Gene Price was a Denver radio broadcaster whose career stretched for 36 years across an unusually wide range of the city’s AM stations.
Price began his Denver broadcasting career in 1953 at KVOD-AM, then known as the “Voice of Denver,” working as a disc jockey, newscaster and board operator. His entry into radio came during the final years before rock and roll transformed music broadcasting, allowing his career to span several distinct eras of Denver radio.
Over the following decades, Price worked at KERE, KHOW, KICN, KIMN, KMYR, KTLK, KVOD and KWBZ. That station list placed him inside everything from personality-driven music radio to news and talk. His longevity also made him a professional link between Denver broadcasting’s postwar period and the increasingly consolidated and format-driven industry of the 1980s.
Price retired from KYGO in 1989 after 36 years as a newscaster. His career is remembered less for a single station identity than for its breadth: a working broadcaster whose voice and newsroom experience moved through many of the call letters that shaped Denver radio in the second half of the twentieth century.
Sources: Broadcast Pioneers of Colorado — Denver Radio history; Colorado Music Hall of Fame — KIMN Radio.
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1953: Gene Price begins at KVOD-AM
1953 — Price began his Denver broadcasting career in 1953 at KVOD-AM , then known as the “Voice of Denver,” working as a disc jockey, newscaster and board operator.
1989: Gene Price retires from KYGO-FM
1989 — Price retired from KYGO-FM in 1989 after 36 years as a newscaster.
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