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...and speaking of KOA

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Over the years I have heard that there was a time before they went news/talk when KOA actually sported a
top 40 format. If they did, when? I searched online about this and turned up nothing. If KOA wasn't top 40 what were they before they went news/talk?

What about KHOW and KLZ? Were any of them ever top 40? I know KHOW back in the 80s played music but it was a mix of lite pop and oldies plus talk. Kinda like what Cincinatti's WLW was doing back then only with a lot less power.

KLZ I remember them being country and Z-Rock.

KIMN,,96X, and KTLK I know about their top 40 days but were there any other top 40 outlets back then around Denver or even Colorado statewide say before the early 80s?

I would imagine Colorado Springs, Greeley, Fort Collins, Boulder and Grand Junction had their own version the KIMN 95?
 
KOA never did Top 40, though they'd play some middle-of-the-road music in the '60's. Andy Williams. Sergio Mendez. Great air staff, by the way. Ron MacArthur. Little Johnny Harding.

The original KIMN did have competition before KTLK at 1280 went top 40. There was KDAB in Arvada, 10 KW at 1550 AM (RIP), but it was a daytimer and its tower was knocked out in the '65 Platte flood and the Force just wasn't with it. 440.com has some stuff on KDAB.

And there was KBTR, at 710, channel 9's radio side, downstairs at 1089 Bannock. In the mid 60's it took a run at KIMN with a hot jock lineup and a series of contests that KIMN kept topping. KBTR switched to all-news in--I think--1967 (I was a weekender on KBTR, KIMN, and KTLK in college). KIMN was unbeatable, until it beat itself when Pacific and Southern took over in 1971 and swept out everything that made it great. KTLK hired some of the blown-out KIMN jocks but it wasn't the same, and then FM blew up big.
 
It's nice to see Little Johnny Harding's name mentioned. In the 1970s he did middays on KHOW, and later KOA, back when they played music middays and nights. I have tapes of him doing his stream of conscouisness patter on KOA.
A truly nice guy. ANYONE know of his whereabouts?
 
Perhaps you're thinking of KOA-FM (back in the 60's/70's, when I was just a litte tyke).

Eventually KOA-FM (103.5) became KOAQ "Q-103". You know it today as KRFX...103-5 "The Fox"


Course, I could be wrong ya know
 
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