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Retro Dial: Denver March 1976

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Bluenoser

from Rocky Mountain News

AM
560 KLZ (News; NBC)
630 KHOW (Music/News)
710 KERE (Modern Country)
800 KBRN (Contemporary)
850 KOA (News; CBS)
910 KPOF (News/Classical)
950 KIMN (AC)
990 KRKS (Music/Religious-daytime only)
1090 KAAT (Christian)
1150 KWBZ (News/Talk-daytime)
1220 KFSC (Spanish)
1280 KTLK (Music/News; ABC)
1340 KDEN (News)
1390 KFML (Free-Form)
1430 KOSI (Easy Listening)
1510 KDKO (R&B)
1550 KQXI (Religious)
1600 KLAK (Modern Country)

FM
90.1 KCFR (News/Public Affairs)
91.1 KWBI (Religious)
94.7 KBVL (Modern Adult; ABC)
96.? 96KX (Rock)
98.5 KIM (Mellow)
99.5 KVOD (Classical)
100.3 KLIR (Beautiful Music)
101.1 KOSI (relays KOSI 1340)
103.5 KOAQ (Music/News)
105.1 KADX (Music/News; ABC)
105.9 KBPI (Free-Form)
106.7 KLZ (Rock)
107.5 KLAK (relays KLAK 1600)
 
Not much of an FM dial for 1976 for a market this size and only one Beautiful Music station??? very surprising
 
What was the difference between Beautiful Music and Easy Listening? I see that KOSI-FM was a simulcast of KOSI 1430, which had an Easy Listening format.

What type of music played on 630, 1280, 103.5 and 105.1, listed as "Music/News"? Would these have been considered MOR (Middle of the Road) formats?

I don't see Top 40 listed anywhere. Maybe these were the stations listed as "Music/News".
 
Beautiful Music is mostly instrumentals with possibly 2 vocals per hour, Easy listening would usually be a much stronger in the vocal catagorey.
 
And the vocals the BM station played was stuff like "Come Softly to me" by the Fleetwoods... *maybe* "We've Only Just Begun" by the Carpenters. "Easy Listening" was anything from Barry Manilow to Frank Sinatra.

"Top 40" was called "Contemporary" back then in the papers. "Music/News" covered everything from full-service AC to block programming.
 
Greg Branch said:
I don't see Top 40 listed anywhere. Maybe these were the stations listed as "Music/News".
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KIMN was definitely Top 40 in 1976, I don't know why they have it listed as AC. I'm pretty sure KTLK was too.
 
Bluenoser said:
96.? 96KX (Rock)
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The call letters were KXKX and 95.7 was their frequency in 1976. I remember hearing an KXKX (KX96) aircheck on ReelRadio that featured this liner: "Two letter radio, KX". It may have been something different, but I am pretty sure that there was a liner like that.
 
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