City Huxley, Iowa Format Religious HAAT 107 m (351 ft) | Frequency 99.3 MHz ERP 5,200 watts Class A | |
KTIA-FM (99.3 FM) is a commercial radio station that serves the Central Iowa area. The station broadcasts a religious talk format. KTIA-FM is licensed to Truth Broadcasting, Inc.
The station was originally licensed as KFGQ but changed callsigns to KFFF-FM on February 1, 2005.
The transmitter and broadcast tower were originally located in southwest Boone, Iowa on West Park Avenue. According to the Antenna Structure Registration database, the tower is 90 m (295 ft) tall with the FM broadcast antenna mounted at the 87 m (285 ft) level. The calculated Height Above Average Terrain is 107 m (351 ft). The FM antenna array is a FMC-4A manufactured by Harris.
Truth Broadcasting applied to move KTIA's transmitter from Boone, Iowa to Huxley, Iowa and broadcast from a tower near Huxley. This move would represent a 15-mile relocation to the southeast for KTIA and provide a better signal to the Des Moines metro area, thus adding 400,000 people into the listening range of KTIA. Truth had opposition from Saga Communications, which said that the move was a "move-in" to the Des Moines or Ames Designated Urban Areas, resulting in the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in serving Truth Broadcasting with a Deficiency Letter that gave the owners the opportunity to rebut Saga's assertion. Truth Broadcasting instead countered with its own petition asking that the Deficiency Letter be reviewed and reversed because the move could not hit the Des Moines market without being over 50% of the metro, while the Commission noted that at one site with a directional pattern, the signal could get into over 50% of the Ames area. As a result of this, the FCC denied Truth's request and Petition for reconsideration, thus canceling the application. After reconsidering the decision, the FCC has since reversed its previous ruling and granted the construction permit for KTIA moving to Huxley. The station was issued its license to cover Huxley on July 6, 2015.
The move of the studios, transmitter and other broadcast oriented items was accomplished in May/June 2015. The main studio is located in the Merle Hay Tower on it's 6th floor in Urbandale, IA.