KTKK (630 AM) is a news/talk radio station broadcasting out of Sandy, Utah, to the Salt Lake City area. Called, "K-Talk 630", it is locally owned by United Broadcasting Company.
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| Broadcast area | Salt Lake City, Utah |
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| Frequency | 630 kHz |
| Branding | K-Talk 630 |
| Programming | |
| Format | News/Talk |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | United Broadcasting |
| History | |
First air date | 1960 |
Former call signs | KSXX, KZJO |
Call sign meaning | KTKK (pronounced "talk") |
| Technical information | |
| Class | B |
| Power | 1,000 watts (day) 500 watts (night) |
Transmitter coordinates | 40°33′6″N 111°58′17″W / 40.55167°N 111.97139°W |
| Links | |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | k-talk.com |
The station features local talk, including women's interest, political and other subjects live for over 18 hours every day. The hosts each have different political views and the shows are unfiltered, engaging, with a large variety of special guests and experts. Hosts include Doug Stephen, Jack Stockwell, Cate Allen, Alan Blood, Mills Crenshaw, Gayle Ruzicka, Jim Kirkwood, and more. http://www.k-talk.com/
History
The station has previously gone under several call signs in its past. At its inception, the station was known as KSXX. During the early 1960s, the station was not a talker as it is now, but played music, becoming a talk station in the 1965. It previously only operated during the day only, but was later allowed to continue broadcasting during the night in 1979 by construction a four tower directional array. On June 21, 1982 the station changed its format and call sign to KZJO, broadcasting contemporary hits identifying itself as "63 Joe." Six months later, the station changed formats again, back to its current format of talk radio and on August 5, 1985, the station changed its call sign to the current KTKK.[1][2] The station's previous towers were displaced by a housing development. It now shares tower space with KLLB which broadcasts from a tower[3] in South Jordan, Utah. Ironically, the KLLB tower may soon have to be demolished due to another housing development. KTKK applied to the FCC to move to new towers near North Salt Lake, Utah but the application was dismissed.
Past hosts
- Van Hale [4]
- Kathy Herman [5][6]
- Herb Jepko [7][8]
- G. Gordon Liddy
- Barbara Jean Whiteley
- Mike Gallagher
- Mark Maxon
- Jim Kirkwood
- Jim Sumpter [9]
References
- ^ Broadcast History Salt Lake City Radio
- ^ "KTKK Call Sign History". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
- ^ KLLB Transmitter map-Google Maps
- ^ Deseret News Saturday, Nov. 26 1994 KTKK Hosts Author Sunday
- ^ The FIJActivist Number 14, Winter 1994 Page 15]
- ^ Fully Informed Jury Association http://fija.org/docs/NL_1994_14.pdf
- ^ Deseret News Friday, March 23 1990 `Night Person' Jepko Puts his Radio Cap on again By Lynn Arave, Radio Editor
- ^ Joseph G. Buchman, PhD, The Nitecap Radio Movement 1964 to 1990 http://josephbuchman.com/Voices%20in%20the%20Dark.pdf
- ^ Deseret News [Friday, Nov. 11 2005 Radio dial: Satellite fare is forcing local radio to alter niche By Lynn Arave, Deseret News
External links
- KTKK website
- Facility details for Facility ID KTKK ({{{2}}}) in the FCC Licensing and Management System
- {{{2}}} in Nielsen Audio's AM station database
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