KVXO (88.3 FM) is a

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, United States. The station is

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by Public Broadcasting of Colorado, Inc. The station broadcasts a

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format to the Ft. Collins-Greeley area.

History

The

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received the original

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for a new FM station in

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, from the

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on June 7,

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, almost six years after filing the initial application. The new station was assigned the call letters KWWY by the FCC on June 27, 2002. In October 2002, WAY-FM Media Group, Inc., applied to transfer the construction permit for this station to

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in compliance with their July 2001 consent agreement. The deal was approved by the FCC on November 19, 2002, and the transaction was consummated on January 6, 2003. The station's callsign was changed to KLHV on February 28, 2003, to better fit the "K-Love" branding. In August 2003, Colorado Christian University reached an agreement to transfer this station and its construction permit to the

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. The deal was approved by the FCC on October 2, 2003, and the transaction was consummated on November 25, 2003. The station received its

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from the FCC on June 7, 2005. On June 1, 2008, the station was assigned the call sign KGCO. Just 18 days later it reverted to the previous KLHV assignment until February 17, 2009, when the station once again was assigned the call sign KGCO by the FCC to match the move to the

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and a new format. On March 26, 2013, KGCO was purchased from Educational Media Foundation by Cedar Cove Broadcasting, Inc. for $10. The purchase was consummated on May 1, 2013. The station's call sign was changed to KEZF on January 29, 2014, back to KGCO on May 26, 2014, and to KRKY-FM on January 9, 2015. Effective July 24, 2015, KRKY-FM was swapped to Public Broadcasting of Colorado, Inc. (

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) in exchange for

KVOQ KVOQ may refer to: * KVOQ (FM), a radio station (102.3 FM) licensed to serve Greenwood Village, Colorado * KDCO (AM), a radio station (1340 AM) licensed to serve Denver, Colorado, which held the call sign KVOQ from 2011 to 2015 * KKHK, a radio stat ...

and the cancellation of $100,000 in debt. On July 31, 2015, KRKY-FM changed its call sign to KVXQ, and dropped its Spanish-language religious programming in favor of Colorado Public Radio's "OpenAir" AAA format. On November 27, 2018, Colorado Public Radio moved the AAA format to a newly-acquired translator in Fort Collins, adding their classical music format to KVXQ in its place. On November 30, 2018, the station's call sign was changed to KVXO.

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* * {{NPR Colorado VXO Radio stations established in 2005 Classical music radio stations in the United States 2005 establishments in Colorado Public radio stations in the United States NPR member stations