[2] KTTS-FM began broadcasting in 1948[3] on 94.7 MHz as the first FM station in Southwest Missouri.
[5] Ward purchased its transmitter, and in early 1925 began operating a new station, KFUV, that was licensed to him.
[8][needs update] Scripps exited radio in 2018; the Springfield stations went to SummitMedia in a four-market, $47 million deal completed on November 1, 2018.
[9] Bob Barker, star of the TV show The Price Is Right, got his first job in media with KTTS in the 1940s.
[10] Barker lived in Springfield and graduated from Central High School; he worked for KTTS while attending Drury College (now University).