KATL (AM)

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KATL

City of license	Miles City, Montana
Broadcast area	Eastern Montana
Slogan	"Music of the 80's, 90's and Today!"
Frequency	770 kHz
First air date	1940s
Format	Adult Contemporary
Power	10,000 watts (day) 1,000 watts (night)
Class	B
Facility ID	62297
Transmitter Coordinates	46°23′46″N, 105°46′44″W
Affiliations	ABC News, Paul Harvey
Owner	Star Printing Company
Website	http://www.katlradio.com/

KATL (770 AM) is a radio station licensed to serve Miles City, Montana.^[1]^[2] The station is owned by Star Printing Company.^[3] It airs an Adult Contemporary music format.^[4]

Miles City is known as the "Cow Capitol of the West" and this is reflected in the KATL (pronounced "Cattle") callsign.^[5] The station was assigned the KATL call letters by the Federal Communications Commission.^[6]

[edit] History

As of October 1961, Ian Elliott was the manager of the radio station.^[7]

[edit] References

^ Clarke, Norm. "Talk of the Town", Rocky Mountain News, 1997-11-04. "KATL heads the herd in Miles City, Mont."
^ "Hero's Bronze Star Shows Up 26 Years Late", The News Tribune, 1995-05-29. "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."
^ Lambert, Brian. "Bucking Horse Sale A Mardi Gras For Cowboys", St. Paul Pioneer Press, 2003-05-20. "Don Richards is president of the Bucking Horse Sale board of directors, and owner of KATL-AM, the voice of Miles City."
^ Station Information Profile. Arbitron.
^ Patterson, Caroline. "Getting your buck's worth in Montana", Sunset, 1999-05-01. "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."
^ Call Sign History. FCC Media Bureau CDBS Public Access Database.
^ "Five Trainmen, Truck Driver Die As Train/Truck Collide", Galveston Daily News, 1961-10-26. "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.""