KPAW (92.9 FM) is a radio station licensed to Warren AFB, Wyoming. Owned by

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, it broadcasts a

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format branded as ''92.9 The Bear''.

History

92.9 license

The station was assigned the call letters KOLT-FM on February 7, 2007. It was known previously as a

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, prior to that a

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station, and the original frequency to KMOR-FM in

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, which broadcast a

format before the move to Cheyenne. As of 2016, it operated with a

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format as ''92.9 The Boss''. KOLT-FM was acquired by

in January 2016, after its previous owner, Tracy Broadcasting Company, defaulted on a loan and was repossessed by the Valley Bank & Trust. In April 2016, the station flipped to

adult contemporary Adult contemporary music (AC) is a form of radio-played popular music, ranging from 1960s vocal and 1970s soft rock music to predominantly ballad-heavy music of the 1980s to the present day, with varying degrees of easy listening, pop, soul ...

as ''Star 92.9'', and adopted the call letters KYWY (the

KOLT-FM KOLT-FM (100.7 Hertz, MHz) is a radio station broadcasting a country music format. Licensed to Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States, the station serves the Cheyenne area, complementing sister country station KXBG. The station is currently owned b ...

calls were then assumed by a sister country station).

KPAW intellectual unit

On July 27, 1975, KCOL-FM first signed on. It was the

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to AM 1410 KCOL (now on

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). KCOL-FM aired a beautiful music format. In 1988, the station switched to a

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format as KIMN, which were the call letters of a popular Top 40 station in Denver in past years. The station took the call letters KPAW in 1995, at first keeping its Top 40 sound, then moving to classic hits around 2000, and later to classic rock. On December 5, 2017, iHeartMedia moved KPAW's intellectual unit and call sign to the 92.9 frequency (formerly held by sister station KYWY, which moved its adult contemporary format to KOLT-HD2 and translator station K246CI), so it could shift

KBPI KBPI (107.9 FM, "107-9 KBPI") is a commercial radio station licensed to Fort Collins, Colorado. It is owned by iHeartMedia and it broadcasts an active rock radio format. KBPI's studios are located in Denver in the Tech Center. In December ...

's programming to 107.9 from 106.7 (which briefly warehoused the KYWY calls before flipping to

KWBL KWBL (106.7 FM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Denver, Colorado. It is owned by iHeartMedia and it broadcasts a country format branded as ''106.7 The Bull''. KWBL carries two nationally syndicated country music shows from co-owne ...

) to form a trimulcast ( 107.9 KDZA in Colorado Springs also flipped to a simulcast of KBPI, while the station operates a translator on 107.9 in Denver), which officially launched on December 11, 2017. iHeartMedia promoted that this change strengthened the station's signal and reach.

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