KRDO (AM)
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KRDO (1240
Studios, offices and the AM transmitter are on South 8th Street in Colorado Springs.[1] Weekdays, after a morning news block, KRDO-AM-FM carry
History
In March 1947, KRDO first
In 1953, KRDO put a TV station on the air, Channel 13 KRDO-TV, as Colorado Springs' NBC TV Network affiliate.[4] (The TV station today is an ABC TV affiliate.) By the late 1960s, KRDO got a daytime power boost to 1,000 watts, though the station still had to reduce power at night to 250 watts. In 1969, an FM station was put on the air, KRDO-FM, a beautiful music outlet.
In 1975, KRDO joined NBC's News and Information Service to become an
In June 2006, KRDO-AM-TV were sold to the News-Press & Gazette company, while KRDO-FM went to Citadel Broadcasting, switching call letters to KATC-FM as a country music outlet. The Hoth Family, as Pikes Peak Broadcasting, had owned KRDO from its founding in 1947 until 2006, nearly six decades. The new owners coupled KRDO with FM 105.5, changing the FM call sign to KRDO-FM and having both radio stations simulcast a news-talk format, while drawing on the news department resources of KRDO-TV.
KRDO (AM) is rebroadcast on translator K223CU in Colorado Springs at 92.5 FM.
References
External links
- KRDO in the FCC AM station database
- KRDO in Nielsen Audio's AM station database
- K223CU in the FCC FM station database
- K223CU at FCCdata.org
- FCC History Cards for KRDO