several jumped on the Top 40 bandwagon. Storz is credited with energizing radio at a time when network programming was moving to television. WDGY gained the nickname Weegee after a time, a sounding out of the call letters. By the 1960s, the station didn't use the name itself, but the name stuck among people in the radio industry. From about 1955 to 1977, WDGY competed for youthful listeners with AM stations KSTP and KDWB, though WCCO remained the top station in the Twin Cities, with a mixture of middle of the road music (MOR), talk, news, sports and farm reports. Country music As the 1970s ended, young listeners began switching to the FM band to hear contemporary music. That prompted WDGY to change to a country music format on September 2, 1977. The only other stations playing country in Minneapolis were KTCR, AM 690 and FM 97.1. The AM was a daytimer powered at only 500 watts and the FM's tower was only 150 feet tall, limiting both stations in coverage area. In 1982, WDGY's sister FM station, 102.1 KEEY, flipped to a country format as well. The AM station specialized in personality and several decades of country music, while the FM kept chatter to a minimum and played mostly contemporary country hits. In 1984, WDGY and KEEY were acquired by the Malrite Communications Group. Talk and sports The country format continued until April 16, 1990, when the station became "News Talk 1130, WDGY." Just prior to this, WDGY became the inaugural flagship station for the expansion Minnesota Timberwolves NBA team. The talk format gradually added more sports programming until the station had switched to full-time sports talk. The call letters were changed to KFAN in 1991. Following this change, the WDGY call letters were moved to the 630 kHz frequency in August 1991, which was formerly KDWB (now WREY). In 2000, KFAN and KEEY were acquired by Clear Channel Communications, the forerunner to current owner iHeartMedia. KFAN experienced severe storm damage in April 2004 at its transmission site, when four of the nine towers at its directional array in Credit River Township (near Prior Lake, Minnesota) fell down. Translator station On August 22, 2010, KFAN's programming began simulcasting on 103.7 FM using translator station K279AZ. The translator broadcast from a tower atop the IDS Center. It previously was owned by the Educational Media Foundation, which used the signal to