clock is probably showing real time. From there he went on to be Milkman Sam until about 1956. And it is impossible to do a newspaper search on Bob Smith. He did continue to make Wolfman tapes in the Golden Valley studio and ship them to Mexico. KRSIs owner, Park Broadcasting, which owned 18 radio and TV stations in 11 cities, asked Drake-Chenault Enterprises of Los Angeles to install one of its systems. 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. Paul radio stations featuring recordings dating back to 1924, with many from the 19. 636 Selby Ave. Photo courtesy Jeff Neuberger. Don Morrison of the Star revealed even better news in his 2 Cents Worth entertainment column on June 20, 1964. Phone : (651) 436-4000. . From an ad from May 1970: WDGYA Touch of Taste.. VSNN had taken over the station on a management agreement and, in reality, nobody else at VSNN wanted the PD job. More great stuff is on http://twincitiesradioairchecks.com/wdgy1130tapes.html. A daily show dedicated to Whoopie John records, Melody Hall with Mort Garren, 11 to 3 pm, Album Parade with Jack Hyatt, 3 to 8 pm, German, Polish, Country, Old-Time: 15 percent, Shows with Don Hawkins, Johnny Morris, and Jimmy Valentine, Shows with Henry J. Taylor, Bill Ingram, and Don Riley, Suburban Editorial, with editors of 12 suburban newspapers editorializing on the air throughout the week, A two-hour show featuring audience calls discussing some controversial or current issue, The all-time, sock, dynamite hits, on 15 reels of tape, 32 or 33 songs to a reel. 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 Wolfman died on July 1, 1995. The cops busted four men and three women for selling liquor without a license (and on a Sunday!). Metropolitan Radio moved to a new site, and built a new and modern transmission facility (4-tower complex west of Highway 100 in St. Louis Park) a broadcast service that brings it within clear signal range of thousands who could nevr before enjoy wtcn 1280 as easily as they wished. Try some Red Owl green beans. (blah blah). Airchecks from 1964 indicate an emphasis on news and prophesy. Old Joe Clark played country music. 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. Billy G, the Prime Minister, started doing daily remotes from the Cassius Bar and Cafe on May 4, 1965, from 6 to 7 pm. (Minneapolis Tribune, January 2, 1973), For the first time since 1973, black music was again on the radio, with a new disc jockey named Pharoah Black (nee Thornton Jones). Courtesy Alan Freed. After all, its a thing to be able to sit down and listen to sides all day., There was also a Richard Nelson, who Connie Hechter at the Insider called Dick, but he actually was known as Admiral Richard E, and was on the air from 1966 to 1968, according to Curt Lundgren (who says he would cringe at the name Dick.). Jack Reynolds became General Manager in April 1971. 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. 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. So they convinced Edwards to do it and he became Merle Hub Cap Edwards. His programming was designed to help said housewife by becoming an intimate, informative close friend that will cloud out the things that bug her. This may or may not be the building in another iteration. The promotional flier or whatever below was posted on Facebook, and I dont know what the class designations mean. Congress amended the FCC Act in September 1960 to provide penalties short of license revocation for violations of FCC rules. Love it, Scott! WDGY 1130 AM is an online radio station broadcasts from Scottsdale, Arizona providing vintage music. and an occasional Top 10 tune. I sure miss those days. The station even gave trading stamps three and a half million every week to listeners who called in at the right times. While a lot of money has gone down the drain, it looks like it has been well spent since the station is gaining solid acclaim in the Twin Cities, and some of the money should start to come back in over a period of the next few years., One fun item is from a Storz Stations Engineering Newsletter dated November 20, 1956. 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. And so goes the history of one of our most obscure radio stations. Presumably the shows Cannonball Express and Cannon Fodder were his. They built their studio on Stinson Blvd. 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. Since it was the only bid submitted, they were handed a building worth $35,000, complete with air conditioning, transmitting equipment, control board, and paneled studios and offices. For $7,000 they moved the entire concrete block structure 25 miles across town. The call letters WDGY were based on the name of the founder Dr. George . (Phones at fire departments all across the vast Twin Cities area rang causing a ton of confusion as to just exactly where there was a fire.) My wife and I had long discussions late into the evening. Photo by Steve Raymer. Tom Kilbride was a DJ at KANO from 1960 to 1965. The precursor to KDWB was founded in 1951 by Nick, Vic and Al Tedesco, sons of Italian immigrants from the province of Calabria. Wednesday, February 10, 1965, was the first day the newspaper schedule showed Paul Anthonys name. It will be historical and contemporary, sweet, hot, lowdown, enlightened Chicago style or very cool. The call letters were changed back to WMIN later that year. He recently celebrated 25 years at KFGO. In 1948 the Sepia Serenade show featured black recording stars, Mondays and Wednesdays from 6:15 to 6:45 pm. The mother of all remotes was when several people from the station took over the Ebony Lounge, which was located in St. Paul over Roadbuddys Barbeque. The text of the ad below, which comes courtesy of Jeff Lonto, reads: WLOLs catchy UP radio flavor has a way of titillating you with surprises. Unfortunately the photos arent dated, but we do know that the band formed in 1954 when Augie returned from Korea. Thinking about how to tell the good people of the Twin Cities there was some good radio on the South end of the dial was pretty much all I was thinking about. The KDAN Remote Caboose Studio was used in the early 1970s for commercial remote broadcasts and for broadcasting from the Minnesota State Fair. In 1948 the Sepia Serenade show featured black recording stars, Mondays and Wednesdays from 6:15 to 6:45 pm. Advertising sales for the stations paled in comparison to the competition, and managing both stations became a burden for the couple, so the Stewarts sold the station in 1972 to Fairchild Industries for $1.5 million. On the same day, Forrest Powers, TV and Radio reporter for the Minneapolis Star, indicated that the station would start broadcasting that weekend. The St. Paul Urban League and the St. Paul Human Rights Department also launched their own investigations. They all said the same thing, essentially: screw your non-cancelable contract. Quick installation and adjustment. He had to play the #1 song every hour, and the others at will. It was a small shack hoisted on a small tower on the corner of 9th and Nicollet. Remember that this website only goes up to 1974, and I did do a thorough search on Newspapers.com for KUXL and other offshoots. On December 1, 1964, KEVE was changed to KQRS Quality Radio Station, still playing classical music. This heat siphoned off through ductwork that eventually combined with ductwork from the furnace and heating system.

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