KDWY is an American FM

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broadcasting on 105.3 MHz FM and is licensed to Diamondville, Wyoming. It primarily broadcasts a country music format, but occasionally broadcasts local

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and

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games from Kemmerer or Diamondville as well. KDWY has sister stations,

KMER KMER (940 AM broadcasting, AM) is an American radio station broadcasting on 940 kHz and is licensed to Kemmerer, Wyoming. It primarily broadcasts a country format, but occasionally broadcasts local high school football and basketball game ...

, KVSI, KRSV-FM, and KRSV. The transmitter is located northeast of downtown Kemmerer on Quealy Peak.

History

The station began as a construction permit on April 23, 1997. The initial construction permit expired, and was modified several times. The station received a license to cover on December 22, 2000. The station was owned by Jerrold T. Lundquist, of Chaparral Broadcasting. Lundquist (Chaparral Broadcasting) sold the station for $2 million to Simmons Media, based out of Salt Lake City on April 19, 2004. At that time, KDWY's sister stations were

KAOX KAOX (107.9 FM) is a news/talk formatted radio station licensed to Shelley, Idaho. Known as "NewsTalk 107.9", the station is owned by Sandhill Media Group. History KAOX received a construction permit on 107.3 from Kemmerer, Wyoming on November ...

107.3, and

in Kemmerer. The station was put in a trust in 2010 owned by Larry Patrick and operated by Broadway Media. Simmons kept KAOX and KMER. The station was sold for $15,000 to current owners SVI Media in mid 2018. KMER was also sold for $40,000. SVI Media noted that at the time of sale, both KDWY and KMER were off air. Most of the broadcasting equipment at the studio was "archaic" and needed to be upgraded. The station returned to air with a

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, before fully returning to air with newer equipment. The current owners also stated they would add local high school football broadcasts at a later date. With the sale, KDWY began to simulcast KRSV, and

. KDWY was known as "105.3 The Spur".

Signal

KDWY broadcasts from a tower located northeast of Kemmerer, and with its 16,000

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signal, covers much of southwestern Wyoming. KDWY can also be heard in parts of northern

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and southeastern

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, with a good radio, or a

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. The station at one point had a construction permit to move to Oakley, Utah, changing frequencies to 105.5 FM. It would have then become a rimshot to the

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market. The tower would move to

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. Ultimately, the frequency move and construction permit went unbuilt.

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