station. During this time, KNOG also carried programs from the short-lived Liberty Broadcasting System. KOPO owned KNOG for less than two years, though Old Pueblo wasted little time realigning KNOG into its hookup. On November 2, 1952, it changed the station's network affiliation to CBS, bringing it into the Radio Network of Arizona fold and matching its new sister stations. The Radio Network of Arizona during this time consisted of KOOL, KOPO, KOLD in Yuma, KCKY, and KNOG, alongside the TV stations owned by KOOL and KOPO. KNOG was sold in 1954 to Charles F. and Alice B. Montano, owners of a Phoenix advertising firm, who paid $20,000. Montano ownership would be the longest-lived in KNOG's history, lasting four. During this time, in 1957, the station ran a "Mystery Tune" contest, only to learn that the winner, Julieta de la Fuente, was the daughter of the owner of a competing station. However, in 1958, the Montanos sold the station to veteran southern Arizona broadcaster Carleton W. Morris for $20,000, with the Federal Communications Commission granting the application in January 1959. Carlos Montano went to work for KOOL after the sale. By this time, KNOG had gone back to the Arizona Network (now led by Phoenix's KOY) and Mutual; when said network switched wholesale to ABC Radio in 1959, KNOG was included in the affiliation switch. Later in 1959, Morris sold the station for $40,000—doubling his investment—to Robert F. Baltrano and Lloyd Burlingham, owner of KCVR in Lodi, California. Just days after the sale was approved, tragedy struck when 19-year-old announcer Frank V. Robles was killed in a traffic accident while returning to Tucson. As the 1950s turned into the 1960s, KNOG continued to experience ownership turnover. In 1961, Baltrano and Burlingham sold KNOG to Madelon H. Cowling of Van Nuys, California, for $60,000. Cowling owned the station for two years before selling it to Richard H. Ward for $65,000 in 1963. During Ward's ownership, in 1964, KNOG presented 30 hours a week of Spanish programming. It also sued the Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Company for $10,000 in damages, alleging the phone company failed to do checks and caused the station to miss an hour of a 1963 high school football game being sent to the station from Eloy. Ward's ownership of the radio station, however, drove him into bankruptcy. He stopped operating KNOG on April 9, 1965—the last day