KTIX

KTIX previously broadcast a 24-hour sports radio format as an affiliate of ESPN Radio from October 2002 through at least early 2018.{{cite web |url=http://www.arbitron.com/radio_stations/station_information.htm |work=Arbitron |title=Station Information Profile}}{{cite news |work=East Oregonian |title=Radio stations change their tune |date=October 7, 2002 |url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=EOOR&p_multi=EORB&p_theme=eoor&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=116216E766E61D58&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM |quote=KTIX now features 24-hour ESPN sports programming while KUMA has an all talk format.}} The station has since switched affiliation to Fox Sports Radio. In addition to its usual sports talk programming, KTIX broadcasts Major League Baseball games as an affiliate of the Seattle Mariners Radio Network,{{cite web |publisher=Mariners Baseball: The official site of the Seattle Mariners |title=Broadcast Affiliates |url=http://seattle.mariners.mlb.com/sea/schedule/broadcast_affiliates.jsp |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070421070436/http://seattle.mariners.mlb.com/sea/schedule/broadcast_affiliates.jsp |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 21, 2007 |date=March 2, 2009}} National Basketball Association games as a member of the Portland Trail Blazers radio network,{{cite web |publisher=BLAZERS: The Official Site of the Portland Trail Blazers |title=List of Stations |url=http://www.nba.com/blazers/fans/list_of_stations.html |accessdate=April 1, 2009}} National Football League games as a member of the Seattle Seahawks radio network,{{cite web|publisher=Seattle Seahawks |title=Radio Network |url=http://www.seahawks.com/media-lounge/broadcast-radio-network.html |accessdate=April 1, 2009 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090323050252/http://www.seahawks.com/media-lounge/broadcast-radio-network.html |archivedate=March 23, 2009 }} and Oregon Ducks football as a member of the Oregon Sports Network.{{cite web |publisher=GoDucks.com - The University of Oregon Official Athletics Web Site |title=OSN Radio Affiliates |url=http://www.goducks.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=500&ATCLID=68136 |accessdate=April 1, 2009}} KTIX also airs high school football games and other select sporting events featuring the Pendleton High School Buckaroos.

KTIX shares a studio building with sister stations KUMA (1290 AM), KUMA-FM (107.7 FM), and KWHT (103.5 FM).{{cite news |first=Scott |last=Fybush |work=Tower Site of the Week |title=The Big Trip 2007, part XI: Eastern Oregon to Boise |url=http://www.fybush.com/sites/2008/site-080718.html |date=July 18, 2008}} This multi-station facility, located at the west end of Eastern Oregon Regional Airport, is also close to KTIX's new tower site.{{cite web |publisher=Waymarking.com |title=Pendleton Sports Radio 1240 KTIX |url=http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM11ZX |accessdate=April 1, 2009}} The original tower, located on South Hill, served KTIX from 1941 to 2002.{{cite news |work=East Oregonian |title=Stations playing musical towers |date=August 15, 2002 |first=Kyle |last=Odegard |url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=EOOR&p_multi=EORB&p_theme=eoor&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=11621AE7DA4670C0&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM |quote=The old KTIX radio tower, which has been on the South Hill since 1941, was scheduled to be torn down today. KTIX was set to switch transmitting from the old 180-foot tower to a new one near the Eastern Oregon Regional Airport this morning[...]}} That original tower was later re-erected east of Pendleton on Cabbage Hill for use by co-owned KUMA-FM.

This station began regular broadcast operations in May 1941 with 250 watts of power on 1240 kHz as KWRC under the ownership of the Western Radio Corporation.{{cite book |title=1944 Broadcasting-Telecasting Yearbook |chapter=Directory of Standard Broadcasting Stations of the United States |publisher=Broadcasting Publications, Inc. |location=Washington, D.C. |year=1944 |page=144}} KWRC was run by general manager V.P. Kenworthy who owned the Western Radio Corporation as part of the Kenworthy Stations Group. V.P. Kenworthy would continue to own and operate KWRC until December 23, 1958, when the station was sold to WSC Broadcasting Company of Oregon, Inc.{{cite book |title=1960 Broadcasting Yearbook |year=1960 |chapter=Directory of AM and FM Radio stations in the U.S. |publisher=Broadcasting Publications, Inc. |location=Washington, D.C. |page=A-213}}{{cite book |title=1958 Broadcasting Yearbook |chapter=Directory of AM and FM Radio Stations in the U.S. |publisher=Broadcasting Publications, Inc. |location=Washington, D.C. |year=1958 |page=A-351}}

The new owners had the station's call letters changed to KKID in 1959 and by early 1961 had been authorized by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to increase its daytime signal strength to 1,000 watts while nighttime power remained at 250 watts.{{cite book |title=1961-1962 Broadcasting Yearbook |publisher=Broadcasting Publications, Inc. |chapter=Directory of AM and FM Radio stations in the U.S. |location=Washington, D.C. |year=1962 |page=B-137}} On July 15, 1961, ownership of KKID passed from WSC Broadcasting Company of Oregon, Inc., to Roderick Sound, Inc.{{cite book |title=1964 Broadcasting Yearbook |year=1964 |page=B-127 |chapter=Directory of AM and FM Radio stations in the U.S. |publisher=Broadcasting Publications, Inc. |location=Washington, D.C.}}

The callsign was changed again in 1964, this time to the current KTIX. Eastern Oregon Broadcasters, Inc., acquired KTIX on August 1, 1967, and flipped the station to a contemporary music format.{{cite book |title=Broadcasting Yearbook 1979 |year=1979 |page=C-182 |chapter=Directory of Radio Stations in the United States and Canada |publisher=Broadcasting Publications, Inc. |location=Washington, D.C.}} As a part of the Capps Broadcasting Group, this music format would endure on KTIX through the entire 1970s. The station applied to the FCC to change the name of its licensee to Capps Broadcasting Group, Inc., to reflect the station's true ownership and this change was approved by the FCC on March 28, 1979.{{cite web |publisher=FCC Media Bureau |title=Application Search Details (BP-RD1104IV) |url=https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/app_det.pl?Application_id=143283 |date=March 28, 1979}}

Just after switching back to a country music format in January 1980, Capps Broadcasting Group, Inc., reached an agreement to sell this station to AgPal Broadcasting, Inc.{{cite news |work=East Oregonian |title=Days Gone By 05-25-06 |date=May 25, 2006 |quote=Harle said the station will retain the country music format it has used for 18 months. The station, begun as KWRC, has been on the air since May 1941.}} AgPal Broadcasting was owned by Pendleton residents Cheryl and Jim McAnally plus Andy and JoAnn Harle.{{cite news |work=East Oregonian |title=Andrew Franklin "Andy" Harle |url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=EOOR&p_multi=EORB&p_theme=eoor&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=1162189111F1A890&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM |date=March 22, 2003 |quote=Andrew Franklin "Andy" Harle, 55, former owner of Pendleton radio stations KTIX AM and KWHT FM, died Thursday, March 20, 2003 at Providence Hospital in Portland.}} The deal was approved by the FCC on May 15, 1981.{{cite web |publisher=FCC Media Bureau |title=Application Search Details (BAL-19800126ES) |url=https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/app_det.pl?Application_id=17163 |date=May 15, 1981}}

In September 1997, AgPal Broadcasting, Inc., reached an agreement to sell this station back to Capps Broadcast Group through its KSRV, Inc., subsidiary. The deal was approved by the FCC on May 14, 1998, and the transaction was consummated on August 27, 1998.{{cite web |publisher=FCC Media Bureau |title=Application Search Details (BAL-19970910EC) |url=https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/app_det.pl?Application_id=252966 |date=August 27, 1998}}

Effective November 1, 2017, Capps Broadcast Group sold KTIX and nine other broadcast properties to Elkhorn Media Group for $1.75 million.

• Dave Donahue, a 2000 inductee into the Country Music DJ and Radio Hall of Fame, got his first experience as a disc jockey in a country music format when he joined the KTIX airstaff in 1960.{{cite web|publisher=Country Radio Broadcasters, Inc. |title=Hall of Fame: Dave Donahue |url=http://www.crb.org/hof/hofinductees/2000/davedonahue.shtml |accessdate=April 1, 2009 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080607020942/http://www.crb.org/hof/hofinductees/2000/davedonahue.shtml |archivedate=June 7, 2008 }}
• Terry Herd, host of the nationally syndicated Into the Blue and a four-time (1998, 2002, 2003, & 2004) winner of Broadcaster of the Year Award from the International Bluegrass Music Association, started his bluegrass radio program in May 1992 on KUMA then KTIX before going national.{{cite news |work=East Oregonian |title=Former Pendleton resident wins bluegrass award again |url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=EOOR&p_multi=EORB&p_theme=eoor&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=116216E501A566E8&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM |date=October 6, 2003 |quote=Herd began his national network radio syndication in 1992 on his kitchen table in Pendleton. The first broadcasts were aired on KUMA and later KTIX.}}{{cite web |title=Into the Blue: History |url=http://www.bluegrassradio.com/about/index.html |publisher=The Bluegrass Radio Network |accessdate=April 1, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090502052012/http://www.bluegrassradio.com/about/index.html |archive-date=May 2, 2009 |url-status=dead }}

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