KRDO-FM (105.5

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) is a commercial

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licensed to

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and serving the

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. It is owned and operated by the

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, through its licensee Pikes Peak Television, Inc. KRDO-FM airs a

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. All programming is

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on KRDO (AM 1240), and both radio stations share news resources with co-owned

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. Studios and offices are on South 8th Street in Colorado Springs. The

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is off Transmitter Lane, also in Colorado Springs, amid antennas for several area FM and TV stations. Weekdays, after a morning news block, KRDO-AM-FM carries two talk shows, both of which are about family finances:

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, and

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-based Tom Martino. KRDO-AM-FM also carries an hour of local news in the 12:00 p.m. Midday Noon hour, along with an afternoon news block from 4 p.m. until 7 p.m. Also heard weekdays are

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and

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with

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. Weekends feature shows on money, health, home repair, guns, computers and travel. Syndicated weekend hosts include

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. Some weekend hours are paid

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. Most hours begin with world and national news from

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105.5 history

On April 8, 1973, the station

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as KWYD-FM under the ownership of Edward J. Patrick. Broadcasting Yearbook 1977 page C-35 For the first few years, KWYD-FM broadcast a

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format before flipping to a

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format in 1975, programming a combination of national and local brokered preaching and instructional shows, as well as inspirational music. In 1989, Patrick sold KWYD-FM to Optima Communications which flipped the station to a

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smooth jazz Smooth jazz is commercially oriented crossover jazz music. Although often described as a "genre", it is a debatable and highly controversial subject in jazz music circles. As a radio format, however, smooth jazz radio became the successor to e ...

format as KBZE, using the on-air moniker ''The Breeze''. (On October 31, 2008, the KWYD-FM

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were picked up by a

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, which broadcasts a

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format.) Two years later, the call letters and format were changed again. The station became a country outlet with the call sign KHII, using the on-air handle "K-High." Optima Communications entered into a

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(LMA) with Pikes Peak Broadcasting Company to operate the station in 1993. In the fall of 1996, Pikes Peak flipped the station back to a smooth jazz format. This time it was called ''Sax 105.5'' and adopted the KSKX call letters. The station remained smooth jazz until News Press & Gazette (NPG) took over the management of the station and flipped the station to a News/Talk format as KRDO-FM in August 2006. In 2015, Optima Communications sold KRDO-FM to NPG.

KRDO-FM call sign history

The KRDO-FM call letters had previously been used on 95.1 MHz in the Colorado Springs radio market, the original

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to KRDO (AM). That FM station signed on in 1969 broadcasting a beautiful music format. In 1994, KRDO-FM dropped

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music and flipped to

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, using the moniker "Peak 95.1." In 1998, KRDO-FM evolved into a

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format, which it maintained until Citadel Broadcasting (now

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) took over operations of the station in the early 2000s. When the then Citadel owned station gave up the KRDO-FM call letters in 2006, NPG acquired that call sign for 105.5. The 95.1 frequency is now home to

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* {{NPG RDO-FM News-Press & Gazette Company Radio stations established in 1973 1973 establishments in Colorado