KRGS

Last updated
KRGS
ESPN Rifle.png
Broadcast area Grand Junction, Colorado
Frequency 690 kHz
BrandingESPN 690 AM/98.9 FM
Programming
Format Defunct (was Sports)
Affiliations ESPN Radio
Ownership
OwnerWestern Slope Communications, LLC
KAYW, KAVP, KWGL, KZKS
History
First air date
June 9, 1967 (1967-06-09) (as KWSR at 810)
Former call signs
  • KWSR (1967–1985)
  • KDBL (1985–1987)
  • KWWS (1987–1989)
  • KKGD (1989–1994)
Former frequencies
810 kHz (1967–1995)
Technical information [1]
Licensing authority
 FCC
Facility ID 71960
Class D
Power
  • 900 watts day
  • 12 watts night
Transmitter coordinates
 39°32′56″N107°46′11″W / 39.54889°N 107.76972°W / 39.54889; -107.76972
Translator(s) 98.9 K255CB (Rifle)
Links
Public license information
Website ESPN Radio 690

KRGS (690 AM) was a radio station licensed to Rifle, Colorado, United States. The station was owned by Western Slope Communications, LLC. In 2019 the Federal Communications Commission granted a construction permit to move to a new transmitter site, increase day power to 2,300 watts and increase night power to 16 watts. It expired in 2022 without being built. [2] [3]

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History

On July 6, 1965, the Oil Shale Broadcasting Company applied to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for permission to build a new 1,000-watt, daytime-only radio station on 810 kHz in Rifle. The commission granted the permit on December 2, 1966, [4] and the station began broadcasting in 1967. The manager was Jimmy Seany, a former promotions manager for Denver's KWGN-TV; [5] studios were in the Winchester Hotel. [6]

The FCC designated the renewal of KWSR's broadcast license for hearing in November 1974 [7] on the basis of complaints made by a former employee. [8] In January 1976, FCC administrative law judge Walter C. Miller issued an initial decision to deny the renewal. The major issue in the license renewal proceeding was that the station rigged a "Turkey Shoot" contest. He preselected winners, one of them an advertiser on KWSR, so as to avoid an imbalance in geography; the rigging was carried out by a young staffer, according to owner Norm Price. [9] Miller also cited other misrepresentations in the station's operating logs and said that although unfortunate, the station's misdeeds merited a temporary loss of radio service in Rifle. [10] Upset listeners in the Rifle area and nearby Grand Junction mounted a letter-writing campaign to the commission in protest of Miller's initial decision. [11] Oil Shale Broadcasting Company appealed, and the full FCC granted a one-year license renewal and assessed a $200 fine. [12]

KWSR was sold to Susan and Stephen Hughes in 1985. Hughes owned Rifle FM station KDBL, [13] and the stations became KDBL and KDBL-FM. [14] This was the first in a series of sales over the next decade. Servant Communications, a group with broadcast interests in Oklahoma, acquired the KDBL stations in 1987 and changed the call letters on AM to KWWS. [15] [16] Within a year, Servant sold the pair to companies owned by Steven Humphries; by this time, KWWS was airing a country music format. In 1988, the owner of KRGS, Steven Humphries, was involved in a dispute with the then owners of KKOB and KKOB-FM in Albuquerque. The owner of those stations, Fairmont Communications corporation, disputed Humphries' acquisition of KNMQ out of Santa Fe. At the time, Humphries also owned 100% of the share of Sun Media of Colorado. Sun Media was operating KRGS at the time. [17] Sister station KZKS, then known as KWWS-FM, was involved in the dispute as well. [18] Its call sign changed to KKGD in 1989. [19] The stations were sold again in 1991 for assumption of debts [20] and 1993; the new owners, Canterbury Broadcasting, [21] changed KKGD's call sign on April 21, 1994, to the current KRGS. [22]

The Federal Communications Commission cancelled the station’s license on July 24, 2024. [23]

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References

  1. ↑ "Facility Technical Data for KRGS". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ↑ "KRGS Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
  3. ↑ "KRGS Station Information Profile". Arbitron.
  4. ↑ "History Cards for KRGS" (PDF). Federal Communications Commission.
  5. ↑ Hoff, Hollis (July 21, 1967). "Sight 'n' Sound". Fort Collins Coloradoan. Fort Collins, Colorado. p. 7. Retrieved November 4, 2023– via Newspapers.com.
  6. ↑ "Some Won't Believe It, But Rifle Has Women Disc Jockeys". The Daily Sentinel. Grand Junction, Colorado. November 1, 1971. p. 1-A. Retrieved November 4, 2023– via Newspapers.com.
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  8. ↑ Georgeson, Carolyn; Boland, Mary (January 23, 1976). "'Turkey shoot,' irregularities cited: Rifle radio station fails to get license renewal". The Daily Sentinel. Grand Junction, Colorado. p. 1. Retrieved November 4, 2023– via Newspapers.com.
  9. ↑ Boland, Mary (September 26, 1975). "FCC makes a mountain out of a turkey". The Daily Sentinel. Grand Junction, Colorado. p. 1. Retrieved November 4, 2023– via Newspapers.com.
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  23. ↑ "License Cancelled". Federal Communications Commission Licensing and Management System. July 24, 2024. Retrieved July 24, 2024.


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