This Site Primarily Contains a Collection of Airchecks of Numerous Twin Cities (Minneapolis/St. 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). The Contribution of Recordings and Materials are Greatly Appreciated and Have Made this Site a Bookmark for Those Interested in Radio From this Era.
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WMIN Radio
Today's WMIN is not your father's WMIN. It was at 1400 AM and played polka music in the early 60's I remember one of the DJ's then was Yonnie Yonnson (Johnny Johnson had a Swedish accent and that is how he pronounced his name). Later in the 60's (possibly late '63), they switched to Country & Western and the sound became less Western and DJ's became the Country Gentlemen. Don Johnson eventually became the PD and he later worked for KTCR-FM. There are airchecks of him at the KTCR page on this site.
Around 1969-70, the owners of WMIN signed on beautiful music KEEY-FM with 100,000 Watts of power.
This page has some old tapes and some current photos of WMIN's former studio site and antenna. Scroll down.
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| WMIN former Studio. Shot of front door. This is now the location for Prairie Home Productions. |
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| WMIN's old antenna in St. Paul. Photo taken July 21, 2007 |
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| Current photo of WMIN's former studio location. |
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