PRESERVING RADIO HISTORY ACROSS COLORADO

Archives: People

  • D.J. Ammonic

    D.J. Ammonic was a Southern Colorado radio personality on KVUU, My 99.9. If you listened to My 99.9 in 2009, that name may sound familiar.

    Cooking with the radio crowd

    In 2009, D.J. and Karson with a K were on the KVUU team in a charity culinary competition that paired local radio personalities with chefs.

    This is a short page built from limited records. If you worked with D.J. or have more to add, we’d love to hear from you.

    Sources

    • Colorado Springs Gazette: radio-personality culinary competition coverage (2009) (print)

  • Karson with a K

    Karson with a K is a Southern Colorado radio personality who was on the air in the late 2000s and early 2010s. If you listened to KVUU, My 99.9, around 2009, you may remember the name.

    My 99.9

    A 2009 Colorado Springs Gazette community item has Karson as part of the My 99.9 team alongside D.J. Ammonic.

    This is a short page built from limited records. If you worked with Karson or have more to add, we’d love to hear from you.

    Sources

    • The Colorado Springs Gazette: community event item (2009) (print)

  • Romi

    Romi Rosario, known on air simply as Romi, was a major KKMG/Magic FM personality during the 2000s. If you woke up to Magic 98.9 in Colorado Springs back then, Romi was likely one of the voices in your kitchen.

    Nine years at Magic FM

    Romi spent nine years at KKMG across multiple dayparts. She was part of the station’s highly successful morning show with CK and Lazerman, which local coverage credited with 26 No. 1 Arbitron finishes over roughly eight years. After CK and Lazerman left in 2006, Romi remained with Magic and later co-hosted mornings with Aaron “Goose” Sellers.

    When Goose left in 2008, Romi carried the morning show solo. She eventually moved back to middays, then co-hosted mornings again, this time with Danger Dean, before leaving for Denver.

    Off to Denver

    In 2011 Romi left Colorado Springs to become program director and afternoon personality at KDHT/Hot 107.1 in Denver. The move took effect July 1, 2011. She was program director as well as a morning co-host at Magic when she left.

    In the community

    Romi also became a recognizable local community personality, appearing as a judge at regional events and station promotions.

    Full name: Romi Rosario

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  • Nomi

    Nomi was a Southern Colorado alternative-rock personality on KRXP, X103.9. If you listened to alternative rock in the Springs in the mid-2010s, you probably heard Nomi on X.

    Judging the anthem

    In 2014, Nomi was one of KRXP’s on-air personalities, and represented the station as a judge for the Colorado Springs Sky Sox national-anthem auditions. The other judges were Chris Austin of Peak FM, Romi of Magic FM and Tammy Oakland of K-Lite.

    This is a short page built from one announcement, so we don’t have Nomi’s real name or years on the air. If you worked with Nomi or have more to add, we’d love to hear from you.

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  • Dallace Jade

    Dallace Jade is a longtime Colorado Springs voice. If you’ve tuned in to Magic 98.9 in the evening or at midday, or caught country on 95.1, there’s a good chance you’ve heard her.

    Rhythmic and Hot AC

    By 2008 Dallace was at rhythmic Top 40 KIBT, where Colorado Broadcasters Association (CBA) records show her recognized as a major-market station entertainment personality. Her earlier Springs work also included Hot AC KVUU.

    Magic FM and Nash

    From 2010 through 2020 she was an evening personality on KKMG/Magic FM. In September 2018 she also took middays at KATC when Val Hart moved to crosstown KCCY, and the 2019 CBA awards recognized both “Nash Middays with Dallace Jade” and “Dallace Jade – Magic FM Evenings.”

    In February 2021 she joined Hot AC KQHN/Q97.3 in Shreveport for middays, but she came back to Magic FM, this time in middays. Her midday show won the CBA’s Best Midday Show award in both 2023 and 2024, and picked up a Certificate of Merit in the same category in 2025. KKMG’s lineup has her on weekdays from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., and in April 2026 the CBA named her Best Midday Host, the same night Magic 98.9 was named Major Market Station of the Year.

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  • Shawn Patrick

    Shawn Patrick is a Colorado country-radio host who worked his way up from afternoons to running KYGO. If you listen to country in Denver or listened to Y96.9 in Colorado Springs, you’ve likely heard him.

    Colorado Springs

    Shawn’s career has included KXBG in Fort Collins, then KCCY/Y96.9 in Colorado Springs, where he first hosted afternoons and took on assistant program director duties in August 2018. In October 2019 he was promoted to program director while keeping his afternoon show. Colorado Broadcasters Association records show KCCY awards and certificates for his community service, station events and afternoon show from 2019 to 2021.

    KYGO

    He joined KYGO in 2022 as assistant program director and afternoon host, and was promoted to KYGO program director in October 2025, still hosting afternoons.

    Where is he now?

    As of October 2026, KYGO’s show page lists Shawn weekdays from 2 to 7 p.m.

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  • Alan Roach

    Alan Roach is the professional name of sports announcer and radio personality Kelly James Burnham. If you’ve ever heard a stadium announcer introduce the Broncos, Avalanche or Rockies, or been told which way the train is going at Denver International Airport, you’ve heard this voice. Before all that, he was on Colorado Springs radio as Kelly O’Shea. Supplied by the archive: he still fills in on the radio from time to time.

    From Slayton to the Brainerd airwaves

    He was born Kelly James Burnham on March 29, 1966, in Slayton, Minnesota, and grew up in a small farming town. As a young teen, phone callers kept mistaking him for his mother and calling him “Phyllis,” so he taught himself to drop his voice into the deep register you know today. The family later moved to Brainerd, where he got into radio as a teenager, starting at KLIZ and taking a full-time sports director job after his first year at Southwest Minnesota State University. His on-air last name came from his older brother Mark, nicknamed “Roach,” which made Kelly “Little Roach” on campus. By his own count he worked at nine radio stations in four states over nine years before landing in Colorado.

    From KKFM to the Sky Sox

    While working on the air at classic-rock station KKFM, Kelly was asked in 1990 to fill in as public-address announcer for the Colorado Springs Sky Sox. That gig launched a sports-announcing career that went on to include the Colorado Rockies, Colorado Avalanche, Denver Broncos, Minnesota Vikings, Colorado Rapids, Super Bowls, Olympic Games and other major events.

    Denver radio

    He moved to Denver radio in 1991, joining KRFX “The Fox” as an afternoon host and later doing mornings, and he picked the name Alan Roach so nobody would confuse him with the other Kellys on the dial. If you drove around Denver in the early 1990s with The Fox on, he was a regular part of your commute. Wikipedia says he joined KOA in 2000 as morning sports anchor, and that stint ended with a staff downsizing in 2015.

    Radio itself changed on him along the way. He has said that after the 1996 Telecommunications Act, stations got bigger, leaned on automation, and live shows gave way to scripted segments. At one point he recorded a four-hour show in about twelve minutes. His Southern Colorado story is both radio and sports: KKFM was his full-time radio home, while the Sky Sox gave him his first professional stadium-announcing job.

    The voice of the stadium

    • Colorado Rockies: hired just days before the team’s first home game in 1993 (after his application sat for nearly three years) and held the job through the 2006 season.
    • Denver Grizzlies: PA announcer for the hockey team’s one season, 1994–95.
    • Colorado Avalanche: the team’s PA voice from its first game at Pepsi Center, in the 1999–2000 season, and still the voice today. He missed a Rockies game in June 2001 to announce the Avalanche’s Stanley Cup Game Seven win.
    • Denver Broncos: PA announcer starting in 2000 and for about sixteen years, until 2016 (Westword’s account puts the start of his Broncos job at 2007).
    • Minnesota Vikings: named PA announcer for the new U.S. Bank Stadium in 2016. He grew up a Vikings fan and flies to Minnesota for games.
    • Colorado Rapids: the club’s PA announcer since 2016.

    Super Bowls, Olympics and more

    If you’ve watched a big game on TV, there’s a good chance he was in the building. Wikipedia lists him as the stadium voice for Super Bowls XL through XLVII and again from Super Bowl LI on (the league sat him out of two years where his Broncos tie could look like an advantage), the Pro Bowl since 2009, and the NFL Draft. He announced Olympic hockey in Salt Lake City, Turin, Vancouver and Sochi, along with NHL and MLB All-Star Games. His voice is also in the Madden NFL and FIFA video games.

    The voice at Denver International Airport

    He’s also one of the voices of the underground train at Denver International Airport, which Westword says he took over in 2007 alongside KUSA’s Adele Arakawa. In 2018 the airport thought he’d moved to Minnesota and ran a contest to find a new voice. Alan, still living in the same Denver house where he recorded the original announcements, entered anyway and won the vote.

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  • Chris Baker

    Chris Baker was a Colorado Springs radio programmer who ran programming at both KKFM and KKMG in the early 1990s. If you flipped between classic rock and Top 40 on the Springs dial in 1992, you were hearing his decisions on both sides.

    Two Citadel stations

    In September 1992, Chris was program director of classic-rock KKFM and director of programming at KKMG. The two Citadel stations served the market in different formats: KKFM as a classic-rock outlet and KKMG as a contemporary-hit station.

    On to Oklahoma City

    In March 1993, Chris moved to Oklahoma City as program director of KATT. His earlier work included stops at stations in Salt Lake City, Beaumont and Lake Charles.

    Documented roles: KKFM program director; Citadel Colorado Springs director of programming; KKMG programming staff.

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  • Alysabeth Clements

    Alysabeth “Beth” Clements, later Alysabeth Clements Mosley, was a voice on KKFM‘s Colorado Springs morning show in the 1990s. If you were a KKFM listener in those days, you may remember when she left, because it got a lot of talk.

    Leaving KKFM

    Beth’s 1998 exit from KKFM drew unusual attention in the radio business and was reported in July 1998. In 1999 online posts she told her side, and former Colorado Springs listeners wrote that they remembered “Beth” as an important part of the morning show and had stopped listening after she left.

    Writing and the stage

    As Alysabeth Clements Mosley, she went on to write for the Colorado Springs Gazette, including a 2010 feature on the history and character of Black Forest, and built a big theater career as an actor, director and dialect coach. In 2013 the Pikes Peak Arts Council named her Outstanding Actress for playing Blanche in Star Bar Players’ A Streetcar Named Desire. She directed Springs Ensemble Theatre’s 2014 Desdemona: A Play About a Handkerchief, was among the Colorado directors in UCCS Theatreworks’ 2020 production of Anna Deavere Smith’s House Arrest, and is credited as dialect coach on more recent Springs Ensemble Theatre shows.

    Sources

    • Radio & Records, July 3, 1998
    • 1999 first-person postings by Alysabeth Clements and listener responses, preserved by McSpotlight
    • Colorado Springs Gazette author archive and Pikes Peak Arts Council coverage, 2010 and 2013
    • Springs Ensemble Theatre production archives
    • UCCS Theatreworks / UCCS Communique, 2020

  • Tammy Oakland

    Tammy Oakland started as a radio station mascot and ended up one of Colorado’s friendliest midday voices. If you listened to The Peak, K-Lite/Sunny 106.3 or KOSI 101.1, you’ve heard her.

    From mascot to microphone

    Tammy says her career began at KATM 100.7 The Kat, first as the station mascot, until she got a shot at an overnight on-air shift. She went on to study Music and Video Business, with an emphasis on audio engineering, at the Colorado Institute of Art.

    KKCS and The Peak

    By the mid-1990s she was at KKCS, and her professional history lists 1996 to 2000 there. She’s described starting as a part-time production assistant under general manager Bob Gourley, whom she credits as an important early mentor. In January 2001 KKCS moved Singer and Sherry to mornings, replacing Tammy, who had exited. From about August 2001 through December 2010 she was at KKPK 92.9 The Peak, where her on-air work and community involvement earned her the Colorado Broadcasters Association’s 2009 Major Market Radio Broadcast Citizen of the Year.

    K-Lite, Sunny and Denver

    She then worked in the Cumulus Colorado Springs group, including country KATC, before becoming a familiar voice at KKLI. She stayed on when K-Lite became Sunny 106.3 in 2014 and later served as assistant program director and midday host. Her CBA honors continued, including a 2021 major-market Community Service Campaign award for an International Women’s Day project.

    After 13 years at Sunny, her run there ended in August 2024. In late 2024 she moved north to KOSI 101.1 in Denver for middays, where her bio mentions her segments Tammy’s Fur-ever Friends and What’s Up, Colorado and her podcast So You Want To Be a Rock Star.

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