KTRS (AM)
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| Broadcast area | Greater St. Louis |
| Frequency | 550 kHz |
| Branding | The Big Five-Fifty, KTRS |
| Programming | |
| Language(s) | English |
| Format | Talk |
| Affiliations | |
| Ownership | |
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| History | |
First air date | June 26, 1922 |
Former call signs |
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Call sign meaning | "Talk Radio St. Louis" |
| Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 20359 |
| Class | B |
| Power | 5,000 watts |
Transmitter coordinates | 38°39′45″N 90°7′43″W / 38.66250°N 90.12861°W |
| Translator(s) | 106.1 K291CW (St. Louis) |
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Public license information | |
| Webcast | ktrs |
| Website | ktrs |
KTRS (550
KTRS broadcasts with 5,000
Programming
On weekdays, KTRS airs local shows during the day and evenings. "Farmer Dave" Schumacher has an agricultural show, followed by McGraw Milhaven and Kelly Jackson in morning
Weekend programming includes shows on money, health, the outdoors, veterans, golf, movies and pets, with occasional sports events. Most hours begin with world and national news from ABC News Radio.
Sports
- University of Missouri Tigers football and men's basketball, Tiger Talk, and Tiger Update.[4]
- minor league baseball
- Missouri Turkey Day Game (Thanksgiving) and Show-Me Bowl state championships (in years when the game is held in the St. Louis area) in high school football
History
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Early years
The station was originally owned by the
Power was increased to 5,000 watts daytime and 1,000 watts nighttime in 1934. With a new transmitter in place, in November 1948 KSD increased its night output to match its daytime output, 5,000 watts.[5]
NBC radio and television
KSD was one of the first eight radio stations of the
Sister station KSD-TV (now
MOR, Top 40, News, Country
As network programming passed from radio to television, KSD switched to a
As Top 40 listening shifted from AM to FM radio, KSD began an
Talk radio
On April 15, 1996, the station became KTRS and switched to its current Talk radio format. The station was purchased by its current owners, CH Radio Holdings, in 1997.
KUSA started AM stereo broadcasts in 1983 after rebuilding most of the transmitter to accommodate stereo transmissions. Stereo broadcasts continued throughout most of the 1990s, using the C-QUAM standard. In 1997, KTRS stopped sending stereo programming to the transmitter but continued broadcasting the stereo pilot signal. In 2001, the stereo pilot was silenced.
Air personalities
KTRS Morning Show hosts
Milhaven, however, was reinstated during the spring of 2006. Law was fired on December 11 of that year. Wendy Wiese also returned to the station.
KTRS announced on October 6, 2010, that it had hired veteran St. Louis radio personality J.C. Corcoran to fill its weekday midday slot starting October 25, 2010. Corcoran was fired on April 27, 2012, and later joined 1380 KXFN. Trish Gazall, who had been John Brown's co-host, joined Corcoran in January 2011 as his producer; Trish Gazall left the station in October 2012 for KEZK-FM.
Steve Cochran, who later worked at WGN in Chicago, hosted a weekday evening talk show on KTRS from 2010 until 2013.
Sports franchises
KTRS broadcast
After five years (2006–10), KTRS sold the rights to
Storm damage
In July 2006, severe storms knocked over two of the four transmitting towers. The towers were replaced in 2009.[9] A second storm in 2018 knocked over the #4 tower, which required replacement.[10]
References
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for KTRS". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ^ Radio-Locator.com/KTRS
- ^ Radio-Locator.com/K291CW
- ^ "Mizzou Moves to KTRS Radio". University of Missouri Athletic Department. 11 May 2011.
- ^ "KSD Now Operating with 5 KW Fulltime" (PDF). Broadcasting. November 29, 1948. Retrieved 8 February 2015.
- ^ http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-RandR/1990s/1993/RR-1993-03-26.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ "Redirecting to Google Groups".
- ^ Cardinals returned to KMOX in 2011 season and on (Sept. 1, 2010)
- ^ "CDBS Print".
- ^ "CDBS Print".
External links
- Official website
- KTRS in the FCC AM station database
- KTRS in Nielsen Audio's AM station database
- K291CW in the FCC FM station database
- K291CW at FCCdata.org
- FCC History Cards for KTRS