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I listened to WING in Springfield. On weekends I took the bus to Dayton to look in the storefront studio window. The station had a singing clock. It has two reel to reel tapes that had odd/even times sung on alternate machines for each minute. If the time was not played the tape advanced to the next track. That was the technology of the time.
 
Ken, The singing clock that was in place during the early 60s was run on an Ampex 351 reel-to-reel machine and used 10" reels that that to be periodically rewound. There was a mechanism that allowed the unit to play one time jingle at a time. The DJ had a button on his desk that was illuminated when the clock was available and unlit when the tape was advancing to the next minute. Also during that time frame, they had another singing clock that was "personalized" with the WING call letters. I recall seeing that machine consisting of a Sparta cart machine with similar DJ control.
 
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