PRESERVING RADIO HISTORY ACROSS COLORADO

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  • Bo Jaxon

    Bo Jaxon is a country programmer and morning host who has worked Colorado radio on both sides of the Palmer Divide. If Denver’s KIMN was on in your house around 2017, or Cat Country 95.1 in Colorado Springs was your early-2020s commute, you’ve heard his work.

    Waking up Colorado Springs

    When Cumulus relaunched Cat Country 95.1 (KATC-FM) in April 2020, Bo was the new voice greeting you in the morning. He co-hosted the weekday Cat Country Morning Show with Wendy LaBree, airing 5 to 10 a.m. Across the three years he was KATC’s program director and morning host, he was working with a lot of experience behind him. Right before Colorado Springs he was in Missouri as operations manager of SummitMedia’s Springfield cluster and program director of country KTTS. Before that came 14 years at KLUC in Las Vegas, and in 2018 the Nevada Broadcasters Association put him in its Hall of Fame.

    The Denver stint in 2017

    Go back to January 2017 and Bo was program director of KSE Radio’s hot AC station KIMN in Denver. He was also handed a second job at its country sister station, KWOF, as program director and morning host, a slot that opened up when Ed Hill left in November. On the morning show he joined Jenny D, who was already holding down mornings there, and midday host Greg Peters was bumped up to music director.

    Rochester and the move west

    In June 2023, Audacy brought Bo to 92.5 WBEE in Rochester, New York, to co-host the Bee Morning Coffee Club with Terry Clifford and TJ Sharp, weekdays 5:30 to 10 a.m. He went on the air for the first time on June 12. Bo grew up in New Jersey and thinks of the East as home, and he thanked Audacy for helping him get back there. His earlier career also took in stations in Ventura, California. He stayed at WBEE for two years and left in March 2025, explaining that he planned to go back west and be closer to his kids.

    This is a short page built from published reports. If you worked with Bo or have more to add, we’d love to hear from you.

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  • Lowell Thomas

    Lowell Thomas grew up as a Colorado kid and earned his degree at the University of Denver. From there he built a career that mixed writing, journalism, and broadcasting on both radio and TV. The Broadcast Pioneers of Colorado call him “one of the first nationally famous newsmen” on network radio.

    This is a short stub. He built his career on national network radio rather than at a Colorado station, so no station is linked. If you have Colorado connections or stories to add, send them in with the suggestion form.

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  • Bill Welsh

    Bill Welsh was a sportscaster and broadcaster who worked at KFEL in Denver before building a long career at KTLA in Hollywood.

    This is a short stub. The Broadcast Pioneers page dates his arrival at KFEL to 1935 but doesn’t give exact years for his stay there. If you remember him or have dates, send them in with the suggestion form.

    From Greeley to Hollywood

    According to the Broadcast Pioneers of Colorado, Bill was born in Greeley in 1911 and got his first radio job as a disc jockey at KFKA. His coverage of a Greeley policeman’s killing in 1935 caught the attention of Gene O’Fallon, who brought him to KFEL in Denver. There he hosted live broadcasts and special events, called sports play-by-play and later did University of Colorado football on KOA. He moved to Hollywood in 1944, joined KTLA as a sportscaster in 1946 and went on to broadcast 48 consecutive Rose Bowl parades.

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  • Mack Dodge

    Mackenzie “Mack” Dodge is a Colorado broadcaster tied to KEKB.

    This is a short stub. The CBA page doesn’t give his role or career dates. If you know the story, send it in with the suggestion form.

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  • Brian Gary

    Brian Gary is a Colorado broadcaster tied to KUAD-FM in Windsor.

    This is a short stub. The CBA page doesn’t give his role or career dates. If you know the story, send it in with the suggestion form.

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  • Ryan Warner

    Ryan Warner is a Colorado Public Radio host whose station home is KCFR in Denver.

    This is a short stub. The CBA page doesn’t give his on-air role or career dates; the details below come from RAMP, and we link KCFR as Colorado Public Radio’s Denver flagship. If you know more of the story, send it in with the suggestion form.

    Colorado Matters

    If you’ve had CPR on in the car around 9 a.m. or 7 p.m. on a weekday, you’ve probably heard Ryan. He’s a senior host of Colorado Matters, which also airs on KRCC. RAMP now says he’s marking 20 years of covering Colorado news as of November 2025, and CPR’s Kevin Dale credits his “voracious curiosity.” Ryan has won multiple Edward R. Murrow Awards, and Westword named him Denver’s top talk-radio host in 2021.

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  • Mark Pimentel

    Mark Pimentel is a Colorado Springs broadcaster tied to the KRDO radio and TV group.

    This is a short stub. The CBA page doesn’t give his job title or career dates. If you know the story, send it in with the suggestion form.

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  • Neil Best

    Neil Best is connected to community radio in northern Colorado, where KRFC in Fort Collins is the station.

    This is a short stub. The CBA page names his organization, not his job or years there, and I’m linking KRFC on the assumption that Community Radio for Northern Colorado is KRFC’s operator. If you know his story, send it in with the suggestion form.

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  • Roger Ogden

    Roger Ogden is a Colorado broadcaster linked to KYSL in Frisco.

    Radio World’s write-up of the 2026 class describes the Hall of Fame’s Roger Ogden as the former president and CEO of Gannett Broadcasting, who earlier was president and general manager of KUSA-TV in Denver and started his Gannett career there in 1967. We haven’t confirmed whether that’s the same Roger Ogden the CBA lists at KYSL-FM.

    This is a short stub. The CBA pages don’t say what his role at KYSL was or give a career timeline. If you know the story, send it in with the suggestion form.

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  • Tom Green

    Tom Green is a Denver sportscaster and anchor who has worked in both TV and radio, including a stint on 104.3 The Fan.

    According to his Colorado Broadcasters Association biography, Denver viewers first saw him in 1982, when he joined KUSA-TV as a sportscaster. Later stops took him to 104.3 The Fan, Fox Sports Rocky Mountain and KMGH, where he hosted and anchored. He also anchored the news at KWGN for 16 years, then went back to KUSA-TV in 2017 to anchor morning and evening newscasts.

    On the play-by-play side, that biography credits him with Broncos football in Denver, Avalanche hockey in Colorado and college football games. His hosting work, per the same page, covers Parade of Lights in Denver along with ESPN’s Sports on Tap and Olympic Zone.

    This is a short stub. The CBA biography doesn’t give years for his time at 104.3 The Fan or his play-by-play roles. If you worked with Tom or have dates, send them in with the suggestion form.

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