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| City | Lakewood, Colorado |
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| Broadcast area | Denver-Lakewood-Boulder |
| Branding | 1600 ESPN Denver |
| Slogan | Denver's Sports Radio |
| Frequency | 1600 kHz (also on HD Radio) |
| Repeater(s) | 104.3-2 KKFN-HD2 |
| First air date | January 8, 1955 (as KLAK) |
| Format | Sports |
| Power | 5,000 watts |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 30823 |
| Transmitter coordinates | Coordinates: 39°39′20″N 105°4′28″W / 39.65556°N 105.07444°W |
| Callsign meaning | ESPN Radio (affiliation) |
| Former callsigns | KLAK (1955-1987) KRXY (1987-1993) KWMX (1993-1994) KYGO (1994-1999) KCKK (1999-2006) |
| Affiliations | ESPN Radio |
| Owner | Bonneville International Corporation |
| Sister stations | KOSI, KKFN, KYGO |
| Webcast | 1600 The Zone Listen Live |
| Website | 1600thezone.com |
KEPN (1600 AM) is an all-sports radio station licensed to Lakewood, Colorado and serving the Denver, Colorado area. It is owned by Bonneville International Corporation with studios located in Greenwood Village, and the transmitter in Lakewood.
The 1600 kHz frequency was originally assigned the call letters KLAK in 1955. The station played country and Western music. In 1966, they signed on a new transmitter and also began broadcasting on the FM band at 107.7 MHz. The FM station is now KQKS (now at 107.5), also owned by Lincoln Financial Media (now owned by Entercom). According to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), other call signs for this station have been KRXY, KWMX, and KYGO (the first two being simulcasts of their FM counterparts on 107.5). (KYGO-AM was a mainstream country station, though, despite the call letter similarity, was separately programmed from their FM sister station.
In 1999, KYGO-AM flipped to classic country as "16Kicks", KCKK. The station's programming was a simulcast of KCKK-FM. Once the FM flipped to smooth jazz in 2000, the classic country format moved exclusively to 1600. The format would later be moved to another station in the market, which had been KYOL. (KCKK is now an adult hits station, branded as the "Rock".)
On January 1, 2007, 1600 AM became the local affiliate of ESPN Radio for the Denver area and the Front Range, with a call letter change to KEPN. The ESPN affiliation would be moved to KJAC in September 2012, with KEPN adopting the Fox Sports Radio affiliation.
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