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Joyce Jefferson

Joyce Jefferson is a Colorado-connected radio personality whose career runs from local radio in Colorado Springs to nationally distributed music formats. If you’ve heard a Classic Hits station on satellite, you may have heard her without knowing she got her start in the Springs.

KYSN and Colorado Springs

Joyce worked at KYSN in Colorado Springs from 1977 to 1982. She went on to launch a nationally syndicated Hollywood report and worked as an entertainment reporter for Sony Worldwide Radio Networks.

Network radio

Joyce later became a familiar voice on satellite and affiliate formats. In 2018 Westwood One brought her into its rebuilt 24/7 Formats operation as a Classic Hits host. Network materials have also described her as a Classic Hits and Classic Rock music scheduler and on-air host based in Colorado.

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Michael Gifford

Michael “Giff” Gifford is a Colorado radio personality, music director, programmer and talent coach whose career spans local Denver radio and nationally distributed music formats. If you spent Denver afternoon drives with Mix 100 around the turn of the century, you probably heard Giff.

Denver radio

Trade records place Giff at KIMN-FM/Mix 100 in Denver by 2000. His professional biography describes more than a decade in Denver afternoon drive while also serving as assistant program director and music director for CBS Radio.

Network radio and coaching

Giff later worked as a morning personality and music director for Westwood One. In 2018 he joined Local Radio Networks as an AC-format host, bringing his Denver and network experience to affiliates around the country.

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Broadway Bill Lee

Broadway Bill Lee is a nationally known music-radio personality whose career included a formative stop at KPKE in Denver. Born Bill Lenkey, he built a distinctive fast-paced, rhyming on-air style. If you were listening to KPKE in the mid-1980s, you caught him before New York did.

Colorado radio career

Bill came to Denver’s KPKE in 1985 after work at stations including WTIC-FM, KFRC-AM and WLOL-FM. He left Denver in late 1986 for New York’s new Hot 103, where the proximity to Broadway helped turn “Bill Lee” into the enduring on-air name Broadway Bill Lee.

Later career and recognition

After his Denver stop, Bill worked at WQHT/Hot 103 and Hot 97 in New York, KMEL in San Francisco, WKTU and WCBS-FM.

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Mel Rutledge

Melanie “Mel” Rutledge is a Colorado radio personality best known as one half of Winston & Mel, the longtime morning show on KXKL-FM/KOOL 105 in Denver. If you started your weekday mornings with KOOL 105 for nine years running, that’s the voice you woke up to.

Mornings on KOOL 105

Mel co-hosted mornings with Kris Winston for nine years. The show mixed conversation and humor with KOOL 105’s classic-hits format and stayed on the air through September 2024, when KXKL announced a new morning show hosted by Dom Testa and Melissa Moore.

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Kris Winston

Kris Winston is a Colorado radio personality best known as one half of Winston & Mel, the longtime morning show on KXKL-FM/KOOL 105 in Denver. If you started your weekday mornings with KOOL 105 for nine years running, that’s the voice you woke up to.

Mornings on KOOL 105

Kris co-hosted mornings with Melanie “Mel” Rutledge for nine years. The show mixed conversation and humor with KOOL 105’s classic-hits format and stayed on the air through September 2024, when KXKL announced a new morning show hosted by Dom Testa and Melissa Moore.

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Michael Moon

Michael Moon is a longtime Denver radio personality, producer, copywriter and voice actor. If you listened to Y108 in the early 1990s, or heard a Denver commercial on Entercom’s stations in the years since, you may have heard Michael’s work.

Y108 days

Michael was part of the personality-driven Y108 era on KRXY-FM. He was in afternoon drive in 1992, and surviving Y108 staff photographs place him alongside other familiar Denver voices from the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Behind the scenes at Entercom Denver

He later worked in commercial production, copywriting and voice work for Entercom Denver. That operation included KALC-FM/Alice 105.9, KQMT-FM/99.5 The Mountain, KQKS-FM/KS 107.5 and KEZW-AM.

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Chelsea Thomas

Chelsea Thomas is a Denver radio personality you can catch on country and on Top 40. If you listen to 106.7 The Bull or HITS 95.7, you’ve probably heard her.

Joining The Bull

Chelsea joined 106.7 The Bull‘s weekday lineup in 2018. She started in middays, then moved to afternoon drive alongside Bryan “B-Dub” Washington on the B-Dub & Chelsea Show. iHeart’s on-air schedules have listed her on both The Bull and KDHT-FM/HITS 95.7.

Her work includes music hosting, artist interviews, station events and community promotions, and country-radio trade coverage has identified her as KWBL’s afternoon host.

Awards

The Colorado Broadcasters Association’s 2021 metro-market awards credited Chelsea on KWBL’s “Chevy Tailgate” sales campaign. In the 2024 major-market awards, she was also credited on KCCY-FM‘s “Y Fest 2024” live-event entry.

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Deuce

David “Deuce” Jacobson is a Denver radio personality and programmer known on the air as Deuce. If you listened to KS 107.5 or 95.7 The Party in the 2010s, he was a big part of what you heard.

Denver radio

Deuce spent more than a decade in Denver rhythmic and contemporary-hit radio. He was on KQKS-FM KS 107.5 and then became a central personality at KPTT 95.7 The Party, the station now known as KDHT-FM HITS 95.7. In 2019 he moved into mornings after J.J. Kincaid left, joining Nina Blanco and producer Robert “Dubz” Trigilio on The Party Morning Show with Deuce, Nina & Dubz. The trio left in July 2021, shortly before the rebrand to HITS 95.7. Deuce also held programming roles and originated syndicated rhythmic-CHR programming from Denver.

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Matt Haeger

Matt Haeger is the production guy behind the sound of several Denver Entercom stations. If you listened to Alice 105.9, 99.5 The Mountain, KS 107.5 or EZ 1430 in the early 2010s, the imaging and promos you heard were often his work.

Denver radio career

Matt worked on KALC-FM, KQMT-FM, KQKS-FM and KEZW-AM, as well as Comedy 103.1. After seven years in Entercom’s Denver operation, he was promoted in 2016 from creative services director to the company’s newly created national production director job.

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Gretchen Pleshaw

Gretchen Pleshaw is a Colorado radio and television personality, entertainment journalist and interviewer associated with KKCH-FM/The Lift FM in the central mountains. If you listen to The Lift FM on your afternoon drive in Eagle, Pitkin or Summit county, that’s Gretchen.

Colorado radio career

Pleshaw hosts weekday afternoons on The Lift FM. The station’s official listening guide lists her from noon to 7 p.m. and describes the Avon-based signal as serving communities across Eagle, Garfield, Pitkin and Summit counties.

Her work has also included television hosting and interviews with actors, musicians and athletes. In interviews with VoyageDenver and Shoutout Colorado, Pleshaw described radio as part of a broader career built around sharing people’s stories and bringing an upbeat presence to audiences.

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KYSN and Colorado Springs

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Later career and recognition

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Mornings on KOOL 105

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Mornings on KOOL 105

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Y108 days

Behind the scenes at Entercom Denver

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Joining The Bull

Awards

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Denver radio

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Colorado radio career

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