KUVO (89.3 FM) is Denver’s jazz station, broadcasting from the heart of Five Points. If you’ve ever tuned in for jazz on a Denver drive, you’ve felt the neighborhood in the music.
History
KUVO started with a plan in the early 1980s by Hugo Morales of Radio Bilingüe to build a Hispanic public radio station in Denver. Florence Hernández-Ramos, who met Morales in 1982, did the research, raised the grants, bought the equipment, built the board and set up training programs to get it on the air.
The construction permit carried the call letters KHUM. KUVO signed on August 29, 1985, owned by Denver Educational Broadcasting. Since 1994 it has broadcast from the Five Points Media Center. In 2013, KUVO merged into Rocky Mountain PBS. In 2019, it added Denver Open Media on its HD3 channel, playing only local artists.
Call sign timeline
- KHUM: 1983 to 1985 (construction permit)
- KUVO: 1985 to present
The signal
- 89.3 MHz, licensed to Denver, Colorado
- Format: jazz and public radio
- Owner: Rocky Mountain Public Media (Denver Educational Broadcasting until 2013)
- FCC facility ID 16687
Sources
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FROM THE TIMELINE
Moments in KUVO-FM History
KUVO 89.3 signs on
August 29, 1985 — KUVO signed on, owned by Denver Educational Broadcasting. It came out of Hugo Morales' plan for a Hispanic public station in Denver, brought to life by Florence Hernández-Ramos, and became Denver's jazz station.
KHUM becomes KUVO
KHUM becomes KUVO: the 89.3 FM station in Denver changed its call letters from KHUM to KUVO in 1985 (exact day not yet confirmed; low confidence).
KUVO moves into the Five Points Media Center
1994 — KUVO started broadcasting from the Five Points Media Center at 2900 Welton Street in Denver's Five Points neighborhood.
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