In Minneapolis, we had AM pop stations which were largely rock and roll -- WDGY 1130 and KDWB 630, which is what I started listening to.
FM radios were less common in cars (and elsewhere, too, I think) in the 1970s so I didn't really get into FM until the late 1970s when mom got a new kitchen radio and I inherited an FM radio from her.
By then, I think KDWB had acquired its 101.3 FM slot and had split off from the top-40 format of the AM station and was an AOR rock station with an early version of the "morning zoo" format popular everywhere now -- I remember it started out with the 6-10 AM DJ goofing with the 2-6 AM DJ in the background. She wasn't miked and the banter usually ended within 30 minutes or so, and only later was she miked and I think a full participant on the show which developed into the "zoo" format more fully ("Bad Joke of the Day", etc).
KQRS 92.5 FM (KQ92) was much more of what I'd consider a 1970s rock station at the time I started listening (1977-78) -- very low key DJs, long album cuts. Still very AOR hit oriented, but less so at the time than KDWB 101.3. I remember Sunday nights had National Lampoon Radio Hour, the King Biscuit Flower Hour concerts, and usually Fridays (and Saturdays?) had the "Six Pack" -- six albums played back to back, uninterrupted (although I think they ran spots between albums) -- queue your reel-reel deck!
At the time, I preferred the slightly more accessible (to a 7th grader) KDWB format. A little less hippie, a little more hard rock. I even had the baseball-style t-shirt, which was a real fashion statement in junior high.
By high school in the early 80s I had largely drifted away from radio -- KQ became the only game in town, and was a steady diet of 1970s rock dinosaurs with zero new wave/punk, despite Minneapolis' launching a number of groundbreaking acts from that genre -- the Suburbs, the Replacements, Husker Du, Soul Asylum and Prince (who was huge and had some hits played on the top 40 stations). You might hear the occasional Clash song (Train in Vain, Should I Stay or Should I Go) or something like "Cruel to be Kind" but that was it.
At this point, KQ is primarily a "classic rock" station for blue collar types and people in their 40s who never were exposed to or liked "alternative rock" and never got beyond 1970s bands and formats.
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