KTLV
Radio station in Midwest City–Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
KTLV (1220 AM) is a radio station broadcasting an Urban Gospel and Christian talk and teaching radio format. Licensed to Midwest City, Oklahoma, the station serves the Oklahoma City Metroplex. The station is currently owned by First Choice Broadcasting, Inc.
History
M. W. Cooper and his Mid West Broadcasting Corporation, also part-owned by Tulsa state senator Gene C. Howard and Gene Stipe, put KRMC on the air in April 1973. A year later, the station changed formats and became one of the smallest-market all-news outlets in the country. A daytime-only outlet on a Mexican clear channel, the station's news service utilized the resources of United Press International. However, all-news was a financial failure losing $8,000 a month, prompting KRMC to change to gospel on October 13, 1975. One of the reasons cited by station management for the change was that an all-news format did not work well on a daytime-only station. Another was a change in operation; while not reflected in the records of the Federal Communications Commission, the Oklahoma City Counseling Center acquired the station in 1975.
In the early 1980s, KRMC almost negotiated an agreement with Oscar Rose Junior College by which Rose broadcasting students would have operated the station.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “KTLV” as radio station in Midwest City–Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
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The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as radio station in Midwest City–Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6338853. Authority coordinates are 35.397, -97.451. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1220, 1973 and 1975.
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This entry incorporates text from “KTLV” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.