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KTIL (1590 AM) is a
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to serve
Netarts, Oregon Netarts is an Unincorporated area, unincorporated community in Tillamook County, Oregon, Tillamook County, Oregon, United States; it is a census-designated place (CDP). The population was 744 at the 2000 census. Geography According to the Unite ...
, United States. The station, which began broadcasting in 1947, is currently owned by Alexandra Communications, Inc.


Programming

KTIL broadcasts a
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format. Weekday programming (until February 2013) previously included nationally syndicated
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s hosted by former
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, comedian
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, plus a regional show hosted by Tillamook native
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. In addition to its regular
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programming, KTIL broadcasts
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games and the occasional
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game when a scheduling conflict on KTIL-FM bumps the
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contest to the AM station. KTIL-FM carries the football games of the rival University of Oregon Ducks. In September 2008, the station and its then-
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KTIL-FM announced their
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plans, including regularly scheduled information broadcasts, limited broadcasting hours to conserve generator power, and the ability to transmit bilingual emergency messages from county
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officials, even in the event of a
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.


History

This station began regular broadcasting on August 16, 1947, as a 250
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station known as KTIL. KTIL was owned by the Tillamook Broadcasting Company, Inc., with Fred H. Guyton as president and Robert W. Harris as general manager. KTIL received a
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from the
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(FCC) for a power increase to 1,000 watts in 1961 and began broadcasting with the stronger signal in 1962. Soon after, Tillamook Broadcasting Company, Inc., agree to sell KTIL to Beaver Broadcasting Company in a transaction finalized on December 1, 1962. Philip Tonken was the president of Beaver Broadcasting and Robert Douglas served as general manager of the radio station. In 1967, the station received another authorization to increase its signal strength, this time to the current 5,000 watts during the day and 1,000 watts at night. In October 1986, Beaver Broadcasting System, Inc., reached an agreement to sell this station to Oregon Eagle, Inc. The deal was approved by the FCC on November 25, 1986, and the transaction was consummated on December 29, 1986. The station was assigned the KMBD call letters by the FCC on December 20,
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. The station was renamed in honor of longtime talk show host Mildred Berkey Davy when the AM and FM stations ended their
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and the AM station went all-talk. In March 2010, Alexandra Communications, Inc., reached an agreement to purchase KMBD from Oregon Eagle, Inc., for $150,000. The FCC approved the transfer on April 27, 2010, and the transaction was consummated on June 1, 2010. The new owners had the FCC restore the station's original KTIL call sign on June 9, 2010. On February 1, 2013 KTIL changed their format from talk to oldies, branded as "True Oldies 1590".


Former on-air staff

* Ramblin' Rod Anders — a
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, children's television host for more than 30 years. His first broadcasting job was at KTIL in the 1950s. Anders sang and played guitar for a Saturday morning show on the radio station until he was drafted into the
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. *Mildred Berkey Davy — the host of ''It's a Woman's World'' and other KTIL talk programming for more than 40 years beginning in 1961. Davy was, until her death in October 2005, the oldest regularly scheduled radio personality in the United States. Davy was widely known as "the voice of Tillamook County," and in January 1994 was honored with a change in the station's call sign. KTIL was renamed KMBD after Davy's initials as part of a programming shift, which changed KMBD to an all-talk format while flipping KTIL-FM to an
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-based
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music format. *
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— a
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show host syndicated nationally by
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. Larson landed his first radio job in 1975 at age 16, as a disc jockey and on-air personality for KTIL.


References


External links

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FCC History Cards for KTIL
{{Classic Rock Radio Stations in Oregon TIL Classic rock radio stations in the United States Radio stations established in 1947 Tillamook County, Oregon 1947 establishments in Oregon