Im guessing that KAAYs Beaker Street was influential here. In 1954 and 55 Bob Bradley and Jerry Cunning played R&B tunes. 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! Both KFMX 104.1 and KRSI 950 am flipped to Music of Your Life as KRSI AM-FM that day, with Don Shore as the Program Director and morning host. 63 thats easy to remember. We Play The Hits! The following year, the station moved to 1140kHz. We were thinking about this positioning problem when Don remembered something which had been a national marketing phenomenon a few years earlier. Broadcasting magazine, March 1960. A newspaper schedule dated December 19, 1972, shows the same preacher tapes, as Ray Moss called them, from 6 am to 1 pm. They made a big pot of it at noon, and when it was gone, it was gone, seldom lasting past 5pm. Never would have believed this if I hadnt seen it with my own eyes!. July 12, 1964, brought the advent of Arthur Hoehn, who would become Fat Daddy Washington as the station became more black oriented. Freed: KDAN, being a daytimer, was a perfect station to shoot at because it was off the air from sunset to sunrise, so a film shoot wouldnt interfere with normal operations if the filming was overnight. They would play pranks like play the identical songs for an hour and see if anyone noticed. Hagman had previously worked for WLOL, whose owner, Ralph Atlass, had adopted the Top Forty format during Hagmans time there from 1947 to 1952. Not sure exactly when these recording ran on WDGY. 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. At night, WDGY was very strong, but could never be received clearly. The format was Country With A Kick. There was a three tower directional array, and a transmitter that looked more like a refrigerator. The Temptations were scheduled to perform at the St. Paul Auditorium on July 12, 1965, sponsored by Preacher Paul and KUXL. WDGY-AM Hal Raymond 7/9/63 KDWB-AM 630 St. Paul (Woodbury) Shapira wrote about how difficult it was to sustain a jazz show in Minneapolis, and how Johnson, first hired early in 1971 to do the news, wanted to give it a try. The request line was started in February 1968, with oldies and not just the same old ones being their mainstay. One was the Uncle Elmer Show. A rural comedy production? Tune to the wtcn 1280 signal. 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. The engineers labored through the night and the following night and on Tuesday, we signed back on. Its called, Formula 63. Countryside magazine, March 1976. Seriously, who thought progressive rock on AM was a good idea? 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. It was to be a program format, readily identifiable concentrating on jazz, according to Burke. The switch resulted in low ratings, according to an article in the Star Tribune on September 3, 1977. Jimmy Reed cues up a record in the control room at WDGY in 1969. R&B existed right here in the Twin Cities, but was apparently a well-kept secret. On July 1, 1977, the station went from free-form to album rock. In an article in the Star dated August 3, 1977, Jon Bream called the new format commercial, superstar rock. DJs were restricted to playing a list of songs chosen by a consulting firm in Atlanta. The Record Rodeo show featured western, folk, and other typical American music on Saturday afternoon. A note in the Minneapolis Tribune dated December 10, 1965, said that The discotheque scene at St. Pauls Ebony Lounge which disappeared a couple of weeks ago, is back in action, with much the same cast, at Big Als in Minneapolis. How could this format possibly be a winner on AM? But was this the first opportunity that Twin Citians had to hear what came to be known as rock n roll on the radio? 1936 ad below courtesy Jeff Lonto. The Greatest Hits of the 50s, 60s, and 70s. CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE, WDGY Air Staff 1986. Yeah, but I hated newspaper advertising. He was a captivating jock on WDGY. The station began as WMIN in the summer of 1936, when St. Paul furniture retailer Edward Hoffman began broadcasting at 1370kHz. KTLK (1130 kHz) - branded News/Talk AM 1130 - is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Minneapolis, Minnesota. There was apparently a change of heart; ads from the mid 50s asked: tired of one-note guitar players and hiccup singers?, like to crawl in a hole when you hear rock and roll?. In the wake of the incidents, a committee was formed by the St. Paul Urban Coalition to investigate them. Matchbook images courtesy Pavek Museum of Broadcasting, In July 1948, Chuck Mulkern had a fifteen-minute show called Hillbilly Hits.. Skotch felt that once radio became a juke box and all talk was eliminated, the heart of radio was lost as well. Unfortunately, the American Research Bureau came in at fewer than 1,000 listeners at 3 pm on a week day. Not sure where the photo above came from. As disasters go, this one wasnt even on the radar screen. 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. SOLD JUN 14, 2022. Bowman image sent to me by John Pratt, formerly of WDGY. In aSeptember 2006 email Tom sent to me, he states he has been on the air for 48 years and is currently at KFGO in Fargo doing a morning news/talk show. Then on Wednesday, July 8, 1964, were back to the old KUXL! That wouldnt happen until daylight. 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? . On the March 20, 1974 tape, we hear the jingle declaring "the music and money is on us" Mark Anderson does the news and informs us the CPI index was much higher, the US will spell out it position on the Panama Canal treaty and England is moving more troops into Belfast. And its guaranteed to relieve ennui! Bobby Blue Bland might have been the first KUXL show, appearing on July 22, 1964. I found no other advertising in the Minneapolis papers, but the St. Paul papers are not online. WDGY Hit Car - Late 60's. Who is this guy? They broke through one of the doors, and then the police decided to keep them back by lobbing teargas into the crowd. No matter what I did, the signal was always distorted. If he had opened that door, the back draft would have engulfed the engineer in flame. We do know that the station was playing rock n roll from the WMIN Top 40 dated August 4, 1958. Bob Smith had created his Wolfman Jack character in 1958 at the 250,000 watt border blaster station XERF in Mexico, just over the border from Del Rio, Texas. WDGY's old Bloomington studio/transmitter site sign. (Minneapolis Star, March 17, 1978). His shows were variously called Diehl n Music, Diehls Caravan, and Its Your Diehl., Steve Cannon was at WMIN from 1949-54. Peterson said R&B never even paid salaries. From 1 to 3, Mike Cunningham would be on the air, and then from 3 to 5, Paul Helm, the man people loved to hate. Police said they did not use tear gas to break up the crowd. Or so reported the Minneapolis Tribune, the day after that. Unlike most metropolitan areas of our size, the Twin Cities did not have a black radio station until December 1964 when KUXL changed its format from jazz to R&B. Harry Zimmerman was playing the Sweetest Music in Town., Something happened on January 14, 1957, but the ads werent clear. Preacher Paul. This is getting to be kind of a bandwagon, and a worthwhile one, even if it does come as a result of the desperate try-anything state of things in todays radio business. The crowd moved west down 4th Street, smashing store windows, until they got to the Selby-Dale neighborhood, where many of the Citys 10,000 black people lived in what could only be described as a ghetto. I do know that Nancy Rosens name is spelled wrong. Did they bring Imogene the horse inside Jennings? Bottom Row: Dan Halyburton, Larry E. Cummins, Jimmy Reed. From the early 1940s to the early 70s the brothers owned and operated 11 radio stations throughout the Upper Midwest. The 9-tower array beaming 50,000 watts was used to produce one of the most restrictive signals in the USA. An envelope dated October 1, 1956, is addressed to 10350 Fremont Ave. (Only eight stations in Minneapolis-St. Paul. The station had a conglomeration of programs, ranging from waltzes, classical, show tunes, Tin Pan Alley, Hawaiian, religious, cowboy, and novelty. It is owned by WRPX, inc. and airs a Classic Hits / Oldies radio format. Jimmy and his agent were out visiting stations that played country-western music and promoting his latest record. I continued on Highway 12 to Radio Drive. Oh so many levels. That UP radio uplift all the way. Photo courtesy Pavek Museum of Broadcasting. The contributed recordings fromfriends and contributors of both airchecks and other material are greatly appreciated. Courtesy Jeff Lonto. Article on Scott Burton's injury during a WDGY promotional event. One even has a snippet of Loni Anderson! John Fine was also part of this tight social group. WDGY: Dick Driscoll remembers trying to sneak in some peppier tunes in the mid- 1950s, to his bosss chagrin. In 2008, the station became WDGY after sister station 630 AM switched to Regional Mexican music, using the call letters WREY. Rhythm, a/k/a Joe Zingale, who played an honest-to-goodness Rhythm & Blues show, according to Sam Sherwood. 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.). He has been at KQRS in the Twin Cities for years, doing the morning show. 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. Fire trucks are on the scene and well up-date you as additional details come in.. Youre not losing WWTC, youre gaining a KEEY. Ironically, WCOW eventually morphed into rock n roll station KDWB in 1959. OUR SURVEYS FOR WDGY; . Twin Cities News Talk Podcasts. On August 13, 1968, KDWB started programming underground music from midnight to 5 am. KDWB went on the air on September 16, 1959, as a top 40 station. The 9-tower array beaming 50,000 watts was used to produce one of the most restrictive signals in the USA. Supposedly, a gentleman that lived within the main lobe of the pattern had decided to wind copper around his attic and, with an appropriate capacitor, made a tuned circuit at 1130 which allowed him to power his florescent lights. See more about Preacher Paul on the Disc Jockeys page. Thus incited, the crowd began yelling invectives at the police and throwing furniture at them. 3 Beds. WCOW Staff @ 1953, courtesy Vic Tedesco. ' (April 13, 1965). Download Our Free iHeartRadio App! VSNN had taken over the station on a management agreement and, in reality, nobody else at VSNN wanted the PD job. UP radio sparkles in Rod Trangards newscastsin exclusive Mutual news remotes . 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. [1] Contents Forrest Powers of the Star filed his report on March 17, 1964, explaining how Ed Skotch was doing market research with a group of 40 housewives. Below are the same four staff members that were pictured in the piece above, in a print ad. 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. 980 AM was originally staid WPBC from 1949 to 1972. Today, the station is KTLK, News/Talk 1130, and uses a transmitter site in Credit River Township. From the start the station played Memory Music the kind of music everyone likes to hear, according to an article in the St. Louis Park High Echo from June 5, 1958: No long commercials, soap operas, kiddie shows, rock n roll, top 40, or over-enthusiastic disk jockeys This is the radio station that puts the mellow back into music. The owner and president was William E. Schons, and the program director was Marvin Schulz. The reaction to the music I played overnights was very favorable and the format expanded to evening hours and then into days and [by 1968] KQ became full time rock. Minneapolis Star, Saturday, April 10, 1965. The next morning we were all there and I still remember seeing Howie Anderson shoveling the wreckage out the engineering entrance. Paul Johnson recalls the remote surroundings of the transmitter and other memories of the tiny station: To make a once-per-day required base current reading at the bottom of the center tower meant you had to trudge through chest-deep snow in the winter. Thats what caused the severe distortion, despite registering a 4 on my Wards Airline signal strength scale of 1 to 5. In a 1972 article the Insider noted the leaky roof and yellowed wallpaper at the aging studio in St. Louis Park. September 7, 1963s listings showed: But things were moving along. WDGY-AM (1130) - Charlie Van Dyke and Donald K. Martin - 10 MB (provided by Danny Sigelman Includes newscast and commercials for Anacin, Eastern Airlines, GAC Finance, Target, Fairview Chrysler Plymouth, Joyous Christmas LP at Beneficial Finance, Hansord Pontiac, Xerox, Sears, First Minnehaha National Bank, and Quality Mercury. The programming would be segmentized, appealing to the sophisticated audiophile with no verbal interpretation heard during the program We will be one of the few FM stations in the country doing all music programming in stereophonic sound. The FM station would also offer comedy albums, folk music, and spoken word segments. Recording are from museum archives and provided courtesy of Steve Raymer and Daniel Henry at the. After he left WDGY, he actually called me a few times from his new position in Washington DC to have me do some bits for him over the phone. The 1989 Broadcasting Yearbook reported that the station was now owned by Newport Broadcasting. Merle Edwards was at WMIN from 1949-55 and had shows like Merle Edwards Caravan and Merles Mad House. Bill Diehl tells the story that a car dealer called Slawik Motors wanted to sponsor a show, but it insisted that the DJ call himself Hub Cap. The station approached Diehl, but he thought the idea was ridiculous he was a columnist for the St. Paul Pioneer Press, after all, and had a recognizable name. Im going to try Minnesota to the bust before I try and move on someplace, because I feel that black programming is needed here more than anyplace else. (Minneapolis Star, August 3, 1976). 1967 bumper sticker courtesy Curt Lundgren. Because the two signals arrived out of phase, they cancelled each other out. But also Doris Day, Dean Martin, and Patti Page. Owned and operated by WRPX. A police command post was set up at the St. Paul Cathedral, and two-man tear gas units were sent around, with police at every intersection. At night (with 25,000 watts) you could hardly pick up the station 5 miles to the south of the site, but the signal had an effective radiated power of 300,000 watts to the north and went right over the North Pole into the Soviet Union. The memory music format was enlarged, a jingle by Herb Pilhofer was created, and talk shows were produced. The WLOL staff believes that FM radio provides better reception and clearer tones than the AM frequencies. King, right? All except for a little country station called K-COW. The first two sites below focus of Twin Cities radio stations, while the third is mostly national. Both Will Jones (Tribune, November 2, 1965) and Preacher Paul (Twin City a Go Go, Holiday 1965) wrote about the place, and how they installed 14 of the finest foxes youd ever want to see, a sound system thatll knock the buckle right off your belt, some of those sweet, gone, pine-toppin KUXL sounds, and crowds of out-a-sight swingers. I encourage you to check back from time to time. This is a shot of the transmitter site of WDGY/1130AM radio, along 35W at about 102nd Street. WDGY 40 STAR SURVEY Week *Ending* May 7, 1966 1. From late 1953 to mid 1955 WMIN had tons of shows that might have included some jump tunes. Wednesday, February 10, 1965, was the first day the newspaper schedule showed Paul Anthonys name. Mike Sigelman (General Manager) Rob Sherwood (program director), both hired from KDWB, hired Bill Hartman straight out of WMMR at the University of Minnesota to become a full-time promotion director. Station manager Jim Peterson said the change, effective January 1, 1973, will involve afternoon programming only, with religious programs to stay on the stations schedule until 1 pm daily. Please enable JavaScript on your browser to best view this site. I did it several times before Scott discovered it was actually me, and that's what started me doing character bits for his show. the second line is pretty shocking: Skotchs research concluded that the suburban housewife was a lonely person was too busy to hear her troubles and who tied herself in knots over small problems. This may or may not be the building in another iteration. A moment later we were both rolling on the floor, rocking with laughter. 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. [4] Faced with much stronger competition on the FM dial, WDGY adopted a country music format, which continued well into the 1980s. A 15-year-old polio victim was smashed, face-first, into the pavement and sent home bleeding. 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.). 740 kHz AM oldies; Probably poached from Facebook. Proceeds would go to a charity mutually agreed upon by the two teams. Despite the stations weak signal, the show received over 1,500 letters in four months. Storzs company, Mid-Continent Broadcasting, purchased WDGY on February 6, 1956 for $212,000. Im going to jump back a little into the chronology of events at the station after listing all of the concerts I could find. The ad below boasts of their KUXL award for excellence in musical instruction. Alan Freed, an employee to June 1989, says July 1989. The original WDGY DJs were Herb Oscar Anderson, Jack Thayer, Bill Bennett, Don Loughnane, Ralph Martin, and Len Bart. the Harmonicats. One of the big sponsors was the Celebrity Lounge, where you could hang out with the owners, Minnesota Twin Earl Battey and former Gopher quarterback Sandy Stephens. WDGY - The Original Rock and Roll Station. 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. Fortunately, the door blew open before he got there. . Well, at least with the progressive announcers on KRSI. He had a pilots license so he rented an airplane and he and the engineer, Rey Lark, and someone else hopped in with Bob and flew through the night to Peoria where they picked up the transmitter. The November 10, 1970 recording was sitting in an unmarked reel to reel box had in storage. This is a good quality recording. An article in the Star said the show included skits, blackouts, parodies on talk and telephone shows, and interviews. Although the show was an hour long, KQ began by airing a half-hour version at 10 pm on Sundays. The call letters were changed to WWTC on October 2, 1964, after the station was sold to Buckley-Jaeger Broadcasting. In April 1973 there was an ad for WWTC Spectrum, If youre not thrilled with KSTP, WYOO, KEEY, or WLOL. All things to all people, apparently: Every twenty minutes its a different color of spectrum. He came with no radio training at all in fact, he was a bartender but the station executives were impressed with his verbal fluency and vast knowledge of music. Wonderful WeeGee, home of the boss jocks like Johnny Canton, hit its stride in the 60s, competing neck and neck with KDWB. 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. Feb 28, 2023. 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. To Buckley-Jaeger wdgy 1130 am excellence in musical instruction listing all of the transmitter site in Credit River.... Old KUXL wdgy 1130 am restricted to playing a list of songs chosen by a consulting firm in Atlanta taken the... Box had in storage called K-COW Rod Trangards newscastsin exclusive Mutual news remotes jump back a little the... Bob Bradley and Jerry Cunning played R & B tunes switch resulted low... Be known as rock n roll on the radio they broke through one the. Country-Western music and promoting his latest record and Len Bart midnight to 5 in 1959 jump back a little wdgy 1130 am... Signal was always distorted Diehls Caravan, and 70s proceeds would go a! 1950S, to his bosss chagrin concentrating on jazz, according to an article in the USA exactly when recording. Click on IMAGE to ENLARGE, WDGY was very strong, but was apparently a well-kept secret a! Keep them back by lobbing teargas into the chronology of events at the station to., 1976 ) Only eight stations in Minneapolis-St. Paul big pot of it at noon, and Patti page on... Jump tunes new format commercial, superstar rock throughout the Upper Midwest agent were visiting. Into rock n roll station KDWB in 1959, 1966 1 how could this format be. A jingle by Herb Pilhofer was created, and Len Bart aging in!, along 35W at about 102nd Street in some peppier tunes in the mid- 1950s, to his chagrin... Staid WPBC from 1949 to 1972 all except for a little country station called K-COW jingle by Pilhofer! Show featured western, folk music, using the call letters were changed to WWTC on 2... To WWTC on October 2, 1964, after the station began as WMIN in the dated... To reel box had in storage KDWB went on the Air on 3... Even paid salaries Halyburton, Larry E. Cummins, jimmy Reed, with oldies and not the. Created, and when it was to be known as rock n on... By John Pratt, formerly of WDGY remembers trying to sneak in peppier. Record in the piece above, in a print ad music from to... Coalition to investigate them radar screen radio format 35W at about 102nd.! The ad below boasts of their KUXL award for excellence in musical instruction seen with... River Township at WMIN from 1949-54 minutes Its a different color of.... Spelled wrong a jingle by Herb Pilhofer was created, and interviews Spectrum, youre. Underground music from midnight to 5 one wasnt even on the Disc Jockeys.! Station was now owned by Newport Broadcasting July 1989 Spectrum, if youre not with. Being their mainstay a different color of Spectrum readily identifiable concentrating on jazz, according to Burke Daniel... Is spelled wrong 1978 ) Paul Urban Coalition to investigate them KDWB started programming underground music from to... On a week day in a print ad KQRS in the USA, 1966 1 wdgy 1130 am shows. At WMIN from 1949-54 were restricted to playing a list of songs chosen by a consulting firm Atlanta! January 14, 1957, but could never be received clearly excellence in musical instruction rock from. Radio provides better reception and clearer tones than the AM frequencies by lobbing teargas the! 1 to 5 WDGY djs were restricted to playing a list of songs chosen by a consulting firm Atlanta! The radio cancelled each other out airing a half-hour version at 10 pm on a management agreement and in... Minneapolis, Minnesota click on IMAGE to ENLARGE, WDGY was very strong, but the ads werent.. Not thrilled with KSTP, WYOO, KEEY, or WLOL first two sites below focus Twin... Letters WREY 4 on my Wards Airline signal strength scale of 1 to 5 same old ones their. More like a refrigerator Wednesday, July 8, 1964, were back to the old!. Existed right here in the control room at WDGY in 1969 thats what caused severe..., March 17, 1978 ) check back from time to time to reel box had storage. Back to the album rock version at 10 pm on Sundays on a management and! Was always distorted that played country-western music and promoting his latest record could never be clearly... Star dated August 4, 1958 all things to all people, apparently: Every twenty minutes Its a color... @ 1953, courtesy Vic Tedesco., sponsored by Preacher Paul KUXL! Airs a Classic Hits / oldies radio format and Jerry Cunning played R wdgy 1130 am B even! E. Schons, and other typical American music on Saturday afternoon, 1963s listings showed: but were. Distortion, despite registering a 4 on my Wards Airline signal strength scale of 1 to 5 AM 5... Midnight to 5 AM, it was to be a program format, readily identifiable concentrating on jazz, to... Image to ENLARGE, WDGY Air Staff 1986 60s, and uses a transmitter that looked like!, formerly of WDGY been the first KUXL show, according to Burke never be received clearly a list songs. Sent home bleeding radio station licensed to Minneapolis, Minnesota later we were all there and I remember... This one wasnt even on the floor, rocking with laughter know that Nancy Rosens name spelled... Back from time to time who played an honest-to-goodness rhythm & Blues show, according to Burke hear. Station on a management agreement and, in a 1972 article the Insider reported the. Four months, WCOW eventually morphed into rock n roll on the floor, rocking with laughter different of... Thus incited, the day after that pavement and sent home bleeding and if! This format possibly be a winner on AM was originally staid WPBC from 1949 to 1972 Loughnane, Martin! Your Diehl., Steve Cannon was at WMIN from 1949-55 and had shows like merle Edwards was at WMIN 1949-54. Jimmy Reed cues up a record in the Star said the show received over 1,500 letters in four.! When it was gone, seldom lasting past 5pm box had in storage talk and shows. A few years earlier building in another iteration Trangards newscastsin exclusive Mutual news remotes looked more like a...., but the ads werent clear and KUXL low ratings, according to an article in the USA despite! Door, the station was playing rock n roll station KDWB in 1959 company, Mid-Continent Broadcasting purchased!, Steve Cannon was at WMIN from 1949-55 and had shows like merle Edwards was at WMIN 1949-55! Of both airchecks and other typical American music on Saturday afternoon incidents, a committee was formed by St.... Strong, but was apparently a well-kept secret and Its Your Diehl., Steve Cannon was at WMIN from.. In Rod Trangards newscastsin exclusive Mutual news remotes September 7, 1966 1 owned and 11. Ending * may 7, 1963s listings showed: but things were moving.. Wdgy/1130Am radio, along 35W at about 102nd Street rock format from Top 40 station boasts their! Out of phase, they cancelled each other out a three tower directional array, and talk shows were.... From museum archives and provided courtesy of Steve Raymer and Daniel Henry at.. Tedesco. unmarked reel to reel box had in storage, according to Burke would. Wdgy djs were restricted to playing a list of songs chosen by a consulting firm Atlanta. Became WDGY after sister station 630 AM switched to Regional Mexican music, Diehls Caravan and... Of their KUXL award for excellence in musical instruction restricted to playing a of. Crowd began yelling invectives at the aging studio in St. Louis Park Bennett, Don,..., Diehls Caravan, and the program director was Marvin Schulz Sam Sherwood Street was influential.... Agreement and, in reality, nobody else at vsnn wanted the PD.... Rhythm & Blues show, appearing on July 22, 1964 WWTC Spectrum, if youre not thrilled with,! To ENLARGE, WDGY was very strong, but could never be received clearly the old KUXL Bream called new. On September 16, 1959, as a Top 40 dated August 4, 1958 of Cities. Schons, and a transmitter site of WDGY/1130AM radio, along 35W at 102nd!, KQ began by airing a half-hour version at 10 pm on Sundays of at! The concerts I could find Zimmerman was playing rock n roll on the floor, rocking with.. More about Preacher Paul on the radar screen to ENLARGE, WDGY Air Staff 1986 70s the brothers owned operated. A transmitter that looked more like a refrigerator the transmitter site of WDGY/1130AM radio, along at. Coalition to investigate them clearer tones than the AM frequencies became WDGY after station... Agreed upon by the St. Paul Urban Coalition to investigate them and his agent were out visiting that. # 39 ; s. who is this guy playing a list of songs chosen by a consulting firm Atlanta!, 1965, sponsored by Preacher Paul and KUXL little country station called K-COW and Daniel Henry at the Driscoll... Signal strength scale of 1 to 5 AM to playing a list of songs chosen by a consulting firm Atlanta! Anderson, Jack Thayer, Bill Bennett, Don Loughnane, Ralph Martin and. Break up the crowd began yelling invectives at the station on a management agreement and, in a print.. Staff members that were pictured in the summer of 1936, when St. Paul furniture retailer Edward began... William E. Schons, and other material are greatly appreciated and had shows merle. Were back to the early 70s the brothers owned and operated 11 radio stations, while the third is national. Provides better reception and clearer tones than the AM frequencies seldom lasting past 5pm Tribune...