KRWZ
| City of license | Parker, Colorado |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | Denver-Boulder-Longmont, Northern Colorado and Colorado Springs.[1] |
| Branding | Cruisin' Oldies 950 |
| Slogan | Good Times and Great Oldies of the 50s and 60s |
| Frequency | 950 kHz (also on HD Radio) |
| Repeaters | KKFN-HD2 (104.3 FM) |
| First air date | 1954 (as KIMN) |
| Format | Oldies |
| Power | 5,000 watts unlimited |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 30839 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 39°52′30″N 104°56′0″W / 39.87500°N 104.93333°W |
| Former callsigns |
KIMN (1954-1988) KYGO (1988-1994) KKFN (1994-2008) |
| Affiliations |
Denver Nuggets Colorado Avalanche |
| Owner | Lincoln Financial Media Company of Colorado (Sale pending to Entercom) |
| Sister stations | KEPN, KKFN, KQKS, KYGO |
| Webcast | Cruisin' Oldies Player |
| Website | cruisinoldies950.com |
KRWZ (950 AM) is a radio station licensed to Parker, Colorado, USA, the station serves the Denver area. It carries an oldies format. The station is currently owned by Lincoln Financial Media Company of Colorado.[2][3] Its studios are located in Greenwood Village, and the transmitter is in Thornton.
The station's initial weekday on-air staff includes Denver radio veteran Hal Moore from 6 to 10 a.m., Bill Press from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., former KIMN and KXKL-FM deejay Randy Jay from 2 to 6 p.m. and Chuck St. John from 6 to 9 p.m., Wolfman Jack 9 to 10 p.m.
History
The station was previously known as KIMN from 1954 to 1988, and was Denver's top-rated top-40 outlet. After KIMN's demise, the station flipped to Country and adopted the KYGO calls beginning on April 26, 1988. The programing was separate from its FM sister. On October 12, 1994, the station changed its call sign to KKFN, with the moniker "AM 950 The Fan" and carried a sports format. Lincoln Financial moved the sports format to FM at 104.3 MHz. Finally on September 2, 2008, the AM station became KRWZ with an oldies format.[4]
On December 8, 2014, Entercom announces that it is purchasing Lincoln Financial Group's entire 15-station lineup (including KRWZ) in a $106.5 million deal, and will operate the outlets under a LMA deal until the sale is approved by the FCC.[5]
References
- ↑ KRWZ Coverage.
- ↑ "KRWZ Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
- ↑ "KRWZ Station Information Profile". Arbitron.
- ↑ "KRWZ Call Sign History". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
- ↑ "Entercom Acquires Lincoln Financial Media" from Radio Insight (December 8, 2014)
External links
- Cruisin' Oldies 950
- Query the FCC's AM station database for KRWZ
- Radio-Locator Information on KRWZ
- Query Nielsen Audio's AM station database for KRWZ
- FCC History Cards for KRWZ
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