KTLV
| Broadcast area | Oklahoma City Metroplex |
|---|---|
| Frequency | 1220kHz |
| Branding | Key To Living Victoriously |
| Programming | |
| Format | Urban Gospel-Christian talk and teaching |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | First Choice Broadcasting, Inc. |
| History | |
First air date | April 1973 |
Former call signs | KRMC (1973–1987) |
Call signmeaning | KeyToLivingVictoriously |
| Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 21555 |
| Class | D |
| Power | 250wattsday 5 watts night |
Transmitter coordinates | 35°23′50.00″N97°27′4.00″W/ 35.3972222°N 97.4511111°W |
| Links | |
Public license information | |
| Webcast | Listen live |
| Website | Official website |
KTLV(1220AM) is aradio stationbroadcasting anUrban GospelandChristian talk and teachingradio format.LicensedtoMidwest City, Oklahoma,the station serves theOklahoma City Metroplex.The station is currently owned by First Choice Broadcasting, Inc.[2][3]
History
[edit]M. W. Cooper and his Mid West Broadcasting Corporation, also part-owned by Tulsa state senatorGene C. HowardandGene Stipe,putKRMCon the air in April 1973.[4]A year later, the station changed formats and became one of the smallest-market all-news outlets in the country.[5]A daytime-only outlet ona Mexican clear channel,the station's news service utilized the resources ofUnited Press International.[5]However, all-news was a financial failure losing $8,000 a month, prompting KRMC to change to gospel on October 13, 1975.[6]One of the reasons cited by station management for the change was that an all-news format did not work well on a daytime-only station.[6]Another was a change in operation; while not reflected in the records of theFederal Communications Commission,the Oklahoma City Counseling Center acquired the station in 1975.[4]
In the early 1980s, KRMC almost negotiated an agreement withOscar Rose Junior Collegeby which Rose broadcasting students would have operated the station.[7]However, this did not come to pass. The call letters were changed to the presentKTLVon November 12, 1987, as the ownership renamed itself Twelve-Twenty Communications Corporation; the licensee name was changed to First Choice Broadcasting in 1992 as part of an internal reorganization.[8]
1220 kHz in Oklahoma City was almost shut down as part of a 2002 deal withClear Channel Communicationsthat would have seen KTLV's intellectual unit move to1340 kHzand Clear Channel moveKGYNto Oklahoma City fromGuymon, Oklahoma.[9]
References
[edit]- ^"Facility Technical Data for KTLV".Licensing and Management System.Federal Communications Commission.
- ^"KTLV Facility Record".United StatesFederal Communications Commission,audio division.
- ^"KTLV Station Information Profile".Arbitron.
- ^ab"KRMC(AM)"(PDF).Broadcasting Yearbook.1987. p. B-230.RetrievedMarch 19,2020.
- ^ab"City Station Tries All News".The Daily Oklahoman.July 21, 1974. p. 3-B.RetrievedMarch 19,2020.
- ^abChancellor, Andrea (October 12, 1975)."Ready for Total News? KRMC Found It Didn't Pay".The Sunday Oklahoman.p. 14-B,17-B.RetrievedMarch 19,2020.
- ^"Station answers college's prayers".The Daily Oklahoman.November 30, 1982. p. 3-S.RetrievedMarch 19,2020.
- ^"Proposed Station Transfers"(PDF).M Street Journal.June 24, 1991. p. 6 (26).RetrievedMarch 19,2020.
- ^Messmer, Jack (May 6, 2002)."Clear Channel sets OKC AM shuffle"(PDF).Radio Business Report.p. 7.RetrievedMarch 19,2020.
External links
[edit]- Facility details for Facility ID 21555 (KTLV)in theFCCLicensing and Management System
- KTLVinNielsen Audio's AM station database