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Kyle McCoy

Kyle McCoy is a mountain-town radio name credited on the Ski Country Radio stations (KSKE) and on Aspen’s KSPN-FM. If you’ve scrolled SkiCountryRadio.com or KSPN’s “Always Mountain Time” site for a ski report or a concert date, you’ve seen this name attached to the work.

Ski Country Radio and KSPN

The Colorado Broadcasters Association (CBA) credits Kyle for the SkiCountryRadio.com website in 2019 and 2020, for the KSPN station website in 2020 and 2022, and as a credited contributor on The 90’s at Noon, a 2020 entertainment program on KSKE alongside a host billed as The Outlaw Pat Garrett. KSPN is 103.1 FM in Aspen, an adult album alternative station that first went on the air in 1970 and is owned through AlwaysMountainTime, LLC.

This is a short page built from published award credits. McCoy is a common name, so we have not tied this Kyle McCoy to any other radio career, and we haven’t found a published bio. If you worked with Kyle or have more to add, we’d love to hear from you.

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October 11, 2026

Ryan Koster

Ryan Koster is credited on a lot of what makes KSPN-FM in Aspen sound like itself, from the station’s imaging and promos to its afternoon show, The Ride Home with Ryan.

Aspen’s KSPN

Colorado Broadcasters Association results for 2020 and 2022 credit Ryan with work on station imaging, promotions, the station website, a regularly scheduled entertainment program and a sales campaign. Several of the imaging credits are shared with Anderson Koster.

Beyond the credits, no further biography has turned up yet.

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Kim Emanuel

Kim Emanuel is credited on sales and community campaigns for the Radio 101 stations in Durango, KIQX and KRSJ, in Colorado Broadcasters Association (CBA) awards.

This is a short stub. The CBA pages don’t give a job title or career dates, so the details below are only what the credits show. If you know more of the story, send it in with the suggestion form.

Campaigns for Durango advertisers

The CBA’s 2025 medium-market results share the credit on three entries: a sales campaign supporting Music in the Mountains on KIQX, a radio spot for a Music in the Mountains Pops Night on KRSJ, and the Firewise campaign, a community service effort to help protect and inform people about wildfire in the Durango area. If you heard those spots on the Durango dial, you heard this team’s work.

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October 11, 2026

Jake Lory

Jake Lory is credited as a host and on-air personality at KIQX, Radio 101 in Durango, in Colorado Broadcasters Association (CBA) awards.

This is a short stub. The CBA pages list the shows and projects but not a bio or career dates. If you know more of the story, send it in with the suggestion form.

Afternoons on Radio 101

The CBA’s 2025 medium-market results credit Jake on the afternoon show Rockin with the Jones. If you were driving around Durango and the Four Corners in the afternoon, that’s the stretch of the day this credit covers. The same results also credit the station-sponsored community event Lowdown on Snowdown, shared with two other station credits.

KIQX broadcasts on 101.3 FM from Durango and, per Wikipedia, is owned by Four Corners Broadcasting.

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Shannon Lukens

Shannon Lukens is the news director for Steamboat Springs radio. If you wake up in Routt County and want to know about road conditions, council meetings or what’s happening on the mountain, hers is the newsroom behind a lot of what you hear on KEZZ-FM and the Steamboat Radio group.

News director for Steamboat’s stations

CU Boulder’s College of Media, Communication and Information describes her as the award-winning news director for all seven radio stations in Steamboat Springs. She hosts a daily radio presence, works as a sports announcer at events around Colorado, and is president of Lukens Mountain Media, a business that manages social media for clients.

Steamboat Radio on air and online

The Colorado Broadcasters Association (CBA) credits Shannon on KEZZ-FM from 2021 through 2025 for the station’s newscasts (Steamboat Radio News and later Northwest Colorado News), its website and its Facebook page. So the news you read on the Steamboat Radio site and the posts you see on its Facebook page are part of the same work you hear on the air.

This is a short page built from a university profile and CBA credits. If you worked with Shannon or have more to add, we’d love to hear from you.

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October 11, 2026

Ross McIntyre

Ross McIntyre is credited alongside Tom Fricke on the creative side of Krystal 93 (KYSL-FM) in Frisco: station imaging, seasonal greetings and a community-service campaign. If you have heard one of Krystal 93’s holiday or Mother’s Day spots, you have probably heard this work.

What the credits show

Colorado Broadcasters Association results list Ross with Tom Fricke on the station’s imaging campaigns in 2019, 2021, 2023 and 2024, plus a community-service campaign in 2020. His exact job title is not given in those listings, and no other biography has turned up, so this page sticks to the credits.

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October 11, 2026

Brad Hansen

Brad Hansen is a country radio programmer who ran operations for Townsquare Media’s Fort Collins stations, including KUAD, New Country 99.1, and worked in Denver, Albuquerque and several other markets before that.

A programmer’s road to Colorado

According to Radio Ink and RadioInsight, he programmed country stations KASE-FM and KVET-FM in Austin for Clear Channel (now iHeartMedia), ran programming in Springfield, Missouri for Journal Broadcast Group, and in Reno, Nevada for Citadel and Cumulus. He had an earlier Colorado stop too: he was operations manager for the Clear Channel stations in Fort Collins.

Denver and Albuquerque

In April 2014 he became program director of 92.5 The Wolf (KWOF) in Denver, a country station owned by Kroenke Sports & Entertainment. If you listened to country in the Denver area in those years, that was his station. In 2016 he left for Cumulus in Albuquerque, where he became FM operations manager and program director for stations including KRST Nash FM.

Back to Fort Collins

Country Aircheck reported in December 2018 that he was joining Townsquare in Fort Collins as operations manager with programming oversight for KUAD, effective January 2, succeeding Lance Tidwell. His name also turns up in Colorado Broadcasters Association credits for New Country 99.1 in 2019 and 2020, and for KTRR, Retro 102.5, another Townsquare Fort Collins station.

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October 11, 2026

Amanda Giles

Amanda Giles is a midday and weekend host at Krystal 93 (KYSL-FM) in Frisco, so if you are in Summit County on a weekend with the radio on, she may well be the voice with you.

At Krystal 93

The station’s Krystal 93 team page says she hikes in Summit County, spends time at the ocean and is passionate about live music. Colorado Broadcasters Association results from 2020 through 2025 credit her on community-service campaigns and a public-affairs program, often with Craig Koehn, TJ Sanders and Phil Lindeman.

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October 11, 2026

Chad Peyer

Chad Peyer is a KIQX-FM personality in Durango, credited in 2025 as host of a morning show on “Radio 101.” If you start your day in the Four Corners with a hot AC mix and a local update, that’s the neighborhood this show lives in.

Radio 101 in Durango

KIQX broadcasts at 101.3 FM, licensed to Durango, and serves the Four Corners region. It’s owned by Four Corners Broadcasting alongside sister stations KRSJ, KIUP and KKDC. The Colorado Broadcasters Association (CBA) 2025 credits list Chad as host of a morning show called Chad Peyer in the AM, and as part of the KIQX team on community and sales projects, including a Snowdown event tie-in, an on-air Coors Light Silver Bullet search, a Music in the Mountains sponsorship and a Firewise public awareness campaign.

This is a short page built from published award credits and station information. We have not found a published bio for Chad, so start date, background and other stops are not listed. If you worked with Chad or have more to add, we’d love to hear from you.

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October 11, 2026

Caroline Llanes

Caroline Llanes is a public radio reporter who, per the 2022 announcement, joined Aspen Public Radio (KAJX) in 2022 to cover the Roaring Fork Valley and the communities around it. If you’ve heard a news story about local government, public lands, wildfire crews or the valley’s trails on your drive down Highway 82, there’s a good chance it was hers. (We haven’t confirmed where she’s reporting today.)

From San Diego to the Roaring Fork Valley

Caroline is originally from San Diego. Aspen Public Radio says she visited the Roaring Fork Valley every year as a kid on family ski trips, so the move wasn’t a total surprise. She studied history at the University of Michigan, where she worked as a copy editor and columnist at The Michigan Daily, and she started in public media as a newsroom intern at Michigan Radio, covering topics like the pandemic and the Great Lakes.

Boston and WBUR

Before Colorado she was an associate producer for Morning Edition at WBUR in Boston, one of the bigger public radio newsrooms in the country.

Aspen Public Radio

Aspen Public Radio announced on February 14, 2022 that Caroline was joining as its general assignment reporter, a newly created position meant to add local reporting capacity. Her profile on Amplify Colorado describes her beat as local governments and public lands across Eagle, Garfield and Pitkin counties, with a focus that also takes in climate and environment, health, immigration, science and rural Colorado. She reports in English and Spanish, and her work has aired on NPR.

Her station work includes stories on the valley’s sheepdog championships, a bilingual public lands map aimed at bringing more of the Latino community onto local trails, an all-women’s wildland fire crew, and the 30th anniversary of the Storm King fire. The Colorado Broadcasters Association credits show up on the awards card on this page.

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October 11, 2026

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Ski Country Radio and KSPN

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Aspen’s KSPN

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Campaigns for Durango advertisers

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Afternoons on Radio 101

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News director for Steamboat’s stations

Steamboat Radio on air and online

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What the credits show

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A programmer’s road to Colorado

Denver and Albuquerque

Back to Fort Collins

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At Krystal 93

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Radio 101 in Durango

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From San Diego to the Roaring Fork Valley

Boston and WBUR

Aspen Public Radio

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