KATT
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| City | Oklahoma City, Oklahoma |
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| Broadcast area | Oklahoma City Metroplex |
| Branding | ROCK 100.5 The KATT |
| Slogan | "Oklahoma's Pure Rock Station" |
| Frequency | 100.5 MHz |
| First air date | 1960 (as KJAK) September 16, 1976 (as KATT) |
| Format | Mainstream Rock |
| ERP | 28,870 watts |
| HAAT | 467 meters (1,532 ft) |
| Class | C1 |
| Facility ID | 8797 |
| Callsign meaning | The KATT (cat) |
| Former callsigns | KJAK (1960-1976) KATT (9/1976-12/1976) |
| Owner |
Cumulus Media (Radio License Holding CBC, LLC) |
| Sister stations | KQOB, KYIS, WKY, KWPN, WWLS-FM, KKWD |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | katt.com |
KATT-FM (100.5 FM, "ROCK 100.5 The KATT") is a Mainstream Rock radio station serving the Oklahoma City area and is owned by Cumulus Media. Its studios are in Northwest Oklahoma City, and the transmitter is on the Northside.
The earliest known format of the station is country music when it went by the call letters KJAK under Jack Beasley's Big Chief Broadcasting Co. from 1960-1976. Before Beasley had the allocation, there was a 100.5 KIOO or K-100 which transmitted from the top of the Oklahoma Biltmore Hotel in downtown OKC, KIOO was started by the two brothers from Northern Kentucky, Steve and Ted Bushelman around 1957.
KLPR 1140 AM, originally started by Byron Ross in the 1940s, with the callsign that represented first letters of his parents' name, was a daytime AM country station in Oklahoma City that was owned by Jack Beasley in the 1960s. Jack, being a musician himself, had MANY ties to the industry. KLPR helped a number of country artists get their start, including Wanda Jackson and Conway Twitty. KLPR also owned a short-lived KLPR TV on channel 14(not to be confused with the former ch19 KLPR-TV that Byron Ross owned before Beasley's 14). KJAK was Jack's FM station at 100.5 FM which much later on became KATT-FM. When Beasley got older, he owner-financed a sale of the stations (1140 and 100.5) to Ed Sossen. Due to Sossen's financial issues and two suspicious fires, the stations were subject to a bank takeover. After the fires, Bill Lacy ran the stations as the GM for the debtor in possession of the stations while a new owner could be found. The format was changed to rock and soon the call sign was applied for, KATT (100.5). The station began broadcasting as KATT on September 16, 1976 with a rock format. The station received the official telegram from the FCC at Christmas 1976 authorizing the call sign change to KATT-FM when KATT-AM (now KRMP-AM) was established to simulcast the station. Transmissions facilities and studio facilities for KATT and 1140AM were at the AM tower in a small room in what was a former ch 14 TV transmitter building. The KATT became a nearly overnight success, filling a huge void for underground rock music. With huge ratings success, the KATT and 1140 AM quickly sold to Sun Broadcasting of Dallas, TX who paid 866,000 for the AM/FM combo properties. Bill Lacey exited at the sale time as the GM.
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