WLOL-AM War Programming - 1942 (4 pages / PDF 2 MB) 

                           WLOL-AM - Top 40 Surveys   9-20-1959    11-01-1959  (PDF files, approximately .5 MB each)

WLOL-FM (99.5 or 100.3)

Mike Miller, Eleanor Mondale & John Hines - one of their final shows - 99.5 FM - Part 115 MB - Part 2 9 MB

ARTICLES

Article about John Hines and Bob Berglund - Minneapolis Tribune in 1983 - 8 MB PDF

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

POSTER (click to enlarge)

  (1980/Early 1981)

Jay Philpott sent the following comment about the WLOL-FM poster : 

"WLOL....99 and a half FM.....Almost Perfect Radio. I'm pretty sure that was the idea of then-GM Doyle Rose. That poster is actually a screen shot of the TV spot that was inspired by 1979's hit movie "10" and featured a Bo Derek look alike running down the beach, intercut with a kid building a huge sand castle. The shots went back and forth as she came closer and closer to the sand castle, finally ending in a freeze frame of her tripping over and falling into the kid's creation! One of the most notable and memorable uses of that slogan on the air was how Bob Berglund used it to close his newscasts when he was paired with Phil Huston (Huston & Berglund). Bob would be doing the weather, and at some point when he knew Bob had enough left to fill the intro time, Phil would start the next song, and Bob would hit the post by delaying the slogan until the beginning of the vocals, no matter how long the wait (Berglund with the weather after the song started: "... and a high tomorrow of 75. It's 62 now at WLOL .... 99 And A Half ..... Almost ............................................ Perfect Radio" The station was still AC then, and did some get nice awareness from the campaign - it certainly set the stage nicely for the shift to straight-ahead Top 40 in the Fall of 1981."