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KRGS

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KRGS
Broadcast areaGrand Junction, Colorado
Frequency690 kHz
BrandingESPN 690 AM/98.9 FM
Programming
FormatDefunct (was sports)
AffiliationsESPN Radio
Ownership
OwnerWestern Slope Communications, LLC
KAYW, KAVP, KWGL, KZKS
History
First air date
June 9, 1967 (1967-06-09) (as KWSR at 810)
Last air date
July 2022 (2022-07)
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 ID71960
ClassD
Power
  • 900 watts day
  • 12 watts night
Transmitter coordinates
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Translator98.9 K255CB (Rifle)
Links
Public license information

KRGS (690 AM) was a radio station licensed to Rifle, Colorado, United States. The station was owned by Western Slope Communications, LLC.[2][3] It went on the air in 1967 as KWSR; after nearly losing its license in the 1970s, it became KDBL in 1985, KWWS in 1987, KKGD in 1989, and KRGS in 1994, before ceasing operations in 2022.

History

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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, 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 KWWS 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] ahead of a format change to oldies.[20] The stations were sold again in 1991 for assumption of debts;[21] the new owners, David Smith's Western Media, sold them to Canterbury Broadcasting for $20,000 in 1993.[22] Canterbury, in turn, sold KKGD and KZKS to Western Slope Communications for $30,000 in 1994.[23]

The call sign was changed to KRGS on April 21, 1994.[24] The station, which had been silent, returned to the air that September carrying country music from Jones Satellite Networks.[25] KRGS moved from 810 to 690 kHz in 1995,[26] and switched to oldies, also provided by Jones, in September 1997.[27]

The FCC cancelled the station’s license on July 24, 2024,[28] as it had been off the air since July 2022 and did not respond to an FCC letter.[29] KRGS had left the air due to a transmitter failure; by then, it had become a sports radio station affiliated with ESPN Radio.[30]

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