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KBIQ
KBIQ (102.7 FM) is a non-commercial, listener-supported radio station licensed to Manitou Springs, Colorado, and serving the Colorado Springs and Pueblo metropolitan areas. It is owned by the Educational Media Foundation (EMF), and it carries EMF's "K-Love" Christian adult contemporary network.
KBIQ has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 72,000 watts. The antenna is on Transmitter Lane in Colorado Springs amid many local FM and TV towers. The signal reaches as far north as Denver and as far south as Walsenburg.
The current 102.7 license began life at 104.9 MHz in July 1953. Its original call sign was KCMS, "Colorado's Classical Music Station". It was owned by Bud Edmonds, doing business as the Garden of the Gods Broadcasting Company. Edmonds built the facility, the first FM stereo radio station west of the Mississippi River.
Edmonds operated KCMS out of a studio he built in his garage at 68 Minnehaha Avenue. At times, Edmonds and his wife would take turns operating the Seeburg record changer, announcing the music that was being played and changing the albums. In 1956, KCMS moved to 102.7 MHz and gained an AM simulcast partner, KCMS 1490 (now KXRE). The FM tower was moved to the top of Cheyenne Mountain.
In early 1970, Edmonds sold KCMS-AM-FM to a group of retired Air Force officers doing business as the Black Forest Development Company. to take the AM station into an "information and education" format, taking the call letters KEDI. The FM became a music station, playing classical during the day, and free-form album rock at night.
By 1973, the station was a full-time Top 40 music station using the moniker "KEDI-KCMS, Colorado's Music Mother", programmed by Colorado Springs Top 40 radio pioneer Steve Scott. It was the first Top 40 station on FM in Colorado. After several months, its ratings surpassed former Top 40 AM radio legend KYSN.
Never a financial success, KEDI-KCMS was sold in 1974, to Mountain States Broadcasting. Mountain States moved the studios to a location on Manitou Avenue, changing the call letters to KIIQ. It still played Top 40 hits, but with a playlist that was less aggressive. In 1979, Wikes/Abaris Communications acquired KIIQ.
In the early 1980s, KIIQ broadcast a modern rock format. In 1984, it returned to its roots as a CHR as KIKX (Kicks 102.7), becoming one of the top-rated stations in the market. In 1989, Wikes/Abaris sold KIKX to First Sierra Communications. But after First Sierra went bankrupt in 1990, Wikes/Abaris reacquired KIKX.
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KBIQ
KBIQ (102.7 FM) is a non-commercial, listener-supported radio station licensed to Manitou Springs, Colorado, and serving the Colorado Springs and Pueblo metropolitan areas. It is owned by the Educational Media Foundation (EMF), and it carries EMF's "K-Love" Christian adult contemporary network.
KBIQ has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 72,000 watts. The antenna is on Transmitter Lane in Colorado Springs amid many local FM and TV towers. The signal reaches as far north as Denver and as far south as Walsenburg.
The current 102.7 license began life at 104.9 MHz in July 1953. Its original call sign was KCMS, "Colorado's Classical Music Station". It was owned by Bud Edmonds, doing business as the Garden of the Gods Broadcasting Company. Edmonds built the facility, the first FM stereo radio station west of the Mississippi River.
Edmonds operated KCMS out of a studio he built in his garage at 68 Minnehaha Avenue. At times, Edmonds and his wife would take turns operating the Seeburg record changer, announcing the music that was being played and changing the albums. In 1956, KCMS moved to 102.7 MHz and gained an AM simulcast partner, KCMS 1490 (now KXRE). The FM tower was moved to the top of Cheyenne Mountain.
In early 1970, Edmonds sold KCMS-AM-FM to a group of retired Air Force officers doing business as the Black Forest Development Company. to take the AM station into an "information and education" format, taking the call letters KEDI. The FM became a music station, playing classical during the day, and free-form album rock at night.
By 1973, the station was a full-time Top 40 music station using the moniker "KEDI-KCMS, Colorado's Music Mother", programmed by Colorado Springs Top 40 radio pioneer Steve Scott. It was the first Top 40 station on FM in Colorado. After several months, its ratings surpassed former Top 40 AM radio legend KYSN.
Never a financial success, KEDI-KCMS was sold in 1974, to Mountain States Broadcasting. Mountain States moved the studios to a location on Manitou Avenue, changing the call letters to KIIQ. It still played Top 40 hits, but with a playlist that was less aggressive. In 1979, Wikes/Abaris Communications acquired KIIQ.
In the early 1980s, KIIQ broadcast a modern rock format. In 1984, it returned to its roots as a CHR as KIKX (Kicks 102.7), becoming one of the top-rated stations in the market. In 1989, Wikes/Abaris sold KIKX to First Sierra Communications. But after First Sierra went bankrupt in 1990, Wikes/Abaris reacquired KIKX.