Radio station in Lafayette, Colorado
KRKS-FM
(94.7
MHz
) is a
commercial
radio station
licensed
to
Lafayette, Colorado
, and serving the
Denver
-
Boulder
market
and the
Denver metropolitan area
. The station is owned and operated by the
Salem Media Group
and it airs a
Christian talk and teaching
radio format
. Its studios and offices are located on South Vaughn Way in
Aurora
, and the
transmitter
is located on Lee Hill, northwest of
Boulder
.
[1]
KRKS-FM is co-owned
AM 990
KRKS
. Together, they are known as "The Word." While both KRKS stations broadcast a Christian Talk/Teaching format, they program each station differently.
Programming
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Programming on KRKS-FM includes "Insight for Living with
Chuck Swindoll
," "
Grace to You
with
John MacArthur
," "
Focus on the Family
with
Jim Daly
" and "
In Touch with Dr. Charles Stanley
." Most shows are paid
brokered programming
with the hosts asking for donations to support their ministry.
History
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On March 15, 1971, the station
signed on
as
KBVL
, originally licensed to
Boulder
and owned by the Boulder Radio Company.
[2]
KBVL was the FM counterpart to
AM 1490
KBOL (now
KCFC
). At first, KBVL broadcast an
easy listening
/
middle of the road
format but later switched to
classical music
.
In 1986, the station was acquired by Sterling Radio and a
classic rock
format began along with the new calls letters KHIH or "K-High 94.7." On April 14, 1988, Adams Communications assumed control of KHIH from Sterling Radio, flipping the station to a Smooth Jazz/New Adult Contemporary format but keeping the KHIH calls and K-High branding (although they were dayparting Smooth Jazz/NAC programing in the evenings and overnights prior to the change of format). The station used the
syndicated
"Wave" format that had been successful on
KTWV
-
Los Angeles
.
[3]
[4]
CLG Media of Denver purchased KHIH in 1993. A few months later, Salem Communications (later known as the Salem Media Group) purchased KHIH from CLG for $5 million, with the sale closing that December.
[5]
Salem mostly operates Christian stations, so it dropped the Smooth Jazz format on October 25, 1993, for its current Christian Talk/Teaching format (the smooth jazz format would move to
KHOW-FM
and pick up the KHIH calls).
[6]
In the early 2010s, the station switched its
city of license
from Boulder to Lafayette, putting it a bit closer to Denver, although the transmitter remains northwest of Boulder, where it had been. The station was rebranded as "94.7 FM The Word" in January 2017.
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