KGKG (1340 AM) is a

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broadcasting a 1980's hits format. Licensed to

Salida, Colorado The City of Salida ( ; spanish language, Spanish: , "exit") is the Colorado municipalities#Statutory city, Statutory city that is the county seat and the List of cities and towns in Colorado, most populous municipality of Chaffee County, Colorado ...

, United States, the station is currently owned by Headwaters Media, L.L.C. KGKG began broadcasting in 1948 as KVRH, and is the first station to be broadcast in the Upper Arkansas Valley. In 2003, it was flipped to an

oldies Oldies is a term for musical genres such as pop music, rock and roll, doo-wop, surf music (broadly characterized as classic rock and pop rock) from the second half of the 20th century, specifically from around the mid-1950s to the 1980s, as we ...

format, then on April 1, 2009, the station was flipped to a news/talk station. On November 1, 2009, KVRH changed their format from talk to adult standards. In 2011, after

KWUZ KWUZ 97.5 FM (The All New Hippie Radio 97.5) is a radio station with a classic hits Classic hits is a radio format which generally includes songs from the top 40 music charts from the late 1960s to the early 2000s, with music from the 1980s s ...

flipped its format from a

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format, to

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format, KVRH flipped its format to

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. KVRH along with sister station

KBVC KBVC (104.1 FM, "Eagle Country") is a radio station broadcasting a country music format. Licensed to Buena Vista, Colorado, United States, the station is currently owned by Three Eagles Communications of Colorado, LLC and features programming fro ...

carries

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football via 850

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with Dave Logan and

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. The station changed its call sign to the current KGKG on June 29, 2017. On January 1, 2021, KGKG changed their format from classic rock to 1980's hits, branded as "The Valley 102.9".All 80s Comes To Salida’s Valley
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