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KXXY 1970s Automated Programming

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woodyrr

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In one of the reel to reel tape deck facebook groups I belong to, a member posted video of his automated programming system previously used by a radio station. Watching it play, switching between seven Otari open reel decks and three rotary cart machines is fascinating.

Does anyone remember back in the 1970s when KXXY "Kicksee Ninety - Six" was automated with 1970s contemporary: Bee Gees, Donna Summer, Maxine Nightingale, etc and have any information about or photos of the automated programming equipment they used?

The only listener aircheck I have been able to find in my reel to reel tapes was an end of the year top 100 program called "Opus '76". Unfortunately, I edited out much of the commercials jingles and station IDs - stupid me.
 

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I can remember listening to it when it was still KOCY-FM and the DJ Sam Stone in 1969 playing all the "underground" music. Don't know when that format was started in OKC, but I came across it on the dial in August of that year when I was just 14 years old. Sure brought new sounds to the ears that were growing tired of WKY and KOMA Top 40. Wish I had airchecks of that time.
 
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