KATT-FM (100.5 FM), known as "Rock 100.5 The KATT", is an active rock radio station serving the Oklahoma City area and is owned by Cumulus Media.
The earliest known format of the station is country music when it went by the call letters KJAK from 1960-1976. Another callsign of the station was KIOO or K-100 which transmitted from the top of the Oklahoma Biltmore Hotel in downtown OKC, KIOO was started by the two brothers from Northern Kentucky, St...
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KATT-FM (100.5 FM), known as "Rock 100.5 The KATT", is an active rock radio station serving the Oklahoma City area and is owned by Cumulus Media.
The earliest known format of the station is country music when it went by the call letters KJAK from 1960-1976. Another callsign of the station was KIOO or K-100 which transmitted from the top of the Oklahoma Biltmore Hotel in downtown OKC, KIOO was started by the two brothers from Northern Kentucky, Steve and Ted Bushelman around 1957. The station began broadcasting as KATT on September 16, 1976 with a Rock format. The station's transmitter site (KLPR-KCNN-KPRW-KVSP 1140 tower) is located near I-240 and I-35. The station received the official telegram from the FCC at Christmas 1976 authorizing the call sign change to KATT-FM when KATT-AM (now KRMP-AM) was established to simulcast the station.
KATT was named by Ira "Eye" Lipson, who also was the programming consultant to KATT, while serving as program director of KZEW The ZOO in Dallas....
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