KTYM
{{short description|Spanish-language Catholic radio station in Inglewood, California}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}}
{{Infobox radio station
| name = KTYM
| logo =
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| city = Inglewood, California
| area = Los Angeles area
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| frequency = 1460 kHz
| translator = 101.5 K268DD (Los Angeles)
| airdate = {{start date|1958|2|14}}
| format = Catholic radio
| language = Spanish
| power = 5,000 watts day
500 watts night
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| class = B
| facility_id = 67519
| coordinates = {{coord|34|00|27|N|118|21|54|W|region:US-CA_type:landmark}}
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| owner = El Sembrador Ministries
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| website = {{URL|https://elsembradorministries.com/esne_deployment/}}
| network = ESNE Radio
| licensing_authority= FCC
}}
KTYM (1460 AM) is a radio station broadcasting on-air and via the internet. Licensed to Inglewood, California, United States, the station serves the Los Angeles area and an international internet audience. KTYM is owned by El Sembrador Ministries of Chatsworth, California.
History
=The Early years=
Albert John Williams obtained the construction permit for a new daytime-only radio station on 1460 kHz in Inglewood on August 1, 1957.{{Cite web|url= https://cdbs.recnet.com/corres/?doc=45090 |title= History Cards for KTYM|publisher=Federal Communications Commission}} (Guide to reading History Cards) The station signed on February 14, 1958, airing a format of popular and semi-classical music;{{cite news|first=Arlene|last=Garber|title=Radio & TV Briefs|work=Citizen-News|date=February 19, 1958|page=8|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/66097944/|access-date=December 26, 2020}} the same day, KTYM-FM 103.9 debuted as a simulcast. It had a policy of no back-to-back commercials.{{cite news|title=Another Crosby Takes to the Air|work=Los Angeles Times|first=Don|last=Page|date=August 31, 1958|page=TV Times 14|access-date=December 26, 2020|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/66098227/}}
KTYM-FM 103.9 was known for its programming for the Black community in southern California at night. The station increased its power to 5,000 watts directional in 1962, having been approved for the upgrade the year before.{{r|hc}} In 1963, the AM station added several foreign-language programs.{{cite news|title=Plenty of Comedians, Not Enough Comedy|page=26|first=Don|last=Page|work=Los Angeles Times|department=TV Times|access-date=December 26, 2020|date=March 17, 1963|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/66098673/}}
At the end of 1963, Williams transferred the KTYM stations to the Trans America Broadcasting Corporation, wholly owned by Williams.{{cite news|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1964/1964-01-13-BC.pdf|work=Broadcasting|date=January 13, 1964|access-date=December 26, 2020|title=For the Record|page=94}}
By 1964, while other Los Angeles stations were being accused of racial bias in hiring, KTYM-AM-FM was cited as just one of five racially integrated radio stations in the region.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/66098975/|work=California Eagle|title=Local Radio Station Picketed by CORE|page=1|access-date=December 26, 2020|date=April 9, 1964}}
=Anti-Semitism inquiry=
In June 1966, the Federal Communications Commission renewed the license of KTYM by a 5–1 vote. The decision was contentious because, although KTYM had a good record on racial integration, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) objected to two airings of the program "Richard Cotten's Conservative Viewpoint" in October 1964 and May 1965. The ADL claimed that these shows linked Jews to communism and included personal attacks on the ADL itself. However, the commissioners said that, despite their "strongest personal feelings" against the content of the programs, they could not intervene in the matter without becoming "the censor of broadcasting" and they cited that KTYM had offered the ADL airtime under the Fairness Doctrine.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/66099604/|work=Los Angeles Times|title=Radio Station in Bias Case Wins License|date=June 19, 1966|page=12|agency=Associated Press|access-date=December 26, 2020}} The decision was decried by local labor groups{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/66099941/|access-date=December 26, 2020|date=June 24, 1966|work=San Fernando Valley Times|first=Stu|last=Oreck|title=Labor Chief Hits KTYM Renewal|page=2}} and Jewish organizations.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/66100398/|access-date=December 26, 2020|work=Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle|date=October 28, 1966|title=FCC Calls Anti-Jewish Broadcasts "Hate Speech"|first=Milton|last=Friedman|page=6}}
The ADL appealed the case to the Supreme Court of the United States, which declined to take it up in 1969.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/66100890/|access-date=December 26, 2020|title=Bigot Ban Rejected in Broadcasting|date=March 24, 1969|work=San Francisco Examiner|agency=Associated Press|page=9}} That same year, Williams bought Fresno television station KAIL-TV for $236,500.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/66100182/|access-date=December 26, 2020|date=September 7, 1966|page=2|title=Sale of a television station...|work=Los Angeles Times}}
=Sale to Avant Garde Broadcasting=
In 1971 Williams reached a deal to sell KTYM-FM to the Black-owned Avant Garde Broadcasting, headed by Clarence Avant.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/66101362/|work=The Independent|access-date=December 26, 2020|first=George|last=Eres|title=Football's end-run on TV|date=November 15, 1971|page=B-8}} He spent much of the decade starting up KDWN, a 50,000-watt AM station in Las Vegas. The station was approved for 500 watts at night in 1979.{{r|hc}} Personalities who hosted programs on KTYM included Stewart Alexander and Earl Ofari Hutchinson.
=Sale to Immaculate Heart Radio=
By the 2010s, KTYM primarily aired a mix of religious talk shows and paid programming.{{cite web|url=http://file.lacounty.gov/SDSInter/bos/supdocs/104016.pdf|date=May 24, 2016|title=DELEGATE AUTHORITY FOR APPROVAL OF A TRANSFER OF OWNERSHIP OF CONTRACT NUMBER 75394 LICENSE AGREEMENT FOR THE OPERATION OF RADIO BROADCASTING FACILITIES AT KENNETH HAHN STATE PARK TO EL SEMBRADOR MINISTRIES|publisher=Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors|access-date=December 26, 2020}} On March 17, 2014, Trans America reached a deal to sell KTYM to IHR Educational Broadcasting, operator of the Immaculate Heart Radio network, potentially expanding the latter's reach into Los Angeles.{{cite web|title=Application for Consent to Transfer Control of Entity Holding Broadcast Station Construction Permit or License|url=http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/prefill_and_display.pl?Application_id=1626690&Service=AM&Form_id=315&Facility_id=67519|work=CDBS Public Access|publisher=Federal Communications Commission|access-date=April 11, 2014|date=April 3, 2014}}{{cite news |url=https://radioinsight.com/headlines/88352/immaculate-heart-radio-expands-to-los-angeles/ |title=Immaculate Heart Radio Expands To Los Angeles |work=RadioInsight |last=Venta |first=Lance |date=April 15, 2014 |access-date=June 25, 2017}} However, the KTYM purchase was put on hold, and on July 22, 2014, Immaculate Heart Radio announced the purchase of Spanish-language KHJ, which switched formats to Catholic religious programming.{{cite news |url=https://ihradio.com/listen/stations/california-stations/los-angeles-ca-930am/ |title=Los Angeles, CA – KHJ – 930 AM |work=Immaculate Heart Radio|access-date=June 25, 2017}}
=Sale to ESNE=
In March 2015, the sale of KTYM to Immaculate Heart Radio was finally approved by the FCC, but six months later, KTYM was instead sold to ESNE Radio, a Spanish-language Catholic radio network based in the United States, owned by El Sembrador Ministries, with headquarters in Chatsworth, California. ESNE broadcasts on 14 stations in the United States, Mexico, and Spain.{{cite news|url=http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/145480/ktym-los-angeles-sold-again|title=KTYM/Los Angeles Sold Again|date=September 11, 2015|access-date=December 26, 2020}}
KTYM broadcasts primarily to the Black community in the English language. Since 2016 it has been available as KTYM Media, a 24/7 internet streaming radio and video service, playing Christian preaching, Gospel music, R&B, Jazz, inspirational talk shows, and educational, historical, and cultural programs in addition to its faith-based programming.{{cite news|url=https://www.ktym.media |title=KTYM official web site|access-date=February 17, 2023}}
References
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External links
{{AM station data|67519|KTYM}}
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{{Los Angeles Radio}}