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* ''See also KFXN-FM'' KTLK (1130 AM)—branded News/Talk 1130—is a commercial radio station licensed to Minneapolis, Minnesota, broadcasting a news/talk format. The station is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc., and serves the Twin Cities market. KTLK's main studios are in St. Louis Park and its transmitter is west of Lakeville. Operated by iHeartMedia, Inc., the station is the oldest continuously operating station in the state, dating to December 23, 1923 when Dr. George W. Young signed on with the call letters KFMT. This claim, however, is based on a technicality and is only due to older longtime Minneapolis broadcaster WCCO having to sign off for two months due to an ownership transition in 1924. At midnight on August 15, 2011, Clear Channel swapped the formats of KFAN (1130 AM), and 100.3 FM's former conservative news/talk format KTLK-FM. A new call sign, KTCN, was reserved for the station, replacing KFAN that August 31 (that callsign now exists on a repeater for KFXN on the 1250 kHz facility in Rochester, Minnesota). On January 8, 2014, KTCN changed their call letters to KTLK. ==History== Dr. Young first operated the station from his house in north Minneapolis at 2219 Bryant Ave. N., cycling through the names WHAT, WGWY ("W-George W. Young"), and finally WDGY ("W-Dr. George Young") in the next two years until being chastised by the government for changing too frequently. The station kept the WDGY calls until 1991. WDGY operated on eight frequencies by the time it settled on 1180 AM. It made its final move to 1130 AM in 1941 as required by the North American Radio Broadcasting Agreement (NARBA) under which most American, Canadian and Mexican AM radio stations changed frequencies. In 1942, the station gained approval to broadcast at night.〔http://books.google.com/books?id=JgwEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA1888&dq=WDGY&hl=en&ei=65i2TprIItOCtgfSnpzEAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CE0Q6AEwBzgK#v=onepage&q=WDGY&f=false〕 The station shared time with at least four local stations, including WRHM and WCAL during periods of 1927. Subsequent to his home as the station's base, Young located the station's studios at his storefront at (909 West Broadway in Minneapolis ), the West Hotel on Hennepin at 5th Street, the Nicollet Hotel on Nicollet Avenue at Washington Avenue (beginning in 1938 in WCCO's space after WCCO moved to its new building on 2nd Avenue) and the Builders Exchange at 609 S. 2nd Avenue. Transmitter sites are known to have been at Young's house, at the Broadway address and from 1927 to 1949 at Superior Boulevard and Falvey Cross Road in St. Louis Park on the grounds of a fox farm; the site is known now as I-394 at Louisiana Ave. Following Dr. Young's death on April 27, 1945,〔http://books.google.com/books?id=qhEEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT32&dq=WDGY&hl=en&ei=qJ22Trz9OdC1tge9243uAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CD0Q6AEwAziWAQ#v=onepage&q=WDGY&f=false〕 studio locations included Bloomington (two locations), 611 Frontenac Place in St. Paul and, since 2004, the current Clear Channel consolidated offices in St. Louis Park at 1600 Utica Avenue. The transmitter site moved in 1949 to Bloomington at a site that would within a decade overlook I-35W, using a vast 9-tower array. Minnesota native George Putnam began his broadcasting career at WDGY in 1934. Putnam later gained fame as a Los Angeles television news anchor and talk show host. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「KTLK (AM)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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