KTIP

Infobox Radio station
name = KTIP


city = Porterville, California
area =
slogan =
branding = "Am1450 Where Talk Is Power"
frequency = 1450 kHz
airdate =
share = 0.7, #26
share as of = Fa'07
share source = R&R [cite news | first= | last= | coauthors= | title=Visalia-Tulare Market Ratings | date= | url=http://www.radioandrecords.com/RRRatings/DefaultSearch.aspx?MarketName=Visalia-Tulare-Hanford&MarketRank=%20 | work =Radio and Records | pages = | date = | language = ]
format = News Talk Information
power =
erp = 1,000 watts
haat =
class = C
facility_id = 17388
coordinates = coord|36|5|44.00|N|119|3|10.00|W|region:US_type:city
callsign_meaning =
former_callsigns =
owner = Mayberry Broadcasting Co, Inc.
licensee =
sister_stations =
webcast =
website = [http://www.ktip.com ktip.com]
affiliations = Fox News Radio, Premiere Radio Networks, Salem Communications

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 programing from Fox News Radio, Premiere Radio Networks and Salem Communications. [ cite web|url=http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/fmq?call=KTIP |title=KTIP Facility Record |work=United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division ]

History

KTIP became one of the first radio stations in the West to sign on after World War II.Fact|date=March 2008 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 of 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 fulltime 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 a ccompanying 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 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 70's.

References

* [http://www.radiodailynews.com/Porterville%20Recorder%20News%20Column.htm KTIP radio station loses local personalities]

External links

*AM station data|KTIP