KTAN  KTAN (1420 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a classic rock format. Licensed to Sierra Vista, Arizona, United States, the station serves the Southwestern Cochise County area. The station is currently owned by CCR-Sierra Vista IV, LLC (Cherry Creek Media) and features programing from CBS Radio and Premiere Radio Networks. This station originally went on the air on July 30, 1957 as a daytime-only station with a power of 1,000 watts, using the call letters KHFH (Historic Fort Huachuca). This station was the first radio station in Sierra Vista and the third radio station in Cochise County. The first, KSUN in Bisbee, (now defunct) went on the air in 1933, and the second, KAWT (now KDAP) in Douglas, came to air in 1947. All three stations were owned by Carleton Morris and KHFH was the most powerful of the three. The studio was located at the intersection of Carmichael Avenue and DePalma St. (now 700 Carmichael Ave.) and the transmitter was located in an undeveloped area in the southeast part of town, now 2300 Busby Drive. In August 1958, the license holder requested permission from the FCC to operate at night for one night only in order to broadcast election result; the FCC denied the request. The station was finally granted nighttime operations on September 5, 1962 with a power of 500 watts with a directional pattern. At the same time that nighttime operations began, the studios were relocated to the transmitter site. KHFH was the only radio station in a small town adjacent to a military base (Ft. Huachuca), so they used to broadcast a variety of programming to suit everyone's preferences. They broadcast a "middle of the road" format the morning, country/western in the afternoon, top 40/rock and roll at night and classical on Sunday evenings. Due to a significant number of German speaking people in the area, the station also broadcast one hour a week of programming in German, both music and talk; even the commercials were in the German language. In addition to the variety of musical formats, they also broadcast the local high school football, basketball and baseball games, both home and away, along with local news several times a day. Huachuca Broadcasting Company became the licensee in 1966 in the wake of Carleton Morris's 1962 death. The call letters were changed to KTAN in September 1973 when a sister station was added, KTAN-FM 100.9 (now co-owned KZMK).