KTIP

KTIP

City	Porterville, California
Broadcast area	Visalia-Tulare area
Branding	Where Talk Is Power!
Frequency	1450 kHz
Format	News Talk Information
Audience share	0.7, #26 (Fa'07, R&R^[1])
Power	1,000 watts
Class	C
Facility ID	17388
Transmitter coordinates	36°5′44.00″N 119°3′10.00″W / 36.0955556°N 119.0527778°W / 36.0955556; -119.0527778
Affiliations	Fox News Radio, Premiere Radio Networks, Salem Communications
Owner	Mayberry Broadcasting Co, Inc.
Website	ktip.com

KTIP (1450 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a News Talk Information format. Licensed to Porterville, California, USA, the station serves the Visalia-Tulare area. The station is currently owned by Mayberry Broadcasting Co, Inc. and features programming from Fox News Radio, Premiere Radio Networks and Salem Communications.^[2]

History

KTIP became one of the first radio stations in the West to sign on after World War II. Its construction permit was granted by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in August 1946, to Porterville businessman Jack Tighe (pronounced "tie"). He owned Tighe Chevrolet Company and an appliance store.

Construction of the station was completed by Christmas, 1946. Its exact sign-on date is not known, but the station was notified by the FCC's San Francisco office in January 1947 for failure to issue a proper station identification during one hour of programming that month, so it has been concluded that KTIP was "on the air" in January 1947. KTIP signed on with a full-time power of 250 watts.

KTIP was featured in a Life magazine article in its March 24, 1947 issue. The subhead declared, "Local news and interviews help KTIP compete with big networks in a small California town." The ten photos accompanying the article helped profile a town of 6,827 people with a smog-free view of the Sierra Nevada.

Tighe's ownership of the station ended in 1954, when he sold the station to a Miller from the midwest. According to subsequent owner Larry Cotta, Miller owned the station for a very short time. Cotta recalls Miller turned the station's revenues into the black and used the profits to pay off debts he had incurred from station ownership in the midwest. That done, Miller quickly sold KTIP to Gary Garland and Larry Cotta.

In 1978, Garland and Cotta sold the station to Monte Moore and his friend Frank Haas. It was during the Moore ownership that KTIP took on the persona of its owner like few other Radio stations in history. Moore was a play-by-play broadcaster for the Oakland A's baseball team, beginning when the A's were a Kansas City team in 1962. He also did the NBC television game of the week in the 1970s.

References

↑ "Visalia-Tulare Market Ratings". Radio and Records.
↑ "KTIP Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.

External links

FCC History Cards for KTIP

Query the FCC's AM station database for KTIP

Radio-Locator Information on KTIP

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