PRESERVING RADIO HISTORY ACROSS COLORADO

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  • Rick Lewis

    Rick Lewis is a Denver radio personality and sports broadcaster who has done classic-rock mornings, talk and Broncos games. If you spent your mornings with The Fox 103.5, you know him from Lewis & Floorwax.

    Lewis & Floorwax

    Rick and Michael “Floorwax” Steinke launched Lewis & Floorwax on KRFX-FM, 103.5 The Fox, in July 1990. The locally focused comedy show became one of Denver’s biggest morning programs and stayed a fixture for nearly a quarter-century. Rick also played drums in the pair’s blues-rock side project, the Groove Hawgs. When Floorwax left in 2014 for health reasons, Rick kept doing mornings on The Fox, with Kathy Lee as a key co-host.

    KOA and the Broncos

    After a one-game guest commentator turn in 2016, Rick debuted on January 3, 2017, as co-host of a KOA afternoon show with longtime Broncos voice Dave Logan, while still doing early mornings at KRFX. In 2017 he also became a regular color analyst alongside Dave in the Broncos radio booth. Logan & Lewis later moved to late mornings before KOA ended Rick’s daily double duty, and he kept going on The Fox and in the Broncos booth.

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  • Robbyn Hart

    Robbyn Hart is a voice many Denver listeners have woken up to. If KBCO has been on in your mornings or middays any time in the last twenty-five years or so, you know her.

    A Colorado kid on the radio

    Most of Robbyn’s childhood was spent in Colorado. She played basketball for the University of Colorado Boulder, and Colorado Springs is where she got her first radio job. Captain Dan Jackson lists Robbyn among the people who worked at KYSN during his own time there, from 1977 to 1982. In 1996 she joined the Denver radio group that is now iHeartMedia’s Denver operation, and in 1997 she checked off a childhood goal by starting at KBCO.

    Decades of mornings

    Robbyn delivered the morning news on KBCO and on its classic-rock sister station KRFX-FM for more than two decades. Along the way she reported news and anchored afternoons at KOA-AM, and she was the public-affairs director for the Denver cluster.

    Back on the air at KBCO

    Westword reported her among those affected by a round of iHeartMedia layoffs in June 2021, which ended that run. But in January 2023 she was back at KBCO as the weekday midday host, trading the news desk for the music lineup.

    Where is she now?

    As of October 2026, middays on KBCO are still hers. According to the station’s official bio, she is on weekdays from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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  • Keefer Fulgham

    David “Keefer” Fulgham is a radio personality, programmer and live-session producer whose Colorado career includes KBCO, Colorado Public Radio’s OpenAir and The Colorado Sound. If you’ve ever caught a live session from KBCO’s Studio C, odds are Keefer had a hand in it.

    Early career

    Fulgham spent eleven years at WYMG in Springfield, Illinois, then became program director and morning host at KBXR in Columbia, Missouri. KBCO had long been a dream destination, and he moved west to join the Boulder station.

    KBCO and Studio C

    Keefer worked at KBCO for more than a decade as music director, afternoon-drive host and producer of artist sessions in the station’s Studio C. After leaving KBCO, he continued his Colorado music-radio work as a host and production specialist for Colorado Public Radio’s OpenAir and later joined the launch-era staff of KJAC-FM, The Colorado Sound.

    In March 2017 he returned to KBCO for afternoon drive. His on-air identity combines a deep knowledge of album-oriented music with experience producing intimate live performances by touring and Colorado artists.

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  • J.J. Kincaid

    J.J. Kincaid is a second-generation radio guy who spent a few years waking up Denver. If you listened to Top 40 on 95.7 The Party between 2015 and 2019, he was in your morning.

    Before Denver

    J.J. started in radio in the 1990s and worked at big contemporary-hit stations including KDWB in Minneapolis and WHTZ (Z100) in New York. He spent nine years at Z100 and became known for stretching his afternoon show across social-media platforms. His dad, Robert Cohen, also worked in broadcasting, including at Voice of America.

    95.7 The Party

    In 2015, iHeartMedia hired J.J. as program director and morning host of Denver Top 40 station KPTT-FM. His morning show originally included Deanna Regalado and producer Robert “Dubz” Trigilio, and Nina Blanco joined later. He stayed with The Party until April 2019, when he left and David “Deuce” Jacobson took over mornings.

    After Denver

    J.J. moved to WKHX-FM, New Country 101.FIVE, in Atlanta. His morning show Kincaid & Dallas later went national through Westwood One and was still in production in 2026.

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  • Denise Plante

    Denise Plante is a Denver radio and TV personality with more than three decades in local broadcasting. If you had KOSI 101.1 on at the office, or The Bull in the car in the late 2010s, she was the voice keeping you company.

    Colorado radio

    Her radio stops include KOSI-FM, KALC-FM and KWBL-FM. Most Denver listeners knew her from a long stretch in the midday slot at KOSI 101.1, before she switched in July 2018 to iHeartMedia’s 106.7 The Bull. iHeartMedia also had her host radio programs that aired across the country.

    On television

    Radio was only part of it, because Denise also built up a long list of TV credits. They include Colorado & Company on KUSA, Great Day Colorado on KWGN, and Weekend Vibe on KDVR, along with turns on Daily Blast Live, Extra and MTV’s FM Nation.

    Honors

    In February 2026, after the CBA named her show Best Midday Show, she was a guest announcer at the Grand Ole Opry’s centennial celebration.

    Where is she now?

    Her eight years at 106.7 The Bull came to an end in June 2026, as part of an iHeartMedia restructuring.

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  • Scott Arbough

    Scott Arbough put 38 years into crafting the sound of KBCO. Ever caught a live Studio C session, or picked up one of the Studio C charity CDs? Then you’ve heard his work.

    From Fort Collins to Boulder

    Before landing on KBCO‘s air staff in 1985, Scott held the music director job at KTCL in Fort Collins. At KBCO he took charge of engineering and producing the station’s Studio C sessions, and years later he stepped into the program director chair, which he kept for 23 years.

    Programming and Studio C

    With Scott guiding things, KBCO remained a Triple A station with national influence.

    Scott also produced 35 charity CDs from Studio C, along with a pair of vinyl albums and a pair of vinyl singles, all drawn from performances recorded at the station. Proceeds went to charities in Denver and Boulder.

    Retirement

    Scott’s retirement took effect on March 31, 2023. Over those 38 years he wore the hats of air personality, engineer, producer and programmer, and he also mentored the programming team that carried on after him.

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  • Bret Saunders

    Bret Saunders is the voice many Colorado music fans woke up to for nearly three decades. If you’ve ever had KBCO on in the morning, you’ve heard him.

    From Detroit to Colorado

    Bret is a Detroit kid who caught the radio bug while still in high school. He relocated to Colorado in 1988 and got going at a tiny outlet in Craig. Late in 1993 he landed the morning shift at Fort Collins alternative station KTCL, where his fast wit and deep knowledge of music won him a loyal audience.

    Mornings on KBCO

    In 1997 Bret switched over to KBCO, and he ran the morning show there for better than 28 years. Longtime listeners probably remember “Much Too Early for a Question Question” and “The Sage of World Class Rock,” the mock-authoritative music-trivia character he played. Lou Reed was among the big names he interviewed, and he helped present the live sessions recorded in KBCO’s Studio C. The albums compiled from those sessions raised millions of dollars for groups like Food Bank of the Rockies and the Boulder County AIDS Project. He also kept up a jazz column that ran every Sunday for years in The Denver Post.

    Where is he now?

    Bret’s time at KBCO came to an end in June 2026, amid a nationwide restructuring at iHeartMedia. He said he hoped to keep working and to stay in Colorado. That same month, the Denver Gazette put him on its Colorado 150 list as one of the state’s cultural pathmakers.

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  • Cheri Marquart

    Cheri Marquart is a Denver radio programmer and air talent coach whose work has been heard in Denver smooth jazz and on stations nationwide. If you tuned in to Denver’s smooth-jazz stations in the ’90s, or to any 24/7 network format since, you’ve likely heard her touch.

    Where is she now?

    Since August 2025, Cheri has been a consultant with Denver-based Paragon. She advises on air talent and music scheduling, and brings her commercial and network experience to public-radio stations.

    The Westwood One years

    Her time at Westwood One began in 2012, when she took charge of its 24/7 adult contemporary and Christmas formats after the company had changed hands over the years. In 2014 she moved up to vice president of programming and added the contemporary formats to her plate. Radio Ink named her among its Most Influential Women in Radio in 2024. She left Westwood One in April 2025 as several of the 24/7 formats were eliminated.

    Jones Radio Networks

    The network side of her career goes back to 1994, when she joined Jones Radio Networks. She hosted afternoons and did the music for its Smooth Jazz format. By 2002 she was program director, and in that role she launched a Classic Hits-Rock service.

    Denver smooth jazz

    Locally, Cheri was on the air at KHIH when it was a smooth-jazz station, and a look at Denver radio in the mid-’90s finds her in KHIH’s on-air lineup. She also did mornings at KMJI as well as KHIH.

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  • Bill Thorpe

    Bill Thorpe is a Denver-born broadcaster who’s done a bit of everything on the radio. If you’ve listened to rock on the Westwood One network, or caught talk radio on 710 KNUS, you may have heard him on either end of the dial.

    Denver radio

    Bill has worked behind the scenes and on the air in Denver, including as a producer at KHOW-AM and as a talk host during the early-2000s KNRC era. His long local career put him on the air for major Colorado stories including the Columbine High School shooting, the JonBenét Ramsey investigation and championship seasons for the Denver Broncos and Colorado Avalanche.

    In 2024, KNUS-AM paired Bill with Jeff Hunt for The Jeff and Bill Show. The weekday program mixes current events and political discussion, with Jeff taking a conservative view and Bill providing an independent one.

    National music radio

    Bill also spent many years with Westwood One’s nationally distributed music formats, including a twelve-year run hosting an evening rock program carried by more than 150 affiliate stations. His modern- and classic-rock work has also been heard through the Armed Forces Network.

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  • Howie Drummond

    Howie Drummond is a Denver radio and food personality, best remembered for his run on Alice 105.9. If you started your Denver mornings with Alice, chances are he was part of your routine.

    Alice 105.9

    Howie joined the morning lineup at KALC-FM and eventually co-hosted with B.J. Harris and Jamie White. In October 2012 he exited the Entercom hot AC station, by which point the program was called BJ, Howie & Jamie.

    Food and television

    Howie’s road to the microphone started in kitchens. He worked in restaurants for seven years, with chef as his goal, until a radio contest win nudged him toward broadcasting. His appetite for food stuck around, though, and he later hosted a cooking program on Denver television that lasted three years.

    Howie also competed on Food Network Star and spent two seasons hosting Grill vs. Grill, a cooking competition based in Denver, on Altitude.

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