KTKK

KTKK (630 AM) was a news/talk radio station broadcasting out of Sandy, Utah, to the Salt Lake City area. Called, "K-Talk 630", it was locally owned by United Broadcasting Company. The station featured local talk, including women's interest, political and other subjects live for over 18 hours every day.

DKTKK
CitySandy, Utah
Broadcast areaSalt Lake City, Utah
Frequency630 kHz
BrandingK-Talk 630
SloganThe Voice of Utah
Programming
FormatDefunct (formerly News/Talk)
Ownership
OwnerUnited Broadcasting
(United Broadcasting Company, Inc)
KBJA
History
First air date
1960
Last air date
May 1, 2017
Former call signs
KSXX, KZJO
Call sign meaning
KTKK (pronounced "talk")
Technical information
Facility ID14890
ClassB
Power1,000 watts (day)
500 watts (night)
Transmitter coordinates
40°33′6″N 111°58′17″W
Links
WebcastListen Live
Websitektalkmedia.com
The radio tower for KTKK was located in West Jordan, Utah. It was shared with KLLB. It has since been demolished making way for a new street.

In April 2017, the station began simulcasting on 1640 KBJA, also licensed to Sandy. The station's Facebook page indicated a switch to 1640 full-time would happen May 1, 2017.[1]

History

The station had 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.[2][3] The station's previous towers were displaced by a housing development. It now shares tower space with KLLB which broadcasts from a tower[4] 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.

The station has an application to change its city of license to Kearns, Utah, and drop daytime and nighttime power levels. The station would also gain three towers for a directional array as opposed to the current single tower it has in South Jordan.[5]

On May 1, 2017, the station signed off, effectively moving all programming to 1640 AM.[6] The KTKK license was surrendered on September 27, 2017, and cancelled by the Federal Communications Commission on September 28, 2017.[7]

Past hosts

References
  1. Talking Utah Radio - Something Weird Going On at KBJA
  2. Broadcast History Salt Lake City Radio
  3. "KTKK Call Sign History". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
  4. KLLB Transmitter map-Google Maps
  5. KTKK Facility Query FCC
  6. Radio Insight- K-Talk Salt Lake City moves to 1640
  7. Perry, Richard (September 27, 2017). "KTKK license surrender letter" (PDF). CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. Retrieved September 28, 2017.
  8. Deseret News Saturday, Nov. 26 1994 KTKK Hosts Author Sunday
  9. The FIJActivist Number 14, Winter 1994 Page 15]
  10. Fully Informed Jury Association http://fija.org/docs/NL_1994_14.pdf
  11. Deseret News Friday, March 23, 1990 `Night Person' Jepko Puts his Radio Cap on again By Lynn Arave, Radio Editor
  12. Joseph G. Buchman, PhD Archived 2010-10-22 at the Wayback Machine, The Nitecap Radio Movement 1964 to 1990 http://nitecaps.net/Docs/Sounds%20in%20the%20Dark.pdf
  13. Deseret News [Friday, Nov. 11 2005 Radio dial: Satellite fare is forcing local radio to alter niche By Lynn Arave, Deseret News
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