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| Broadcast area | San Antonio metropolitan area |
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| Frequency | 760kHz |
| Branding | Ticket 760 AM |
| Programming | |
| Format | Sports |
| Affiliations | Fox Sports Radio Houston Astros Houston Texans UTSA Roadrunners Westwood One Sports |
| Ownership | |
| Owner |
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| KAJA,KQXT-FM,KRPT,KXXM,KZEP-FM,WOAI | |
| History | |
First air date | May 10, 1984; 41 years ago (May 10, 1984) (as KSJL) |
Former call signs | KSJL (1984–1993) KZXS (1993–1995) |
Call sign meaning | TicKetRadio (orTalKRadio) |
| Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 11945 |
| Class | B |
| Power | 50,000watts day 1,000 watts night |
| Links | |
Public license information | |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | ticket760.iheart.com |
KTKR (760kHz) is acommercialAMradio station inSan Antonio,Texas. Known as "Ticket 760", it airs asports radioformat and is owned byiHeartMedia, Inc. Itsstudios are on Stone Oak Parkway in theStone Oak neighborhood in Far North San Antonio.
KTKR’s daytime power is 50,000watts, the maximum for commercial AM stations, and has a nighttime power of 1,000 watts. At all times, it uses adirectional antenna with a four-tower array. Thetransmitter site is off Green Road inConverse, nearInterstate 10.[2]
Most of KTKR's programming is fromFox Sports Radio. It has two local sports shows in afternoondrive time,The Mike Taylor Show andThe Andy Everett Show. In middays, Ticket 760 carriesThe Dan Patrick Show andThe Herd with Colin Cowherd. Various Fox Sports personalities are heard in early mornings, nights and weekends.
KTKR serves as theflagship station of theUniversity of Texas San AntonioRoadrunners football and basketball. The station is also the localaffiliate ofTexas Longhorns basketball,Houston Astrosbaseball,Houston Texansfootball andWestwood One'sNFL broadcasts.[3][4]
The station got itsconstruction permit in the early 1980s. It received its KSJLcall sign on July 19, 1982. It officiallysigned on the air on May 10, 1984; 41 years ago (May 10, 1984).[5] It was owned byInner City Broadcasting and called itself "All Hit 76 KSJL," airingTop 40 hits and broadcasting inAM stereo.
It later became part of "Super Q 96/76" when Inner City Broadcasting acquired 96.1KSLR-FM from C&W Wireless in 1986. The combo carried aContemporary Hit Radio format. In late 1988, the simulcast ended. KSJL 760 switched its programming to theSatellite Music Network's "Z Rock"heavy metal format. This lasted until 1992 when the Satellite Music Network would not renew Z-Rock affiliations on the AM band.
Inner City decided to switch 760 AM to "The Touch" format, a nationalUrban Adult Contemporary service. In 1993, Inner City Broadcasting sold KSJL toClear Channel Communications for $725,000. (Clear Channel became iHeartMedia in 2014.) As a result of Clear Channel's ownership, KSJL's Urban AC format was moved to 96.1 FM, replacing "96rock" KSAQ.
Clear Channel switched KSJL to atalk andsports format. It used the call sign KZXS but the station was branded as "WOAI-760," to capitalize on its popular AMsister station. KZXS carried a number of syndicated talk shows, includingLarry King.
In 1995, 760 AM become "KTKR Talk Radio 760," dropping its sports programming and no longer identified as a sister station to WOAI. One year later, KTKR flipped toall-sports as The Ticket 760. It began carrying a mix ofFox Sports Radio and local sports hosts.
WhenWOAI-TV was owned by Clear Channel, KTKR produced sports reports for theWOAI newscasts.
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