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Coordinates	53°28′″N22°56′″N
Name	KPTK
City	Seattle, Washington
Area	Greater Puget Sound region, Washington
Branding	AM 1090
Slogan	Seattle's Progressive Talk
Airdate	October 28, 2004
Frequency	1090 kHz
Format	Progressive talk
Power	50,000 watts
Class	B
Facility id	6387
Callsign meaning	Progressive TalK
Affiliations	Air America Radio
Owner	CBS Radio
Licensee	CBS Radio Stations Inc.
Sister stations	KJAQ, KMPS-FM, KZOK-FM
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	cbsseattle.com

KPTK is a liberal-oriented radio station based in Seattle, Washington, broadcasting at 1090 kHz.

Billing itself "Seattle's Progressive Talk," KPTK broadcasts syndicated progressive/liberal talk programs hosted by personalities such as Ed Schultz, Mike Malloy, Randi Rhodes, Thom Hartmann, Rachel Maddow and Stephanie Miller. KPTK was also the flagship station of Air America Radio's Ron Reagan Show.

The station is owned by CBS Radio. It began broadcasting as KPTK, and as a progressive talk station, on October 28, 2004.

Since spring 2005, when KPTK received a 1.4 market share on the Arbitron scale, its ratings remained flat earning a 1.4 market share for January 2010 in the Seattle-Tacoma market.

History

For several decades the 1090 kHz frequency in Seattle was home to KING-AM, founded in the late 1940s by broadcasting pioneer Dorothy Stimson Bullitt. KING was known as the "Mighty 10-90," featuring great radio personalities such as Frosty Fowler, Ray Court, Mark Wayne and late night talk with Irving Clark, "Clark on King." The station was an NBC Radio network affiliate which had many Monitor features and local news, often using KING-TV anchors. The format of music was middle-of-the-road but jazz, bosa-nova and some swing continued in between the Sinatra, Pet Clark and the TJB. KING then was light-hearted, fun to listen too. Not as hip as KJR, but not staid as KIRO 710 was back then. The late '60s personalities defected to KIRO and other markets. A duo team was brought in from KREM in Spokane, Bob and Jim, but by then personality Larry Nelson on KOMO and KIRO's news was beginning to gel. Later in life KING focused on left-leaning political talk during the final years as KING. During the 1970s, the station was known as 11/KING and was in a heated Top-40 music battle with KJR. When KJR unveiled its "Sunshine" window sticker, KING followed with its own red "Sunburst" sticker. The line-up at the time included such Seattle radio personalities as Gary Lockwood (who later defected to KJR) and Bruce Murdock, with the Murdock in the Morning show. As AM music radio lost young listeners to FM, KING eventually gave up on Top-40 (around 1980) and moved to a softer Adult Contemporary approach, described in its slogan as "Soft Rock and More". This format was parodied on one April Fool's Day by rock station KISW.

On October 4, 1982, KING adopted a news-talk format, primarily with local personalities. These included Jim Altoff, Carl Dombek, Jeff Ray, Randy Rowland, Candace Siegel. Mike Siegel and Pat Cashman. Following a complicated series of transactions between 1994 and 1996 that involved several Seattle-area radio stations changing owners, formats, call letters, and even frequencies, the 1090 frequency was acquired by Infinity Broadcasting (later called CBS Radio), which was either used to simulcast one of the three Country stations that were Infinity-owned in the mid-90s (KMPS, KRPM (now KBKS), or KYCW (now KJAQ), or as a Classic Country station, a talk station, or a different type of Classic Country station, before changing the station's call letters to KPTK and returning liberal talk radio to the Puget Sound airwaves in 2004.

Events

hosting Changing the Media, Changing America on KPTK on June 10, 2006]]

On June 10, 2006 KPTK sponsored a forum at Seattle Town Hall entitled, Changing the Media, Changing America. Air America Radio (and now MSNBC) host Rachel Maddow moderated the event featuring other panelists Stephanie Miller, Thom Hartmann, Mike Malloy, and Laura Flanders. Video of the event as well as an audio podcast can be found at the station's website.

References

External links

CBS Seattle

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