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KTSB Tulsa call sign change
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It's changed calls, now, twice in three years. Just revert it to KVOO, add an -FM to 98.5 and be done with it. That's how most of us still identify 1170 Tulsa, anyway.
No one outside of this board cares about what their call letters are
That may be true. But then why change them?
It used to cost $200 to change call signs, maybe it's more today. Why spend that money if nobody cares?
No one might care about the calls of 1170, but, for radio history buffs, once the change to KOTV is complete, it will have had two TV calls. KVOO-TV was originally the callsign for Channel 2, which became KTEW (for either The EW Scripps Company or Tulsa EW Scripps) after Scripps bought it from the Stewart family in the early 70's. Channel 2 became KJRH (for Jack R Howard) around 1980.
KTUL was originally on 1430 AM.
KTUL was originally on 1430 AM.
It’s now $380 to file for a call sign change request.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
When my flagship client station KRKE changed to those call letters in 2022, the fee was $340.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
You are correct. When I saw your post appear right before mine, I looked up another station my client just acquired which I knew he was filing a call sign change request for, and $380 is the amount shown under "fee amount" on that application. That makes it the correct amount as of right now. (Talk about current and timely information!)
Call letters matter for one major purpose. National ad buyers buy stations off a spreadsheet based on call letters. If you're changing formats and want to start fresh you flush your calls.
And you can bet on a format change coming here...
That’s what I would normally think, but what to change the format to for 1170? Similcasting KOTV television news blocks part of the day and news radio the rest of it?
Tulsa’s Blitz To Be Sacked – RadioInsight
Griffin Media will pull the plug on Sports "1170 The Blitz" KTSB Tulsa next week. The flip will end the Sports format that had launched in August 2021 as the station applied earlier this month to change call letters to KOTV to match its co-owned television station in Tulsa. The station's local...
radioinsight.com
KTSB flipped at 12 am maybe earlier and is now known as 1170 am news on 6 now KOTV.
the website hasn't changed but the live stream is running the replay of News on 6 at 10pm
the website hasn't changed but the live stream is running the replay of News on 6 at 10pm
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Running the audio of a TV digital subchannel on a long-forgotten AM in a market the size of Tulsa is a very questionable direction to take.
The only positive aspect is that there is virtually no overhead whatsoever.
The only positive aspect is that there is virtually no overhead whatsoever.
If just being an audio simulcast of KOTV 6.3 is its final state, it would be nicer if they replaced the hours where it is just the repeats of the TV newscasts with some sort of live news programming. I can't believe there would be a lot of people in the office or in their car with the radio on wanting to hear the noon TV broadcast again at 1PM, 2PM, and 3PM...
From what I was told it was either this or shutting the stations off completely based on the lack of revenue.
I wouldn't be surprised if a shutdown happens anyway after a year or two. Can't imagine how this gets any real advertising to speak of, but at least the overhead is totally gone.
When a 50kw station that was once heard over a large part of the country is threatened with shutdown, it puts the overall demise of AM radio into sharper perspective.
Griffin Brings TV News Simulcast To 1170 Tulsa
With the elimination of the Sports "1170 The Blitz" format, Griffin Media has flipped the former 1170 KTSB Tulsa to
radioinsight.com
I worked for one in central florida.. what a bad idea.;
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