KTNK (1410 AM) is a commercial

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that is

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Lompoc, California Lompoc ( ; Chumash: ''Lum Poc'') is a city in Santa Barbara County, California. Located on the Central Coast, Lompoc has a population of 43,834 as of July 2021. Lompoc has been inhabited for thousands of years by the Chumash people, who calle ...

and serves the Santa Maria—Lompoc area. The station, established in 1963, is owned by Michael Alan Day's Cross and Crown Broadcasting Corporation and broadcasts a

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format. KTNK features programming from ABC Radio,

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, and

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History

The station first signed on May 25, 1963 as KKOK. The station underwent several

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changes over the next two decades: first to KBIK in 1977; then, to KLVV two years later on November 8, 1979; and finally, to KLLB on August 22, 1983. In 1985, Sunshine Wireless sold KLLB and its FM sister station

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(100.9 FM, now 100.3) to Crystal Broadcasting Inc. for $1.75 million. On September 1, 1987, the AM outlet changed its call letters to KTME. On December 22, 1989, Crystal Broadcasting sold KTME and KRQK to Nova Broadcasting—Santa Maria, headed by Gregg Peterson, for $1.47 million. The station changed hands several times in the 1990s. Nova Broadcasting sold KTME and KRQK to Padre Serra Communications for $450,000 in May 1993. In March 1995, Padre Serra traded KTME for KSBQ (1480 AM), owned by Los Padres Broadcasting Corporation. Like KTME, KSBQ was licensed to

and broadcast in Spanish. In November 1996, Classic Communications Corporation purchased the station for only $20,000. KTME saw a new owner just one year later as Classic sold the then- silent station to Santa Maria-based Blackhawk Communications for $80,000. In April 2006, Mapleton Communications sold KTME and the station it was

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ing, KUHL (1440 AM) in Santa Maria, to Knight Broadcasting Inc. KTME changed its call letters to KINF on July 31, 2006, then to KUHL that September. On January 27, 2009, the station became KSMA. In February 2014, Knight Broadcasting sold KSMA to Michael Alan Day's Cross and Crown Broadcasting Corporation for $160,000; the transaction closed in May. At the time of the sale, KSMA broadcast a

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format that was branded as "AM 1410 The Range". The new owner changed the station's call sign to KTNK on May 6, 2014.

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