KKSE
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| City | Parker, Colorado |
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| Broadcast area | Denver-Boulder-Longmont, Northern Colorado and Colorado Springs. |
| Branding | Altitude Sports 950 |
| Slogan | Denver's Original Sports Station |
| Frequency | 950 kHz (also on HD Radio) |
| First air date | 1923 (as KFEL) |
| Format | Sports |
| 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 | KFEL (1923-1954) KIMN (1954-1988) KYGO (1988-1994) KKFN (1994-2008) KRWZ (2008-2016) |
| Affiliations |
Denver Nuggets Colorado Avalanche Colorado Mammoth Colorado Rapids SB Nation Radio Altitude |
| Owner |
Kroenke Sports & Entertainment (KSE Radio Ventures, LLC) |
| Sister stations | KIMN, KXKL, KWOF |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | altitudesports950.com |
KKSE (950 AM) is a radio station licensed to Parker, Colorado, United States, the station serves the Denver area. It is currently airing a sports format. As of March 14, 2016, the station is currently owned by Stan Kroenke. Its studios are located on Colorado Boulevard in Glendale, and the transmitter is in Thornton.
The station first signed on in 1923 as KFEL, owned by Gene O'Fallon and broadcasting from the Albany Hotel. It is Denver's second-oldest radio station. After several frequency moves, it eventually settled on its current location of 950 AM. O'Fallon sold the station to Standard Examiner Publishing of Ogden, Utah in 1954, and the new owners changed the calls to KIMN.
For most of the next three decades, KIMN was Denver's top-rated top-40 outlet. After KIMN's demise, the station flipped to Country and adopted the KYGO calls beginning April 26, 1988. The programming was separate from its then-FM sister. On October 12, 1994, the station changed its call sign to KKFN, and adopted a sports format with the moniker "AM 950 The Fan" (the KYGO-AM calls and country format would move to 1600 AM later that year). The sports format would begin simulcasting on 104.3 FM (formerly KJCD) on March 6, 2008, as part of a format transfer. Finally, on September 2, 2008, the AM station became KRWZ with an oldies format as "Cruisin' Oldies 950".
On December 8, 2014, Entercom announced it would purchase Lincoln Financial Group's entire 15-station lineup in a $106.5 million deal, and would operate the outlets under a LMA deal. On December 22, 2014, Entercom announced that it will retain KRWZ and its current format. The FCC approved the deal on June 26, 2015.
However, on December 17, 2015, Entercom announced it will sell KRWZ to KSE Radio Ventures (owned by Stan Kroenke), who will add the station to its three recently acquired FM properties in the Denver market. KSE also announced that KRWZ will flip to a new format when the sale closes, as Entercom moved the Oldies format to KEZW on December 27. On the same day, KRWZ began stunting with mostly adult standards music, as well as redirecting listeners to KEZW.
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