KTUC

KTUC is a commercial radio station located in Tucson, Arizona. The station is under ownership of Cumulus Media. KTUC airs a combined adult standards and oldies music format. Its studios and transmitter are located separately in Tucson north of downtown.HistoryKTUC is one of the oldest stations in Tucson. It went on the air in 1925.In the early 1970s it used the slogan 'Formula 1400', which referred to its practice of airing 35 minutes of news programming and 25 minutes of music programming to round out the hour. The hour started with the news programming then went to the music programming.In the late 1970s the station segued to a news/talk format, airing news all day and syndicated talk shows at night. It was an affiliate of the Arizona Broadcasting System and picked up newscasts from KTAR in Phoenix on a phone line. By 1977, it was airing a 20-minute newsreel format, with CBS, ABC and Mutual radio newscasts leading each piece of the pie—ABC and Mutual were both tape-delayed. Larry King broadcasts aired overnight, although those broadcasts were replaced by Enterprise Radio (a progenitor of ESPN Radio) by 1979.Tucson Toros baseball games were carried live, although the studio recreated road games in 1980.