KTFS (940 AM) is a

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broadcasting a

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format. Licensed to

Texarkana, Texas Texarkana is a city in Bowie County, Texas, United States, in the Ark-La-Tex region. Located approximately from Dallas, Texarkana is a twin cities, twin city with neighboring Texarkana, Arkansas. The Texas city's population was 36,193 at the 2 ...

, United States, it serves the Texarkana metropolitan area. The station is currently owned by Cliff Dumas, through licensee BTC USA Holdings Management Inc. The studios are located on Olive in Texarkana, just one block west of the Texas–Arkansas state line, and its transmitter is on South State Line Avenue. KTFS broadcasts at a power of 2,500 watts during the day, and 11 watts during the night. This makes KTFS a class D radio station.

History

KTFS was operated from a broadcast facility located on State Line Avenue on the Texarkana, Texas side. During that time the station operated with 250 watts, increasing power to 1,000 watts in 1967. Dave Hall was the News Director and broke the 'Fouke Monster' story, in Fouke, on a Sunday morning via a mobile car phone. In December 2011, KTFS was taken off the air after vandals committed

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at its broadcasting tower. The station filed for

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to Remain Silent with the

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on January 9, 2012, which they honored shortly afterward. However, on December 20, 2012, KTFS returned to the air with a

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format, just two days before the station's license was set to expire. On April 19, 2013, KTFS changed formats to classic hits,

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KTTY. The station's call sign was changed to KCMC on March 21, 2014. KCMC then reverted to the talk format on July 1, 2017, and reverted call signs on November 28. On January 22, 2019, KTFS changed its format from talk to

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, branded as "KTOY Gospel 105.9" (simulcast on FM translator K290CP 105.9 FM Texarkana). In 2022, a deal was reached that a Cliff Dumas led group would acquire Frontier Media. In 2023, ''Local First Media Group'', the new name for the owner, acquired KTFS and on November 5, KTFS became Christmas 105.9. On January 4, 2024, KTFS changed its format to

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, branded as "ESPN 105.9", with programming from

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.ESPN Radio Quickly Returns to Texarkana
Radioinsight - January 4, 2024

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