Not knowing when he was writing the article, one would suppose that the Four Tops was between Ike and Tina and B.B. The Original Rock and Roll Station. (Were they ahead of their time?) Email : Jane@wdgyradio.com. 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. I was prensent at the studio when Jimmy and Tac coordinated play of the same record at the same time on both stations. Original staff consisted of Rob Sherwood, Jeff MotherRobins, Benny Blore (Bill Hartman) Jerry Brook, U.S. The station was licensed as 500-watt daytimer serving South St. Paul. KRSI Radio was located at 4500 Excelsior Blvd. You will enjoy tuning up to the quality sound of sound radio programming on KUXL. Matchbook images courtesy Pavek Museum of Broadcasting, In July 1948, Chuck Mulkern had a fifteen-minute show called Hillbilly Hits.. After a couple of changes the call letters became WDGY (Dr. George Young) in 1926. 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. Generally, WDGY came in second in overall audience ratings to market-dominant, clear-channel WCCO. One even has a snippet of Loni Anderson! The feeling seemed to be we are not going to advertise on that station., Jim Ramsburg, an early WDGY jock, says we were given strict orders never to utter the phrase, Rock & Roll, because it was black slang for sex. Bottom Row: Dan Halyburton, Larry E. Cummins, Jimmy Reed. Its a NEW concept in news coverage! Scientifically Designed Entertainment $100,000 worth of better listening Big Big Big 40,000! All on the Northwests QUALITY station. decade KDWB-FM was picked up by Chancellor Media. As always, they are free. Jones explained that Lanphier was a former Milwaukee radio and TV man, and would act as the station manager as well as owner. In January 1971 the station started to gradually move away from the oldies and gradually more toward album cuts. We asked them what WPBC should be playing and it was almost unanimous that we should play the Top 40, rock and roll I remember that the No. The song list included such gems as You Clobbered Me, Ink Dries Quicker Than Tears, Lie Detector, and Take Your Cotton-Pickin Hands Off My Girl. The station had been playing some Top-10, Classical, semi-classical, some religious, etc. Metro Student News, April 20, 1979. 980 AM was originally staid WPBC from 1949 to 1972. Heres a group shot of the Country WDGY airstaff from late 1978 or early 1979, taken at a Conway Twitty concert at the Minneapolis Auditorium. On the day the station switched over, rival station KEEY, published this rather gruesome ad. And this scene was a night scene. They claimed to be running 5,000 watts. On the banner below is an outline of Downtown (St. I took this from a flight I took in 1977. John Hines replaced Knapp in about 1975, and Rob Sherwood arrived in 1976, after U100 was sold. At about 9:30 pm, someone with a shotgun wounded three police officers who, with about 20 others, were trying to break up a crowd of about 200 who had gathered at the site of a firebombing. All stations will soon be equipped with an echo chamber for ON AIR use. The station then bought the syndicated program Music of Your Life from Al Ham. We looked at each other for a long time. Contact me at Rick(at)HotMail.com --- NOTE Replace "(at)" with @ when typing email address, Curtis J. Johnson, Former WDGY 20/20 Newscaster. BB King performed at the Marigold on September 12, 1965. It changed its format to Golden Rock on October 1, 1979. Brother Al Tedesco wanted to call it WPIG or WHOG, but Vic protested the barnyard connotation. Collins, a transmitter company located in Peoria, Ill., I think, had a 1,000-watt transmitter and a 630 crystal. Although I dont normally provide snapshots of FM stations, this one is pretty interesting. MONDAY, MONDAY - Mama's & Papa's. Tonight's Top 20 as heard on WeeGee Wayback Wonders! Don's mother preferred that he work at a country station. See more about Preacher Paul on the Disc Jockeys page. Haines wrote: Rock and roll had a difficult entry into the Twin Cities market. Mob violence ensued and the car of KSTP-TV newsman Dave Margeson was smashed by rocks and a piece of wood; he was treated and released from the hospital. The important goal was to cover the Twin Cities. At that time, the Twin Cities had only about nine stations, all AM, of course, with WCCO being the powerhouse. It wasnt until 1964 that the community could support a station that played music that was primarily by and for the black community, and by that time young white listeners were embracing black music as well. 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. In the meantime, it was Zingale who arranged for Augie Garcia to open for Elvis when the King came to town in May 1956. Newspapers? A history of the station prepared much later explained that: In 1956 the owners of WLOL AM added one of the first FM stations. He has been at KQRS in the Twin Cities for years, doing the morning show. And theyre going to be handled by Rio Pardo, whos been doing a jazz show for us, and who will be the only Negro disk jockey in town. The Colonel became famous and very rich. Don K. Martin is in this photo. We sold spots a dollar a holler.. As you commented in Scott's Guest bookthey don't seem to do radio like that anymore. It's like the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on the radio 24 hours a day. Merle introduced me when I called in, and gave me five seconds of dead air to start my home recorder at 78 rpm.. KRSI personalities in this second Request Radio stint included Don Thompson, Jerry Anderson, Mike Records Ryan, Ray Walby and Bill Hutchinson., Urban Adult Contemporary (SMN Heart and Soul) 1988, Hard Rock (Satellite Music Networks Z-Rock) as KZOW (1988-1990), Business Radio Network (as KJJO), 1990-1992, R&B Oldies as KSGS (ABC Solid Gold Soul) with local AM Drive) (9-5-0 Solid Gold Soul), 1995-1999, Urban Adult Contemporary (ABC The Touch) with local AM Drive), 1999-2001, Business Radio as KDOW, then KCCO (Business 9-5-0), 2001-2004, KRSI-FM (104.1) went on the air for the first time on about September 1, 1962. New furnace, electricity etc. 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. You will hear the WeeGee $10,000 Record Stash promo and Johnny ply "1130 Caret Gold." In 1956 or 57 Zingale went to New York as an account executive and, with two others, bought a White Plains radio station. Storz's stations were heavy on promotion, headline-grabbing contests, and high profile dee-jays (usually using echo-chamber microphones). Recording are from museum archives and provided courtesy of Steve Raymer and Daniel Henry at the. With a constant bombardment of loud jingles, the jocks would scream YEEEEWWWW ONE HUNDRED! and BOOGIE! when they werent giving the time, temperature (its 72 degrees in Frriiidleeeeey!) or bad jokes. Unfortunately, I have started to notice some of these posted airchecks from my personal collection are now being sold on eBay, when they are available at this site free. The call letters were also WLOL. As always, much more information and many airchecks are available at www.radiotapes.com/wwtc.html and http://twincitiesradioairchecks.com/wwtc.html. WDGY - The Original Rock and Roll Station. Following Young's death in 1945, his estate sold the station. U.S. Patent . Clockwise from Jack are Bill Diehl, Don Kelly, Dan Daniel, Stanley Mack, and Ramsburg. Preacher Paul. As they were limited by their then-daytime only license at 980 AM, they started up WPBC-FM at 101.3 MHz in August 1959, simulcasting the AM station. Below is a listing of stations available in the metro area. On October 3, 1963, Forrest Powers reported in the Star that, Well soon be the happiest group of radio listeners in the country. In 1942, the station gained approval to broadcast at night. I remember recording Rock Around the Clock from a WMIN broadcast on my Wilcox- Gay recorder. 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. In ad in the June 14, 1969, TV Digest pictures Tac Hammer, Rick Easton, Anthony Gee, Jim Reed, and Don Shore. Those seven people included Mr. and Mrs. Although Charles J. Lanphier of Milwaukee took out a construction permit for a new broadcast station on October 7, 1957, for some reason it took four years to be realized. KANO was Disk Jockey Rod Persons first radio job in 1959. The rest is exhausting please see Wikipedia for further/better history! FM station (104.1) was KRSI-FM until 1974. 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. In August 1957 the station claimed to be first with Twin Cities Housewives based on a telephone poll of 388 people. The KDWB Seven Swingin Gentlemen, 1960: Randy Cook, Dick Halverson, Bobby Dale, Sam Sherwood, Bob Friend, Lou Riegert, Hal Murray. In 1969, WDGY's production room was located in the basement. Except that police reported that the incident only involved several youths. Will Jones reported in his column on March 12, 1964: Of all the new for-women-only features on KUXL, the station reports the ladies are most interested in a feature called The Unbelievable, Yet it Happened. Its about the supernatural. George Donaldson Fisher describes the transformation: I began the Progressive (I referred to it as Underground) rock on KQRS in early 1967. He sold me (for the cost of materials and production time) the following: Dick Driscoll, The January '73 Charlie Van Dyke, George Young, Perry St. John, Tom Wynn, Hal Raymond, Dan Daniels, and the Various WDGY DJ (composite) clip. Oh so many levels. Will Jones of the Trib noted on January 11, 1957, that the station suddenly decided to go to symphonic, opera and chamber music. Additionally, the recordings can be used byvision impaired visitorsto get an audio perspective of radio history. Larry Bentson, President. This may or may not be the building in another iteration. Remember Bob? In August 1927, WDGYs transmitter was moved to Superior Blvd. Then, on Tuesday, November 12, 1963, we see a completely new kind of schedule a Happiness Schedule! One of the obstacles it ran into was resonating re-radiation from the Bloomington Water tower. Since KDWB did not cover the area as well as WDGY, that was the station my uncle listened to continuously. 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