From AllAccess:
CLEAR CHANNEL Alternative KTCL (CHANNEL 93.3)/DENVER will flashback to a "CHANNEL 93.3 REWIND" from MAY 9-15 playing all the music ever played on the station since 1990. Then over the weekend, KTCL will throw all the songs into its iPOD and hit the random button. Warning to record execs: There will be no currents on KTCL for the entire week.

Sounds like the old Indie 5-0 if you ask me!

Well, it'll be nice to hear it clearly (mostly) and in stereo, even if it's only for a week or so.

DK

I know I will be the dumbass driving along, writing down the song titles as they scroll on my radio so I can come home and better my music download collection at 88 cents a song, or 99. So if you see a silver Ford that week, watch out, I may not be paying attention to the road.

I wish they'd do a real KTCL retrospective going back to maybe 1975-1980.
Those were the glory days for KTCL, not the 90s.

I'm talking John Hartford, Jamie Brockett, Jonathan Edwards, Al Di Meola, Gil Scott-Heron, John Prine, ads for Avagadro's, Rocky Mountain Records and Tapes and Mishawaka.

If not TCL, maybe KBCO could pick up the missing years.
KEZW?

Well pass it to me baby, pass it to me slow
we'll take time out to smile a little before we let it go
cuz we gonna lay around the shanty mama-- and put a good buzz on.

KTCL won't because they want to stay in as much as they can with the younger audience perhaps.

You're absolutely right, Jimmy. For that I can't fault them.

Hi all,
Can anyone refresh my memory? I know KTCL used to be on Horsetooth, but can anybody remember what year it was moved south? Someone in Cheyenne told me that it was homeowners up in the hills and not C.C. that started the drive to move the station off Horsetooth, that the residents complained the XMTR was emitting too much RF. The dude in Cheyenne also told me that before the move that 93.3 sounded almost city grade up there. I've been in the Front range area for ten years now and I believe that KTCL was already broadcasting on the Frederick area tower when I arrived.

They won't go back there for business reasons, Cadillac Man, but thanks anyway for remembering the KTCL I remember when I first moved here. Back then it really was "the adventure."

I'm actually shocked that they're doing this rewind thing at all. Their main audience is the younger set (16-25), and these people have no tolerance for any tweaking of "their" station. For many of them, Nirvana and Sonic Youth are as irrelevant as the Beatles and the Carter Family - it's "old" and thus not worth listening to. Will these listeners stand for not getting to hear the Killers or "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" for more than a few hours? This entire promotion might be a huge mistake.

DK

Jacor got the ball rolling downhill in 1998...

http://www.cfonews.com/jcor/c021998.txt

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Jacor: Adds Two Colorado Stations FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Pam Taylor 606.655.xxxx JACOR ADDS TWO COLORADO STATIONS COVINGTON, KY February 19, 1998 -- Jacor Communications (Nasdaq: JCOR) today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire all of the stock of Tsunami Communications, Inc. for a purchase price of approximately $0.5 million. In addition, Jacor will be assuming approximately $5.6 million of debt owed by Tsunami to a wholly-owned Jacor subsidiary. Tsunami owns and operates stations KTCL-FM in Fort Collins, Colorado and KIIX-AM in Wellington, Colorado. These stations will be operated pursuant to an LMA until the closing. The transaction is subject to regulatory review. Jacor is the nation's second largest radio company measured by total stations. Including announced pending acquisitions, Jacor now owns, operates or represents 195 radio stations in 49 broadcast areas and WKRC-TV in Cincinnati. Additionally, Jacor and its wholly owned subsidiary Premiere Radio Networks combine to form the third largest provider of syndicated radio programming in the country, including the top three radio talk shows: The Rush Limbaugh Show, The Dr. Laura Schlessinger Show and Dr. Dean Edell. Premiere recently signed an agreement to purchase the rights to overnight talk show sensation Art Bell. Jacor also owns a satellite distribution service, NSN, which provides bi-directional communications among multiple networks. Jacor plans to pursue growth through continued acquisitions of complementary radio stations in existing broadcast locations, and radio groups or individual stations with significant presence in other attractive domestic and international locations. Additionally, Jacor plans to grow in other broadcast related products and businesses. Visit http://www.cfonews.com/jcor/ for more information on Jacor Communications. Quote:

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Originally posted by strapshoechris Thanks, Super Moderator, Wow, that was way more recent than I expected. I was working in broadcasting in Wyoming that year and I don't remember the brouhaha over KTCL, but I sure do recall the sentiment when 600 KIIX dropped their "standards" in favour of talk. I think this change was what lead Pual Montoya in Cheyenne to start K-Jewel on his then dismally-performing contemporary Christian AM. With KJJL now gone, I'm waiting to see if anybody picks up this "lost" formatt. As I remember, about the time 600 KIIX dumped the big bands, KGLL eagle 96 dumped their country also, creating a second wave of angry listeners, but probally causing a "victory" party scene at the K99 studios.

Well when Jacor aquired all those stations ( and I remember this happening) KTCL moved out of the studios on W. Prospect Rd, and that yr KIIX was left alone in the building. They were still playing standars ( via satallite in that yr).. You got it all mixed up.
600 KIIX didn't drop the standars for talk until Clear Channel bought out Jacor and acquired all the stations that Jacor had.. Then they moved 600 KIIX from W. Prospect to the current studios on Laporte ave back in 2000 ( I beleive ) that is when Clear Channel of Northern Colorado decide to play swap the frequinces of KCOL and KIIX! Remember KIIX moved from 600 down to 1410 and KCOL well moved up to 600 at that time..
Your right about KGLL when they dropped their country format for KISS.. It was an interesting uproar but interesitng enough.. Not many country fans were upset over the format switch.. They all took in good strives actually..

Actaully no at the K99 Studios, they were very sad that KGLL went.. but they understood, and said something like they were a good country station and they tried. It was all up to STUE ( the GM over there ) on the decision to dump country for Top 40, he thought that was something that was missed in Northern Colorado! It seems like they have a nack for bringing in something that is missing in this part of colorado!
So there you go!

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Originally posted by strapshoechris Thanks, Dude! I guess "Juan Barbarino" is still "so confused" after all. I thought the formatt switches occured much closer together. But I do know I talked to a K99 employee at the Cheyenne Frontier days midway back in 2000 who was handing out bumper stickers that told me the day Eagle went KISS was one of the happiest days of his life. That was why I suggested a possibe celebration. Maybe the rest of the station diden't share his sentiment. By the way, I sort of remember seeing the KTCL studio at Prospect and College. Wasn't it also shared with the KCNC northern bureau? Or was it KUSA? Does KMGH even have one? I know Cheyenne's KGWN/5 usually uses some CSU student for their "Ft Collins bureau".

Well since you talked to them in the midway fair back there, then I guess you would know more then I do.
They had every right to be happy! More listeners=more ratings..
Your right and KCNC is still there actually in the same building on College and Prospect!
KGWN uses some csu students? Really? I never knew that at all! Amatuers at their best go figure! LOL
Your welcome for the information as well on the KIIX/KCOL format change and all.
Tell ya one thing we got one HOT station with 96.1 up here! It is steaming hot station that has won awards for the first time on 96.1! FIrst time! I am quite proud of them for getting an award for 96.1.

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Originally posted by strapshoechris Hi Dude, Looks like that STU guy made the right call for dumping country on 96.1. These awards you mentioned I assume are CO. Broadcasting ones? As for KGWN, Cheyenne is a TV market in the 190's, and no Cheyenne stations are carried any more on Ft. Collins cable, so I think they can get away using a journalism student for their reporting in Ft.Collins, as only off-air viewers are watching them in Larimer county, which in some parts the Cheyenne TV signals are the most dominant ones. I think the presence of "news gathering capability" helps attract advertisers south of the border.

Go to http://www.Kissfmcolorado.com and check it out! Yes he did, like he made the choice of dumping sports on 1410 for satallite American music.
Yes they can, besides CSU students don't need to go up to Cheyenne when we got Channel 25 here out of CSU, for them to be reporters in fort collins! ( That is the CSU's own Tv Station).