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. And they would play some jazz, depending on which of the announcers was on or what day of the week or what time of the day it was, youd turn the radio on and hear something different.. A gunshot was heard and a policeman was hit in the arm or hand. 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. 1130 WDGY. Let us assume that the mighty CCO did not dabble in such vulgar music and focus on the others. Ft. 7013 N Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA 90042. One of the obstacles it ran into was resonating re-radiation from the Bloomington Water tower. Bob Mitchells show was on Saturdays from 1-5 PM. Thought I would share. The cookie was displayed in the lobby of the Foshay Tower, where viewers filched pieces of it until French dispatched a guard. Super U100, the Twin Cities powerhouse was the original catch phrase, used on-air and in promotion and advertising beginning on August 26, 1974. The original call sign for the station's construction permit was WAOZ, but the station was never on the air with those call letters. Stand with Ukraine. The Twin City stations were all on the upper part of the dial at 1070, 1130, 1490, etc., but nothing below 1000. The memory music format was enlarged, a jingle by Herb Pilhofer was created, and talk shows were produced. Grew up listening to Jonny on my school bus. 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. ! and the association never quit from New York to LAIt was the most visible thing we ever did..!!! In about November 1973, the WMIN call letters moved to 1010kc (formerly polka and country station WJSW). We have no airchecks, but ratings books from 1953 to 1955 do give us the names of programs that give hints as to what they were playing: KEYD was primarily a country station, with shows by Slim Jim and the Vagabond Kid and programs called Record Rodeo and Random Ranch. Bears' Plan For No. Again, I apologize for the quality. On December 16, 1964, afternoons changed from jazz to Rhythm and Blues. KYCR changed to KDIZ on December 24, 2015. Proceeds were to be divided between the Minneapolis and St. Paul Community Chests. Dont ask me what that all means. Wednesday, February 10, 1965, was the first day the newspaper schedule showed Paul Anthonys name. WDGY was founded in 1923 by Dr. George Young, an optometrist who dabbled in radio as a hobby, and was one of the first commercial radio stations in the Twin Cities area. Broadcasting magazine, March 1960. J. Warren Burke was brought in as general manager to revamp the station. A Hammond RK4 reverberation unit has been ordered The echo unit will be .. controlled by push buttons installed at the news table and console. That UP radio uplift all the way. Four businesses were fire-bombed and fire trucks were met with sniper fire but no one was injured. The ad campaign for 1964 was UP radio (imagine an arrow on the UP). Theairchecks on this not for profit web site were recorded off the air. In the meantime, it was Zingale who arranged for Augie Garcia to open for Elvis when the King came to town in May 1956. By that time Elvis had hit it big with Heartbreak Hotel and Hound Dog a cover of a black record followed. Chuck Blore was Crowell-Colliers national program director, and ran a disk jockey school that the DJs at KDWB attended. One 20-year-old was arrested. It will be historical and contemporary, sweet, hot, lowdown, enlightened Chicago style or very cool. Photo dated February 23, 1950 courtesy Minnesota Historical Society. In 1973-75 Chuck Knapp and Charlie Bush in the morning, Machine Gun Kelly and others livened things up. Oh so many levels. There were baffles designed to permit travel only in one direction, so a fire in the vent-work should have just traveled out. This month the losses should be fairly slight and we have every hope that June will see the station in the black for the first time in a long time. Jim Dandy, Perry St. John, Scott Burton, George Young, B. Mason Dean. Don Betzold recalled, It wasnt really a flagpole. Quick installation and adjustment. 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. "WDGY Means the Most Music and the Most Money." Paul) Radio Stations, Some Recorded Off The Air by Rick Burnett and Many Others Recorded or Provided by Other Contributors to This Site (see footnote at bottom). A 15-year-old polio victim was smashed, face-first, into the pavement and sent home bleeding. WDGY moved from 1130 to 630 AM and became sports station KFAN. The building itself was very dark. . This site does not charge any fees to listen to the posted recordings. The switch resulted in low ratings, according to an article in the Star Tribune on September 3, 1977. 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. Those seven people included Mr. and Mrs. He was hired to do the jazz show, but moved to take over the R&B show when that opened up. It is licensed to Hudson, Wisconsin, three miles east of its studios in Lakeland, Minnesota. WMIN was still resisting the rock n roll bandwagon in January 1957, when it was playing Easy Listening. In 1968 Red Owl changed the station policy from middle of the road to all request oldies to try for a high enough rating to at least make the property salable. 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. From 1969 to mid 1970, Tony Glover held down the midnight to 6 am shift. WDGY 1130 AM MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA Week: 1963-03-18 Format: T40 WDGY 1130 - MINNEAPOLIS - ST. PAUL TIGER TUNES WEEK BEGINNING MARCH 18, 1963 TW LW 1. Photo by Steve Raymer. Everyone agreed that this guy could sell anybody anything. The Big 5 jocks were Bob Bradley, Leigh Kamman, Don Kelly, Steve Cannon, and Jerry Cunning. Cars were prevented from coming into the area from Interstate 94 at the Dale Street exit. But Glover was probably the most popular and well-known. Bottom Row: Jenny Rein (secretary), Vic, Nick, ? The last listing in the paper as WMKT was April 11, 1970. 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. Thats what caused the severe distortion, despite registering a 4 on my Wards Airline signal strength scale of 1 to 5. Meanwhile, Preacher Paul was bugged at being in a hot studio from 2 to 6, so starting in mid-June he was going out in a mobile trailer to broadcast from various outdoor locations around the Twin Cities. On April 18, 1994, after 36 years, the 630kHz frequency went dark. The article in the Star Tribune outlined the new program: Drew Durigan: I DID hear them very well in 1988 as KMAP. Whatever the approach, it had to be as different as was our position on the dial. Jimmy Reed let me sit in his chair, but did not let me go on the air. (Storz died in 1964 at age 39.) 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. 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. Seven ways to listen: FM 92.1, FM 103.7, AM 740, FM 107.1 HD2, Live Stream at WDGYradio.com, Smart Speakers through TuneIn and the WDGY Phone App. Pleased by the response to a recent project on emotionally induced illness, Skotch said the station will devote another day to the subject in the near future. You think that WDGY wasnt figuratively licking its chops? On his first day found in the newspaper, he was on in front of the Polish Hour and the Methodist Church, both 90 minute shifts in the morning. Music consultants included folks from the Minneapolis Symphony orchestra, Schmitt Music, and Leigh Kamman. In an interview given for the Rondo Oral History Project of the Minnesota Historical Society, Yusef Mgeni remembered that KUXL was a strange hybrid type of station. You will enjoy tuning up to the quality sound of sound radio programming on KUXL. It was Percy Faith type music. And then almost overnight, or so it seemed, the jazz folk around town were talking about their station. Courtesy of the museum archives provided by Steve Raymer and Daniel Henry at the. In July 1957 Kamman was doing the noon to 2pm show from Southdale, just off the Garden Court. The station was nicknamed "WeeGee," the phonetic pronunciation of the call sign, and its format was near the top of the ratings for several years. MOST NEGRO OWNED RADIO STATIONS INSULT TO RACE IS CLAIM. The rest of that Sunday night, people continued to mill about. was? Its Ipanema, not Impanema. The Original Rock and Roll Station Contact Us Talk about a time frame, eh?) and briefly Fred Osanna. That night God must have liked bubble gum music because his gentle hand protected that flight. The why behind recent legislation. No lights. Will Jones reported that they would alternate with the local R&B group, the Amazers. The station then bought the syndicated program Music of Your Life from Al Ham. To protect stations also on 1130 to the south and east, most of the power was directed north. A fellow out of Texas, after first commissioning himself a Colonel, was bottling what was essentially sweet prune juice, calling it Serutan, and telling the great American radio audience over and over again, day after day, Serutan is Natures spelled backwards. Airchecks are samples of old radio recordings, with the music cut out. 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. KDWB Studios, 1976 Courtesy RadioTapes.com. So little time. The next morning we were all there and I still remember seeing Howie Anderson shoveling the wreckage out the engineering entrance. He spoke about the dangers of ennui, tedium and boredom and how these things could absolutely dull your life. The exact date of the change seems a little murky (unlike the very sharp change to country below), but experts say it was probably in January 1977. CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE, WDGY Hit Car Photo Contributor, Wild Wilson. 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. And fortunately I can stop at 1974, for there are greater minds than mine that can keep going past this Golden Age. It has been my opinion that a big lightning storm in July 1989 was an excuse for the station to shut down operation. It had 50,000 watts during the day and 25,000 at night. By 1972/1973, KRSI and KQRS had almost identical Progressive Rock shows. WeeGee tended to be a little more conservative than KDWB reportedly even their staff wore suits and ties, but that has been disputed. Whether it actually had to pony up the $10,000 is unknown. This aircheck has the music scoped out, but the commercials and promos are left in, providing a glimpse into the times. Perhaps, this is a temporary station problem. More great stuff is on http://twincitiesradioairchecks.com/wdgy1130tapes.html. WDGY, Rock and Roll Oldies Radio, playing the best oldies of the 1960s and 1970s for the Twin Cities! One more testament to the sheer effective radiated power in WDGYs nighttime lobe. Article on Scott Burton's injury during a WDGY promotional event. Another crazy promotion was the time Charlee Brown styled himself as the Emperor and threatened to take over the State of Wisconsin. A touch of Formula 63 is the perfect way to brighten up your mundane day. After a years absence, Sam Sabean was hired back as a DJ and Station Manager, but he had to have a different name, so Sherwood was arbitrarily chosen. A lot of people thought it was a broadcast training center like Brown Institute or something. Suddenly it was true, 63 thats easy to remember. Please enable JavaScript on your browser to best view this site. 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. There was the terrible smell of burnt paper and charred wood. 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. (1960's). In 1974 the Wolfman was into many projects, including a weekly syndicated show that was broadcast here on KDWB. This photo was taken in 1969 after he came back to replace Rob Sherwood when he left for KDWB-AM. On August 26, 1974, live at the Minnesota State Fair, the oldies format became boogie, with KDWB alumnus Rob Sherwood heading up a wild and crazy format as U100. In February 2022, the station resumed broadcasting in AM HD. Although I dont normally provide snapshots of FM stations, this one is pretty interesting. 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. One young man was in a rest room with some others who were drinking, and he flashed a gun. And its guaranteed to relieve ennui! They also played some Whoopie John and Frankie Yankovic for the polka crowd. The roof hadnt collapsed, but the rafters were charred black. The only coordination was (sometimes) the Pick Hit of The Week as a freebie to a record maker.. In May 2006 the recordings started to beconverted to MP3 andsharedhere. Love it, Scott! The other stations had an unwritten agreement not to play race music because they assumed the Twin Cities audience would be outraged. As far back as 1950 promoters Rufus Webster and D.P. Unfortunately, there is a short period of time with lower quality sound, which is corrected quickly. The new owners immediately requested permission from the FCC to change the call letters back to WMIN. In 1959, WDGY gained a formidable challenger when KDWB launched. WDGY "The Original Rock and Roll Station" . And as many times I tried to get Jim Jennings to talk to me, he ducked me every time. Thinking about how to tell the good people of the Twin Cities there was some good radio on the South end of the dial was pretty much all I was thinking about. I sent time at my grandparents lake home on Rush Lake (60 miles north of St. Paul). My DJ page tells me that Ronn the Rajah of Rhythm & Bluess real name was Ron Samuels the one who married Wonder Woman? 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. 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 Gavins sold their mimeographed service to one station per market and it was kind of a co-op into which we all poured our tips. In the September 1971 Insider, reviewer Will Shapira profiled W. Amos Johnson, who did a two-hour jazz show on KUXL each Sunday. Once again, the small black population in Minneapolis was cited as a reason not to sponsor the program, although white people were clearly listening as well. We ran through the frigid Minnesota December weather to get to the production room. 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. Ft. 31477 E Nine Dr, Laguna Niguel, CA 92677. In 1952 everyone on the staff had a corny western name: Sam Sabean (aka Sam Sherwood) started out with the Sam Sabean Show in 1954, which became Hobo Sam and His Bum Program from about November 1954-March 1955. He actually bought the time from KUXL himself and sold commercials to pay for it. In the wake of the incidents, a committee was formed by the St. Paul Urban Coalition to investigate them. The banner gives the shows host as Dave Reau, and the time slot as 11-11:15 am. Contests and Promotions. WDGY 1130 Tapes This Site Primarily Contains a Collection of Airchecks of Numerous Twin Cities (Minneapolis/St. 1130 AM: News/Talk: Clear Channel: KLBB: 1220 AM: American standards: Endurance Broadcasting, LLC . 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. See the new transmitter here courtesy www.radiotapes.com, Aerial shot of the 9-tower array courtesy Tom Gavaras. On August 22, 1978, a construction permit was approved to increase the stations power to 2.5 kw. Now that TV had grabbed everyones attention, and radio was just background music, he wanted to reverse the process and create The Nations Most Attention-Programmed Station. The key was to provide entertainment, but not with comedy or drama, but with ideas and thoughts. The Colonel loved the whole idea and agreed to do it. The station was located at 8th and Wabasha in South St. Paul, conveniently adjacent to the stockyards. A few days later, WPBC-FM became WRAH and programmed an automated album oriented rock format. The original call sign was KFMT, broadcasting at 1300kHz. I love Will Jones, but this one is listed under Weekend girlwatching tip. MCP. By 1955 the station was starting to play covers of rock n roll in with Perry Como and Doris Day. Other Twin Cities station owners resented the attention WDGY received, but soon they too jumped on the top-40 bandwagon. It was payback time. Donuts Douglas (news man) Later on, the following talent also became a part of the station: Jerry St. James, Mesa Kincaid, Patrick M. Cookin' McKay, Chucker Morgan, and Jo Jo Gunne. Heres the story from Jim Stokes: KRSI originated Red Owl Stores storecast from their transmitter on what is called subcarrier. You can look it up. 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. Formula 63 box, courtesy Sam Sherwood. The promotional piece below pictures the stations initial staff. We thought you could come up with a new product called Formula 63. And so goes the history of one of our most obscure radio stations. Special thanks to Jeff Lonto and Alan Freed! Zingale urged the Tedescos to change the stations format to all R&B, and they considered it, but since they were only a 1,000 watt daytimer, they figured that a more powerful station would just steal the format and leave them hanging. In August 1957 the station claimed to be first with Twin Cities Housewives based on a telephone poll of 388 people. In 2014, the station began broadcasting in HD. Alan Freed found another award made by the station to the American Legion North Side Post on May 1, 1962, for Excellence in Community Service. It was a single engine plane trying to land at St. Pauls downtown airport, even though it was flying without instruments. It now programs its oldies format along with local hosts in-house. This shot was taken around 1969 one weekend when Gene allowed some of my fellow pirate radio friends and me to visit him on the air. The WYOO call sign has resided on an FM talk station in Panama City, Florida since 1993. (Minneapolis Star, March 17, 1978). Don and I had both been part of the KTSA deejay team in San Antonio a couple of years earlier. Scripts saved all these years by DJ John Evans list songs such as: WLOL had lots of shows with tantalizing names, such as Top Tunes, Roys Record Shop, Todays Hits, Top Ten, Hit Parade, and Off the Record. They all said the same thing, essentially: screw your non-cancelable contract. 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. And he skipped out on the landlord, too. The program director, Rob Sherwood, used this opportunity to abruptly change the format of both stations, debuting the AM and FM simulcast of Super U100 with a Joe Cocker song and a two-minute montage of the new stations new jingles. In fact, all were in their 20s. Airchecks and other cool things are available at: KQRS-AM first signed on as KEYD, billed as Family Broadcasting, 1948. And then, nothing. Meanwhile, the old KUXL crew was plodding on. The show, Pharoah Blacks Soul Til Sundown, began on May 1, 1975, and ran from 7 pm until sundown. KDWBs listeners were gradually migrating to the FM signal. That address does not compute, but below is a photo of the Holiday Motor Hotel, described as being taken in 1955. internet settings, will start streaming the file once the link is clicked, Some files are large and may take time to open. VSNN had taken over the station on a management agreement and, in reality, nobody else at VSNN wanted the PD job. JAVASCRIPT IS DISABLED. Photo from Judy Dibble via Rick Burnetts Twin Cities Radio Airchecks. 1,135 Sq. He tried to use the phones, but the wires all came into the building through the furnace room and they were already toast. April 17, 1973, ad image courtesy Mark Luebker. Well, they didnt love it, and at noon on November 2, 1972, oldies station WYOO signed on for the first time with See You Later Alligator by Bill Haley and His Comets. Feb 28, 2023. Im going to jump back a little into the chronology of events at the station after listing all of the concerts I could find. KUXL and Preacher Paul Anthony are the sponsors. In 1937 the station had a 15-minute program on Sundays featuring black singers that was advertised in the Minneapolis Spokesman. 26w; View 1 more comment. 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. HIstory of Radio in 10 Minutes (actually in 11:30), http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwXJ89-qD6g, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KFAN_%28AM%29, WDGY - Scott Burton Recorded by Dick Sigurdson December 1965, WDGY Johnny Dollar Recorded Off The Air By Dick Sigurdson December 1965, WDGY - Jim Dandy's Return On Air Visit with Johnny Canton - 1976, WDGY Curtis J. Johnson 20/20 News January 1968, Curtis Johnson's Senic Minnesota :30 Spot, WDGY 1130 Johnny Canton November 30, 1970, WDGY 1130 Jimmy Reed September 23, 1969 1st 1/2 hour on WDGY, WDGY 1130 Charlie Van Dyke & Donald K. Martin February 21, 1973, WDGY 1130 Charlie Van Dyke January 1973, WDGY 1130 Bob Dayton September 30, 1971, WDGY 1130 Dick Driscoll August 1960 - from A. Mintz collection, WDGY-AM 1130 Hal Raymond July 7, 1963 - from A. Mintz collection, WDGY 1130 November 1956 - Dan Daniel - Bill Armstrong - Don Kelly the Morning Mayor - Bill Diehl - WDGY Jingles & Dick Driscoll - from A. Mintz collection, http://www.kfgo.com/pages/tomanddankfgo.html, WLOL-AM Tom Wynn 6/5/72 - from the Rick Burnett collection, WDGY-AM 1130 Perry St. John All Night Shift 5/12/63, WDGY-AM Dick Driscoll 8/60 Scoped - from A. Mintz collection, KSTP-AM Tribute To Elvis - Day Elvis Died 8-17077 Un-Scoped - from the A. Mintz collection, WDGY-AM Dan Daniels 8/57 Scoped - from the A. Mintz collection, WDGY Prospector Promo (Undated - Early '60?). He recently celebrated 25 years at KFGO. 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. [2] The station can also be heard on 107.1 KTMY's HD2 channel in the Twin Cities.[3]. Much of the following information about this ever-changing station comes from Jeff Lontos book Fiasco at 1280, The Rise and Hard Fall of a Twin Cities Radio Station, available through the Pavek Museum of Broadcasting. I continued on Highway 12 to Radio Drive. The first we hear of programming that was not Percy Faith and not (by this 21st Century womans standards) patronizing, comes in mid 1964. In 1951 Ray Christenson was voted the most popular classical and semi-classical disk jockey in the State of Minnesota. At the time, Ray was also teaching diction to the students of Helen Stefan Model and Finishing School. It is owned by WRPX, inc. and airs a Classic Hits / Oldies radio format. KDAN may not have been muchbut it provided me opportunity and a beginning. The November 10, 1970 recording was sitting in an unmarked reel to reel box had in storage. WDGY Radio is a Oldies radio station serving Minneapolis-St. Paul. This venerable station was around for a long time, and occasionally tried on new names, including: This page, like this website, sticks to pre-1975, and tries to focus on popular music. The station in the early years played a variety of middle of the road pop music and standards, and was even considered an innovator in the concept of singing jingles. This month the losses should be fairly slight and we have every hope that June will see the station in the black for the first time in a long time. 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. Johnny Canton in the main WDGY Control Room (1970's), WDGY's Donald K. Martin at the newsroom mic. Larry Bentson, President. This shot of him in the WDGY DJ control room is one of the better quality shots showing the Gates control board. The frequency was originally 1140 kc. In April 1957 the station was owned by the BFR Broadcasting Corp., N.L. The decision was made to change to a Top 40/hard rock format, in contrast to what they saw as the rigid, bland presentation of other similar stations in town. KANO was Disk Jockey Rod Persons first radio job in 1959. This address doesnt exist as Highway 55 was expanded. Fairchild contemplated selling the station. One day the station was just there, offering gimmicky, women-slanted programs, not attracting much attention. 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. Thats what caused the severe distortion, despite registering a 4 on my Wards Airline signal strength scale of 1 to 5. The slogan was 15 KSTPTHE MUSIC STATION., The Insider made note of the change to a rock format, playing a mix of current and older top 40. As part of the anniversary celebration, listeners were urged to send the station a birthday card with a favorite song from the last year, and if it was drawn the listener could win the Yesterhits Souvenir Album and a chance of winning one of six Hondas. On December 9, 1938, Tom Colemans Famous Swing Trio, with Florence Ward, appeared at a dance at Pioneer Hall, 588 Rondo, advertised as being broadcast on WMINs Down Beat Program. 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.. King was also coming to the same ballroom on September 12. I suppose at full speed, in December, the ride to Peoria would take 18 hours. In 1949 the station moved its transmitter and studio to a new multi-tower array described as at 102nd and Bloomington Freeway/Lyndale Freeway/35W. Although they play the jingle "The Music's on Us" you will hear a little more talk compared to the typical WDGY music format. Its president was Marvin Kosofsky, who said he was not going to change the jazz programming, which had been taken over by Art Hoehn and Paul Franklyn. 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