Avco Broadcasting for California [By Uncle Ricky] This was created from Yet Another Tape I dubbed in Brother Dave ‘s Production Room at WIXE (Monroe, N.C.) in 1968. Like many (unofficial?) demos that PAMS distributed in those days, this was not narrated, nor tightly edited as you will hear it here. It was just a 5-inch reel with representative cuts, presumably off the PAMS reference copy. I’ve only heard airchecks of KYA as a result of the Repository, and I suppose it’s possible that these jingles were never used on the air, (or at least, not as heard here.) This was a PAMS “GRID” package – a new twist – the performers did “parts”, and then you mixed the parts to make bunches of jingles. They had a ten-track recorder in Dallas, and they could jam-up a bushel of jings from minimal sings with lots of things. You could sit there with the friendly engineer and he’d roll the same piece of tape, over and over, but each time, do something different. I watched Bruce Collier do that for a WECU session in 1970. You could walk out of a single session with many dozens of “different” cuts by interchanging and mixing vocal and instrumental parts. I really don’t care for the “buzzsaw” moog sig here, but otherwise, I have always been fond of this KYA Grid Demo. KYA was blessed with a three syllable call. A 3-note ID. And this particular PAMS “mixed group” with this particular logo has always been a personal favorite. For KYA, the lyrical content seems SO classic, particularly from 3000 miles and 30+ years away: In Beautiful San Francisco . And the sleek Avco Broadcasting of California always sounded so warm and wonderful and respectable – and so very far away. Now, I’ve been there and was lucky to afford the parking.