KCTY

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For the Omaha, Nebraska radio station formerly using callsign KCTY, see KOPW.

KCTY
City of license	Wayne, Nebraska
Frequency	104.9 MHz
Format
HAAT	92.0 meters
Class	C3
Facility ID	35659
Transmitter Coordinates	42°14′4.00″N 97°3′20.00″W / 42.2344444, -97.0555556
Former callsigns	KTCH-FM (1978-2007)
Owner	Red Beacon Communications, LLC

KCTY (104.9 FM) is a radio station licensed to Wayne, Nebraska, USA. The station is currently owned by Red Beacon Communications, LLC.^[1]

[edit] History

The station went on the air as KTCH-FM on 1978-10-16. on 2007-03-01, the station changed its call sign to the current KCTY .^[2]

KCTY (TV) operated on channel 25 in the Kansas City market from June 9, 1953 to February 28, 1954. The studio for channel 25 was located in the Pickwick Hotel in downtown Kansas City, Missouri but the transmitter was located in a rural area of Overland Park, Kansas. The station was the second television station in the Kansas City area was was originally owned by the Empire Coil Company which built the first commercial UHF television station (KPTV/channel 27) in Portland, Oregon. Shortly after KCTY went on the air it was joined by KCMO-TV on channel 5 and KMBC-WHB-TV on channel 9. With WDAF-TV already on the air on channel 4 viewers had three VHF stations to pick from and not enough of them converted their sets to UHF to watch channel 25. The station was affiliated with the DuMont television network which purchased the station at the end of 1953 and operated it for only two months before shutting it down. The station produced many local programs including the children's program "Share the Fun" with host Sue Bowen, local news/sports/weather and some local live sporting events including football games from Shawnee Mission High School.