KTUZ-FM (106.7 FM, "La Z") is a

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serving the

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area and is owned by

Tyler Media Tyler Media Group, also known as Tyler Broadcasting Corporation or simply Tyler Media, is a family-owned Oklahoma business with Radio, TV and outdoor advertising assets in Tulsa and Oklahoma City. Tyler Media owns five television stations (consistin ...

. Tyler Media also owns

KTUZ-TV KTUZ-TV (channel 30) is a television station licensed to Shawnee, Oklahoma, United States, serving the Oklahoma City area as an affiliate of the Spanish-language Telemundo network. It is the flagship station of locally based Tyler Media Group, ...

(channel 30), for which the television station was given the radio station's callsign. The station's studios are located in Northeast Oklahoma City and a transmitter site is located in unincorporated

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History

The station began broadcasting in 1968 as KWOE-FM and adopted a

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format. It changed calls in 1981 to KKCC-FM and again in June 1990 to KSWR. The station flipped to an

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format in September 1996 and changed its call letters to KCLI-FM. In late 2000, it moved to Okarche, Oklahoma, in order to serve the

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market and adopted the call letters KTUZ-FM. During this time changed to a

format. On May 30, 2018 KTUZ-FM Tower collapsed after a crop duster struck the tower and killing the pilot on board the aircraft. Tyler Media has plans to get KTUZ-FM back on for an auxiliary site while the NTSB and the FAA investigate the plane crash.

External links

KTUZ station website
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