KHOW

KHOW
City	Denver, Colorado
Broadcast area	Denver-Boulder, Northern Colorado and Colorado Springs.
Branding	Talk Radio 630 KHOW
Slogan	Denver's Talk Station
Frequency	630 kHz
Format	News Talk Information
Power	5,000 watts
Class	B
Facility ID	48962
Transmitter coordinates	39°54′36.0″N 104°54′50.0″W / 39.910000°N 104.913889°W / 39.910000; -104.913889 (KHOW)
Affiliations	ABC Radio Premiere Radio Networks Dial Global
Owner	iHeartMedia, Inc. (Citicasters Licenses, Inc.)
Sister stations	KBCO, KBPI, KDSP, KPTT, KOA, KRFX, KTCL
Webcast	iHeartRadio Station #377
Website	khow.com

KHOW (630 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a talk radio format to the Denver-Boulder, US area. The station is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. and features programing from Dial Global, Premiere Radio Networks and ABC Radio.^[1]

The station runs a talk format as a companion to sister station KOA. Locally produced programming includes "Front Range Focus", and included the Peter Boyles Show before he left the station in June 2013 following a violent run-in with his producer.^[2] Boyles' former slot was filled starting on August 19 when Mandy Connell moved from fellow iHeartMedia (then Clear Channel) station WHAS in Louisville, Kentucky, to launch The Mandy Connell Show.^[3]

Nationally syndicated programming includes the Glenn Beck Program and The Sean Hannity Show. "The Troubleshooter Show," hosted by Tom Martino, is a nationally syndicated program broadcast from KHOW's studios. Since May 2015, KHOW has produced an evening show for WHAS, airing in the 6–8 pm Eastern time slot and hosted by Connell.^[4]

Cultural reference

The longtime morning team of "Hal & Charley" can be heard in the 1980 Stanley Kubrick film The Shining when one of the characters is attempting to reach the Overlook Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado. The station is identified as "63 KHOW" during the sequence. A jingle from the "Class Action" package from JAM Creative Productions is also heard in scene.

History

1925 — With Denver already served by three radio stations -- 9ZAF/KLZ, KFEL (not to be confused with present-day KFEL of Pueblo), and KOA—William Duncan Pyle opened a fourth station, KFXK. KFXK's letters were soon changed to KVOD (Voice of Denver). Decades later, they changed again to KHOW
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 outrageous style (e.g., insulting or hanging up on callers), KHOW management fired Berg.^[5]
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.^[6]
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. If this had been accomplished, listeners elsewhere in Colorado would have been unable to hear distant AM stations on 620 or 640 AM.

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.^[7]
1964 — KHOW was purchased by Trigg-Vaughn of Dallas.
Feb. 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.^[8]
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-AM 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."^[9]^[10]
November 9, 1989 — Command Communications Inc. said it had agreed to sell KJOI-FM, KSYY-FM and KHOW-AM to Viacom Broadcasting Inc. for $101.5 million. Viacom saw "high growth potential" in these properties.^[11]
November 9, 1992 — Variety reports that Noble Broadcast Group has agreed to acquire KHOW-AM/FM from Viacom Radio of Viacom International Inc.^[12]
1996 — Jacor Communications purchased Noble Broadcast Group, owner of 10 stations including KHOW, for $152 million.^[13]
1999 — Clear Channel Communications, now known as iHeartMedia, purchased Jacor for $4.4 billion.

Like other stations owned by iHeartMedia, KHOW uses the iHeartRadio platform to stream its webcast.

former logo

Former hosts

Claudia Lamb; Jay Marvin; Alan Berg; Hal Moore and Charley Martin; Don Wade; Bill Ashford; Harry Smith; Reggie Rivers; Scott Redmond; Peter Boyles; Ray Durkee; Lynn Woods;

References

↑ "KHOW Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
↑ 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.
↑ Crawford, Eric (April 15, 2015). "Mandy Connell back in, Sports Talk out for WHAS Radio". Louisville, KY: WDRB. Retrieved April 16, 2015.
↑ Johansen, Nick. "Mini Biography - Alan Berg". IMDb.com, Inc. Retrieved 28 June 2012.
↑ Saunders, Dusty (January 3, 1996). "BREAKUP OF HAL AND CHARLEY PART OF COST-CUTTING AT KHOW?". The Rocky Mountain News. Retrieved 3 July 2012.
↑ "CHANGING HANDS" (PDF). BROADCASTING. 21 July 1958. Retrieved 4 July 2012.
↑ "Trigg-Vaughn sale is approved" (PDF). BROADCASTING. 6 Feb 1967. Retrieved 4 July 2012.
↑ Adelson, Andrea. "THE MEDIA BUSINESS; Westwood One to Acquire 50% Stake in WNEW-AM". The New York Times. The New York Times Company. Retrieved 28 June 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 28 June 2012.
↑ "Viacom Buys 3 Stations". The New York Times. November 10, 1989. Retrieved 8 July 2012.
↑ "Financial Briefs". Variety. November 9, 1992. Retrieved 3 July 2012.
↑ Mulvey, Tom. "Denver Radio: 80 Years of Change". The Broadcast Professionals Of Colorado. Retrieved 28 June 2012.

External links

Official KHOW Website

Query the FCC's AM station database for KHOW

Radio-Locator Information on KHOW

Radio stations in the Denver–Boulder, Colorado market

By FM frequency	87.7¹ 88.1 88.5 89.3 89.7 90.1 91.1 92.1 92.5 93.3 93.7 93.7♦ 94.1 94.7 95.7 96.5 97.3 98.5 99.5 100.3 101.1 101.5 101.9 102.3 103.1 103.5 104.3 105.1 105.5 105.9 106.7 107.1 107.5 107.9 ¹ Audio for TV channel 6 (KXDP-LP/Spanish Sports)

By AM frequency	560 630 670 710 760 810 850 910 950 990 1060 1090 1150 1190 1220 1280 1340 1390 1430 1490 1510 1550 1600 1650 1690

NOAA Weather Radio frequency	162.450 162.500 162.550

Digital radio	560 670 710 760 810 910 950 990 1090 1220 1340 1390 1490 1600 1690 88.5-1 89.3-1 89.3-2 89.3-3 90.1-1 90.1-2 92.1-1 92.5-1 92.5-2 93.3-1 93.3-2 95.7-1 95.7-2 97.3-1 97.3-2 98.5-1 98.5-2 98.5-3 99.5-1 99.5-2 100.3-1 100.3-2 100.3-3 101.1-1 101.1-2 103.5-1 103.5-2 104.3-1 104.3-2 104.3-3 105.1-1 105.1-2 105.9-1 105.9-2 106.7-1 106.7-2 107.5-1 107.5-2

By callsign	K300CP K231BQ KALC KBCO KBJD KBNO KBPI KBUD♦ KCFC KCFR-FM KCKK KDCO KDMT KDSP KEC76 KEPN KEZW KFCO KFWA KGNU KHOW KIMN KJAC KJHM KJMN KKCL KKFN KKSE KLDC KLDV KLTT KLVZ KLZ KMXA KNRV KNUS KOA KOSI KPOF KPTT KQKS KQMT KRCN KRFX KRKS KRKS-FM KTCL KUVO KVCU KVOD KVOQ-FM KWOF KXKL KXPK KXGR KXWA KYGO-FM WNG550 WXJ45

Notes	♦=To Enter Denver as a move-in; Date TBD

Nearby radio markets Aspen Cheyenne Colorado Springs Ft. Collins–Greeley Pueblo See also List of radio stations in Colorado

News/Talk radio stations in the state of Colorado

Stations	KCOL – Wellington KCSJ – Pueblo KDGO – Durango KFKA – Greeley KGLN – Glenwood Springs KHOW – Denver KLZ – Denver KNFO – Basalt KNUS – Denver KNZZ – Grand Junction KOA – Denver KRDO – Colorado Springs KRDO-FM – Security KVFC – Cortez KVOR – Colorado Springs KZNT – Colorado Springs

See also adult contemporary classic hits college country news/talk NPR oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in Colorado

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