KDNK

KDNK
City of license Glenwood Springs, Colorado
Broadcast area Roaring Fork Valley, Colorado
Frequency 88.1 MHz
Format Variety
ERP 1,200 Watts
HAAT 775 meters
Class C
Facility ID 88445
Transmitter coordinates KDNK FM Radio Studio, Carbondale, CO 76 S 2nd St
Owner Carbondale Community Access Radio, Inc.
Webcast Listen Live
Website kdnk.org

KDNK (88.1 FM) is a community access station broadcasting an eclectic format of music and local news in western Colorado in the United States. The station serves Carbondale, Aspen, Glenwood Springs, and other parts of the Roaring Fork Valley and beyond through its main transmitter and a series of mountain-top translators stretching from Vail to Leadville. The station is owned by Carbondale Community Access Radio, Inc.

Station history

The original idea for KDNK came from Lee Swidler, who placed an ad in the local newspapers looking for volunteers to help start a community radio station. Among the first to volunteer were Bruce Stolbach, Bill Phillips, Brian Vancil, Jim Groh, Brenda Jochems, Pat Noel, Wick Moses, and Marple Lewis, who met in Swidler's locksmith shop at night to plan their strategy. Using an NTIA grant and money pledged by local residents, KDNK took to the air on April 15, 1983. Today, the station has a small paid staff and 100 volunteer program hosts.

How to Listen

KDNK can be heard on the following frequencies:

88.1 FM Carbondale and Glenwood Springs

88.3 FM Aspen

88.5 FM Basalt and Redstone

93.5 FM Leadville

94.9 FM Thomasville

KDNK also streams its programming on the web at www.kdnk.org.

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Coordinates: 39°25′08″N 107°22′12″W / 39.419°N 107.370°W