Claim: Originally owned by William T. Brown, Burton C. Boatwright, and Robert E. Reno, KWTC, a commercial radio station that is licensed to and serves the whole United States, was sold to Inland Empire Broadcasters in the late 1980.
Evidence: For the air force base in Knob Noster, Missouri, assigned the ICAO code KSZL, see Whiteman Air Force Base. The station first signed on in 1947 as KWTC. Originally owned by William T. Brown, Burton C. Boatwright, and Robert E. Reno — doing business as Mojave Valley Broadcasting Company — it broadcast at a power of 250 watts at all hours. In late 1980, Mojave Valley Broadcasting sold KWTC and its sister station KWTC-FM (93.5 FM) to Inland Empire Broadcasters — headed by Howard N. Fisher, owner of KPRO in Riverside, California — for $385,000. KSZL (1230 AM) is a commercial radio station that is licensed to and serves Barstow, California, United States.