KKSE-AM is the call-sign identity used on Denver’s 950 AM signal after KSE Radio Ventures acquired the former KRWZ-AM facility in 2016. The transition joined the signal to the Altitude Sports operation built around teams owned by Kroenke Sports & Entertainment.
Altitude Sports Radio 950 became a home for Denver sports talk and team coverage. Official Colorado Avalanche schedules from the 2016–17 season identify AM 950 as an Altitude outlet, while later team listings identify the simulcast as KKSE 92.5 FM / 950 AM. The station is part of a larger lineage on 950 AM that includes earlier call signs and formats; those are documented on their own station pages rather than folded into this identity.
Documented identifiers• Call letters: KKSE-AM
• Frequency: 950 AM
• Owner: KSE Radio Ventures / Kroenke Sports & Entertainment, following the 2016 acquisition of KRWZ’s Denver assets.
• Branding: Altitude Sports Radio 950.
• Related signal: KKSE-FM at 92.5, listed with the AM signal in official team coverage.
Research note: This record covers the KKSE-AM call-sign era. Earlier 950 AM identities, including KRWZ-AM and KKFN-AM, are separate entries in the archive; the later KKSE-FM simulcast is also documented separately.
Ownership, technical data and web presence
• Owner during the KKSE-AM era: KSE Radio Ventures, LLC (Kroenke Sports & Entertainment), 2016–present. Entercom’s March 2016 filing documents the asset sale that preceded the change to KSE operation.
• Current signal: 950 kHz AM; 5,000 watts. The current station remains Altitude Sports Radio 950.
• Current official website: Altitude Sports Radio.
Studios and addresses
• Former shared Denver cluster studio during the KRWZ/Entercom period: 7800 East Orchard Road, Greenwood Village, Colorado 80111. A 2011 station-history/photo record identifies this as the KRWZ studio location and lists other Denver stations at the site.
• Current studio: 8467 South Yosemite Street, Lone Tree, Colorado 80124, published by Altitude Sports Radio.
The former address describes the preceding KRWZ/950 cluster rather than a separately documented KKSE-only studio. The KKSE call-sign era began after the station moved to KSE operation.
Sources
Additional research sources
• Altitude Sports Radio, current studio address
• Denver radio station history and 2011 studio photographs, including KRWZ at 7800 East Orchard Road
• National Radio Club AM Radio Log, 2010–2011, 950 AM power listing
• Entercom 2016 SEC filing, sale of KRWZ AM assets
• Radio Online, KSE agreement to acquire KRWZ-AM
• Colorado Avalanche, 2017 Altitude Sports Radio 950 coverage
• Colorado Avalanche, official listing of KKSE 92.5 FM / AM 950
• Altitude Sports Radio, current affiliate and station listing
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