We are always looking for good quality historical recordings (audio and video) of Twin Cities radio stations. We accept various types of audio formats (CD, cassette, reel-to-reel, etc.). If you send us an original tape, we will carefully transfer it to a digital format and promptly return it to you along with a CD copy. If you have recordings you would like to share, please contact us. 

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Date Posted

 

7/5/08  WYOO-FM (U100) (101.3) - More "Boogie Check" broadcasts with Jo Jo Gunne (September 1976) #1 13 MB  -  #2 12 MB

7/2/08  WCCO-AM (830) - Various videos (scroll down for videos)       

1987 - "Turn to A Friend" television campaign

1987 - KARE-TV report on Charlie Boone and Roger Erickson

1992 - "News You Want People You Know," Good Morning Show, Sid Hartman Mark Rosen, Tim Russell TV commercials  

           (provided by David Ocar)

7/1/08   KDWB-AM (630) - Photos of station announcers from late 1960s or early 1970s (click here). If anyone has any idea when these photos were taken, please contact us.

6/30/08 WLOL-FM (99.5) - 1983 Music Surveys ads featuring   Jay Philpott    Debbie Sturges    Sharron Tollefson PDF files

6/30/08 Various airchecks from 1220 AM (Stillwater) including WAVN-AM Sign-on and sign-off (1982) .5 MB, WAVN-AM station General Manager Hank Sampson's final Notebook show (1982) 12 MB and WVLE-AM newscast (1984) 2 MB  (provided by Jim Beer)

6/29/08 WUSA-TV (now known as KARE-TV) video reports from May 1986 on KABL-FM (Cable Radio), KEEY-FM (K102), KUOM-AM, WLKX-FM (Forest Lake, MN), WRPX-AM (Hudson, WI) and WTCN-AM (Stillwater, MN) - (scroll down for video)

6/29/08 KSTP-TV video report from 1987 on WELY-AM (Ely, MN) - (scroll down for video)

6/29/08 KSTP-AM (1500) - Program Schedule - September 1-15, 1943 PDF

6/29/08 WLOL-AM (1330) - Music Survey - July 26, 1959 PDF

6/29/08 KDWB-AM (630) - Music Survey - September 3, 1966 PDF

6/20/08 WWTC-AM (1280) - A look back when the station programmed an All Weather Format - September 1985 to August 1986:

Newspaper articles start of Weather Radio (Star Tribune, Skyway News, Twin Cities Reader, City Business) PDF - New posting

Format change to Weather Radio stunting (September 1985) - 6 MB - New posting

Sample of Weather Radio Format (September 1985) - 2 MB - Previously posted

Sample of Weather Radio Format (October 1985) - 1 MB - New posting

End of WWTC-AM Weather Radio with switch to KSNE-AM Sunny Radio (August 1986) - 3 MB - Previously posted

6/17/08 WCCO-AM (830) - Announcement by Jon Quick and station VP and General Manager Phil Lewis that the 28 day IBEW strike had ended and that engineers and announcers would be returning to work - 11/3/1979 - 2 MB

6/17/08 KTWN-FM (107.9) - Article about format switch from MOR to classical - Minneapolis Tribune 8/14/1974 - .5 MB PDF

6/17/08 Guindon cartoons from Minneapolis Tribune on WCCO-AM, KDWB-FM, KEEY-FM (beautiful music) - Mid to late 1970s PDF

  

6/2/08  WLOL-FM (99.5) - Countdown '89 with Denny Shaffer and John Drew - counting down the top 99 songs of 1989 (scoped) including a New Year's countdown at midnight - Songs 99 to 63 26 MB - Songs 63 to 27 28 MB - Songs 27 to 1 26 MB (provided by Ron Gerber and Eric P.) - Reference is made to the "Maximum Music Montage" after the countdown, which can be heard below (scroll down)

6/1/08   WRQC-FM (100.3) - Rock 100.3 - Video news reports on a 1998 State Fair "Live in it and Win" promotion - (scroll down for video) (provided by Jay Philpott)

5/31/08  WCCO-AM (830) - "Turn to a Friend" station profile video (1988) - (scroll down for video) (provided by David Ocar)

5/31/08  WCCO-AM (830) - "Every Step of the Day" television commercial (1995) - (scroll down for video) (provided by David Ocar)

5/30/08  WWTC-AM (1280) - The Golden Rock - BJ Crocker - (1984) - 4 MB

5/29/08  WWTC-AM (1280) - The Golden Rock - Roger Bull - (1984) - 4 MB

5/29/08  Article on 1983 Twin Cities Radio - Corporate Report:  Making Waves (October 1983) - PDF File

5/28/08  CBS Radio coverage of the shooting of Robert F. Kennedy (6/5/1968) (provided by Todd Kosovich)

Continuing Coverage - 28 MB

Special Report airing the recording of the shooting by Andrew West of the Mutual Broadcasting System - 6 MB

5/27/08  WLOL-FM (99.5) / KNBQ-FM (97.3 Seattle) - Jay Philpott writes: When I left WLOL in August of '84, I went to KNBQ-FM in Seattle.  Not long after I got there, I played the WLOL-FM Get Me Up demo for my PD and OM and they loved it and bought the package.  Aside from those two stations, I don't know of any others that carried the package.  Here are the WLOL-FM and KNBQ-FM "Get Me Up" full sing versions.

5/27/08  WLOL-FM (99.5) - Jay Philpott sent the following related to the Countdown '83 aircheck posted below and the Hot Hits Countdown - PDF Files

The 1983 Hot HIts Countdown list

Hot Hits Countdown format design by Jay Philpott

A Hot Hits Countdown ratings recap (KDWB aired Casey Kasem's AT40 opposite the Hot Hits Countdown)

5/26/08  WLOL-FM (99.5) - Countdown '83 with Jay Philpott - counting down the top songs of 1983. Aircheck begins with song #36 counting down to song #1 (12/31/83 - 1/1/84) including "Year in Review" segments with Bob Berglund and a New Year's countdown at midnight - 30 MB (provided by Ron Gerber and Eric P.)

5/25/08  WCCO-AM (830) - Phil Hendrie Show (1993) - 7 MB

5/24/08  WCCO-AM (830) - Welcome to the Real World "Evolution of Modern Man" magazine ad (approx. 1985) 1 MB PDF

5/24/08  WTCN-AM (1250) - Station profile that appeared in the St. Paul Pioneer Press in a large two-page spread (12/27/1936) 6 MB PDF

5/23/08  WCCO-AM and FM (830 / 102.9) - A rare station schedule that promotes the station on both AM & FM (1970) PDF

5/23/08  KDWB-AM (630) - Music Surveys    2/10/1962    9/22/1962    3/23/1963    1/25/1964  PDF Files

5/22/08    Format change newspaper articles:  PDF Files

KTWN-FM Jazz to B108 Adult Contemporary (1983)

KTCR-FM Country to KTCZ-FM Cities 97 (1984)

WWTC-AM The Golden Rock to Metro Radio (1984)

5/21/08    WTCN-TV (now KARE-TV) 1984 reports on WCCO Radio and the Emergency Broadcast System (scroll down for video)

5/18/08    WWTC-AM (1280) - BJ Crocker: 1981 18 MB and 1982 4 MB   -   Alan Freed: 1982 2 MB.  The BJ Crocker 1982 recording consists of the conclusion of the WWTC/Coca Cola Golden Top 40 Countdown.  Throughout the morning, BJ counted down the top 40 songs from that day in 1965.  However, as he went to play the #1 song, the cart was not cued up. Listen how he handled and recovered from that moment.

5/17/08    WYOO-FM (U100) (101.3) - More airchecks from the station's final day of broadcasting (September 15, 1976): Brother Bob Hall 2 MB  -  Gary DeMaroney 4 MB

5/16/08    WDGY-AM (1130) - Country Top 40 Music Surveys  11/11/1981     12/1/1982 PDF Files

5/16/08   Various radio station print advertisements - PDF Files

KSTP-AM (1938)  -  WLTE-FM (1983)  -   KGLD-AM (K-Gold 1440) (1983)  -  WCCO Radio (1987) #1  #2 - WCCO Radio (1988) #1  #2 

5/15/08    WDGY-AM (1130) - The History of WDGY Radio - 126 page master's thesis written in 1970 by Jerry Verne Haines 4 MB - PDF

5/14/08    KJJO-FM (104.1) - Hot Rockin' 104 FM format including a "Rock Check" segment (1988) 5 MB (provided by Jeff R. Lonto)

5/14/08    WCCO-AM (830) - Article about Charlie Boone and Roger Erickson - Minneapolis Tribune in 1981 - 15 MB PDF

5/13/08    WLOL-FM (99.5) - A look back at the 1987 WLOL-FM Incredible Prize Catalog Sweepstakes and the controversy it created including newspaper articles and a scan of the prize catalog. 1 MB PDF

5/13/08    WLOL-FM (99.5) - Article about John Hines and Bob Berglund - Minneapolis Tribune in 1983 - 8 MB PDF

5/13/08    KQRS-FM (92.5) - Newspaper ad for the "Cat and Kincaid" (1983)

5/13/08    WWTC-AM (1280) - Newspaper ad for the Splendid Blend format (1979)

5/12/08    KSJN-FM (91.1) - (1973) - Minnesota Educational Radio - Newscast with coverage of US military activities in Cambodia, pressure for President Nixon to release White House tapes, John Ehrlichman testimony at Watergate hearings, etc. - 14 MB (provided by Stuart Held)

5/11/08    WCCO-AM (830) - Portions of a raw tape recorded in 1964 by then current WCCO Radio General Manager Larry Haeg Sr. interviewing former 'CCO Radio GM Earl Gammons about the early years at WLAG-AM / WCCO-AM. - 10 MB (provided by the Library of American Broadcasting, University of Maryland - thanks to Mark Durenberger for enhancing the audio)

5/10/08     KSTP-AM (1500) - (1992) Don Vogel 21 MB - Turi Ryder - Starts with ABC and local newscasts - 12 MB (provided by Retro Radio Rangers)

5/10/2008  Radio Station Posters (click poster to enlarge) - PDF Files

                

U100/WYOO-FM (1976), WLOL-FM (late 1980/early 1981), WWTC-AM "sales poster" (enlargement of bottom text) (1981), WCCO-AM Twin Cities Marathon bus side poster (1984), WCCO-AM Bud Grant bus side poster (1984) (Star Tribune mention)

 

5/8/08     KQRS-FM (92.5) Cat and Kincaid (Tom Barnard and Mesa Kincaid) (1983) 23MB (provided by Retro Radio Rangers)

(Click on the "AIRCHECKS" button at the top of the page to listen to additional airchecks)

SPECIAL POPULAR POSTINGS:

MONTAGE MANIA:  (provided by Jay Philpott)

WLS started this "artform" in the 70's by airing a recap of the past years hits every New Year's Eve at midnight, adding another minute or so each year to represent each "old year." I caught onto this trend and was inspired by it in 1975. Here are a couple of versions of the WLS Montage.  The first is an actual aircheck of fairly good quality...but so what if there are imperfections in the signal or the recording - that's the way we heard it!  WLS MONTAGE (air 55-84) 21 MB

This version is a complete and absolutely faithful stereo rebuild of the original montage, produced by Scott Childers

(www.scottchilders.com):  WLS STEREO REBUILD 26 MB

This final version is my production.  I began it in 1979 while I was working at KFMX-FM, as a way to commemorate the passing of the 70s decade.  For New Year's Eve 1980 leading into 1981, I added the new 1980 segment and retro-expanded the montage to 1964...the beginning of contemporary music with the Beatles Era. When I started at WLOL-FM in the summer of '80, I brought it with me and we played it every New Year's Eve at midnight, following each year's "Hot Hits Countdown."  I also added 1981, 1982 and 1983. Following my late 1984 departure from WLOL-FM, Gregg Swedberg and his staff continued the tradition of adding to and airing the montage through 1990. From that point, I informally kept up with the montage here and there, even though it didn't have a home for a New Year's Eve airing. The last few years of this piece contain montage elements produced by Scott Childers. I am particularly flattered that Ron "Boogiemonster" Gerber used this montage as a premium to attract pledges to KFAI-FM through his "Crap From The Past" show each Friday night. I'm told it helped him obtain record donations! PHILPOTT'S MONTAGE 50 MB

WCCO-AM (830) - WCCO Radio coverage of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy (11/22/1963)

Part 1 18 MB - Part 2 19 MB. This dramatic aircheck is unscoped with coverage beginning with WCCO Radio reading reports from the news wires that the President had been shot, CBS Radio "Net Alert" bulletin, back to WCCO Radio followed by CBS Radio coverage through the announcement that President Kennedy had died, which followed with a playing of The Star-Spangled Banner. Thanks to Todd Kosovich for providing the complete CBS Radio News segment.

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Coverage of the death of John Lennon

KQRS-FM, NBC Radio's The Source, WWTC-AM, Mutual News, WCCO-FM, KDWB-FM, KSTP-FM, WLOL-FM and KCLD-FM - Part 1 25 MB - Part 2 25 MB. Airchecks begins the evening of his death (12/8/1980) and continues for the next few days. Thanks to Stuart Held for many of the airchecks.

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WCCO-AM (830) - Coverage of the start of Operation Desert Storm (all airchecks: 1/16/1991).

Before the start of Operation Desert Storm: 12 AM CBS Newscast 2 MB  -  7 AM CBS Newscast 6 MB (provided by Todd Kosovich)

The start of Operation Desert Storm - Part 1 18 MB - Part 2 26 MB - Part 3 25 MB - Part 4 26 MB - Part 5 23 MB - Part 6 26 MB - Part 7 25 MB. These recordings last 3 hours and 20 minutes and begin at 5:41 pm with a bulletin by Steve Cannon that an attack may be underway in Baghdad followed by coverage from CBS Radio, CNN with correspondents John Holliman, Peter Arnett and Bernard Shaw reporting from the Al-Rashid Hotel, Rich Holter and the WCCO Radio News Department, plus a speech to the nation by President George H. W. Bush, update by Defense Secretary Dick Cheney and more. Thanks to Todd Kosovich for providing Part #1 of the recordings.

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