If I'm not mistaken, the map shown at :33 is still in the building up north.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSTGBwLmyTY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSTGBwLmyTY
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What a blowtorch. "Big Bertha", the old Western Electric transmitter shown in one of those picks must have been a hell of a thing to watch back when they were on it. There's something pretty special about a water-cooled transmitter that takes up the entire freak'in building, has a row mercury vapor rectifiers and takes an huge OGE vault to feed the darn thing!
KZP2017 said:
I don't know if it is the same one, but I shot this map at the Oklahoma History Center on December 29, 2010. The display has been changed since then and the map, presumably, returned to storage.
OHC KOMA by woodyrr, on Flickr
Edit: I guess this forum doesn't support posting photos, or if it does, it doesn't work like others I frequent.
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Fred Hendrickson
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It has been back in the KOKC studio for quite some time. At the Moore studio in the '90s we had it on the KOMA studio's west wall close to the front window within view of the jock's position.
Yup. It was in the KOMA control room in Moore then off to the History Center for display. I'm glad to hear it's back home 
! Too bad they don't get around to putting the REAL call sign back on 1520....
! Too bad they don't get around to putting the REAL call sign back on 1520....I was working there as PD in the 80s when the FM was purchased and the original KOMA building expanded to make room. When I first arrived, the map was in the transmitter room...and when the new addition was completed, it was moved to the hallway wall outside the new studio.
I was always amazed that the contractor who did the expansion claimed he could RF-proof the building addition by lining it with copper (big $$$). Of course, that did not work. The FM mic picked up KOMA RF at all times that KOMA was on night pattern. The engineering department's suggested fix: Make sure the FM jock is always talking over a music bed to cover the RF bleed.
It was funny enough when the station was KIMY (A/C), but when it switched to KRXO Classic Rock Songs, I couldn't help but laugh when the FM jock was joined in the background by Les Paul & Mary Ford singing Via Con Dios from the AM. I had to laugh. Otherwise I'd have cried.
Ah, the glory days of Price Communications!
I was always amazed that the contractor who did the expansion claimed he could RF-proof the building addition by lining it with copper (big $$$). Of course, that did not work. The FM mic picked up KOMA RF at all times that KOMA was on night pattern. The engineering department's suggested fix: Make sure the FM jock is always talking over a music bed to cover the RF bleed.
It was funny enough when the station was KIMY (A/C), but when it switched to KRXO Classic Rock Songs, I couldn't help but laugh when the FM jock was joined in the background by Les Paul & Mary Ford singing Via Con Dios from the AM. I had to laugh. Otherwise I'd have cried.
Ah, the glory days of Price Communications!
Lol! Yup! Many years later they even flew one of the design engineers in from Canada from Ward-Beck to try to eradicate the RF out of the console in KRXO. It worked, to some degree. Whomever decided to add-on to the building to the west was nuts. That's right in the main lobe of the AM. Add to that the way the out a freak'in 80ft tower out the back door for the STL links.... DUMB!
It's good to hear that the map is on the wall at the "current" KOMA studios and it was good that it was loaned to the Oklahoma History Center so I could enjoy seeing it.
I'll bet I don't have to tell those who value it to urge those in close proximity to it to watch it like a hawk. As a railfan, railroad historian, and railroad photographer, I know too well that items such as this have little monetary value while having tremendous historical and sentimental value, but I also know too well that with a change of ownership, valuable archivable treasures such as this map can find themselves thoughtlessly cast into a dumpster in the blink of an eye. (insert latin phrase for "ever vigilant" here).
I'll bet I don't have to tell those who value it to urge those in close proximity to it to watch it like a hawk. As a railfan, railroad historian, and railroad photographer, I know too well that items such as this have little monetary value while having tremendous historical and sentimental value, but I also know too well that with a change of ownership, valuable archivable treasures such as this map can find themselves thoughtlessly cast into a dumpster in the blink of an eye. (insert latin phrase for "ever vigilant" here).
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MikeRobertsRocksOn
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It was on the wall in the control room when I worked there from 1974 to 1977. I'm proud to say that I put some of those pins in it. An excellent piece of history!OKCRadioGuy said:Yup. It was in the KOMA control room in Moore then off to the History Center for display. I'm glad to hear it's back home
billyg said:
The then-new Continental 317C was installed in 1966, IIRC. The Western Electric was dismantled piece by piece, and the freed up space was converted into offices, studios and engineering storage.
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