They include programs hosted by Chris Plante, Dan Bongino, Ben Shapiro, Michael Knowles, Matt Walsh, Rick Valdés, America in the Morning and Red Eye Radio.

It continued as a CBS news affiliate for more than half a century, even after network programming moved from radio to TV in the 1950s.

At that time, KTUC switched to a full service, middle of the road format of popular music, news and sports.

By 1977, it was airing a 20-minute newsreel format, with CBS, ABC and Mutual radio newscasts all heard each hour on 20 minute intervals.

It also won investigative awards for breaking and following up on the story of a factory that painted glow-in-the-dark watch dials and instrument panels using tritium, a radioactive isotope that was found in school lunches prepared in a commissary across the street.

General manager Tom Maples vowed he could sell ads for a play-by-play of two kids playing basketball with peach basket hoops.

In the late 1980s, the station was the Tucson affiliate of the Arizona State University Sun Devils radio network.

Citadel and Cumulus continued the adult standards format, aimed at older listeners and retirees who have settled in the Tucson metropolitan area.

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