KATQ (1070 AM) is a

radio station Radio broadcasting is transmission of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience. In terrestrial radio broadcasting the radio waves are broadcast by a land-based radio ...

licensed to serve

Plentywood, Montana Plentywood is a city in and the county seat of Sheridan County, Montana, Sheridan County, Montana, United States. The population was 1,669 at the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census. History The first business in Plentywood opened in 1900, an ...

. The station is owned by Radio International KATQ Broadcast Association, with a

country music Country (also called country and western) is a genre of popular music that originated in the Southern and Southwestern United States in the early 1920s. It primarily derives from blues, church music such as Southern gospel and spirituals, ...

format. Studios at 112 Third Avenue East. The 5000 watt AM daytimer signed-on September 14, 1979 with call letters of KATQ honoring the Plentywood Wildcats, mascot of the local high school. A subsequent owner briefly changed the call letters in the 1980s, but they were returned to KATQ by the

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on August 1,

1987 File:1987 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes after leaving the Port of Zeebrugge in Belgium, killing 193; Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashes after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport, k ...

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KATQ transmitter and studio photos
ATQ (AM) Country radio stations in the United States Sheridan County, Montana Radio stations established in 1979 1979 establishments in North Dakota {{Montana-radio-station-stub