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KKSE (950 AM) is a
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to
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, and serving the
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. The station is owned by
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's KSE Radio Ventures. KKSE airs a
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branded as "Altitude Sports 950". KKSE has studios on South Colorado Boulevard in
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, with the AM
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located off Riverdale Road in Denver. KSE Radio Ventures also owns
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and
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. KKSE-AM-FM have local sports hosts most of the day and carry syndicated programming from
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nights and weekends. KKSE-AM-FM are the flagship stations for
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and
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. All four teams are co-owned with KKSE-AM-FM.


History


KFEL and KIMN

The station first signed on in 1923 as KFEL, owned by Gene O'Fallon and broadcasting from the Albany Hotel. It is Denver's second-oldest radio station. After several frequency moves, it eventually settled on its current location of 950 AM. O'Fallon sold the station to Standard Examiner Publishing of
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in 1954, and the new owners changed the
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to KIMN. For most of the next three decades, KIMN was Denver's highly rated
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outlet. It was KIMN that presented the
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at the
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in August 1964. The station was inducted into the
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for its contribution to the Colorado music scene in the 1950s and 1960s. By the late 1980s, KIMN evolved from Top 40 to
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. Denver's first airborne traffic reporter was Don Martin on KIMN's "Air Alert", who later became the vice-president of news operations, and is considered the pioneer of live news coverage in Denver. In 2007, Martin was inducted into the Broadcast Pioneers of Colorado Hall of Fame.


KYGO Country

At Noon on April 26, 1988, after airing a 19-hour retrospective of KIMN's history, the station flipped to
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and adopted the KYGO call letters. The programming was separate from co-owned
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. While the FM station concentrated on current and recent country hits, the AM used a deeper library and more personality. It was also a
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. KYGO continued for six years playing country music before its owner, Jefferson-Pilot Communications decided on a new direction for the station. (Jefferson-Pilot later became the
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.)


Switch to Sports

On October 12, 1994, the station changed its call sign to KKFN, and the station began adding sports talk programs to its schedule. On March 6, 1995, the station completed its shift to becoming the Denver market's first ever
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station as "AM 950 The Fan." (The KYGO call sign and country format moved to 1600 AM.) On March 8, 2008, KKFN's sports format began simulcasting on 104.3 FM (formerly
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KJCD). The simulcast only lasted six months.


Cruisin' Oldies

On September 2, 2008, the AM station became KRWZ with an
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format, using the moniker "Cruisin' Oldies 950." On December 8, 2014,
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announced it would purchase Lincoln Financial's entire 15-station lineup in a $106.5 million deal. Until the transfer was complete, Entercom operated the outlets under a
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(LMA). On December 22, 2014, Entercom announced that it would retain KRWZ and its oldies format. The FCC approved the deal on June 26, 2015.


Return to Sports

On December 17, 2015, Entercom announced it would sell KRWZ to KSE Radio Ventures, owned by
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. He added the station to his
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acquired FM properties in the Denver market. KSE also announced that KRWZ would flip to a new format when the sale closes, as Entercom moved the Oldies format to KEZW on December 27. On the same day, KRWZ began stunting with mostly adult standards music, as well as redirecting listeners to KEZW. Upon the change of ownership, KRWZ adopted the call letters KKSE. KSE announced that the station will return to sports talk and become "Altitude Sports 950" (named after KSE's Altitude cable channel). The new format's programming will include the
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Show, along with a schedule of live and local programming. The station was to serve as the radio flagship for the Colorado Avalanche, the Denver Nuggets and the Colorado Rapids, as well as the Colorado Mammoth (all of which are owned by Kroenke). The sale to KSE closed on March 14, 2016, and the station flipped to a simulcast of KWOF that day at Noon. "Altitude Sports 950" officially launched at 7 a.m. on April 8. KKSE entered a crowded sports talk field in the Denver market, with competitors including KDSP, KDCO and former
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s
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and
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. On September 17, 2018, KKSE moved its local programming to
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, with 950 AM becoming mostly a pass-through for
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programming. The move was made due to its new FM sister's stronger range. The AM station must conform its nighttime signal to protect
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in
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, while the FM station provides at least grade B coverage to almost all of north-central Colorado. On October 29, 2021, KKSE announced that it would flip the 950 AM signal to a
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-focused format on November 1, carrying programming from
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outside of live game coverage.


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