| Broadcast area | Visalia-Tulare area |
|---|---|
| Frequency | 1450kHz |
| Branding | Jam'n 101.3 |
| Programming | |
| Format | Rhythmic oldies |
| Ownership | |
| Owner |
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| KGEN,KGEN-FM | |
| History | |
First air date | January 1947; 78 years ago (1947-01) (estimated) |
| Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 17388 |
| Class | C |
| Power | 1,000watts unlimited |
Transmitter coordinates | 36°5′44″N119°3′10″W / 36.09556°N 119.05278°W /36.09556; -119.05278 |
| Translator | 101.3 K267CG (Porterville) |
| Links | |
Public license information | |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | jamn1013.com |
KTIP (1450AM) is aradio station broadcasting arhythmic oldiesformat.Licensed toPorterville, California, the station serves theVisalia--Tulare area ofCentral California. The station is owned by Jose Arredondo, through licensee JA Ventures, Inc.[2]
KTIP calls itself "Jam'n 101.3." That is the dial position of its companionFM translator,K267CG at 101.3MHz in Porterville.
KTIP became one of the first radio stations in theWest tosign on afterWorld War II.[citation needed] Itsconstruction permit was granted by theFederal Communications Commission (FCC) in August 1946, to Porterville businessman Jack Tighe (pronounced "tie"). He owned TigheChevrolet Company and an appliance store in Porterville, so he wanted to have a radio station for his customers to tune to when they bought radios and cars equipped with radios.
Construction of the station was completed byChristmas of 1946. Its exact sign-on date is not known, but the station was notified by the FCC'sSan Francisco office in January 1947 for failure to issue a properstation identification during one hour of programming that month. So it has been concluded that KTIP was "on the air" in January 1947; 78 years ago (1947-01). KTIP, in its early years, had a full-time power of 250 watts.
KTIP was featured in aLife magazine article in its March 24, 1947 issue. The subhead declared, "Local news and interviews help KTIP compete with big networks in a smallCalifornia town." The ten photos accompanying the article helped profile a town of 6,827 people with a smog-free view of theSierra Nevada mountains.
Tighe's ownership of the station ended in 1954, when he sold the station to a Miller Broadcasting, based in the Midwest. According to subsequent owner Larry Cotta, Miller Broadcasting owned the station for a very short time. Cotta recalls Miller turned the station's revenues into the black and used the profits to pay off debts he had incurred from station ownership in other locations. That done, Miller quickly sold KTIP to Gary Garland and Larry Cotta.
In 1978, Garland and Cotta sold the station to Monte Moore and his friend Frank Haas. It was during the Moore ownership that KTIP took on the persona of its owner like few other radio stations. Moore was a play-by-play broadcaster for theOakland A'sbaseball team, beginning when the A's were aKansas City franchise in 1962. He also did play-by-play for theNBCtelevision game of the week in the 1970s.
In 2018, the station was sold to Jose Arredondo, the owner of 1370KGEN and 94.5KGEN-FM inTulare County.[3] Arredondo put arhythmic oldies format on KTIP, calling it "Jam'n 101.3."