See more about Harris under his listing on the Disc Jockey page. ! Sam also remembered that the President of station owner Crowell-Collier was pretty mad, and annoyed when the guys on the golf course started calling him Cookie, but when he got to become a celebrity as the story went national, everyone job was safe. First, the typos are NOT mine this time. Save peace in the world. I took this from a flight I took in 1977. A lot of people thought it was a broadcast training center like Brown Institute or something. A Super Soul Thirty countdown dated July 1, 1972, pictures DJ Thomas Love and Music Director Jimmy Smith (. Secret Stash, Volume 1, Issue 1 (September 25, 2012), says that Kosofsky was the Chairman of Universal Broadcasting, and that his brother-in-law, Howard Warshaw, was the President. The Star Tribune article also reported that Al Alonzo reported to Newport. Schedules and staff were changing that winter of 1965, with Preacher Paul slipping into semi-retirement, working only Saturdays from 1 to 5:30, remotely from the Ebony Lounge. This is a shot of the transmitter site of WDGY/1130AM radio, along 35W at about 102nd Street. The recordings on this site provide historical examples of Twin Cities radio and are intended for purposes of archival preservation and for research. A policeman knocked down pregnant woman, pulled her hair, and threw her into a wall. On August 19, 1963, the stations license was voluntarily assigned to Edward D. Skotch. 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. Engineer Herb Schoenbohm, a jazz buff, started by emceeing a nightly 7 7:30 pm spot. Jimmy also worked at KDWB-AM and KRSI prior to this gig. I was able to get this shot during a visit to see Jimmy Reed. The station played Country music with a heavy emphasis on local North Suburban news and sports. As a promotion, in November 1958 Jim Ramsburg cooked up the Radio Wonders basketball team. Two white youths from upstate Minnesota were arrested in a house when spotted brandishing a shotgun on a balcony. 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.. Along with enough news to give you information, but not anxiety. Consequently the launch of U100 was delayed three days. Roof rebuilt. Will Jones dedicated most of his April 22, 1965, column to the station, saying, Life is simpler on KUXL. He declared that hip teenagers were abandoning the standard rock n roll stations late in the afternoon to tune in to Preacher Paul Anthony. Wayne Red Williams was Station Manager and Ray Christensen was Program Director. During the KFMX days, one of the frequent sponsors was the Leaning Post. The ever-blessed Will Jones announced on June 5, 1964: KUXL is airing jazz. Contributed by John Pratt 12-6-07. 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. The station was one of the first stations in the country to program rock and roll music in a top 40 format in the mid 1950s. In a 1972 article the Insider noted the leaky roof and yellowed wallpaper at the aging studio in St. Louis Park. Article on Scott Burton's injury during a WDGY promotional event. Ed replaced Machine Gun Kelly when he split for KHJ. Today, the station is KTLK, News/Talk 1130, and uses a transmitter site in Credit River Township. This is the best I could do with the poor exposure using photo editing tools. Special thanks to Jim du Bois for the use of the recording studio & to Donald K. Martin and Mike Cunningham for spending timein the interest to preserve some of the Twin Cities radio history. 980 AM was originally staid WPBC from 1949 to 1972. Steele (Steve Gibbons) Art Snow (The all night snowman) Scott Cannon, the Tall (Brother Bob) Robert Hall, Doug McKinnon, (Captain Billy in the morning) Michael J. Im sorry the ad below is so hard to read. In August, 1965, Texas Bill Strength went on the air at WMIN after being with KEYD/KEVE (1955 to 1958) and KTCR (1962 to 1965). The music first played on KUXL was of the Percy Faith/David Rose/Henry Mancini/Peggy Lee/Bing Crosby/Lawrence Welk fare. In 1948 the Sepia Serenade show featured black recording stars, Mondays and Wednesdays from 6:15 to 6:45 pm. Owned and operated by WRPX. The schedule on December 30, 1971, shows Rhythm & Blues programming from 1pm until dark and 6 am until 6:45 am. Jack Thayer was on three different times during the day, Frank Beutel with a show called Just Easy, Swing Club: David Hersk remembers Bob Bradley playing R&B in 54 and 55. An historical archive of surveys and nostalgia from radio station WDGY 1130 AM, Minneapolis / St. Paul. Total information News, in-depth, authoritative, 1280s programming for metropolitan listeners has long been one of radios finest. I thought if we could get somewhat organized on a daily continuous basis that it would be a step in the right direction. WDGY Hit Car - Late 60's. Who is this guy? What about a transmitter? Rick B. It was to be a program format, readily identifiable concentrating on jazz, according to Burke. He made a ton of money, eventually owning part of the Cleveland Nets World Tennis Team, Cleveland Indians, and Cleveland Cavaliers basketball team. Right on Super U became a catch phrase on the station and among its fans. Hennepin Ave. at the Lyndale bottleneck looking north. 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). Nobody died. The first tape was recorded off the air on February 21, 1973 and is a good quality recording. Protests of the new format came in the form of resignations of staff, pickets, KQ Sucks t-shirts, loss of advertisers, and the formation of an organization called People for Progressive Radio, which strove to bring the free-form format back, either at KQ or otherwise. And, I can confirm that the man was everything his name implied: he was Little (411 tall), Jimmy (for James Cecil), and he admittedly was full of the Dickens. But thats another story. The station was fined $10,000 in March 1961 for exceeding its authorized power in nighttime operations. After becoming VP and General Manager, I made sales calls in all the major markets and it never failed.Sam Sherwood?!!! and went back to Mexico, this time to XERB, a 50,000 watt station in Tijuana. The team could not play high school and college teams, but would go out to small towns for exhibition games. 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. 1400 AM changed its call letters again in January 1972 to KEEY AM, to match that of its FM sister station, and installed a soft rock format separate of the FM, which aired Beautiful Music. On March 7, 2017, WDGY discontinued broadcasting in HD and began broadcasting in C-QUAM AM stereo. K-COW said, Uh uh! The new owners immediately requested permission from the FCC to change the call letters back to WMIN. For more on Progressive/Underground Rock, see KRSI. (Thanks to David Hersk!). In 1959-1960 KEVE had a Sunday remote broadcast from the Fireside in Fridley. New furnace, electricity etc. Suddenly the voice of Metropolitan Radio is clear as a bell on the dial. NIS ended in May 1977 but WWTC continued the all-news format with its own staff. . See the new transmitter here courtesy www.radiotapes.com, Aerial shot of the 9-tower array courtesy Tom Gavaras. 2 Beds. 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. There, at 63, where no Minnesotan had gone before. WDGY can be heard around the clock on two FM translator stations: 92.1 W221BS from St. Paul and 103.7 W279DD from Hudson. Hes still sick of The Wayward Wind., As for where the lists came from, Ramsburg explains, Juke box operators depended on Cash Box, which was a few weeks faster with sales figures than Billboard. There is a promo for WDGY's Easter Bunny contest, where you can win a McDonald's Easter Bunny. It was baked in five pound slabs in a church basement and delivered just an hour before the deadline. 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. A Hammond RK4 reverberation unit has been ordered The echo unit will be .. controlled by push buttons installed at the news table and console. Theres a ton of stories circulating about Top 40 began inspired by an Omaha tavern juke box, developed by a college statistical department, guided by BBDOs Hit Parade formula for Lucky Strike you name it. Other early DGY personalities were Bill Armstrong, Jack Thayer, Bill Bennett, Don Loughnane, and Stanley Mack. 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. 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! The program was one half hour long and started on October 17, 1964. TeleVue magazine, 1980. Another crazy promotion was the time Charlee Brown styled himself as the Emperor and threatened to take over the State of Wisconsin. There were other ways for Twin Citians to hear pre-WDGY rock n roll, of course: Records from Melodee Record Shop in Downtown Minneapolis, movies like Blackboard Jungle, and live performances of pop, jazz, and country acts. The country format continued until 1989, when it became "News Talk 1130, WDGY". I found no other advertising in the Minneapolis papers, but the St. Paul papers are not online. The new station would be broadcast at 1570 kilocycles, way at the top of the AM dial, at only 500 watts, daytime only. And he skipped out on the landlord, too. This format gradually morphed into the sports talk format, and the calls were changed to KFAN in 1991. Whatever the approach, it had to be as different as was our position on the dial. The Insider reported that it was moving toward soft progressive in September 1971, when Dick Driscoll came back to the station after Dick had turned KQRS from classical to progressive. In the wake of the incidents, a committee was formed by the St. Paul Urban Coalition to investigate them. Four people were killed when their light plane, flying in a blinding snowstorm, hit a guy wire holding up one of KDWBs radio towers in Woodbury.