KTTY is an FM radio station licensed to New Boston, Texas, and serving the Texarkana region. Owned by Texarkana Radio Center, it broadcasts a country music format branded as ''Hot FM'', simulcasting

KBYB KBYB (101.7 FM, "Hot FM") is a radio station broadcasting a country music format. Licensed to Hope, Arkansas, United States, it serves the Texarkana area. The station is currently owned by Texarkana Radio Center Licenses, LLC. Studios are l ...

101.7 FM Hope, Arkansas. Studios are located on Olive in Texarkana, Texas just one block west of the Texas/Arkansas state line and its transmitter is in New Boston.

History

KTTY originally operated as a country music station, branded as ''Cat Country 105.1'', under the ownership of Towers Investment Trust. The station went silent in June 2012, and was sold in November 2012 to Texarkana Radio Center. On April 19, 2013, the station returned to air as classic hits ''Hits 105'', also simulcasting on KCMC and the FM translator K288FI. On January 24, 2017, KTTY announced that it would no longer play music by

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, in response to remarks she made during a speech at the

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on January 20, 2017. KTTY's general manager stated that their decision was "not a matter of politics", but "a matter of patriotism", because "it just feels wrong to us to be playing Madonna songs and paying her royalties when the artist has shown un-American sentiments." On January 22, 2019, KTTY changed their format from classic hits to country, simulcasting

101.7 FM Hope, AR.Formats on the Move in Texarkana
Radioinsight - January 22, 2019

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* * Country radio stations in the United States Radio stations established in 2013 2013 establishments in Texas

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