KTFS (AM)

For the Texarkana, Texas radio station that held the call sign KTFS at 940 AM from 1996 to 2014, see KCMC.

KTFS
City of license	Texarkana, Texas
Branding	Talk Radio 740
Frequency	740 kHz
Translator(s)	98.9 K255CU (Texarkana, AR)
First air date	1933 (as KCMC)
Format	Talk
Power	1,000 watts (unlimited)
Class	B
Facility ID	33729
Transmitter coordinates	33°26′17.00″N 94°8′33.00″W / 33.4380556°N 94.1425000°W / 33.4380556; -94.1425000
Former callsigns	KCMC (1933-2014)
Owner	Texarkana Radio Center Licenses, LLC
Sister stations	KBYB, KCMC, KTFS-FM, KTOY

KTFS (740 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a talk format. Licensed to Texarkana, Texas, USA, it serves the Texarkana area. The station is currently owned by Texarkana Radio Center. Studios are located on Olive Street, just west of the border with Arkansas, and the transmitter is west of Texarkana city limits in the town of Nash.

The station was founded in 1933 by Clyde E. Palmer as a sister outlet to his Texarkana Gazette. It was Texarkana's first radio station. By approval of the Federal Communications Commission, station WDIX, Tupelo, Mississippi, was shut down, and operation of KCMC in Texarkana, Arkansas, was authorized. KCMC operated on 1420 kHz with 100 W power.^[1]

The station is an affiliate of the Dallas Cowboys radio network.^[2]

Disk jockey Barney Cannon (1955-2009), an authority on Country music who spent a quarter century with KWKH in Shreveport, once worked at the then-KCMC.

On January 15, 2015 KTFS changed their format to talk, branded as "Talk Radio 740".^[3]

References

↑ "KCMC Soon Starts" (PDF). Broadcasting. January 15, 1932. Retrieved 1 October 2014.
↑ "Dallas Cowboys on Radio". DallasCowboys.com.
↑ Format Shuffle in Texarkana

External links

Query the FCC's AM station database for KTFS

Radio-Locator Information on KTFS

Radio stations in the Texarkana, Texas–Arkansas market

By AM frequency	740 790 940 1260 1530

By FM frequency	91.5 92.1 92.9 93.3 93.7 94.1 94.5 95.1 95.9 98.1 99.5 100.1 100.5 101.1 101.7 102.5 103.5 103.9 104.7 105.1 106.3 107.1

NOAA Weather Radio frequency	162.525 162.550

By callsign	KBHC KBYB KCMC KDQN-FM KEWL-FM KKYR-FM KLBW KMJI KMTB KNRB KOSY KPGG KPWW KRMD-FM KRUF KTAL-FM KTFS KTFS-FM KTKC-FM KTOY KTRG KTTY KTXK KXKS-FM KYGL KZHE KZRB WNG653 WXJ49

Nearby radio markets El Dorado Ft. Smith Hot Springs Idabel, OK Little Rock Longview–Marshall Paris Shreveport Tyler–Longview See also List of radio stations in Texas List of radio stations in Arkansas

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