KTUZ-FM (106.7 FM, "La Z") is a

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serving the

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area and is owned by

Tyler Media Group Tyler Media Group, also known as Tyler Broadcasting Corporation or simply Tyler Media, is a family-owned Oklahoma business with Radio, TV and outdoor advertising assets in Tulsa and Oklahoma City. Tyler Media owns five television stations (consistin ...

. Tyler Media also owns KTUZ-TV (channel 30), for which the television station was given the radio station's callsign. The station's studios are located in Northeast Oklahoma City and a transmitter site is located in unincorporated Canadian County.

History

The station began broadcasting in 1968 as KWOE-FM and adopted a

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format. It changed calls in 1981 to KKCC-FM and again in June 1990 to KSWR. The station flipped to an

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format in September 1996 and changed its call letters to KCLI-FM. In late 2000, it moved to

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, in order to serve the

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market and adopted the call letters KTUZ-FM. During this time changed to a

format. On May 30, 2018, KTUZ-FM Tower collapsed after a crop duster struck the tower and killing the pilot on board the aircraft. Tyler Media has plans to get KTUZ-FM back on for an auxiliary site while the NTSB and the FAA investigate the plane crash.

External links

KTUZ station website
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