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They have a history of doing this... they did it with KCKK 1510AM/93.7FM and before that with KDCO 1550AM/94.1FM. My GUESS is they will sell, then buy KCKK 1510AM, and then work on adding a Denver FM translator to it again.

They are now shooting for this Wednesday, July 17th... we will see... :D

760AM/93.7FM is now simulcasting Rush Limbaugh's show that is also on KOA. There will be a transition period while they promote to get listeners to move from KOA to KDFD for Rush's show. Also, Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck will move from KHOW. Freedom 93.7's schedule will be: 5am-7am Gordon Deal 7am-10am Glenn Beck (moving from KHOW) 10am-1pm Rush Limbaugh (moving from KOA) 1pm-4pm Sean Hannity (moving from KHOW) 4pm-7pm Buck Sexton 7pm-10pm Dave Ramsey 10pm-11pm Ken Coleman 11pm-12am Nancy Grace 12am-5am Clyde Lewis There are no local talkers on 93.7... I have a feeling, once the transition period is over (while they promote the shows moving to Freedom 93.7), the Mandy Connell show will be moving from KOA to KHOW, taking over the timeslot that Hannity has. That change will give local talkers on KHOW from 5am to 6pm.

KCKK finally registered 1510therock.com on Friday and now has their web site pointed to it. They still haven't removed 93.7 off of their logos on their web site or on Facebook.

I hope they make it too. I think it was a huge mistake for them not to promote the loss of 93.7 sooner/better and how listeners needed to move to 1510AM or to their web stream. Their Facebook and web site is STILL based on the 93.7 frequency. Another big mistake. Their Facebook has a few posts from confused listeners on why they are now playing patriotic songs. Ugh.

Here's the things I see... KYGO 98.5 FM takes the #1 spot... Country competitor KWBL 106.7 FM rises to 15th. KRFX 103.5 FM rises to 2nd, while Classic Rock competitor KQMT 99.5 FM is 3rd. AAA KBCO 97.3 FM drops to 10th. Active Rock KBPI falls out of the top 20 to 25th with the terrible signal around the metro. All of the sports stations drop. Can Denver support more than 2 sports outlets? (aside from already having Talk KOA 850 AM who is moving towards a more sports format soon). KKFN 104.3 FM drops to 18th, KKSE 92.5 FM falls to 29th, KDSP 760 AM (now KDFD soon to be Conservative Talk) to 32nd, tied with KKSE 950 AM. KEPN 1600 AM doesn't even show up. KDCO 1340 AM and KMXA 1090 AM (Spanish Sports) do not show up either, but I don't think they are subscribers.

Denver-Boulder Rank: 18 12+ Population: 2,720,200 Ethnic Composition: Black - 5.7% Hispanic - 20% Market Swept: 13x/year Station Format Owner/LMA Apr19 May19 Jun19 Cume KYGO-FM Country Bonneville International 5.7 5.0 6.0 477,400 KRFX-FM Classic Rock iHeartMedia, Inc. 5.4 4.9 5.8 559,200 KQMT-FM Classic Rock Entercom 5.2 5.2 5.6 562,100 KTCL-FM Alternative Rock iHeartMedia, Inc. 4.7 5.4 5.4 600,500 KOA-AM News/Talk iHeartMedia, Inc. 5.2 4.9 5.2 386,200 KCFR-FM News/Talk Colorado Public Radio 6.5 6.2 4.6 262,500 KXKL-FM Classic Hits KSE Radio Ventures 5.4 4.6 4.6 580,800 KALC-FM Hot AC Entercom 4.5 4.6 4.5 541,100 KOSI-FM Soft AC Bonneville International 4.0 4.6 4.5 724,600 KBCO-FM Adult Alternative iHeartMedia, Inc. 4.9 5.2 4.4 458,100 KPTT-FM Rhythmic-CHR iHeartMedia, Inc. 4.1 4.4 4.3 581,900 KQKS-FM Rhythmic-CHR Entercom 4.6 4.6 4.2 470,700 KIMN-FM Hot AC KSE Radio Ventures 3.3 3.7 4.1 492,500 KJMN-FM Regional Mexican Entravision Communications Corp. 3.5 3.6 3.6 240,900 KWBL-FM Country iHeartMedia, Inc. 2.0 3.1 3.2 313,100 KXPK-FM Regional Mexican Entravision Communications Corp. 2.7 2.9 3.2 218,800 KLDV-FM Contemporary Christian Educational Media Foundation, Inc. 3.3 2.6 3.1 193,000 KKFN-FM Sports Bonneville International 2.6 3.0 2.4 183,600 KJHM-FM Rhythmic AC Max Broadcast Group Holdings, LLC 1.7 1.4 1.5 202,700 KQKS-HD2 Comedy Entercom 1.5 1.4 1.4 171,300 KUNC-FM / KRNC-FM News/Talk Community Radio for Northern Colorado 1.5 1.5 1.1 94,300 KHOW-AM Talk iHeartMedia, Inc. 1.3 1.3 1.1 97,500 KFCO-FM Rhythmic-CHR Max Broadcast Group Holdings, LLC 1.3 0.9 1.0 168,400 KVOD-FM Classical Colorado Public Radio 1.9 1.5 0.9 86,300 KBPI-FM Rock iHeartMedia, Inc. 1.4 1.1 0.9 207,400 KEZW-AM Oldies Entercom 0.7 0.7 0.7 53,800 KUVO-FM / KVJZ-FM Jazz Rocky Mountain Public Broadcasting Network, Inc. 0.5 0.4 0.5 79,500 KVOQ-FM Adult Alternative Colorado Public Radio 0.5 0.4 0.5 63,000 KKSE-FM Sports KSE Radio Ventures 0.6 0.8 0.4 58,400 KJAC-FM Adult Alternative Community Radio for Northern Colorado 0.4 0.4 0.4 72,100 KRKA-FM Contemporary Christian Educational Media Foundation, Inc. 0.1 0.1 0.2 20,800 KKSE-AM Sports KSE Radio Ventures 0.2 0.2 0.1 11,600 KDSP-AM Sports iHeartMedia, Inc. 0.1 0.1 0.1 16,200 KVOQ-FM Stream Adult Alternative Colorado Public Radio 0.1 0.0 0.1 7,500 KBCO-HD2 Adult Alternative iHeartMedia, Inc. 0.0 0.0 0.1 8,500 KJMN-FM Stream Regional Mexican Entravision Communications Corp. 0.0 0.0 0.1 16,600 KUVO-FM Stream / KVJZ-FM Jazz Rocky Mountain Public Broadcasting Network, Inc. 0.0 0.0 0.1 8,500 KXPK-FM Stream Regional Mexican Entravision Communications Corp. 0.0 0.0 0.1 5,500 * +Audience estimates are derived in part using Nielsen Audio's Persons 12+, Monday-Sunday, 6 am-12 Midnight estimates, under license. Copyright (c) 2019 Nielsen Audio. All rights reserved. Nielsen Audio no longer releases audience estimates for stations that do not subscribe to their services. Therefore, the audience estimates on this website include ONLY those stations that pay Nielsen Audio for this data. This website may not include all the radio stations that serve each market.

It looks like the web site is hidden for now... I'm glad I grabbed the new Freedom logo before it disappeared. It seems a bunch of people grabbed it from here. LOL The Consummation Notice was filed with the FCC on July 5th. The 93.7 FM signal COULD be changed to KDFD by Monday, the 22nd.

Not sure why the board moderated your last post Chase, but I got it to show up now. That Westword article sure is interesting... So Big Al and Jojo will be doing afternoons together... Jojo was also D-Mac's old boss at one time. Jojo also used to do afternoons on Alice 106 and KFMD 95.7 back in the last 90's/early 2000's here in Denver. I wonder if D-Mac will leave KKFN to eventually go to KOA? It seems they are really making a play to go after KKFN... but... I don't see why aren't moving Mandy Connell from KOA to KDFD since she is a right wing talker and not sports. Maybe when they get more big names to fill the slot?

KDFD 760AM is playing music that has to do with freedom and America... and they are running promos saying a new radio station that celebrates the 1st Amendment is coming soon.

It looks like Freedom will be coming to 760AM/93.7FM soon. Orange & Blue 760's website (https://orangeandblue760.iheart.com/) forwards to https://freedom937.iheart.com

Freedom 93.7's web site is live. https://freedom937.iheart.com/ More at the thread covering KDFD 760 AM KCKK is still being heard on 93.7FM.

The RDS (Radio Data System) on 93.7FM is now saying they are moving to 1510AM.

I looked at the The Rock's Facebook page and any posts mentioning them being off of 93.7FM (and the one with them saying they were going to be off of it Wednesday morning) are deleted. After the FCC grants the sale, aka "Assign License", then there's a filing for "Consummation Notice" and then finally a filing "Transfer of Control" where then the new owner is running the station. So far only an "Assign License" filing is done and granted on 93.7FM. I'm not seeing the other 2 yet. Normally, I've seen it take 2-3 months after the "Assign License" is granted for a new owner to own and be running a station. Hopefully The Rock will take this extra time (if they haven't agreed to let iHeart run it earlier, which they can) to promote they will only be on 1510AM.

As of 8:52AM Wednesday, 93.7FM is still broadcasting KCKK. And 760AM is still Orange & Blue Broncos Radio.

The other thing about KCKK (The Rock), in addition to not running on-air promos like they should to let listeners know that 93.7FM is going away and to tune to 1510AM, is that 1510therock.com is not registered. Their only web site is based on the 937 frequency. And they haven't changed any of their graphics to remove the 93.7 from them. Their station liners ARE saying 1510 and not 93.7. So there's that. I find it all very strange. Will they go dark? I guess we will find out soon how things will shake out. Stay tuned as they say!

I have moved the posts that mostly concern 93.7FM's status and news to the 93.7FM thread. http://www.coloradomedia.net/forums/showthread.php?144626-iHeartMedia-Buys-KCKK-s-93-7FM-Translator

Interesting KCKK isn't running promos getting people to move to 1510 AM and that the 93.7 FM option will be going away. I would've been doing that for 2-4 weeks before the change. It's a HUGE oversight. Unless their deal with iHeart doesn't allow them to, and the Breeze will be on 93.7FM... iHeart could even put Pride radio (like Radiodude mentioned) or anything on 93.7FM that is on an HD channel they own or whatever 760 AM ends up being. Because we aren't sure what will happen until it does, I have moved the posts mostly concerning 93.7FM's status and news to the 93.7FM thread. I'll certainly post what is on 93.7FM tomorrow morning.

From Westword: https://www.westword.com/news/colorado-public-radio-openair-rebrands-as-indie-1023-11386272 Just shy of eight years since its October 2011 launch, OpenAir, the indie-rocking affiliate of Colorado Public Radio, is no more. But that doesn't mean CPR has given up on the concept. Today, July 1, the powerful statewide public-radio network is premiering Indie 102.3, a rebranded station, at 102.3 FM, that aims to expand on the audience built by OpenAir over the lion's share of the decade without alienating current listeners. Willobee Carlan, a veteran of commercial radio programming and music management whose most recent launch was NV89, the independent arm of Nevada Public Radio, is the man charged with striking this delicate balance. Based on a recent interaction with a new colleague, he's cautiously optimistic he'll be able to pull it off. "We have an employee here who's been a massive OpenAir fan for years," notes Carlan, who is succeeding recently retired program director Mike Flanagan. 'When he heard we were going to do a little refresh here, he kind of freaked out — like, 'No, no, you can't do that!' So we made a four-hour sample of what we're doing using our hosts and our new presentation, and when he heard it, he said, 'Oh my God, this is great!'" He adds, "If everybody feels that way, I can probably sleep at night." Plenty about Indie 102.3 connects to OpenAir. For instance, all of the air personalities, including Jeremy Petersen, Alisha Sweeney, Jessi Whitten and Bruce Trujillo, are being retained — a true rarity for an industry in which flipping a station usually means jettisoning everything that had to do with the prior incarnation. But in addition to the new moniker, CPR has hired Zach Gilltrap to come up with updated imaging, the term used to describe intros, bumps, links and other audio elements played before and after songs that help establish a station's overall sound and style. Moreover, the format will be tightened, with a greater focus on core artists — among the acts Carlan mentions are Beck, Florence + the Machine, Mitski, Radiohead, Interpol and St. Vincent — that listeners will hear more frequently than they did under the previous approach. These changes suggest Indie 102.3 will move in a more commercial direction than OpenAir despite remaining a public-radio station, à la The Colorado Sound, at 105.5 FM. Aside from expressing his fondness for the Colorado Sound but stressing that Indie 102.3 will be very much its own thing, Carlan pushes back against this conclusion. "There will be some artists who are more familiar and more recognizable, because we think we've been missing some that people know and like and maybe didn't hear enough of," he says. "But our core values are the same. Indie 102.3 will still be a public-radio experience, and we'll continue to support the Colorado music scene." However, he continues, "people will notice there's a different presentation, because we're trying to reach a wider audience that may have a preconceived notion of what public radio sounds like. We want to break down that wall, remove that obstacle from anybody who thinks they're not going to enjoy public radio. Because they are." Indie 102.3 will remain "a new music discovery platform or destination," he points out. "But we're also going to tap into the next generation of public-radio listeners, which is a generation of subscription services: Spotify and Pandora and Apple Music. The millennial generation is used to signing up to subscription services to discover music, and they'll be able to do that with us, too. But we're also going to bring a local element that subscription services don't. Spotify and Pandora aren't going to be hanging out at the Larimer Lounge or the Mission Ballroom, but we will be. We're going to be going to shows and supporting the local music scene and sponsoring events like UMS. You can reach out and touch us, as it were. So if you're paying ten dollars a month for a subscription service, why not pay ten dollars a month for CPR? Because we're going to be doing more for you." Carlan is a radio lifer. He began broadcasting while still attending high school in the New York City area, and his first professional gig was at WLIR, one of the most famous signals on the East Coast. Since then, he says, "I've worked my way across the country as a programmer. I've worked in probably half of the fifty states." Along the way, Carlan worked as a manager for a wide variety of prominent acts: hard-rocking Korn, the English Beat post-ska spin-off General Public, jazz crossover performers Tuck & Patti, the hip-hop combo Compton's Most Wanted, the rap-rocking Phunk Junkeez and various versions of the alternative-rock band Flesh for Lulu. He also opened up a nightclub in Austin which he describes as "a mistake" that eventually led him back to radio. His success in Nevada convinced the new braintrust at Colorado Public Radio — led by Stewart Vanderwilt, who also worked in Austin before taking over as CPR's president last July following the retirement of longtime top dog Max Wycisk — to give him a chance to see what he could do with OpenAir. Upon his arrival in Denver, Carlan initiated a research roundup and discovered that OpenAir's name "wasn't resonating with a big enough audience. There was a little confusion about what it meant or stood for. So we went out into the market to see what words kept coming up, and the one that kept floating up was 'independent.' Everyone was talking about independent radio and independent music. People understood what indie meant, which is why we became Indie 102.3." At the same time, Carlan wants the station to "offer a broader invitation" to folks. For instance, "when we champion a new artist, we'll want to make sure the artist gets enough exposure through the week, the month, the album cycle that our airplay is going to register with listeners. So there will be some repetition, but there's a good reason for that. Everybody's radio-listening habits aren't the same, and if we discover something that's great, we want to share it and make sure everybody hears it — not just play it one time and then it disappears." He admits that he's "not sure how everyone is going to feel about that. I'm sure there are going to be some people we'll never be able to please. But I think we're on the right path, and I can't wait to get started."

Sad to see that someone is hijacking the KCKK Facebook thread for Hal's retirement by attacking the owner of KCKK for selling 93.7 FM.

93.7 FM is still simulcasting KCKK. What time Monday is the iHeart takeover of 93.7 FM happening? As of 8am Monday, it hasn't happened...

The sale of KCKK's translator at 93.7 FM to iHeart was approved on the 20th by the FCC. So depending on the plan between the Hunts and iHeart (which isn't public), iHeart could be running it any time now. With Hal's departure, it looks like sooner than later.

KDSP 760 AM has changed call letters to KDFD as of the 25th.

They are saying on their Facebook they will be on the air by this weekend... 2 months after their initial launch date. Let us know Springs peeps when it does and how it sounds... and what personalities are there.

The FCC granted the application for the sale of 93.7 FM to iHeart on June 20th.

Just merged the Alan Berg threads together. Last night marks 35 years since his death. Here's his appearance on CBS' 60 Minutes.