KUXL
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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 (owned) by Marvin Kosofsky (he was in Shreveport, Lousiana) and hired Ralph Hull (a.k.a. Paul Anthony, eventually becoming Preacher Paul Anthony "preachin' the blues", R. Hull, interview, July 22, 2017. 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. Paul Anthony/KDWD; Preacher Paul Anthony at KUXL and at XERB, "The Nazz" I plagerized it from Lord Richard Buckley, Chicago, entertainer for gangster-types and had several albums who was an idol of Bob Dylans as well. He tried to get the young kids to get interested in classics such as Shakespeare, and 'Naz' as in Christ walking across the water...although Ralph Hull admits to using the name from Buckley due to his appreciation for his wisdom). It was this trio of broadcasters who took control of "border blaster" station XERB 1090, in [Rancho Del Mar, approx. 15 miles south of Tijuana, Mexico [Baja California]], in 1965 ['we did KUXL in Minneapolis and went there in 1966' Art Hoehn was in San Diego and we sent tapes to him and transported them to the transmitter). They operated the "Big X" from Minneapolis initially, then relocated to Southern California in 1966.
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