The ad below boasts of their KUXL award for excellence in musical instruction. The baffles failed. 1130 WDGY. Total information News, in-depth, authoritative, 1280s programming for metropolitan listeners has long been one of radios finest. Don reminded me about the Colonel and his pitch prowess. Al, by the way, happens to be a very knowledgeable fella, record wise. 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! Admission was 50 cents and open to teens age 16 and over. Preacher Paul was there three nights a week as a host, and on Saturday afternoons he broadcast from the place. In September/October 1957 it announced new programming, with more music, more news, more often. By October it was a big-time rock n roll station, at least until that December, with DJs Rog Kent, Don Hawkins and Harry Zimmerman. 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. For some country airchecks from 1963 and for two Music Surveys from 1974, see http://twincitiesradioairchecks.com/ktcrfmtapes.html, For several Music Surveys from the early 1970s, see http://www.radiotapes.com/surveys.html. For that matter, we were discouraged from using the term teenager too. People heard us in places we had never been heard before. WDGY "The Original Rock and Roll Station" And you can try it today. WDGY Survey with Photos of Curtis J. Johnson from June 13, 1969. As Hartman and a crew worked 24 hours to changed all the logos and artwork on the broadcast trailer, it was a very hectic time for this brand-new, soon to be record-breaking FM station. The contributed recordings fromfriends and contributors of both airchecks and other material are greatly appreciated. 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. Whether this was related to the disturbance was not quite clear. Will Jones tells us that security was so tight that the 120,000 packages were stuffed at the Society for the Blind. 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? As an example when your unpredictable Carson Rennie of 6-10 spins a yarn about Aunt Julias first trip to the Twin Cities. Did they bring Imogene the horse inside Jennings? Ike and Tina Turner appeared at the Minneapolis Auditorium under the auspices of Preacher Paul and KUXL on August 1, 1965. With the new sound of Metropolitan Radio coming in strong and clear, youll discover perhaps for the first time why so many more people are now enjoying wtcn 1280s outstanding programs in the Twin Cities. The transmitters were destroyed, as was the entire engineering area and furnace room. To celebrate its first anniversary, WDGY is happy to present this album of YESTERHITS FROM YESTERDAY. It includes a collection of twelve of the greatest hits from the last year. Al, Nick, and Vic Tedesco, photo courtesy Pavek Museum of Broadcasting. The KDAN Remote Caboose Studio was used in the early 1970s for commercial remote broadcasts and for broadcasting from the Minnesota State Fair. Dr. Young cycled through the names WHAT, WGWY ("W-George W. Young"), and finally WDGY ("W-Dr. George Young") in the next two years until being chastised by the government for changing too frequently. 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. 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. From a Program Log, courtesy Patrick Sweeney, 1021 LaSalle Ave., 1966. A couple years back I brought you Serutan, the product guaranteed to cure what ails you. After a couple of changes the call letters became WDGY (Dr. George Young) in 1926. WLOL-FM (99.5) (Means Fine Music) was up and running in 1956. Meanwhile, the engineer, who had been in the tower field, returned to the building and was just seconds from opening the back door. Photos from the Minnesota Historical Society show the Augie Garcia Quintet performing at the River Road Club in Mendota in front of a banner that says they were featured on the Key Room Show on KEYD-AM. At the time it was billed as The New WDGY Your Radioactive Station! Top 40s available from July 21, 1956 on do show that the playlist was definitely rock n roll, although they played a lot of cover versions and a lot of schmaltz. One song in 57 looks suspiciously local: Paddlin Ingabord Home by Ole The Singing Janitor. One 20-year-old was arrested. http://twincitiesradioairchecks.com/kstpam70s.html. 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! Ironically, the abandoned WDGY call letters were quickly picked up by the former rival station at 630 kHz. Secret Stash indicates that Bob Smith arrived in January 1965. Because AM 740 is a Canadian clear channel frequency, WDGY is a daytime-only station. For a short-lived, rather obscure radio station, a lot of activity was logged. The creepy monstrosity below, entered by St. Michael Elementary School, was the winner. What to do next? It was the old WPBC studio on Stinson Blvd., near Broadway, abandoned because of freeway construction. First air date. And well supply material so that listeners can excel in certain areas of conversation.. The switch was preceded by a five minute retrospective radio collage of the history of WDGY, and the first song played was John Denvers Thank God Im a Country Boy.. 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. On November 3, 1972, the AM station was relaunched as WYOO, picking up an oldies format (with rock and roll included). It was an overnight smash. 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. $755,000 Last Sold Price. I took this from a flight I took in 1977. Newspapers? On February 26, 1964, Randall Hobart of the Star reported that Ed Skotch credited his women-oriented programming for a 480 percent increase in business since he took over the station. The station will feature top cuts from current albums along with a selection of singles, with no jingle package and segued sets. At the time he was operating two mobile discos called Soul on the Roll Disco Rendezvous.. The Temptations came to the Marigold on October 16, 1966, and police had to be called when 800 to 1,000 people on the sidewalk got impatient waiting to buy tickets at the one ticket booth. The Impressions made an appearance at the Marigold on Sunday, April 11, 1965. In about 1970 there was a shake-up of personnel. By 1955 the station was starting to play covers of rock n roll in with Perry Como and Doris Day. 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. 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. He broadcast over the radio that there was a fire at KDWB, no joke, and that someone should call the fire department. It was Tiger Radio. 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. Contributed by John Pratt 12-6-07. Funny thing, it turned out that Bob Reed didnt have a pilots license. The state of the art facilities were dismantled, salvaged and/or destroyed to make room for the construction of the-then State Farm Insurance Companies regional headquarters. 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.). Im guessing that KAAYs Beaker Street was influential here. WLOLs Swing Club had Dan Anderson on Saturdays from noon to 6 pm., also Top 40 and then some.. Meanwhile, the Mayor and others defended the actions of the police and laid the blame squarely on the mob.. Contests and Promotions. 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. All except for a little country station called K-COW. As you commented in Scott's Guest bookthey don't seem to do radio like that anymore. The original call sign for the station's construction permit was WAOZ, but the station was never on the air with those call letters. We hope you will enjoy our first birthday edition YESTERHITS FROM YESTERDAY and join us in listening to the second year of Much More Music on 1130 Radio WDGY. I was the only one there with a GRTO [General Radiotelephone Operator license]. (KUXL is loaded with preachers earlier in the day, but most of them are called Brother or Doctor.) Wonderful WeeGee, home of the boss jocks like Johnny Canton, hit its stride in the 60s, competing neck and neck with KDWB. Contributed by John Pratt 12-6-07. He was hired to do the jazz show, but moved to take over the R&B show when that opened up. It also provided local-oriented public service information on groups like Y.E.S., Pharm House, Red Door, Womens Counseling Service, and more. They never expected the gigantic turnout, and the ultra-gigantic cookie that won the contest! The why behind a cheeseburger. This a recnet PR photo. Wonder what E.I.I. I remember singing Mack the Knife with my aunt as it was playing on WDGY during our ride back to St. Paul from Rush Lake one Sunday evening. To promote the contest the jocks would ride around on a float in rush hour handing out stickers, hopelessly tying up traffic. Format. I was a young kid when I first listened to WDGY and KDWB. Recorded of the air in March 1968. WDGY was different pre-Beatles. For awhile they called the AM station KEVE and the FM station KADM Adam and Eve in the Valley. The two stations were simulcasting classical music when they both went to KQRS. (Were they ahead of their time?) But was this the first opportunity that Twin Citians had to hear what came to be known as rock n roll on the radio? He expected to shock some people that first day! Peterson cited economic factors as the reason for this change. Much More Music is simply that WDGY played, and is playing, more music with the bright pace of the modern sound. So stunned were most of us, the gravity of situation was difficult to grasp. 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. On August 28, Will Jones published an extended interview with Skotch. That UP radio uplift all the way. They look really young. A unique look at sports. Jimmy was good friends with Tac Hammer, who was working at request radio KRSI at the time and also a former KDWB-AM jock. The photo below, provided by Jim Ramsburg to the Pavek Museum of Broadcasting, shows Jack Thayer holding the ball. 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. OUR SURVEYS FOR WDGY; . Curtis J. Johnson sits down with Twin Cities Radio Airchecks website creator, Rick Burnett to discuss his career in radio, starting from high-school with concentration on his work at WDGY in the late 1960's as a 20/20 newsman. From the early 1940s to the early 70s the brothers owned and operated 11 radio stations throughout the Upper Midwest. The news is left in and you will hear about the big CPI index increase. Photo dated November 6, 1942, courtesy Minnesota Historical Society. Or so reported the Minneapolis Star the next day. The Stewarts had worked at WCCO in various capacities since 1944. Photo courtesy Minnesota Historical Society. Chuck Blore was Crowell-Colliers national program director, and ran a disk jockey school that the DJs at KDWB attended. It was great to have lunch with Donald K. Martinand talk about his career in broadcasting, which includes several stations in the Twin Cities. It will be historical and contemporary, sweet, hot, lowdown, enlightened Chicago style or very cool. You can hear some of Herbs patter from September 7, 1956, on Tom Gavarass RadioTapes Web site: radiotapes.com/WDGY.html. 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. 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. The promotional flier or whatever below was posted on Facebook, and I dont know what the class designations mean. 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. The station was five years in construction, delayed when its two towers in Eden Prairie fell. The ad below from the October 12, 1963, TV Forecast promises 72 daily features. It made for a very fast, progressive Top 40 and far less corrupt than sales lists that could be influenced by cases of free product which is how payola really worked. Even among Storz stations, Ramsburg says that each individual station made up its own Top 40. Two off-duty policemen who were hired for the event came on the scene and took the gun away from him and tried to arrest him. Ramsburg says, Let me put it this way it was all show-biz. Unfortunately, this shot suffers from poor exposure. Nearby homes similar to 36 CORNICHE Dr Unit B have recently sold between $755K to $755K at an average of $665 per square foot. 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. Tom Wynn was at WDGY in the early 1960's and the two WDGY airchecks below are from January 6, 1961. Jay Philpott was the only holdover from the old format they had me doing 7 to Midnight until I left for WLOL in July 1980., Country music (SMN County Coast To Coast) (1982-1984), Contemporary Hit Radio (SMN Rock America) Hot Rock 950 KRSI (1984-1985), The last KRSI logo, 1985, courtesy Jeff Lonto, Simulcast with KRSI-FM as KJJO (1986-1988). This is a shottaken at the St. Paul Winter Carnival. 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. TeleVue magazine, 1980. 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. Unfortunately, by September 1976, the programs two advertising contracts had expired, and Adams was unable to find new sponsors. As far back as 1950 promoters Rufus Webster and D.P. The November 10, 1970 recording was sitting in an unmarked reel to reel box had in storage. Everyone seemed to be just milling about. Forrest Powers published his own interview with Ed Skotch on October 7, 1963, in the Star. The station's studios and offices are in Lakeland, Minnesota, while its transmitter is off Commerce Drive near Interstate 94 in Hudson. This is the place where "it pays to listen." In 1942, the station gained approval to broadcast at night. Apparently all this time, the station was still owned by Universal Broadcasting, which, when it was purchased, was controlled by Marvin Kosofsky. Unfortunately the photos arent dated, but we do know that the band formed in 1954 when Augie returned from Korea. Yeah, but I hated newspaper advertising. Breams article explained: KQRS made the format change, explains Dick Poe, station vice-president and general manager, because of impending competition from four FM stations that will be increasing their signal power and potential audience this winter with new antennas atop the IDS Center. If we had to play junky music with morally degrading lyrics, wed get out of the business.. Click here for the story of a strange radio show that was sponsored by Daytons and aired on KDWB for four months in 1968. I really dont remember which station I was on then. See the new transmitter here courtesy www.radiotapes.com, Aerial shot of the 9-tower array courtesy Tom Gavaras. After the war, Kamman produced We Call it Jazz concerts at the Calhoun Beach Hotel and hosted The Swing Club on WLOL. On December 29, 1972, KUXL announced that it was abandoning rhythm & blues in favor of a telephone talk show. Hed also done some research in music therapy, and planned to play records for what they did for the listener. The Temptations were scheduled to perform at the St. Paul Auditorium on July 12, 1965, sponsored by Preacher Paul and KUXL. The owners brought in Robert Purcell to inject life in the station, and a friend who booked Country & Western touring shows told him that the area was one of the top in the country. A memo to the staff from Todd Storz dated May 28, 1956 singles out the gang at WDGY for a job well done. Listen to Paul Geiger in the morning! The schedule on December 30, 1971, shows Rhythm & Blues programming from 1pm until dark and 6 am until 6:45 am. KDWB morning personality True Don Bleu launched the new KDWB-FM simulcast the following morning at 6 AM, replacing WYOO-FM. On April 13, 1968, Billboard reported that Ray Moss had gone to California for a job with XERB, but returned quickly and with a new name: Daddy Soul. The Insider reported that Moss became the new music director in April 1968, and was on-air from 3 to 7, Monday through Friday. Jack Thayer had started his career here, from 1942-1951. Remember Bob? I remember that the No. Even the disk jockeys werent let in on it until that morning. Program directors like me used the more exclusive Gavin Report from Bill and Janet Gavin in San Francisco. Try some Red Owl green beans. (blah blah). Stuart A. Lindman with photos of Steve Cannon, Merle Hub Cap Edwards, and Bill Diehl, 1949. By that time Elvis had hit it big with Heartbreak Hotel and Hound Dog a cover of a black record followed. WDGY 1130 AM is an online radio station broadcasts from Scottsdale, Arizona providing vintage music. I may get the dates wrong, but the devil is in the details and I am loaded with details. 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. A lot of people thought it was a broadcast training center like Brown Institute or something. Jack Nugent said they went from 13th in the market to 2nd in 105 days. It was on that day that Rob and Bill decided to emulate KFRC and use the phrase powerhouse. With Mike Siegelmans OK, they decided to call the new station Y100.. We thought Formula 63 with the Colonel was really a good way to introduce our station. 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. The station will feature top cuts from current albums along with a selection of singles, with no jingle package and segued sets. No signal. Johnny does a live Tastee Bread "Baked While You Sleep" spot, but the tape run out before he gets to finish. WPBC (Peoples Broadcasting Co.) was owned and operated by Bill and Becky Ann Stewart and went on the air in October 1949. One letter to the editor mourned the Death of Jazz, praised Herb Schoenbaum and Leigh Kamman, who gave much to the betterment of good music in the Twin Cities, and directed particular admiration to Paul Franklyn, who flew the jazz banner through the wildest change of station ownership and programming this city has ever seen. (Minneapolis Star, December 28, 1964). When the oldies format of WYOO started to slide in the ratings, more MOR music was added, but ratings slid even further. Casey Kasems American Top 40 began broadcasting on KDWB on January 6, 1974. As disasters go, this one wasnt even on the radar screen. 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. Presumably the shows Cannonball Express and Cannon Fodder were his. The whole tower and Reeds escape rope would have burned had the wood had a chance to get a good start. Reed slept through the whole thing. Not knowing when he was writing the article, one would suppose that the Four Tops was between Ike and Tina and B.B. 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. Billy G, the Prime Minister, started doing daily remotes from the Cassius Bar and Cafe on May 4, 1965, from 6 to 7 pm. CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE, This photo was taken as the car pulls into the driveway on a Richfield winter day. 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. They would play pranks like play the identical songs for an hour and see if anyone noticed. In his usual wry style, Irv describes how KRSIs General Manager, John Enoch, was testing Control Unit Model 901, which generated automated programming. WDGY/Minneapolis has modified its Top 40 format to an AOR-slanted approach. This was a fun station. Fire trucks are on the scene and well up-date you as additional details come in.. This site does not charge any fees to listen to the posted recordings. Bottom Row: Jenny Rein (secretary), Vic, Nick, ? It provided music and information for and about black people in this city and around the world. Black, age 28, was a graduate of Brown Institute, and had been working at WCCO. Fortunately, the door blew open before he got there. From late 1953 to mid 1955 WMIN had tons of shows that might have included some jump tunes. In January 1973, KUXL officially went out of the R&B business at least for a while and began a talk show format. This provides a historical look at the times. In 1974 the Wolfman was into many projects, including a weekly syndicated show that was broadcast here on KDWB. (Kamman left for New York in 1950 but came back to the station in 1956-58.). Engineer Herb Schoenbohm, a jazz buff, started by emceeing a nightly 7 7:30 pm spot. A construction permit was granted to install a new transmitter and a permit was granted to increase power to 1kw on October 1, 1963. Click on Photo to go to a site with old bloomington antenna site and transmitter photos put together by Aaron White. Dandy informs us that if we do not listen, he will tear our heads off. All stations will soon be equipped with an echo chamber for ON AIR use. That spring the station presented Saints baseball with Ray Christensen. The music was my kind of music, actuallyother than classical music. She was awarded a free turkey along with the very important can of cranberry sauce. One even has a snippet of Loni Anderson! He didnt want to scare people away, and he wanted to lure sponsors to the program. 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. With a couple of partners he bought a radio station in Cincinnati and turned it around, selling it at a profit. Its Ipanema, not Impanema. The venerable family station bowed to pressure in 1954 and 55 and started playing rock n roll. In June 1956 KEYD was sold, changed its call letters to KEVE, and played full time Country and Western one of the first in the country to do so. Email : Jane@wdgyradio.com. 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. WDGY-AM 1130 Perry St. John All Night Shift 5/12/63 The quality is not great on this recording, but you can still hear everything. On October 10, 1958, the station was moved from 1590 to 630 kc (Channel 63). In fact, all were in their 20s. I hope to get some late 60's clips up on the site soon. He stayed until February 1978. See www.radiotapes.com/WDGY.html for airchecks and much more, including the very entertaining history of the station written by Haines. History The WDGY callsign was used for another well-known station in the area from 1925 until 1991 and broadcast at 1130 kHz. The music played was from Kammans own encyclopedic library of records, domestic and foreign. The building itself was very dark. Tom did the best impression of Muhammad Ali I have ever heard. Buy spots on the other stations?? One of the obstacles it ran into was resonating re-radiation from the Bloomington Water tower. In the first few months of operation, I would guess that WDGY probably lost as much money per month as any station in the history of radio. How could this format possibly be a winner on AM? Contact me at Rick(at)HotMail.com --- NOTE Replace "(at)" with @ when typing email address, Curtis J. Johnson, Former WDGY 20/20 Newscaster. On June 12, 1967, the stations application to change its studio location to 5728 Wayzata Blvd. 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. Unlike in 2017, C-QUAM AM stereo did not return. Music consultants included folks from the Minneapolis Symphony orchestra, Schmitt Music, and Leigh Kamman. This has been the only transmitter location for the station since it signed on the air. One contest in 1963 was a challenge to bake the worlds biggest Christmas Cookie. The actual graphics and billboards were created by Sid Rich and his advertising agency at the time in 1974. 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. This get together included Jim du Bois, currently CEO and President of the Minnesota Broadcasters Association & formerly of KTCR-FM, WDGY, & K102, Mike Cunningham, former KTCR-FM Operations Manager, and myself, Rick Burnett (also formerly of KTCR-FM).Don talks about his early days in Iowa and tells how very disappointed his mother was when Don failed to get a job at country station KTCR-AM in 1963; instead he got a job at KDWB. King, right? Solomon Burke performed on May 28, 1965. The old transmitters produced a lot of heat. At the time you want it. At the time it was billed as The New WDGY Your Radioactive Station! Top 40s available from July 21, 1956 on do show that the playlist was definitely rock n roll, although they played a lot of cover versions and a lot of schmaltz. One song in 57 looks suspiciously local: Paddlin Ingabord Home by Ole The Singing Janitor. This aircheck in two parts is presented un-scoped. 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 Catman was Tom Bernard who at one time was a record rep (Capitol Records, I think). The disturbance was considered contained by 2:30 am. When WDGY began to play it, WDGY salesmen found an amazing reluctance on the part of advertisers to buy time on a station that was rated number two in the market. By 1957 KSTP was squarely on the rock n roll bandwagon, but got off pretty quickly. Station Frequency Format . 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