WKDA was The Big Sound, complete with time chime and reverb-on-demand. Promos tout The Balance and Total Radio, and the production values are very high, including a few classic jingles and several big-band instrumental “bridges”. (The instrumentals were played from tape, allowing time to change records.)
There are lots of celebrity liners, and Ronn ad-libs a sound-effect for a revised weather reading, too. Though the rock ‘n’ roll records are sparse in this ‘scoped hour, Terrell’s energy level more than compensates for his “little flat friends, the records.”
This was taken from a reel tape. Quite a bit of click and pop and noise reduction has been applied to what you will hear, but there’s still an audible level of noise on promos and spots. WKDA played everything from turntables, with the exception of the “instrumental impact music”.
For more about WKDA, please read Sam Hale’s description and Terrell Metheny’s comments for Sam Hale’s 1959 WKDA Snippets.