KATL (AM)

Infobox Radio station
name = KATL


city = Miles City, Montana
area = Eastern Montana
branding =
slogan = "Music of the 80's, 90's and Today!"
airdate = 1940s
frequency = 770 kHz
format = Adult Contemporary
power = 10,000 watts (day) 1,000 watts (night)
class = B
facility_id = 62297
coordinates = coord|46|23|46|N|105|46|44|W
callsign_meaning =
former_callsigns =
owner = Star Printing Company
licensee =
sister_stations =
webcast =
website = http://www.katlradio.com/
affiliations = ABC News, Paul Harvey

KATL (770 AM) is a radio station licensed to serve Miles City, Montana.cite news |work=Rocky Mountain News |title=Talk of the Town |date=1997-11-04 |first=Norm |last=Clarke |url= |quote=KATL heads the herd in Miles City, Mont.] [cite news |work=The News Tribune |title=Hero's Bronze Star Shows Up 26 Years Late |date=1995-05-29 |quote=The town, whose radio station has the call letters KATL, was named after US soldier Nelson Appleton Miles, who forced the surrender of Geronimo and the Nez Perce.] The station is owned by Star Printing Company. [cite news |work=St. Paul Pioneer Press |title=Bucking Horse Sale A Mardi Gras For Cowboys |date=2003-05-20 |first=Brian |last=Lambert |quote=Don Richards is president of the Bucking Horse Sale board of directors, and owner of KATL-AM, the voice of Miles City.] It airs an Adult Contemporary music format. cite web |title=Station Information Profile |url=http://www.arbitron.com/ |work=Arbitron]

Miles City is known as the "Cow Capitol of the West" and this is reflected in the KATL (pronounced "Cattle") callsign. [cite news |work=Sunset |title=Getting your buck's worth in Montana |date=1999-05-01 |first=Caroline |last=Patterson |quote=Drive through Miles City, Montana, built at the confluence of the Tongue and Yellowstone rivers in 1878, and you'll see why it's known as the Cow Capital of the West. Pickups and stock trucks line the streets. The radio station is KATL-AM.] The station was assigned the KATL call letters by the Federal Communications Commission.cite web |title=Call Sign History |url=http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/call_hist.pl?Facility_id=62297&Callsign=KATL |work=FCC Media Bureau CDBS Public Access Database]

History

As of October 1961, Ian Elliott was the manager of the radio station.cite news |work=Galveston Daily News |title=Five Trainmen, Truck Driver Die As Train/Truck Collide |date=1961-10-26 |quote=The exact death toll was not determined until all bodies had been recovered from the wreckage, which Ian Elliott manager of radio station KATL, Miles City, described as "a horrible mess."]

References

External links

* [http://www.katlradio.com/ KATL official website]
*AMQ|KATL
*AML|KATL
*AMARB|KATL