KOSI (101.1
FM) is a
commercial
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radio station
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in
Denver, Colorado
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. KOSI is owned by
Salt Lake City
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–based
Bonneville International
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and airs an
adult contemporary music
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format
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. Its studios and offices are located on East Orchard Road in
Greenwood Village
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, and the
transmitter
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is on
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in
Genesee
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, above the
Red Rocks Amphitheatre
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.
KOSI broadcasts in the
HD format. It carries the
Latter-day Saints Channel
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on its HD2 subchannel. KOSI's parent company, Bonneville, is a
subsidiary
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of
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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.
History
Beautiful music
On March 3, 1968 KOSI-FM officially
signed on
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the air, as the FM counterpart to KOSI in
Aurora
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(now
KAMP).
KOSI-AM-FM both aired a
beautiful music
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format, with some hours
simulcast
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ing and some hours separately programmed. The stations were owned by
William L. Armstrong
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, who would later become a Republican
Congressman
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and two term
U.S. Senator
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. Armstrong sold KOSI-AM-FM to
Westinghouse Broadcasting
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in 1981. KOSI became KEZW in March of that year, carrying an
adult standards format, while KOSI-FM continued playing
easy listening
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music.
Move to adult contemporary
In 1988, Westinghouse sold KOSI and KEZW to D&D Broadcasting, Inc. for $15.5 million. In the 1980s, many easy listening stations found their audiences getting older, and not as attractive to advertisers; in response, KOSI began adding more vocals and deleting some instrumental songs.
On February 6, 1990, KOSI made the transition to
soft adult contemporary
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music, with an all-vocal
playlist
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. By the early 2000s, KOSI, along with other Soft AC stations, began adding more upbeat titles to the playlist, making the transition to a mainstream
adult contemporary
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format.
Ownership changes
In 1989, KOSI and KEZW were sold to Shepard Communications of
Grand Rapids
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. Then in December 1992,
Tribune Broadcasting
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acquired KOSI and KEZW for $19.5 million. In December 2002, the two stations were sold to
Entercom
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. From 2007 to 2011, KOSI aired the
syndicated Delilah
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radio show in the evening. Delilah has since been replaced with local programming.
On July 14, 2015, as part of a merger with
Lincoln Financial Media
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, and to be in compliance with ownership caps and total market revenue limits, the
Department of Justice
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required Entercom to spin off KOSI,
KYGO-FM
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,
KKFN
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and
KEPN
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to
Bonneville International
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in exchange for Bonneville's KSWD in Los Angeles (now
KKLQ). This resulted in KOSI and KEZW being separately owned for the first time. Both Bonneville and Entercom began operating their new clusters via
Time Brokerage Agreements on July 17, 2015, until the transaction was consummated on November 24, 2015.
FCC Approves Entercom's Acquisition of Lincoln Financial Media
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Christmas Music
KOSI switches its format to all-Christmas music
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during the holiday season. KOSI switches the christmas music on July 24th and 25th (Christmas in July). The change generally takes place in early to mid-November and continues until midnight on December 25, at which point the format goes back to adult contemporary
Adult contemporary music (AC) is a form of radio-played popular music, ranging from 1960s vocal and 1970s soft rock music to predominantly ballad-heavy music of the present day, with varying degrees of easy listening, pop, soul, R&B, quie ...
. In 2008, the Christmas music continued until December 27. In 2020 as a service to health care providers during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Christmas music continued until New Years Eve at 7pm.
References
External links
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Mainstream adult contemporary radio stations in the United States
Westinghouse Broadcasting
Bonneville International