In terrain shielded areas of southern Colorado 92.5 was generally the White Noise channel, except for a regular visitor from...Trinidad!
...Colorado. (KCRT)
But recently 92.5 has become the latest de facto C3 of the translator set, with 250 watts of WAY-FM from Cheyenne Mountain shining its light all over Colorado Springs and now for the first time, parts of Pueblo. They used to do that same trick on 103.1, that is until full power 100 kW KJQY 103.3 set up shop from a site south of Pueblo. WAY-FM's 103.1 translator created interference for KJQY 103.3 in the Springs. But WAY-FM refused to leave 103.1, even with a CP to move to 92.5 in hand. So, KJQY applied for and received a CP to move to 103.1. The hardened hearts in Idaho finally relented, moving their shop down to 92.5.
In Iowa, back in the day, 92.5 was also one of the White Noise outlets. It was in the old Table of Assignments as a class C for KBIZ in Ottumwa. In the early 70s they were going to put it on sister KTVO's tower some 30 miles south, but they gave up on that idea and they ended up with a class A on 92.7 which is a C2 today as KTWA.
That set the stage for big changes using 92.5 in the Des Moines market in the go-go days of the 80s. Country station KJJY was a class A on 106.3 that overtook a long time leader in the format, 1460 KSO. In those days of Docket 80-90, KJJY wanted a bigger stick, but couldn't get it done on 106.3. The only way it could move to a non-adjacent back then was to propose a second channel of equivalent quality for other prospective applicants. So, KJJY chose to move to 92.5 as a C2, after also dropping in another C2 in 107.5 for Des Moines, which eventually became iHeart's KISS-FM outlet. In time, 106.3 came back to life, and it belongs to iHeart's Format of the Month club.
So kids, that's the story of how 106.3 begat 92.5 which begat 107.5, or KJJY's deal with the devil. But who cares...today it's just an old Nash Rambler up on blocks.
