KNUS (710 AM) is a

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licensed in the city of

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. The station serves the Denver/Boulder Metropolitan area. 710 KNUS is owned and operated by

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under licensee Salem Media of Colorado, Inc. and features programming from the Salem Radio Network,

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and

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. Studios are located in

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and the transmitter is located in

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. The 710 KNUS weekday lineup includes local hosts Peter Boyles, Steffan Tubbs, with Randy Corporon, Mike Boyle, Jimmy Sengenberger, and Matt Dunn handling weekend shifts. 710 KNUS is similar to many of Salem's other talk stations, airing hosts

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, Mark Levin, and Sebastian Gorka. 710 KNUS is a

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affiliate and a member of the

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and winner of the Colorado Broadcasters Association's 2018 Best Regularly Scheduled Newscast award.

History of KNUS

KNUS came on the air as KMYR in May 1941 on 1340 kHz. It moved to 710 kHz in April 1956. When it was KBTR, it had a news partnership with KBTV (now

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); this ended sometime in the mid-1980s. From the 1970s to the late 1980s, it was owned by Mullins Broadcasting. In the late 1980s, the station changed its name to KBXG when it was bought by a Boulder coal company. In the 1990s, the station was the home of Ken Hamblin, Gary Tessler, Alan Dumas, Carol McKinley, Nia Bender, Pierre Wolfe, Mason Lewis, Warren Byrne, Gabby Gourmet, Ron Krieter, and many others. At one point in 1991, it had Peter Boyles 5:00 am till 9:00 am, Gary Tessler 9:00 till 1:00. Ken Hamblin 1:00 till 4:00, Jim Turner 4:00 till 8:00 and Jann Scott 8:00 till Midnight. It broadcast from the 23rd floor studios of the Tabor Center. 710 AM would simulcast then-sister

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from 1988 to 1989. In 1993, KNUS was Denver's first station to carry ''

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''. When Limbaugh came to Fort Collins for an appearance, thousands of people showed up. Jann Scott also did a live show from Fort Collins where some negative comments were made about Rush. Limbaugh heard the show from his hotel room and came over. Limbaugh and Scott bantered back and forth and then ended up telling jokes and talking to the crowd for two hours.

Former On-Air

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Ken Hamblin Ken Loronzo Hamblin II (born October 22, 1940), the self-titled ''Black Avenger'', was host of the ''Ken Hamblin Show'', which was syndicated nationally on Entertainment Radio Networks. His show peaked in the 1990s, but he left the air, without ...

, Jann Scott, Marty Nalitz, Jimmy Lakey,

Mike Rosen Michael Rosen (born December 5, 1944)''The Mike Rosen Show'', 850 KOA, December 22, 2008 (10 a.m. hour) is an American radio personality and political commentator. He was the host of ''The Mike Rosen Show'' on talk radio station 850 KOA in Denve ...

, Alan Dumas, Jim Turner, Gary Tessler, Carol McKinley, Nia Bender, Brandon Scott, Pierre Wolfe, Warren Byrne, Gabby Gourmet, Mason Lewis, Bill Jones, Connor Shreve, Steve Kelley, Krista Kafer, Dan Caplis, Chuck Bonniwell and Julie Hayden, Craig Silverman. Peter Boyles returned to 710 KNUS in the summer of 2013 after being fired by another talk radio station for racially intensive material.

Chuck and Julie Show controversy

On December 18, 2019 the ''Chuck & Julie'' show was cancelled after co-host Chuck Bonniwell stated, when introducing a segment discussing the impeachment of Donald Trump, "You know, you wish for a nice school shooting to interrupt the nonstop impeachment coverage. " This happened one week after another KNUS host, Kirk Widlund denied allegations that he had posted white-supremacist memes online.

References

External links

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''Denver Radiog: 80 Years of Change'' by Tom Mulvey – Advertising & Marketing Review.

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