Radio station in Security, Colorado
KRDO-FM
(105.5
MHz
) is a commercial
radio station
licensed
to
Security, Colorado
and serving the
Colorado Springs
-
Pueblo
media market
. It is owned and operated by the
News-Press & Gazette Company
of
St. Joseph, Missouri
, through its licensee Pikes Peak Television, Inc.
[1]
KRDO-FM airs a
News/Talk
radio format
. All programming is
simulcast
on
KRDO (AM 1240)
, and both radio stations share news resources with co-owned
KRDO-TV
.
Studios and offices are on South 8th Street in Colorado Springs. The
transmitter
is off Transmitter Lane, also in Colorado Springs, amid antennas for several area FM and TV stations.
[2]
Weekdays, after a morning news block, KRDO-AM-FM carries two talk shows, both of which are about family finances:
Dave Ramsey
, and
Denver
-based
Tom Martino
. KRDO-AM-FM also carries an hour of local news in the 12:00 p.m. Midday Noon hour, along with an afternoon news block from 4 p.m. until 7 p.m. Also heard weekdays are
Sean Hannity
and
Coast to Coast AM
with
George Noory
.
[3]
Weekends feature shows on money, health, home repair, guns, computers and travel. Syndicated weekend hosts include
Kim Komando
. Some weekend hours are paid
brokered programming
. Most hours begin with world and national news from
ABC News Radio
.
105.5 history
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]
On April 8, 1973, the station
signed on
as
KWYD-FM
under the ownership of Edward J. Patrick.
[4]
For the first few years, KWYD-FM broadcast a
country music
format before flipping to a
Christian radio
format in 1975, programming a combination of national and local brokered preaching and instructional shows, as well as inspirational music. In 1989, Patrick sold KWYD-FM to Optima Communications which flipped the station to a
new-age music
/
smooth jazz
format as
KBZE
, using the on-air moniker
The Breeze
. (On October 31, 2008, the KWYD-FM
call letters
were picked up by a
radio station
in
Boise, Idaho
, which broadcasts a
rhythmic contemporary
format.)
Two years later, the call letters and format were changed again. The station became a country outlet with the call sign
KHII
, using the on-air handle "K-High." Optima Communications entered into a
local marketing agreement
(LMA) with Pikes Peak Broadcasting Company to operate the station in 1993. In the fall of 1996, Pikes Peak flipped the station back to a smooth jazz format. This time it was called
Sax 105.5
and adopted the
KSKX
call letters. The station remained smooth jazz until News Press & Gazette (NPG) took over the management of the station and flipped the station to a News/Talk format as
KRDO-FM
in August 2006. In 2015, Optima Communications sold KRDO-FM to NPG.
KRDO-FM call sign history
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The KRDO-FM call letters had previously been used on 95.1 MHz in the Colorado Springs radio market, the original
sister station
to KRDO (AM). That FM station signed on in 1969 broadcasting a
beautiful music
format. In 1994, KRDO-FM dropped
easy listening
music and flipped to
adult contemporary music
, using the moniker "Peak 95.1." In 1998, KRDO-FM evolved into a
Hot AC
format, which it maintained until Citadel Broadcasting (now
Cumulus Media
) took over operations of the station in the early 2000s. When the then Citadel owned station gave up the KRDO-FM call letters in 2006, NPG acquired that call sign for 105.5.
The 95.1 frequency is now home to
KATC-FM
.
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This station was built and signed on by NPG.
- 2
This station is owned by VistaWest Media, LLC, but is operated by NPG under an
SSA
.
- 3
This station is owned by
Imagicomm Communications
, but is operated by NPG under an SSA.
- 4
This station carries a secondary MyNetworkTV affiliation on its primary channel.
- 5
This station carries a secondary
Retro Television Network
affiliation on its second digital subchannel.
- 6
This station is owned by
Hubbard Broadcasting
, but is operated by NPG.
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Originally operating as a cable-only channel, News-Press 3 NOW is also relayed on a third digital subchannel of KNPN-LD.
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