KXWA

KXWA
City of license	Centennial, Colorado
Broadcast area	Denver, Colorado
Branding	WAY-FM
Frequency	101.9 MHz
First air date	January 28, 1967 (as KRYT-FM)
Format	Contemporary Christian
ERP	9,500 watts
HAAT	163 meters (535 ft)
Class	C3
Facility ID	70822
Transmitter coordinates	39°23′7″N 105°2′52″W / 39.38528°N 105.04778°W / 39.38528; -105.04778Coordinates: 39°23′7″N 105°2′52″W / 39.38528°N 105.04778°W / 39.38528; -105.04778
Former callsigns	KRYT-FM (1967-1978) KINX (1978-1979) KKCS-FM (1979-2005) KGDQ (2005-2008) KKHI (2008-2011)
Owner	Way-FM Media Group
Sister stations	KCWA
Webcast	Listen live
Website	kxwa.wayfm.com

KXWA (101.9 FM) is a radio station licensed to Centennial, Colorado, USA. The station serves the Denver metropolitan area and is currently owned by the WAY-FM Network.^[1] Its studios are located in Longmont, and the transmitter is near Castle Rock.

History

The station was originally licensed to Colorado Springs as KRYT-FM, broadcasting a middle-of-the-road music format as the full time companion to daytime-only KRYT-AM 1530 (now KCMN).

Walton Stations purchased the station in 1978 and began broadcasting country music as KKCS-FM under Program Director Lee Reynolds. While in the country format, KKCS-FM was a major player in the Colorado Springs market until the station was purchased by Bustos Media for $16 million in 2005.

Bustos Media's plans were to turn 101.9 into a Denver station by changing the city of license to Centennial, Colorado, and the transmitter location to the Monument Hill area. On December 2, 2005, the station moved to a Regional Mexican format, "La Gran D," and switched call letters from KKCS-FM to KGDQ on December 8, 2005. With all those changes, 101.9 FM effectively left Colorado Springs to broadcast to the larger Denver market.

On June 9, 2008, KGDQ abandoned Regional Mexican in favor of picking up the Smooth Jazz format that was dropped several months earlier by KJCD. Bustos Media CEO Amador Bustos told AllAccess.com, "We will put our improved 101.9 FM signal to its best use, by filling an evident music vacuum in the Denver metro with Smooth Jazz programming." The call letters changed to KKHI, for "K-High," the slogan used by a previous Denver smooth jazz station, KHIH.

On April 30, 2010, it was announced on KKHI Operations Manager/Program Director Steve Hamilton's Facebook page that the current format will be moving to the station's website.

As of May 1, 2010 101.9 was sold by Bustos Media to Way-FM Communications, who then replaced the Smooth Jazz format with a Contemporary Christian format, using programming from the WAY-FM Network. The station's programming can also be heard in Northern Colorado on KCWA.^[2]

References

↑ "KXWA Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division. Retrieved 2011-04-04.
↑ "Letter from Bob Augsburg". WAY-FM.com.

External links

Query the FCC's FM station database for KXWA

Radio-Locator information on KXWA

Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for KXWA

Radio stations in the Denver–Boulder, Colorado market

By FM frequency	87.7¹ 88.1 88.5 89.3 89.7 90.1 91.1 92.1 92.5 93.3 93.7 93.7♦ 94.1 94.7 95.7 96.5 97.3 98.5 99.5 100.3 101.1 101.5 101.9 102.3 103.1 103.5 104.3 105.1 105.5 105.9 106.7 107.1 107.5 107.9 ¹ Audio for TV channel 6 (KXDP-LP/Spanish Sports)

By AM frequency	560 630 670 710 760 810 850 910 950 990 1060 1090 1150 1190 1220 1280 1340 1390 1430 1490 1510 1550 1600 1650 1690

NOAA Weather Radio frequency	162.450 162.500 162.550

Digital radio	560 670 710 760 810 910 950 990 1090 1220 1340 1390 1490 1600 1690 88.5-1 89.3-1 89.3-2 89.3-3 90.1-1 90.1-2 92.1-1 92.5-1 92.5-2 93.3-1 93.3-2 95.7-1 95.7-2 97.3-1 97.3-2 98.5-1 98.5-2 98.5-3 99.5-1 99.5-2 100.3-1 100.3-2 100.3-3 101.1-1 101.1-2 103.5-1 103.5-2 104.3-1 104.3-2 104.3-3 105.1-1 105.1-2 105.9-1 105.9-2 106.7-1 106.7-2 107.5-1 107.5-2

By callsign	K300CP K231BQ KALC KBCO KBJD KBNO KBPI KBUD KCFC KCFR-FM KCKK KDCO KDMT KDSP KEC76 KEPN KEZW KFCO KFWA KGNU KHOW KIMN KJAC KJHM KJMN KKFN KLDC KLDV KLTT KLVZ KLZ KMXA KNRV KNUS KOA KOSI KPOF KPTT KQKS KQMT KRCN KRFX KRKS KRKS-FM KRWZ KTCL KUVO KVAM♦ KVCU KVOD KVOQ-FM KWOF KXKL KXPK KXGR KXWA KYGO-FM WNG550 WXJ45

Notes	♦=To Enter Denver as a move-in; Date TBD

Nearby radio markets Aspen Cheyenne Colorado Springs Ft. Collins–Greeley Pueblo See also List of radio stations in Colorado

Religious radio stations in the state of Colorado

Stations	KAAI – Palisade KCBR – Monument KCIC – Grand Junction KDVW-LP – Montrose KFEL – Pueblo KFRY – Pueblo KGFT – Pueblo KJOL – Grand Junction KJYE – Delta KLJH – Bayfield KLLV – Breen KLTT – Commerce City KMZG-LP – Durango KPOF – Denver KREV-LP – Estes Park KRKS – Denver KRKS – Lafayette KTCF – Dolores KTDL – Trinidad KTDU – Durango KTEI – Placerville KTLF – Colorado Springs KTMH – Montrose KTOL – Leadville KTPF – Salida KTPJ-LP – Pueblo KTPS – Pagosa Springs KTSG – Steamboat Springs

See also adult contemporary classic hits college country news/talk NPR oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in Colorado See also Classical Jazz Religious Spanish Smooth Jazz Other

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