PRESERVING RADIO HISTORY ACROSS COLORADO
KAKR (103.7 FM) is licensed to Akron, out on Colorado’s northeastern plains. If you live out that way, this is one of the newer signals on your dial.
This is a short page built from current FCC records, and we don’t yet have a history or format for it. If you’ve worked at or listened to KAKR, we’d love to hear from you.
KCWA (93.9 FM) in Loveland is a Christian adult contemporary station from the WAY-FM Network. If you’re in Northern Colorado and like your radio positive and family-friendly, this is a stop on the dial.
The call sign is reported to stand for “Colorado Way.” Before KCWA, this frequency went through a long list of calls.
If you worked at this station under any of its calls, we’d love to hear from you.
KLFV (90.3 FM) in Grand Junction is a contemporary Christian station that carries the K-LOVE network. If you grew up in Grand Junction in the 80s or 90s, you may remember it better as KJOL, a locally run Christian station.
The station began broadcasting as KJOL on April 24, 1982, after missing a planned Christmas 1981 launch. It was owned by Columbus Evangelical Free Church. In 1984 it was sold to Western Bible College (later Colorado Christian University), with the sale closing in 1985.
In October 2000, Educational Media Foundation bought the university’s regional radio network, local operations were shut down, and the station began rebroadcasting K-LOVE as KLFV.
This FM station is separate from the KJOL-AM page.
If you worked at KJOL, we’d love to hear from you.
KOMF-LP (104.7 FM) was a low-power station in Denver operated by Open Media Foundation as Denver Open Media. If you remember tuning in to community-made shows from your neighbors in Denver, this is where they lived on the dial.
KOMF-LP operated at 104.7 FM carrying mainly local content. Open Media Foundation requested cancellation of the license on January 28, 2019, and Denver Open Media relaunched in 2019 on 89.3 HD3 and 92.9 FM.
If you made or listened to shows on Denver Open Media, we’d love to hear from you.
KVBV (1450 AM) in Buena Vista is a former AM station that carried a news/talk format. If you lived in the Upper Arkansas Valley, you may remember it as KDMN or KSKE.
The FCC issued a construction permit on March 5, 1986. The KDMN call sign was assigned April 10, 1986, and the license to cover was issued September 29, 1986. A new owner completed its purchase in May 1998, the call sign changed to KSKE on September 9, 2004, with a switch to business talk, and the station was sold again in 2017.
The call letters became KVBV on June 25, 2020, and the FCC canceled the license on May 5, 2025. The KSKE-FM 106.3 page covers a different, Kremmling station.
If you worked at this station, we’d love to hear from you.
KXGR (89.7 FM) in Loveland is a noncommercial station with a Christian format. If you’re in Northern Colorado and tuned to the low end of the dial for worship music, this is the signal.
WAY-FM Media Group received the construction permit as KXWA on March 11, 2004, and the station signed on in 2005. In December 2010 it was transferred to a Calvary church group and the call letters changed to KXGR.
This is a short page built from current station records. If you worked at KXWA or KXGR, we’d love to hear from you.
KRFD (100.1 FM) in Fleming was a K-LOVE affiliate serving the Sterling area. If you live out on the northeast Colorado plains, this is a signal that’s been through several call signs and is listed as silent.
An application for a construction permit was filed in July 2007, and the FCC granted it on November 4, 2008. The call sign KMAP was assigned December 12, 2008. The community of license changed to Fleming in March 2010, and the station was licensed November 19, 2012.
The call sign became KSIK on November 22, 2012, KCGC on December 31, 2014, and KRFD on February 5, 2015. It was listed as silent as of December 1, 2020. This is a different facility from the Merino 94.5 FM station that now uses KCGC.
If you worked at this station under any of its calls, we’d love to hear from you.
KRNX (104.9 FM) in Rye carries Air1, the contemporary worship music network from Educational Media Foundation. If you’re south of Pueblo and had your radio on in the late 2000s, you might remember this signal when it was a regional Mexican station.
The station signed on in 2008 as regional Mexican KRYE. By February 2020 it had become KFVR-FM and gone silent while being sold to Educational Media Foundation for $150,000. It joined Air1 as KWRY on March 10, 2020, and the call sign changed to KRNX-FM on February 13, 2025.
If you worked at this station under any of its calls, we’d love to hear from you.
KDMT (1690 AM) in Arvada is a Catholic station affiliated with Relevant Radio. If you ever scanned way up past 1600 on the Denver AM dial, you’ve probably passed through 1690’s many lives.
The expanded-band construction permit received the call letters KAYK on November 10, 1997, and the station began on June 3, 1998, carrying Radio Disney. It became KADZ and then KDDZ. Salem Media of Colorado bought it in December 2015, changing the call sign to KDMT and launching Money Talk 1690 on February 1, 2016. It was sold to Immaculate Heart Media on November 14, 2019, and became a Relevant Radio affiliate.
This KAYK is a different facility from the Pueblo 1480 AM station that used KAYK from 1983 to 1988.
If you worked at this station under any of its calls, we’d love to hear from you.
KZLJ-LP (102.1 FM) is a low-power station in La Junta with a rhythmic adult contemporary format. If you’re in the Lower Arkansas Valley and want a mix of R&B and pop favorites, this is the little local signal that does it.
The station ran a test signal for a few days and went on the air March 28, 2014.
This is a short page built from current station records. If you’ve worked at KZLJ, we’d love to hear from you.