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. The Strib is online now! The call letters of KUXL changed to KYCR on May 19, 1988. Tom Wynn was at WDGY in the early 1960's and the two WDGY airchecks below are from January 6, 1961. David Hersk remembers that Edwards had a late night show where he called himself Uncle Merle and played plenty of rock n roll in 1954-55. End Of The World - Skeeter Davis 4 3. On September 2, 1951, the station sponsored a concert by the Blind Boys, advertised in the Minneapolis Spokesman. Forrest Powers published his own interview with Ed Skotch on October 7, 1963, in the Star. They also played some Whoopie John and Frankie Yankovic for the polka crowd. See more of WDGY "The Original Rock and Roll . Below is a listing of stations available in the metro area. The names of the shows were pretty ambiguous: In most cases programs were identified by the names of the DJs: Personalities selling time in this 1953 broadcasting magazine were, January 19, 1953 ad Courtesy mnkidvid.com. 1130 WDGY. But was this the first opportunity that Twin Citians had to hear what came to be known as rock n roll on the radio? Please enable JavaScript on your browser to best view this site. The shooter was never identified. He left in July 1957 to become Vice President of ABC in New York and was replaced by Jack Thayer. And, as we all know, anything that is natures own is good for what ails you. The report by the St. Paul Human Rights Department, released in February 1969, placed the blame for the disturbances mainly on how the police handled it. Peterson cited economic factors as the reason for this change. On October 10, 1958, the station was moved from 1590 to 630 kc (Channel 63). On August 19, 1963, the stations license was voluntarily assigned to Edward D. Skotch. (Will Jones, Minneapolis Tribune). Five or six foxes shake and gyrate on the stage each night to KUXL records, and Jones assures us they are the liveliest of them all. If we had to play junky music with morally degrading lyrics, wed get out of the business. He had to play the #1 song every hour, and the others at will. 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 fact of the matter is that 40 records plus a few extras (or extra commercials) conveniently fit into the three 55 minute periods that made up each afternoons Top 40 Show. He also says that the concept of only playing 40 records was blasphemy in the business. And well supply material so that listeners can excel in certain areas of conversation.. The recordings of the contributors to this web site who recorded them off the air may show up on other sites. Music consultants included folks from the Minneapolis Symphony orchestra, Schmitt Music, and Leigh Kamman. 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. Merle announced me when I called in, and gave me five seconds of dead air to start my home recorder at 78 rpm. Rock Around the Clock was recorded in 1954 and became big news in 1955. Jim Foster was the Program Director. They are posted here for historical examples of top 40 radio from one of the originators, Storz. That kind of ended when Mr. Purcell reminded them that WCCO, like every station, is required by FCC rules to know who their advertisers are. The names of the programs may give an indication of what the station was like, apparently dispensing a lot of wisdom and advice. This site does not charge any fees to listen to the posted recordings. Recording are from museum archives and provided courtesy of Steve Raymer and Daniel Henry at the. 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. Miller estimated that there were an estimated 70 radio stations in the U.S. that programmed entirely for blacks, but felt that there werent more than a half-dozen of them that were sincere and tried to program up rather than shoot down. Announcers on white stations used their own names, while black DJs were given the name of a clown, a name in keeping with the false and grotesque stereotype of the idiotic smiling Negro. Ironically, the abandoned WDGY call letters were quickly picked up by the former rival station at 630 kHz. Yonny Yonson played old time (polkas, waltzes and shoddiches) from 9 am to noon and 3-6 pm. 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. Dr. Young died in 1945 and the station was transferred to the Twin City Broadcasting Corporation 1946. A touch of Formula 63 is the perfect way to brighten up your mundane day. Meanwhile, the engineer, who had been in the tower field, returned to the building and was just seconds from opening the back door. The turning point came one night around Christmas 1955 when we turned in the Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey Show on TV and they had on Elvis Presley, Stewart remembered. He had to play the #1 song every hour, and the others at will. For that matter, we were discouraged from using the term teenager too. The format of the station is actually kind of ambiguous in this ad from the Minneapolis Daily Herald from September 13, 1962: Hear it Yourself Tune up to 1570 on your radio dial where you are never more than 2 minutes away from the Hi-Fi sound of good music, Associated Press news on the hour and half hour, latest in sports on the quarter hour. Al, Nick, and Vic Tedesco, photo courtesy Pavek Museum of Broadcasting. Later they would admit that the Todd Storz they often disparaged very well may have saved radio at a time when television was stealing its audience. 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. Unfortunately, by September 1976, the programs two advertising contracts had expired, and Adams was unable to find new sponsors. Joe came from Cleveland, Ohio, and was a time salesman for WCOW and he just got this wild idea about playing that music. We were thinking about this positioning problem when Don remembered something which had been a national marketing phenomenon a few years earlier. Sometime between March 1976 and January/February 1979, the station flipped to Disco. The entire concept, advertising and promotion was headed and created by Mike Siegelman, Rob Sherwood, and Bill Hartman. 1370 AM went through more ups and downs than probably any other local radio station. Burke will proclaim KUXLs Preacher Paul regional king of rhythm and blues at the event. In about 1970 there was a shake-up of personnel. I hope you have some audio clean up program. On August 28, 1981, the station was purchased by Soho Broadcasting, Stanley Soho, President. With that in mind I had Charles Arlington record, as only he could, a theme line: Sixty Three. Storz also ended the affiliation with the Mutual network. WDGY: 740 AM: Oldies: Borgan Broadcasting: KUOM "770 Radio K" 770 AM 100.7 FM, 106.5 FM, 104.5 FM: . I would arrive at 5 AM, opened up the station, turned on the lights and the transmitter, and clear the two teletype machines of overnight news. Jeff Lonto provides this info: The station became WJSW Polka Power around 1969, and they picked up the WMIN call letters in November 1973 after being dropped a year earlier by 1400 AM. It made its final move to 1130 AM in 1941 as required by the North American Radio Broadcasting Agreement (NARBA) under which most American, Canadian and Mexican AM radio stations changed frequencies. We did it. Ike and Tina Turner appeared at the Minneapolis Auditorium under the auspices of Preacher Paul and KUXL on August 1, 1965. The 9-tower array beaming 50,000 watts was used to produce one of the most restrictive signals in the USA. Always a different color of Twin Cities life. ERP. Record album issued by WWTC in 1981 image courtesy Jeff Lonto. An invaluable source of information about the history of WDGY comes from a Masters Thesis written by Jerry Verne Haines in 1970. In contrast to WCCO and KSTP, WPBC carried no network programming, and were live and local all day. Also appearing were the Amazers. 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. I sure miss those days. Youre not losing WWTC, youre gaining a KEEY. 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.. Note that one of the attributes of the station mentioned in the ad above is Awards. They made a big pot of it at noon, and when it was gone, it was gone, seldom lasting past 5pm. Roof rebuilt. The broadcast license was cancelled by the FCC in February 1991. This is Jim Dandy's (Jim Evarts) second time at WDGY-AM. Last mention in news listings was on September 13, 1983. internet settings, will start streaming the file once the link is clicked, Some files are large and may take time to open. (Were they ahead of their time?) The precursor to KDWB was founded in 1951 by Nick, Vic and Al Tedesco, sons of Italian immigrants from the province of Calabria. The why behind a cheeseburger. (Minneapolis Tribune, September 7, 1976), Pharoah Black introduced Earth Wind and Fire, with the Emotions and Wild Cherry at their October 7, 1976, concert at the Met Center. We Play The Hits! The station then bought the syndicated program Music of Your Life from Al Ham. Today, the station is KTLK, News/Talk 1130, and uses a transmitter site in Credit River Township. OUR SURVEYS FOR WDGY; WEEK #1 THIS WEEK; 1956-07-21: The Platters / My Prayer: 1956-07-28: The Platters / My Prayer: 1956-11-09: Guy Mitchell . Most Top 40 and Rock listening had migrated to the FM band (which had necessitated the Mighty 1130s switch in the first place.) In late 1976/early 1977, the station rebranded itself as Y-11 (never losing its WDGY call letters) and switched to a progressive rock, album-oriented format. Program directors like me used the more exclusive Gavin Report from Bill and Janet Gavin in San Francisco. We kept professional secrets from each other, but otherwise we were just one big, happy family. In May 2006 the recordings started to beconverted to MP3 andsharedhere. Meanwhile, they borrowed a little trailer studio from someone and that was our production room for the next month or so. And then almost overnight, or so it seemed, the jazz folk around town were talking about their station. Our family cabin was located north of Park Rapids. To this day I am still impressed that a major country western and Grand Ole Opry star would drive all the way out to Anoka just to visit with someone who played country-western music for only 55 minutes a day. Following this change, the WDGY call letters were ironically adopted by KDWB for the 630 kHz frequency. Tom has been in radio for 48 years and was at WDGY in the early 60's. It was sold to Park Broadcasting [Roy H. Park]. The Lucky Lou program was on Sundays and was described as Jazz and Bits and Pieces of Music.. The agency negotiated non-cancellable contracts with all eight of the Twin City Stations. On June 6, 1965, Jones dedicated a long, three-column article to the concept of Soul Food, saying that while Billy G made it sound good, it was hard to come by. Jim Dandy, Perry St. John, Scott Burton, George Young, B. Mason Dean. Charlie Smith and Preacher Paul Sunday swing thing. Although I dont normally provide snapshots of FM stations, this one is pretty interesting. They could hear WDGY all across the AM dial, at points on the FM dial, on their CB radio base station, on their telephone, on their electronic organ, and(drum roll please)on their TOASTER! The stations request to change the location of the studio to 5730 Duluth Street in Golden Valley was approved on October 14, 1969. In summary, it was a conservative, white bread market with only a handful of stations in those days., Although many give Storz the credit for inventing the Top 40 format, Haines asserts that it was already in place. WDGY, - , , OnlineRadioBox.com . Without their help, the site would have many less pages of radio history. Middle row: Steve Hatley, Cosmic Cowboy a/k/a Terry Roberts, Chuck Knapp & Charlie Bush. Ive been ignoring this station because I couldnt believe that Bill and Becky Ann would ever broadcast anything resembling rock n roll, but listen to this, from an article of the TV section of the Minneapolis Tribune, September 7, 1969: Anybody who has heard WPBC in recent years might have found it ludicrous to have listed to founder-owner Bill Steward the other morning as he remembered the tough radio days of 1954 and 1955. Unlike most metropolitan areas, the Twin Cities did not have a black radio station in the 1940s or 50s. In April 1957 the studio was in the Builders Exchange Building in downtown Minneapolis, and the transmitter was described as WDGY Transmitter Plant, Oxboro, Minn. 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.). Lord Jeffrey, (Jeff Diamond) came to work at KUXL in 1967, when he was about 15 years old. In 1959 it had a monthly newspaper called Big K News. The station began as WMIN in the summer of 1936, when St. Paul furniture retailer Edward Hoffman began broadcasting at 1370kHz. Whether it actually had to pony up the $10,000 is unknown. WDGY "The Original Rock and Roll Station" . KTLK (1130 kHz) - branded News/Talk AM 1130 - is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Minneapolis, Minnesota. The situation was very ironic when he talked about the flash success of KUXL in the jazz field. Owned and operated by WRPX. Our family cabin was located north of Park Rapids. The antics of the Wolfman were documented in the 1974 film American Graffiti, and were punctuated with ads for baby chicks (100 for $4), glow-in-the-dark statues of Jesus, and oldies albums from Uncle Georges Record Shop, owned by George Garrett here in Minneapolis. Photo by Greg Helgeson, Minnesota Music magazine, Bumper sticker @ 1980 1984. (KUXL is loaded with preachers earlier in the day, but most of them are called Brother or Doctor.) Clockwise from Jack are Bill Diehl, Don Kelly, Dan Daniel, Stanley Mack, and Ramsburg. 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. But we also know that the Key Room program featured live performances by Augie Garcia, the Godfather of Twin Cities Rock n Roll, performing jump blues in 1954-55 from the River Road Club in Mendota. One of the obstacles it ran into was resonating re-radiation from the Bloomington Water tower. He now does a morning news/talk show in Fargo. Rock station WDGY - which can be heard on metro area FM dials at 92.1, 103.7, and 107.1HD2, as well as at 740 AM - announced on Monday that Sue Falls is the new host of its weekday 11:30 a.m. show, slotting in between Morning Drive host Dr. Don Michaels and Afternoon Drive . What became of the building? or use search to go right to what you are looking for: 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. Airchecks from 1964 indicate an emphasis on news and prophesy. Old Joe Clark played country music. Found on Radiotapes.com: Ballad of Minnesota!. We Play The Hits! Frequency. band (which had necessitated the Mighty 1130s switch in the first place.) Due to the re-heightened awareness of HD broadcasting on AM surrounding the October 27, 2020 FCC vote to approve voluntary all-digital broadcasting by AM stations, WDGY resumed an HD Radio signal on November 17, 2020. The Twin City stations were all on the upper part of the dial at 1070, 1130, 1490, etc., but nothing below 1000. Reportedly one of them was a one hour program playing rockabilly and R&B perhaps the first in the area. He did his own programming, and said he loved his job. Published in the Star Tribune on 3/30/2008. The Sisters version sold six times better. Jimmy Reed was originally at KDWB-AM 630 before coming to WDGY 1130 onSeptember 23, 1969. WDGY, Rock and Roll Oldies Radio, playing the best oldies of the 1960s and 1970s for the Twin Cities! In 1962 WDGY broadcast the Vikings games. By the 1960s, the station didn't use the name itself, but the name stuck among people in the radio industry for many years to come. By the end of 1956 WMIN was participating in the contest craze and calling itself Music City.. The first tape was recorded off the air on February 21, 1973 and is a good quality recording. CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE, WDGY Air Staff 1986. Talk about a time frame, eh?) Download Our Free iHeartRadio App! Ramsburg says, Let me put it this way it was all show-biz. Despite the high hopes for I-95, it only lasted until February 2, 1980. Tom was a grad of Richard Brown's American Istitute of the Air, a predecessor to Brown Institute. Photo courtesy Pavek Museum of Broadcasting. I hope to get some late 60's clips up on the site soon. Yusef Mgeni, a radio-television program supervisor for U of M station KUOM and member of the Malcom X Pan Afrikan Institute, found the argument lacking, going so far as to accuse program director Mike Cunningham of having racist and oppressive views.. The decision of the police to bar the door and throw teargas into the hall was roundly criticized. May 17, 1965, saw the introduction of Billy G to the announcing staff, when the sun stayed up long enough for another shift. other options [2] Although FM radio is not on many car radio dials, it is found on other radios and most of the new hi-fi and stereo sets. While their job was to arrest one man with a gun, they instead barricaded the door of the hall with their night sticks and used tear gas to subdue the crowd. Thats why wed like to call your attention to the music of KEEY-AM at 1400 on your standard radio dial. Curtis J Johnson, formerly of WDGY. Hagman had previously worked for WLOL, whose owner, Ralph Atlass, had adopted the Top Forty format during Hagmans time there from 1947 to 1952. Allegedly, the Stewarts would go so far as to use the sharp end of a compass to scratch away the grooves of tracks on albums that didnt meet their standards of nice music, in order to prevent rebellious D.J.s from playing them. 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. Recorded of the air in March 1968. Their playlist is appealing, though their disk jockeys are somewhat obnoxious., Chuck Knapp: Fun times is rock & roll with the very talented 15/KSTP The Music Station staff in 1975. Soon, it was possible to see the lights on the six KDWB towers. A 15-year-old polio victim was smashed, face-first, into the pavement and sent home bleeding. Jimmy was good friends with Tac Hammer, who was working at request radio KRSI at the time and also a former KDWB-AM jock. Contributed by John Pratt 12-6-07. And, those cops took $350 in cash. Skotch was the highest-paid director-producer in Chicago, with as many as six shows he created, network and local, being aired in town every week. 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? Its billed as the Ike and Tina Turner Revue, complete with nine-piece band, singers Bobby John and Jimmy Thomas and a girl trio called the Ikettes. As the tower hit, a light fixture fell and narrowly missed Bob Morgan, who was on the air talking about the weather.. The TV station kept WTCN. The new schedule kept the morning religious shows, which did have sponsors and paid the bills. The station was innovative in its promotions, had legendary DJs, features like Solid Gold Weekends, and at least two airings of The History of Rock n Roll, an all-encompassing rockumentary.. Seems to be half and half in the photo below, mid-1960s. [1] This station is unrelated to the original WDGY, which was a popular top-40 station in the area during the 1950s, '60s and '70s. Minneapolis black population had been consistently at or below 1 percent from 1870 to 1940. 11:00 AM-2:00 PM. It was also described as 90 percent dance music in a TV interview on YouTube. Although I adored KLBB, which 1400AM took on in 1981. Coordinates: .mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}445805N 924001W / 44.96806N 92.66694W / 44.96806; -92.66694, For the radio station which held the WDGY callsign from 1926 to 1991, see, Learn how and when to remove these template messages, Learn how and when to remove this template message, http://hdradio.com/station_guides/widget.php?id=16, https://startribune.newspapers.com/image/186746317/?terms=wdgy&match=1, Radiotapes.com Historic Minneapolis/St. Whats more, we do it selectively enough to fill just the news you want. George Donaldson Fisher describes the transformation: I began the Progressive (I referred to it as Underground) rock on KQRS in early 1967. This is the best I could do with the poor exposure using photo editing tools. WYOO was owned by Fairchild Industries, an Aeronautics company from Maryland that was looking to diversify. According to the April 13, 1968, issue of Billboard, Chess Records artist Jack Harris is now doing a show on the R&B station Jack Harris, the proprietor of Black & Proud records, became Daddy Soul. The Insider said that he was on-air just an hour a day during the week and from 1 to 3:30 on Saturdays. WDGY moved from 1130 to 630 AM and became sports station KFAN. Coast to Coast AM is overnight talk radio with daytime ratings. Remember that this website only goes up to 1974, and I did do a thorough search on Newspapers.com for KUXL and other offshoots. In August 1927, WDGYs transmitter was moved to Superior Blvd. The stations music survey was Top 15 Teen Tunes, and included 5 Top Comers selected by a High School Panel of Experts. 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. No lights. The other stations had an unwritten agreement not to play race music because they assumed the Twin Cities audience would be outraged. The Original Rock and Roll Station. Financial Fortitude with Vincent Asset Management. In a June 4, 1959, article in the St. Louis Park High School Echo, it was reported that the FM station would feature dance band music on Fridays and Saturdays. Presumably the shows Cannonball Express and Cannon Fodder were his. So if you went into a Red Owl store to shop, there would be a voice saying something like, Want to perk up family meals. The Star Tribune article also reported that Al Alonzo reported to Newport. ARSA: ABOUT: SURVEYS: STATIONS: WDGY 1130 AM. This photo was taken in 1969 after he came back to replace Rob Sherwood when he left for KDWB-AM. Rhythm Of The Rain - Cascades 1 2. Photo courtesy Jeff Neuberger. Heres one of the dune buggies. It is imperative that this unit be installed as soon as possible when received.. Donald K. Martin reading the news in the WDGY newsroom. Minneapolis, MN. Four businesses were fire-bombed and fire trucks were met with sniper fire but no one was injured. Jim provided this aircheck of Johnny Canton. KEEY seemed to specialize in handing out these FM radio station directories, which seem to me to advertise the competition more than anything else. 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. The owner of easy listening FM station WAYL was interested in the AM operation, to simulcast WAYLs signal and expand coverage in parts of the metro area. 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. the Harmonicats. While newspaper listings are not 100 percent reliable, the Tribunes listings of Monday, November 11, 1963, reflect the old format, with Jim Eckert from 6 to 11 am, Mort Garren from 11 to 3, and Jack Hyatt at 3. Will Jones reported that the ads were recorded by Dudley LeBlanc, the former Louisiana politician who sold Hadacol years ago. Those songs were not rock n roll. KDWB morning personality True Don Bleu launched the new KDWB-FM simulcast the following morning at 6 AM, replacing WYOO-FM. Leigh Kamman left to join KEVE, which became KQRS. The early shows were pretty clearly just country/western affairs: Most importantly, in March/April 1955 there appeared Mr. They broke through one of the doors, and then the police decided to keep them back by lobbing teargas into the crowd. Storzs company, Mid-Continent Broadcasting, purchased WDGY on February 6, 1956 for $212,000. Enter Bob Reed the news director. In 1967, winning a Honda might have meant just a motorbike. It was fun, and by then, Charlie was on the mornings, and I did the news and the bits. The stations address was 611 Frontenac Place in St. Paul. 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. Hammer and Reed had come over from KDWB in 1968. We thought Formula 63 with the Colonel was really a good way to introduce our station. The production room was a wreck and there was no heat in the building. WDGY: Dick Driscoll remembers trying to sneak in some peppier tunes in the mid- 1950s, to his bosss chagrin. Access Minnesota. The gun-toting news director? Proceeds would go to a charity mutually agreed upon by the two teams. November 1966s In-Beat magazine included an interview with the stations new DJ and Program Manager, Ray Moss. We plan to have him on two hours Saturday and two hours Sunday. I went out to the lobby to see what they wanted an was totally surprised to see Little Jimmy Dickens! Then, on Tuesday, November 12, 1963, we see a completely new kind of schedule a Happiness Schedule! As an added advantage, U100 was the first Twin Cities top 40 station to broadcast simulcast on the FM dial in stereo (in addition to 980 AM). On October 3, 1955, an ad boasted that the station would play more music and had a new record library. WDGY-AM Hal Raymond 7/9/63 KDWB-AM 630 St. Paul (Woodbury) I dont recall if he spent 21 days up there, but it was a while. A KDWB Fabulous Forty survey that Don donated to the Pavek Museum of Broadcasting called the shack a four-story-high flag pole playhouse. John Pratt saved an article from the Minneapolis Star reporting that four hoodlums set the crepe-paper wrapping on the 40-ft. pole on fire. in Golden Valley was approved. (The top 40 announcers were a different breed, and we had little to do with each other off-the-air.). Perhaps, this is a temporary station problem. Bob tries to give away $1,428 in WeeGee Fortune Phone Cash, but is unsucessful. Following Young's death in 1945, his estate sold the station. Billy G, the Prime Minister, started doing daily remotes from the Cassius Bar and Cafe on May 4, 1965, from 6 to 7 pm. 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. When constructed, a Bloomington transmitter location made sense as there was little development to the south at the time. Interestingly enough, in my KUXL file I found an article from the Minneapolis Spokesman, the black communitys weekly newspaper, dated December 26, 1958. It was Storzs fourth station. I will cut in on occasion with additional/alternate information from Will Jones of the Minneapolis Tribune. The station will feature top cuts from current albums along with a selection of singles, with no jingle package and segued sets. The original call sign for the station's construction permit was WAOZ, but the station was never on the air with those call letters. Ten people were arrested, most for carrying firearms. The following account was taken from Rob Sherwoods blog: I was listening to WLOL, a smallish AMer that at that time was doing Talk Radio. WDGY's longtime Top 40 format came to an end at 3 pm, September 2, 1977. Bill Diehl worked at WMIN from 1948 to 49 and from 1951 to 55. Channel 63 was back! 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. (Kamman left for New York in 1950 but came back to the station in 1956-58.). Most Top 40 and Rock listening had migrated to the FM band (which had necessitated the Mighty 1130s switch in the first place.) On December 16, 1964, afternoons changed from jazz to Rhythm and Blues. In 1959-1960 KEVE had a Sunday remote broadcast from the Fireside in Fridley. Donald plays godfather with his "Don" imitation and asks Charlie "What is black and blue and floats?" 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. Our research and general observations indicate that this website only goes up to 1974, and the station saying! 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