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IIRC, some area(s) West of Penn and South of 122nd (Camelot Estates neighborhood) was a landfill at one time.....could be mistaken.

Reading the old radio threads, this popped into my mind.

https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/1994/08/07/sooner-boomers-this-concerts-for-you/62418172007/

Took some searching to find that...

https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/2000/02/11/wky-radio-tower-rises-from-debris-of-tornado/62210962007/

In 1998, WKY radio's main tower was toppled during a tornado. On Britton Road just a bit...

Thanks, @TheTravellers. I'm a relatively newbie here and still figuring out the quirks (?) of the board.

Today I remembered Jack Scott was on KZBS (98.9) in the mid 80's, when he began the "burn their buns" stuff. Late 80's he was doing those again at KTNT.

Wow....I didn't mean to hog this thread! ...

Dammit...I had a (too long?) reply written, but didn't remember to check that "secret box" at login so I lost it.

@bunty, the Farm was intentionally built on a "high" (by OKC standards) ridge...

This is for Pete and his wonderful drone camera shots. In another thread here I was yacking about radio nostalgia which lead me to recollections of the huge antenna farm extending from (approx)...

Late 60's into early 70's I had moved along away from Top-40 to music on FM.

Sam Stone (Sam Beck) KOCY-FM
Traver Hulse KWHP who moved to the KATT

Speaking of KWHP....Michael Flowers (Kevin...

For the baby boomers here, this KOMA aircheck will really bring back memories, First part is Charlie Tuna. Later is Dale Wehba.

https://airchexx.com/composite-koma-1520-oklahoma-city-1966/
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As a kid growing up in the 60's, it was a battle between WKY and KOMA in the top 40 market. One notable name was Charlie Tuna at KOMA who went onto a huge career in LA.
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It was Jack Scott and the station was KTNT (97.7 FM which moved to 97.9 and now I believe 98.1). He was the program director and did morning drive. The rest of the day the programming was a rock...

I also had a FM antenna on a rotator back then....my folks were cool about that!

A friend I met in OKC back in the 70's grew up in Barstow CA and KOMA (now KOKC) came booming in there at night. ...

As a youngster in the 1960's I persued a hobby called DXing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXing

FM and TV transmissions are pretty much limited to line of sight from the transmission tower top...

OH! Almost forgot this one. I think it was the late 1980's when AMc merged (bought out??? fuzzy memories here) Hood-Hope in Tulsa. HH was a big actor in the ad biz in our region.

Chuck Hood...

As I mentioned, I did a variety of "tech oriented" work for Ack-Mac from the mid 1970's through approx. 2010. I am not an "apologist" for that company. Ex AMc folks may be able to figure out where...

I am writing offline my comments about AMc and will carefully review it before posting in a few days. I need to be quite careful/accurate to avoid any legal issues.

That said I began doing some...

I like browsing this channel each day to keep up on my hometown of OKC. I also suspect that I am far older than most folks here, so I will make comments that are only based on faulty memories. I...

Thanks for the clarification. That was nearly 50 years ago, and my memory is obviously faulty!

Further fuzzy memories about the 16th and May location.

As a kid, I attended St. Luke's Methodist where Beverly Osbourne (sp??) and family also attended. I recall one of his grandkids (Randy??)...

Let's see if I clicked the correct things on the forum so that I don't "time out" because of my slow typing and rambling!

Perhaps this ramble belongs in the Nostalgia section, but whatever.

In...

I forgot that I have to keep my thoughts planned and type quickly because I run into a timeout.

Mathis Brothers "We got them Far blazin prices" aka "fire blazing prices". Jude and Jody and Bob...

[QUOTE=OKCexpat;1180832]Stumbled across this collection:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnVi0bVgRJ4

Jon Spence has a ton of old vids under his name and, MetroretroOKC at youtube.

Correction...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTeoqgcDVtk

OK ok an Enid company, but I still hear the ancient ad jingle in my mind: "A great name in the great plains".
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Stumbled across this collection:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnVi0bVgRJ4

Jon Spence has a ton of old vids under his name and, MetroretroOKC at youtube.

FWIW backstory re. Apco:
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Yes, after Bill sold the station the new owners switched to KKLR in the 80's. I don't recall what music format they played. That company sold the station to another company....based in Houston...