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History
- 1925 — KFXF licensed as a new station on September 2 to the Pikes Peak Broadcasting Co., located at 226 Hangerman Building in Colorado Springs.[2] Call sign was randomly assigned from an alphabetical roster of available call letters. William Duncan Pyle was the principal owner.
- 1927 — Station moved from Colorado Springs to Denver.[3]
- 1934 — Call letters changed from KFXF to KVOD ("Voice of Denver") in July.[4]
- 1958 — Call letters changed from KVOD to KHOW on July 27.[5]
- 1974 — Ray Durkee began Sunday at the Memories on KHOW. In 1976 he syndicated the show nationally.
- 1976 — Hal Moore and Charley Martin become a morning team on KHOW.
- 1978 — Alan Berg joined KHOW and became "the most popular (and most disliked) radio personality in Denver."
- August 1979 — Uncomfortable with his style (e.g., insulting or hanging up on callers), KHOW management fired Berg.[6]
- 1984 — Don Martin, KHOW Sky Spy Traffic Reporter, was awarded the Broadcast Achievement Award from the Colorado Broadcasters Association.
- January 3, 1996 — The Rocky Mountain News reported that Charley Martin's contract was not renewed.[7]
- 1997 — Reggie Rivers joined KHOW.
- c. 2010 — Clear Channel's attempt to install an HD transmitter was thwarted by an incompatibility with the station's four-tower antenna array.
History of ownership
- July 1958 — The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved the sale of KVOD (as the station was known at the time) to Western Broadcasting Enterprises Inc., for $300,000 plus employment deal, by Colorado Radio Corp.[8]
- 1964 — KHOW was purchased by Trigg-Vaughn of Dallas.
- February 3, 1967 — The FCC announced approval of the sale of the Trigg-Vaughn group of radio and TV stations to Doubleday and Company for $14,125,018. Doubleday Broadcasting Company Inc. was formed; Nelson Doubleday, Jr. served as chairman of this new subsidiary, and Cecil L. Trigg, who had been head of Trigg-Vaughn, continued as president and CEO.[9]
- 1981 — Metromedia Inc. bought KHOW from the Doubleday Broadcasting Company for $15 million.
- 1986 — Metromedia's radio stations, including KHOW, were spun off into a separate company named Metropolitan Broadcasting.
- April 1988 — Robert F.X. Sillerman agreed to acquire KHOW's owner, the Metropolitan Broadcasting Holding Company, for $302 million in cash and debt.
- June 1988 — Carl C. Brazell Jr. agreed to pay $20 million for two of Legacy Broadcasting's stations—KHOW and KSYY-FM—with the intent to make them part of a new entity named Command Communications Inc. Sillerman was a "major investor" in Legacy, and Carl E. Hirsch was the "controlling shareholder."[10][11]
- November 9, 1989 — Command Communications Inc. said it had agreed to sell KJOI-FM, KSYY-FM and KHOW to Viacom Broadcasting Inc. for $101.5 million. Viacom saw "high growth potential" in these properties.[12]
- November 9, 1992 — Variety reports that Noble Broadcast Group has agreed to acquire KHOW-AM-FM from Viacom Radio of Viacom International Inc.[13]
- 1996 — Jacor Communications purchased Noble Broadcast Group, owner of 10 stations including KHOW, for $152 million.[14]
- 1999 — Clear Channel Communications, now known as iHeartMedia, purchased Jacor for $4.4 billion.
References
- 1 2 "Facility Technical Data for KHOW". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ↑ "New Stations", Radio Service Bulletin, September 1, 1925, page 3.
- ↑ "Alterations and Corrections", Radio Service Bulletin, January 31, 1927, page 6.
- ↑ "Changes to List", Radio Service Bulletin, July 15, 1934, page 2.
- ↑ "For the Record: Existing AM Stations: Call Letters Assigned", Broadcasting, August 18, 1958, page 99.
- ↑ Johansen, Nick. "Mini Biography - Alan Berg". IMDb.com, Inc. Retrieved June 28, 2012.
- ↑ Saunders, Dusty (January 3, 1996). "Breakup of Hal and Charley Part of Cost-Cutting at Khow?". The Rocky Mountain News. Denver, CO. Archived from the original on November 16, 2018. Retrieved July 3, 2012 – via HighBeam Research.
- ↑ "CHANGING HANDS" (PDF). BROADCASTING. July 21, 1958. Retrieved July 4, 2012.
- ↑ "Trigg-Vaughn sale is approved" (PDF). BROADCASTING. February 6, 1967. Retrieved July 4, 2012.
- ↑ Adelson, Andrea (June 30, 1988). "THE MEDIA BUSINESS; Westwood One to Acquire 50% Stake in WNEW-AM". The New York Times. Retrieved June 28, 2012.
- ↑ Delugach, Al (June 29, 1988). "KJOI-FM's $75-Million Price an Industry Record : Station's Sale Key Part of $155-Million Ownership Shuffle That Also Affects KTWV, Westwood One". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved June 28, 2012.
- ↑ "Viacom Buys 3 Stations". The New York Times. November 10, 1989. Retrieved July 8, 2012.
- ↑ "Financial Briefs". Variety. November 9, 1992. Retrieved July 3, 2012.
- ↑ Mulvey, Tom. "Denver Radio: 80 Years of Change". The Broadcast Professionals Of Colorado. Archived from the original on April 26, 2012. Retrieved June 28, 2012.
- ↑ Ostrow, Joanne (June 3, 2013). "Peter Boyles out at KHOW: Longtime Denver radio talk-show host gone from Clear Channel". The Denver Post. Retrieved July 28, 2013.
- ↑ Ostrow, Joanne (July 24, 2013). "KHOW's successor to Peter Boyles is Mandy Connell". Ostrow Off the Record. The Denver Post. Retrieved July 28, 2013.
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