Well, at least with the progressive announcers on KRSI. WDGY News Room Shot from DJ Control Room - 1969. The Future is Now (bbzztt) The Future is Y-11, At 3 pm, September 2, 1977, the station changed its format again, this time to country. One even has a snippet of Loni Anderson! In April 1963, the listings showed Jerry Boyum on from 6 to 10 am, Mort Garren from 10 to 2 pm, and John Sewall from 2 to 7 pm. Think of it this way. The purpose of this site is to provide radio history and intendedfor purposes of archival preservation and research.Windows Media Player works well to play these MP3 files, and depending on your internet settings, will start streaming the file once the link is clicked, Some files are large and may take time to open. The control board, counters, carts, walls, microphone, everything. On December 10, 1962, the station launched one of those call-in shows where people argued with the host, who was called Norman Frederick. As disasters go, this one wasnt even on the radar screen. The first tape was recorded off the air on February 21, 1973 and is a good quality recording. 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. Bill Diehl worked at WMIN from 1948 to 49 and from 1951 to 55. Click on the following web address for the museum: http://www.pavekmuseum.org/2006HOF1.htm and click on the following address to see the museum's entire Hall of Fame: http://www.pavekmuseum.org/hall.htm. We do know that the station was playing rock n roll from the WMIN Top 40 dated August 4, 1958. CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE, WDGY Guide, Atkinson, 1982. On December 1, 1964, KEVE was changed to KQRS Quality Radio Station, still playing classical music. With that in mind I had Charles Arlington record, as only he could, a theme line: Sixty Three. A license to install a new transmitter was approved on June 29, 1964. The baffles failed. Labor Temple, third floor. Also appearing were the Amazers. Minneapolis, MN. It was perhaps the only American commercial radio station the Russians had to jam to prevent their people from hearing all that decadent American Rock & Roll! There, at 63, where no Minnesotan had gone before. No audio, but the wires would vibrate in time to the modulation. I have absolutely no idea what is going on here. 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.. 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. It discussed an article in the December 3, 1958 issue of Variety, in which Richard J. Miller, president of St. Louis radio station KXLW claimed that: most Negro emphasis radio is a cheap insult to Negroes, a source of self-generated bigotry, religious quackery, charlatanism, and a wallow of ugly, primitive and harmful sounds. Brother Al Tedesco wanted to call it WPIG or WHOG, but Vic protested the barnyard connotation. Glory of Love by the Four Knights. On November 18, 1973, KQ AM and FM began airing The National Lampoon Comedy Hour, a comedy show created specifically for radio by Michael ODonoghue, editor of The National Lampoon magazine. He also mentions his concern about working around a transmitter that could light up light bulbs without putting them in an electrical socket. Hed also done some research in music therapy, and planned to play records for what they did for the listener. WDGY operated on a number of different frequencies before settling onto 1130 AM in 1941. The Impressions made an appearance at the Marigold on Sunday, April 11, 1965. 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. Photo by Greg Helgeson, Minnesota Music magazine, Bumper sticker @ 1980 1984. Peterson cited economic factors as the reason for this change. The switch resulted in low ratings, according to an article in the Star Tribune on September 3, 1977. 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. 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. 1 Pick Revealed: Report Feb 27, 2023. It was sold to Park Broadcasting [Roy H. Park]. We may drop it from the top of Foshay, said Sherwood, Chuckling at the prospect of the worlds biggest pile of crumbs. Sam says that what actually happened to it was the cookie was picked by cargo plane at Twin Cities Airport and flown to the Ive Got A Secret Show in New York, MCd by the late Gary Moore and after that it was just disposed ofnot sure how but that was it!!. The ad below boasts of their KUXL award for excellence in musical instruction. It also provided local-oriented public service information on groups like Y.E.S., Pharm House, Red Door, Womens Counseling Service, and more. In the main studio, there was a sticky sap-like residue on everything. Billy G, the Prime Minister, started doing daily remotes from the Cassius Bar and Cafe on May 4, 1965, from 6 to 7 pm. No doubt the Random Ranch show was similar. KQRS was close to adopting the SuperStars format, making them a major player. One more testament to the sheer effective radiated power in WDGYs nighttime lobe. View more recently sold homes. in Golden Valley was approved. Donald K. Martin and Rick Burnett, July 7th, 2008, Mike Cunningham (Left) andJim du Bois (Richt) in the studio with Donald K. Martin, WDGY December 1972 Survey Contributed by Donald K. Martin, WDGY December 1972 Survey Back Cover (page 4), WDGY - Don Martin in undated photo he contributed. In 2014, the station began broadcasting in HD. Below is a photo thats not too great, but hopefully shows how big the winning monster was. WDGY seemed to appeal to 18- to 35-year-old listeners while KDWB held a fair share of the teen audiences - considered hot properties during this period. A 1972 article in the Echo opined that KDWB played new songs that were just released, while WDGY only played nationally-established music. Can't Get Used To Losing You - Andy Williams 5 4. And if I were Nancy Wilson, Id be a little ticked to have my song interrupted. She missed winning $678. Youll LOVE IT!!!!! The stations were reminded that they had a non-cancelable contract. Forrest Powers of the Star filed his report on March 17, 1964, explaining how Ed Skotch was doing market research with a group of 40 housewives. So stunned were most of us, the gravity of situation was difficult to grasp. Although its unclear what WLOL was playing from late 1953 to mid 1955, the names of the shows are tantalizing: A playlist from August 1956 shows that it was a major early rock n roll station. 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. 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. For that matter, we were discouraged from using the term teenager too. Donald plays godfather with his "Don" imitation and asks Charlie "What is black and blue and floats?" 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. Talk about a time frame, eh?) For airchecks and photos, a great site is: http://twincitiesradioairchecks.com/krsiandkfmx.html. 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. Bottom Row: Dan Halyburton, Larry E. Cummins, Jimmy Reed. WDGY's Charlie Van Dyke & Donald K. Martin in the studio during their morning show. With the aid of conviction to principle, an innovative approach to tweaking the automation to liven up the sound and programming our own currents and recurrents, p*ss, vinegar and a well-crafted letter and position paper to Jim Duncan, then R&Rs Country Editor, we managed to get KDAN appointed as the 75th Country reporter for the fledgling trade paper. Call or Text The Studio Line (651) 564-9349 Trusted Partners We Play The Hits! 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. It was to be a program format, readily identifiable concentrating on jazz, according to Burke. 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. . Photo courtesy Jeff Neuberger. This has been the only transmitter location for the station since it signed on the air. In a blurb in the Minneapolis Star (September 1, 1977), station manager Dale Webber was quoted as saying the reason for the change was getting out of the ridiculous Top 40 market. There were three other country stations on AM in the market at the time. Protests of the new format came in the form of resignations of staff, pickets, KQ Sucks t-shirts, loss of advertisers, and the formation of an organization called People for Progressive Radio, which strove to bring the free-form format back, either at KQ or otherwise. Jimmy Reed cues up a record in the control room at WDGY in 1969. By that time Elvis had hit it big with Heartbreak Hotel and Hound Dog a cover of a black record followed. Stephen B. Labunski was made General Manager. The Pavek Museum of Broadcasting has radio station ratings books that list programs from 1953 to 1955. KLBB Building in 2014, courtesy Reed Hagen, For airchecks from WMIN, see http://twincitiesradioairchecks.com/wmin.html. On June 3, 1963, KTWN began programming by its new owners, K-TWN, Inc., headed by Gene Posner, President of Cream City Broadcasting, Milwaukee. The photo below was posted on Facebook by Paul Strickland, who says. Relieve Ennui today! Inside the box was a piece of paper on which there was a beautiful color picture of the Twin-Cities Radio Dial with a large arrow pointing to the left end of it and an invitation toCome on down. Stand with Ukraine. He broadcast over the radio that there was a fire at KDWB, no joke, and that someone should call the fire department. The paper called the new WMINs format variety.. I really dont remember which station I was on then. Find out by playing this clip. Heres a photo of the KANO VW bus from July 1963, with his wife, sister, and daughter. In April 1929 the frequency apparently became 1180. 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. Nicked named Wildman, he has an internet polka show. WDGY "The Original Rock and Roll Station" . KEEY seemed to specialize in handing out these FM radio station directories, which seem to me to advertise the competition more than anything else. One more testament to the sheer effective radiated power in WDGYs nighttime lobe. See Top 30 and Top 40 countdowns from 1966 on Robb Henrys blog. The mother of all remotes was when several people from the station took over the Ebony Lounge, which was located in St. Paul over Roadbuddys Barbeque. Standing from left to right: Steve Shannon and Ed OBrien. But its also a dance session. It was perhaps the only American commercial radio station the Russians had to jam to prevent their people from hearing all that decadent American Rock & Roll! On November 3, 1972, the AM station was relaunched as WYOO, picking up an oldies format (with rock and roll included). On September 2, 1951, the station sponsored a concert by the Blind Boys, advertised in the Minneapolis Spokesman. Perry Como actually sort of rocked with a great tune called Tina . The music spanned the black musical spectrum, from bebop to pop, delta blues to Motown, Dixieland to the Philadelphia disco sound, said Adams. This was best done by the Five Keys in 1951, but the song was written in 1936, so whos to complain. This is WWTC Spectrum. But the Country format was gaining acceptance among older baby-boomers and melding that growth with WDGYs big 50,000-watt signal gave new purpose to the station and validation to a growing, willing audience that perhaps Country musics time was coming. 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. Listen To The Most Popular Podcasts On iHeartRadio! Supposedly, a gentleman that lived within the main lobe of the pattern had decided to wind copper around his attic and, with an appropriate capacitor, made a tuned circuit at 1130 which allowed him to power his florescent lights. And the response has been so good that the weekday evening jazz time may be extended. We plan to have him on two hours Saturday and two hours Sunday. 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. The fire department didnt want us beginning the clean up until the inspector could make sure the building was safe to enter. The station's studios and offices are in Lakeland, Minnesota, while its transmitter is off Commerce Drive near Interstate 94 in Hudson. WDGY was different pre-Beatles. Will Jones reported that they would alternate with the local R&B group, the Amazers. In 1942, the station gained approval to broadcast at night. Call sign: WDGY Frequency: 740 AM City of license: Hudson, WI Format: Oldies Owner: WRPX Area Served: Minneapolis-St. Paul Sister stations: 94.9 El Rey Contact Address: 300 St Croix Trail S, Lakeland, MN 55043 Phone: (651) 436-4000 He also plans to start an on-the-air school dedicated to enriching the personality of the housewife who finds herself bogged down by dishes and diapers.. And as soon as he got that he would file for full-time operation and still more power. There was the terrible smell of burnt paper and charred wood. Competition was fierce with five rock radio stations at the time, and compared to U100, WDGY, KDWB and KSTP seemed a bit tame in their original on-air presentation. The station was located at 8th and Wabasha in South St. Paul, conveniently adjacent to the stockyards. As far back as 1950 promoters Rufus Webster and D.P. Alan Freed posted the photo below of WWTCs control center taken in 1981. The engineers labored through the night and the following night and on Tuesday, we signed back on. Although authorized for only 500 watts from midnight to 4am, it had been broadcasting at full 5,000 watt strength since Crowell-Collier Broadcasting bought the station in late 1959. Notice the Catman poster on the upper wall. In fact, all were in their 20s. (Phones at fire departments all across the vast Twin Cities area rang causing a ton of confusion as to just exactly where there was a fire.) WWTC AM Radio is something of an oasis in the local radio market. Todd Mitchell found this article in the March 18, 1977, issue of Radio and Records, an industry newspaper. band (which had necessitated the Mighty 1130s switch in the first place.) Then on Wednesday, July 8, 1964, were back to the old KUXL! This may or may not be the building in another iteration. ARSA: ABOUT: SURVEYS: STATIONS: WDGY 1130 AM. It had only 250 watts. Middle row: Steve Hatley, Cosmic Cowboy a/k/a Terry Roberts, Chuck Knapp & Charlie Bush. Preacher Paul. Around that time, a young Leigh Kamman and his friend Sev Widman hosted Studio Party Wham, named after a Jimmie Lunceford tune, showcasing big bands, small combos, and jazz. 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. and briefly Fred Osanna. Ike and Tina Turner appeared at the Minneapolis Auditorium under the auspices of Preacher Paul and KUXL on August 1, 1965. 1 WCPR; 2 WKYY; And then he said that B.B. In November 1977 the Insider reported that the station was working around to the album rock format from Top 40. Around the fall of 1979 it went to adult contemporary,: and they also picked up Bob Allards and Larry Kings talk shows in the late evening. Ill tell it right when I find it again. Jerry Telser, 10-2 electrifying the afternoon airwavesJohn Pete, 6-Midnight seasoning your evening with top pop hitswide-eyed George Murphy, holding sway with the night people from midnight to dawn. Swinging through the Heights area the freeway ended and became Highway 12. In 1959, WDGY gained a formidable challenger when KDWB launched. Generally, WDGY came in second in overall audience ratings to market-dominant, clear-channel WCCO. However, you can still hear what is being discussed and the sound for the WDGY portion of the interview is unaffected. Preacher Paul was there three nights a week as a host, and on Saturday afternoons he broadcast from the place. Shapira wrote about how difficult it was to sustain a jazz show in Minneapolis, and how Johnson, first hired early in 1971 to do the news, wanted to give it a try. WDGY-AM (1130): 1/6/1958 Bill Diehl Show - 9 MB (provided by Helen Diehl and Tom Oszman of TCMediaNow) Includes commercials for Hi-Spot Lemon Soda from Canada Dry, Dodge Dealers and Red Devil Soot Remover. Program directors like me used the more exclusive Gavin Report from Bill and Janet Gavin in San Francisco. 26w; View 1 more comment. The station will feature top cuts from current albums along with a selection of singles, with no jingle package and segued sets. 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. In the meantime, Rob flew to Dallas to recut the jingles. Radiotapes.com has airchecks from 1957 of Steve Cannon and Leigh Kamman doing what was billed as the Twin Cities first and only Double Disk Jockey Show. Thanks again for the responseand thanks for the great website! The memory music format was enlarged, a jingle by Herb Pilhofer was created, and talk shows were produced. Mon 13.02 Tue 14.02 Wed 15.02 Thu 16.02 Fri 17.02 Sat 18.02 Sun 19.02 Show by radio station time ( now in Minneapolis 16:44) Unfortunately, the radio station did not provide a playlist for this day. This site does not charge any fees to listen to the posted recordings. In late 1953 there were shows called Saturday Date and Rhythm at Random, but what they played is anyones guess. From late 1953 to mid 1955 WMIN had tons of shows that might have included some jump tunes. Steve Bowman, Nancy Rosen, B.J. 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. He expected to shock some people that first day! WDGY station changed to a country music format in September 1977, around the time when most music stations began shifting onto the FM band. I hope you have some audio clean up program. I stopped and visited him one morning, and he lowered a Bob Dylan album for me. Heres a story from Rod, taken from Bullerdash, the newsletter for KSTP Pioneers: I ran the mid-day shift from 10 AM to 2 PM. As a promotion, in November 1958 Jim Ramsburg cooked up the Radio Wonders basketball team. WDGY's longtime Top 40 format came to an end at 3 pm, September 2, 1977. 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. After a couple of changes the call letters became WDGY (Dr. George Young) in 1926. KRSI Radio was located at 4500 Excelsior Blvd. JAVASCRIPT IS DISABLED. [1] And he noted that it was difficult to even find R&B records in town. While some of us labored shoveling and wives and girlfriends scrubbed the residue gunk off everything, KDWB, like a phoenix, was about to arise from the ashes. I hope to get some late 60's clips up on the site soon. We were doing just that. 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. As always, these recordings will be available at no charge to you. The agency negotiated non-cancellable contracts with all eight of the Twin City Stations. KRSIs owner, Park Broadcasting, which owned 18 radio and TV stations in 11 cities, asked Drake-Chenault Enterprises of Los Angeles to install one of its systems. Optometrist George W. Young started radio station KMFT in 1923; his first broadcast was on January 13, 1924 from his house at 2219 N. Bryant. Thus incited, the crowd began yelling invectives at the police and throwing furniture at them. More than a nostalgia station, more than a mixture of rock n roll history and local rock trivia, TC offers listeners personality programming and a fun sense of belonging to a rock n roll community. Im going to try Minnesota to the bust before I try and move on someplace, because I feel that black programming is needed here more than anyplace else. (Minneapolis Star, August 3, 1976). KUXL hosted the Impressions at the Marigold Ballroom on January 22, 1967. Now, were not trying to put down all-news radio stations. First air date. 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. 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. 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. Those songs were not rock n roll. Not sure where the photo above came from. The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. 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. Many thanks to Jeff Lonto, who is one of the Cities experts on radio history, for much of the information cited here. 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. The next night, violence continued on its own momentum. Well, they got out of the rock n roll business but stayed in the radio business until November 1972, when the station was sold and became WYOO. The company engineers actually had to install coils to de-tune the water tower before the license could be approved for 50kw operation. Screen grabs below courtesy Alan Freed. From Midnight to 6 am they would broadcast The Quiet Storm, a syndicated program of laid-back music. Killed were the pilot, Thomas B. Leivermann, his daughter and son, and his sons girlfriend. An obvious reference to his old employing station. In 1959-1960 KEVE had a Sunday remote broadcast from the Fireside in Fridley. Found on Radiotapes.com: Ballad of Minnesota!. We sold spots a dollar a holler.. This shot of him in the WDGY DJ control room is one of the better quality shots showing the Gates control board. The stations request to change the location of the studio to 5730 Duluth Street in Golden Valley was approved on October 14, 1969. Ray left in June 1957 because he was too busy with baseball and was replaced by Jim Boysen. They kept the WYOO call letters, to avoid the hassle and long process of changing call letters with the FCC. Jack Reynolds became General Manager in April 1971. Charlie Smith and Preacher Paul Sunday swing thing. You can hear some of Herbs patter from September 7, 1956, on Tom Gavarass RadioTapes Web site: radiotapes.com/WDGY.html. 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. The old tower was removed and a new tower erected. And as many times I tried to get Jim Jennings to talk to me, he ducked me every time. In May 2006 the recordings started to beconverted to MP3 andsharedhere. CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE, KOMA Guide. For his Masters Thesis on the history of WDGY, Jerry Verne Haines interviewed WDGY announcer Leonard D. Bart on June 15, 1970. The music was tailored to a more mature (18-25) audience, such as Pablo Cruise. At 7 AM following the news we played popular music until signoff. In 1937 the station had a 15-minute program on Sundays featuring black singers that was advertised in the Minneapolis Spokesman. WDGY Jocks teamed up with professionals Ed Kalafat, Bobby Cox, Jim Springer, and Corky Devlin, possibly former Minneapolis Lakers. I thought if we could get somewhat organized on a daily continuous basis that it would be a step in the right direction. King was also coming to the same ballroom on September 12. I developed a format of album rock, blues, soul, some jazz, a bit of folk, classical, spoken word and anything I could find that interested listeners. Stephen B. Labunski was made General Manager. 1/6/1961 Bill Diehl - 23 MB 7/10/1963 Bill Diehl - 8 MB (provided by Phil Kitchen) - February 1964 The address of the first transmitter and main studio was 7711 Sixth Ave. No. 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. Install the free Online Radio Box app for your smartphone and listen to your favorite radio stations online - wherever you are! The roof hadnt collapsed, but the rafters were charred black. So they convinced Edwards to do it and he became Merle Hub Cap Edwards. The Twin City a Go Go January 1966 issue mentioned this station and its DJs: Dean Alexander, Dave Charles, Will Grassman, Myrna Jean, Oliver Towne (nee Gareth Hebert), Don Riley, Bob Leonard, and Charles Conrad. Bottom Row: Jenny Rein (secretary), Vic, Nick, ? They want smooth, slick, uncluttered radio., Ad from Minneapolis/St. Listen to our News/Talk 1130 WISN podcasts here! The FCC required that the station identify itself as KDWB Lake Elmo, also occasionally serving Minneapolis and St. Paul. The station provided immediate competition to leading rock n roll station WDGY: See a good piece on the KDWB/WDGY rivalry from KARE-11 News. John Hines replaced Knapp in about 1975, and Rob Sherwood arrived in 1976, after U100 was sold. This survey provided by Steve Raymer of the Pavek Museum of Broadcasting. Dr. Young died in 1945 and the station was transferred to the Twin City Broadcasting Corporation 1946. Because AM 740 is a Canadian clear channel frequency, WDGY is a daytime-only station. 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