KDIZ (AM)
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| City | Golden Valley, Minnesota |
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| Broadcast area | Minneapolis-St. Paul |
| Branding | Wellness Radio 1570 |
| Frequency | 1570 kHz |
| First air date | October 27, 1961 (as KUXL) |
| Format | Health Talk |
| Power | 3,800 watts (day) 230 watts (night) |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 10828 |
| Callsign meaning | Taken from sister station and former Radio Disney owned-affiliate KYCR (Kids DIZney) |
| Former callsigns | KUXL (1961-1988) KYCR (1988-2015) |
| Owner |
Salem Media Group (Common Ground Broadcasting, Inc.) |
| Sister stations | KKMS, KYCR, WWTC |
| Website | twincitieswellnessradio.com |
KDIZ (1570 AM) is a radio station serving the Minneapolis/St. Paul metropolitan area, and licensed to Golden Valley, Minnesota. The station is owned by Salem Media Group.
KDIZ's studios are located in Eagan, while its transmitter is located in St. Louis Park.
The station signed on the air on October 27, 1961 as KUXL and has a long history of being a religion-oriented radio station. In the 1960s and 1970s, KUXL played gospel and R&B music, prior to becoming full-time religious. During this period and for many years after, the station was restricted to daytime operation. Its studios and offices were originally located at 4820 Olson Highway in Golden Valley and later on Duluth Street. The transmitter and antenna were first co-located with KQRS (AM) on Highway 100 and later on the station's own tower a block away from the Duluth Street studios, next to Highway 100.
In the mid-1960s, the station was operated by Marvin Kosofsky. Kosofsky hired Bob Smith (a.k.a. Wolfman Jack), who relocated from Del Rio, Texas, to run the station with a mostly R&B format. Also at KUXL at this time were Art Hoehn (a.k.a. Fat Daddy Washington) and former KDWB personality Ralph Hull (a.k.a. Preacher Paul Anthony and The Nazz). It was this trio of broadcasters who took control of "border blaster" station XERB 1090, in Baja California, in 1965. They operated the "Big X" from Minneapolis initially, then relocated to Southern California in 1966.
KUXL sponsored numerous concerts by such artists as Ike and Tina Turner, the Four Tops, BB King, Solomon Burke, the Temptations, Jimmy Reed, Jr. Walker, the Impressions and Fats Domino.
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