KWCC-FM (89.5 FM) is an American non-commercial educational

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to serve

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. The station's

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is held by 91.5

KRCC KRCC (91.5 MHz) is a public radio station in Colorado Springs, Colorado. It is owned by Colorado College and operated by Colorado Public Radio. KRCC broadcasts non-commercial News/Talk programming, mostly from National Public Radio (NPR) an ...

, owned by

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. KWCC-FM repeats the main KRCC signal content found at 91.5 FM.

History

In October 2007, Grace Public Radio applied to the

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(FCC) for a construction permit for a new broadcast radio station. The FCC granted this permit on May 7, 2008, with a scheduled expiration date of May 7, 2011. The new station was assigned

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"KILE-FM" on August 27, 2008. After multiple modifications, construction and testing were completed in April 2011 and the station was granted its

on May 11, 2011. As of 2011, KILE-FM broadcast an

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during the day and soft jazz at night. In May 2017, the station was sold by Grace Public Radio to

for $24,000 to serve as a repeater of its

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affiliated station

. The sale was consummated on June 16, 2017, at which point the call letters were changed to KWCC-FM.

Construction permit

On December 26, 2012, KILE-FM applied for an FCC construction permit to change the directional pattern of the antenna and increase HAAT to -132 meters.

References

External links

91.5 KRCC main website
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