KLZ
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| City | Denver, Colorado |
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| Broadcast area | Denver-Boulder-Longmont and Northern Colorado |
| Branding | 560 KLZ The Source |
| Frequency | 560 kHz (also on HD Radio) |
| Translator(s) | 100.7 MHz K264BO (Denver) |
| First air date | March 10, 1922 (also amateur station licenses as 9JE 1920-1921 and 9ZAF 1921-1922) |
| Format | Talk |
| Power | 5,000 watts 99 watts (translator) |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 35088 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 39°50′36″N 104°57′14″W / 39.84333°N 104.95389°W |
| Callsign meaning | None (random reissue) |
| Affiliations | NBC News Radio |
| Owner | Crawford Broadcasting |
| Sister stations | KLDC, KLTT, KLVZ |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | 560thesource.com |
KLZ (560 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Denver, Colorado and owned by Crawford Broadcasting. It was the first — thus making it still the oldest — broadcasting station in the state of Colorado. The station calls itself "KLZ The Source."
KLZ airs a talk radio format featuring several nationally syndicated talk hosts as well as local shows, much of it paid brokered programming. Topics include money and investing, real estate and health. Syndicated hosts include Laura Ingraham, Dana Loesch and Steve Deace. KLZ airs hourly updates from NBC News Radio.
The station transmits an HD digital sub-channel. The 5000 watt signal covers much of the population center of Colorado, from Fort Collins to Colorado Springs and Pueblo. In addition, listeners in Denver can hear KLZ programming on the FM dial, on translator K264BO 100.7 MHz.
KLZ was first licensed as a broadcasting station on March 10, 1922 to the Reynolds Radio Company in Denver, Colorado. However, the company's president, Dr. William D. "Doc" Reynolds, Jr., had been making experimental broadcasts since 1920, and the station has traditionally traced its founding to that year.
In September 1915, Reynolds, then living in Minneapolis, Minnesota, was issued his first license, for an amateur radio station with the call sign 9WH. This initial station employed a spark transmitter that could only transmit the dots-and-dashes of Morse code. With the entrance of the United States into World War One in April 1917, all civilian radio stations were ordered to cease operations for the duration of the conflict.
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