KTUR 1390 KHz Turlock, CA History
Turlock Tribune June 14, 1946
Eight Turlock area men have filed an application with the FCC for a commercial AM broadcast station for Turlock. The group comprises the Turlock Broadcasting Group and include chairman , Wallace N. Lindskoog. Luther G. Boone, Gordon E. Mowrer, Elmer A. Heyer, August Lindbom, C.H. Lindgren, secretary, Wilbur Merrill and Gilbert Moody, legal adviser. The station manager H. Ansel McMillian said the group is a general partnership.
Mowrer and Lindblom are Turlock merchants, Moody an attorney and the others turkey raisers, farmers and dairymen.
According to McMillen. a 5 acre tract of ground has been purchased on Colorado Ave. a half mile northeast of the Turlock city limits. The transmitter will be placed 2112 feet due south of Minnesota avenue and 330 feet due east of Colorado at 107 feet above sea level. The studios will at the same location.
The tentative call letters will be KTUR with a power of 250 watts at 1450 Kcs with expected "blanket" coverage of 25 miles in any direction from Turlock. The total range would encompass approximately 50 miles.
McMillian said a competing application from a Modesto group for a station in Modesto on the same frequency may delay the granting of a license by the FCC for several weeks and may require a hearing.
The initial investment of the Turlock group will amount to approximately $30,000 according to McMillian.
Turlock Tribune 5-20-49
Country Planners have approved the site for Turlock's own commercial radio station which will on t he air within 100 days according to H.A. McMillen, spokesman for the owners. The station's application to erect towers and a studio on the W.J. Glaze residence on Quincy Road between Tuolumne and Hawkeye has been approved by the Stanislaus County planning commission.
The towers have been purchased and delivered to the Quincy Road site and bids are now being accepted to erect them. Preliminary plans have also been completed for the construction of a studio at the same location.
The FCC has granted the local group a license to operate an AM station on 1390 Kcs. The group has also received an FM station license. It will be simulcast with the AM station programming if the group decides to put it on the air.
Others connected with the station besides McMillen include Gilbert Moody, Wallace Lindskoog, Herbert Lindgren, Wilbur Merrill, Luther Boone, August Lindblom, Gordon Mowrer and Ralph Hyer.
Turlock Tribune 10-7-49
KTUR Goes on the Air Next Week
Turlock's radio station, KTUR, will go on the air during the early part of next week according H.A. McMillian, station manager. All test have been completed and the station has been inspected by the FCC. All that remains is for formal approval from the FCC in Washington, D.C. which is routine.The approval should be telegraphed by the FCC by early next week and the station will go on the air as soon as it is received. Formal opening ceremonies will be aired on the following night. The station's frequency is 1390 Kcs.