KTTS-FM

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KTTS-FM
Broadcast area Springfield, Missouri
Branson, Missouri
Frequency 94.7 MHz
Branding94.7 KTTS
Programming
Format Country
Affiliations Fox News Radio
Ownership
Owner
KSGF, KSGF-FM, KSPW, KRVI
History
First air date
1948
Call sign meaning
Keep Tuned (or Talking) To Springfield
Technical information [1]
Licensing authority
 FCC
Facility ID 62023
Class C
ERP 100,000 watts
HAAT 336 meters
Transmitter coordinates
 37°10′30.00″N93°2′35.00″W / 37.1750000°N 93.0430556°W / 37.1750000; -93.0430556
Links
Public license information
Webcast Listen Live
Website ktts.com

KTTS-FM (94.7 MHz) is a country music formatted radio station, licensed to Springfield, Missouri and the greater Springfield area (market #140). It began broadcasting in 1948, and is one of the oldest FM stations in the United States.

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Programming

KTTS mainly plays country songs, along with news and weather. [2]

History

KTTS-FM began broadcasting in 1948 [3] on 94.7 MHz as the first FM station in Southwest Missouri.[ citation needed ] It was established by the Independent Broadcasting Company as a sister station to its AM station, KTTS (now KGMY).

Granville Pearson Ward had been General Manager of KTTS (AM) since its establishment in 1942. He also had extensive earlier experience, and had helped establish Springfield's first radio station, WIAI, licensed to the Heer Stores Co. in the summer of 1922, [4] which broadcast educational programming from Heer's Tower downtown. In 1924 store management shut that station down. [5] Ward purchased its transmitter, and in early 1925 began operating a new station, KFUV, that was licensed to him. [6] KFUV went off the air one year later. [7]

In March 1953, KTTS-TV, a CBS affiliate, was launched as the city's first television station. During the 1960s the television station was sold and its call letters were changed to KOLR-TV.

The KTTS of today was created by Great Empire Broadcasting in the early 1970s. According to (now former) station manager Curt Brown, KTTS aired an adult standards format until 1972 when the country formats were installed.[ citation needed ] KTTS aired more classic-type country, and KTTS-FM aired more modern country. In the late 1980s, KTTS's AM frequency traded frequencies with KGBX, moving KTTS from AM 1400 to AM 1260, which gave them a wider signal range, and gave KGBX the money to buy an FM allotment.

Today, AM 1400 is known as KGMY and owned by Clear Channel. In 1999, the AM 1260 call letters became KTTF, and then a short while later, KSGF, with the KTTS call sign remaining on the FM station. Today, the format of KSGF is concentrated on news and talk radio. KSGF and KTTS-FM are still affiliated by the Journal Broadcast Group ownership.

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Journal Communications and the E. W. Scripps Company announced on July 30, 2014 that the two companies would merge to create a new broadcast company under the E.W. Scripps Company name that will own the two companies' broadcast properties, including KTTS-FM. The transaction is slated to be completed in 2015, pending shareholder and regulatory approvals. [8] [ needs update ] Scripps exited radio in 2018; the Springfield stations went to SummitMedia in a four-market, $47 million deal completed on November 1, 2018. [9]

Former on-air staff

Bob Barker, star of the TV show The Price Is Right , got his first job in media with KTTS in the 1940s. [10] Barker lived in Springfield and graduated from Central High School; he worked for KTTS while attending Drury College (now University). [11]

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References

  1. ↑ "Facility Technical Data for KTTS-FM". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ↑ "KTTS FM". OnlineRadioBox.com. Retrieved November 23, 2023.
  3. ↑ KTTS-FM establishment date entry, Broadcasting Yearbook (1950 edition), page 196.
  4. ↑ "New Stations", Radio Service Bulletin, August 1, 1922, page 3.
  5. ↑ "Strike out all particulars", Radio Service Bulletin, July 1, 1924, page 9.
  6. ↑ "New Stations", Radio Service Bulletin, February 2, 1925, page 3.
  7. ↑ "Strike out all particulars", Radio Service Bulletin, January 30, 1926, page 7.
  8. ↑ "E.W. Scripps, Journal Merging Broadcast Ops". TVNewsCheck. July 30, 2014. Retrieved July 31, 2014.
  9. ↑ "Scripps Completes Two More Pieces Of Radio Division Sale". Inside Radio. November 2, 2018. Retrieved November 2, 2018.
  10. ↑ Snider, Chase (May 10, 2013). "Bob Barker Shares Story Of Fire While Working At KTTS". KTTS. scrippsmedia.com. Archived from the original on July 11, 2015. Retrieved July 10, 2015.
  11. ↑ Hoffman, Michael (August 26, 2023). "Remembering-bob-barker-during-his-time-springfield". KY3-TV. Retrieved May 7, 2024.
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