KRKY-FM is a noncommercial radio station on

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Douglas, Wyoming Douglas is a city in Converse County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 6,120 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Converse County and the home of the Wyoming State Fair. History Douglas was platted in 1886 when the Wyoming C ...

. The station is owned by Vic Michael's Cedar Cove Broadcasting and is known as K-Rocky with a variety format. KRKY-FM is frequently heard on noncommercial and other stations owned by Michael and also has five dependent translators, also owned by Michael.

History

In 2008, the

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granted Wren Communications a construction permit for a station on 88.7 MHz in Douglas. KKWY went on the air in 2011 and then went silent in October, citing the unreliability of its Internet programming feed. After emerging in June 2012, the main transmitter failed that August, leaving the station dark again for 11 months. In July 2013, the station returned to the air as KKAW. In January 2014, KKAW asked to go silent yet again for another main transmitter failure. While silent, the station reverted to the KKWY call letters in February. Wren sold the station to Cedar Cove for $2,000. KKWY returned to the air in January 2015 and became KRKY-FM in December, the fourth station in 2015 alone to hold the call letters (the other three are now

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and the defunct KKHG and

KKWY (Colorado) KKWY (88.7 FM) was a radio station licensed to cover Estes Park, Colorado, United States. The station was owned by Cedar Cove Broadcasting, Inc. Cedar Cove Broadcasting surrendered the station's license to the Federal Communications Commissio ...

). After at first reducing KRKY-FM's power to 850 watts, in 2019, Michael raised it to 23,000 watts on a new frequency, 88.1 MHz.

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* RKY-FM Radio stations established in 2011 2011 establishments in Wyoming {{Wyoming-radio-station-stub