PRESERVING RADIO HISTORY ACROSS COLORADO

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  • Cliff Hendrix

    Cliff Hendrix was one of Pueblo radio’s best-known mid-century broadcasters and a longtime KCSJ personality and manager. If your family tuned in KCSJ in 1950s or 1960s Pueblo, his was a name you knew.

    Moving up at KCSJ

    The 1955 Broadcasting Yearbook listed Cliff as KCSJ’s program and farm director. By 1957 he was radio director, and by 1966 he had become general manager. Trade advertising still identified him as KCSJ manager later in the 1960s.

    Colorado Hayride

    Cliff was also a visible local entertainer. He served as master of ceremonies for the Colorado Hayride, the live country-music program featuring Buddy Johnson and the Colorado Rangers, and he appeared with Johnson at community events and on KCSJ television.

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  • Buddy Johnson

    William “Buddy” Johnson was a Pueblo radio and TV entertainer, Western-music host and bandleader. If your family tuned in to Western music in Pueblo in the late ’40s and ’50s, you probably knew Buddy and his Colorado Rangers.

    On the Pueblo airwaves

    Buddy began his Pueblo radio work in the late 1940s at KGHF and KDZA, then joined KCSJ. His family’s archive documents his daily Western-music program, evening broadcasts with the Colorado Rangers and the live audiences who sent in requests.

    Television and the band

    Buddy also worked on KCSJ television, including the Pueblo Barn Dance, the children’s Adventurer’s Club and Western music shows. His programs brought regional music into homes and studio audiences, while the Colorado Rangers played dances and community events.

    Remembered

    Buddy died in Pueblo on December 5, 1986, at age 67.

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  • Nick Donovan

    Nick Donovan is a Pueblo guy who’s been waking up Southern Colorado for years. If you’ve started your day with KDZA, or hunted for the Jingle Bell Rock prize at Christmas, you know his voice.

    Pueblo mornings and programming

    Nick became a familiar Pueblo morning personality over many years and also worked as a program director in the market. A 1996 industry guide lists him in a Pueblo programming role, and later directory records show him as program director of KDZA-FM/Jet 107.9 under Clear Channel ownership.

    The Mountain, then back to KDZA

    He later hosted mornings on KPHT/95.5 The Mountain. After leaving iHeartMedia in 2023, Nick became a key on-air voice of the revived KDZA 1230/101.9, hosting Mornings with Nick.

    Jingle Bell Rock

    Nick is also closely tied to Pueblo’s long-running Jingle Bell Rock scavenger hunt. Local coverage says he became the voice of the promotion in the 1980s and helped keep the tradition going for a new generation.

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  • Richard Randall

    Richard Randall is a Colorado Springs talk-radio host whose career has taken him from TV reporting to radio news to long-form local talk. If you want to know what’s happening in Colorado Springs and Southern Colorado, odds are you’ve tuned in to his morning show.

    The road to KVOR

    Richard started his broadcasting career in Illinois, where he also worked as a trial lawyer. After moving to Colorado Springs he was a reporter at KKTV, then moved into radio news and talk at KVOR.

    The Richard Randall Show

    On AM 740 KVOR, Richard built a weekday local-issues program focused on Colorado Springs and Southern Colorado. He’s also hosted community forums and special events for the station, including its “Newsapalooza” gatherings in 2009 and 2010. The Colorado Broadcasters Association’s 2009 awards placed The Richard Randall Show second in the major-market Best News/Talk Broadcast Personality or Talk Show category.

    Where is he now?

    As of October 2026, Richard is still part of KVOR’s local weekday lineup, on the air from 8 to 10 a.m. Missed it live? The Richard Randall Show is also an on-demand podcast on iHeart, digging into Colorado politics, election officials and ballot measures.

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  • Jim Arthur

    Jim Arthur is a longtime Colorado Springs news and sports broadcaster whose career has been tied closely to KVOR. If you start your Springs morning with the news on KVOR, or catch Air Force games on the radio, you know his voice.

    Path to KVOR

    Jim is a Colorado native who worked in Trinidad and Canon City before joining KVOR in 1989 as a sports reporter. He became lead anchor of Colorado Springs Morning News in 1995 and has been a central local voice on the station for decades. KVOR’s station information also lists him as news director.

    Air Force sports

    Jim has called Air Force basketball since 1996 and football since 2002, and has won multiple Colorado Broadcasters Association awards for sportscasting.

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  • Mark Stevens

    Mark Stevens is one of Colorado Springs’ most familiar rock voices. If you’ve listened to KKFM on a weekday afternoon, you’ve likely heard him, and he’s been rocking the Springs since the mid-1980s.

    Arriving in 1985

    Mark came to Colorado Springs from Durango in 1985. He told the Gazette in 2012 that the first song he played on the air in town was Eddie Murphy’s “Party All the Time,” and that apart from a stretch working in Dallas and Washington, D.C. from 2002 to 2008, he’d been rocking Colorado Springs ever since.

    More than an air shift

    His KKFM role grew quickly. By 1987 he was music director, working with program director Bill Betts at what was then an album-rock station. By September 1992 he was assistant program director of the now-classic-rock KKFM under PD Chris Baker, part of its programming leadership during a big shake-up on the local FM dial.

    Afternoons

    After his years away, Mark returned to KKFM and became one of its most familiar afternoon voices; in 2012 he hosted 2 to 7 p.m. and ran recurring features like the 6 p.m. Triple Shot, often built around an artist’s birthday or anniversary, and the Friday 5 p.m. Loud and Proud Military Salute. In that interview he said great personalities should sound conversational instead of using the stereotypical DJ voice, and that radio’s long-term challenge is staying relevant as listeners get more ways to find music, which means personalities staying entertaining and connected to listeners instead of just announcing records.

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  • Shawn Lucero

    Shawn Lucero is a Colorado radio host and programmer whose career started in Colorado Springs and later reached across the state. If you grew up on the Springs’ rock stations, there’s a good chance you’ve heard her.

    Career

    Lucero got her start in 2002 as an intern and weekend-morning host at 94.3 KILO. She went on to work in promotions at 98KUPD in Phoenix, then joined 101.5 K-Rock/KMKF in Manhattan, Kansas in 2006 as promotions director and morning host and eventually became its program director. In 2015 she came back to KILO as music director and midday host.

    In 2019 she became program director of KRXP/X103.9, where she also hosted on air and developed music-focused digital content, and where she promoted midday host Aubrey Bishop to promotions director in 2022. She remained a major part of the Colorado Springs alternative-radio scene until April 2023. Carly Evans stepped up to program director after her and called Lucero one of her best friends of a decade.

    Where is Shawn Lucero now?

    She’s at Colorado Public Radio, which hired her as a host and promotions coordinator for Indie 102.3 (KVOQ-FM) in Denver. She joined Indie on May 1, 2023, with weekend afternoon shifts starting in mid-May, and also coordinates the station’s work with promoters, venues and artists across Colorado.

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  • Coyote McCloud

    Coyote McCloud, whose name is documented as John Lane, is a Colorado Springs radio personality and music director at 92.9 Peak FM (KKPK). If you drive the Springs with the Peak on in the afternoon, that’s him on the air.

    Meeting radio fans

    A 2011 International Radio Club of America convention report names “John Lane, aka Coyote McCloud of KKPK Peak-FM 92.9.” When the convention came to Colorado Springs, he chatted with attendees during his air shift, joined the group for dinner and later talked at length about his experience in radio.

    On the board

    Photos from 2011 show Coyote at the control board during his shift and identify him as KKPK‘s music director. The station’s current schedule still lists him in weekday afternoon drive, 3 to 7 p.m., and on Sundays.

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