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KKSE (AM)

KKSE (950 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Parker, Colorado, and serving the Denver metropolitan area. The station is owned by Stan Kroenke's KSE Radio Ventures.

KKSE airs a sports radio format branded as "Altitude Sports 950". KKSE has studios on South Colorado Boulevard in Glendale, with the AM transmitter located off Riverdale Road in Denver. KSE Radio Ventures also owns sister stations KIMN and KXKL-FM.

KKSE-AM-FM are the flagship stations for Denver Nuggets basketball, Colorado Avalanche hockey, Colorado Rapids soccer and Colorado Mammoth lacrosse. All four teams are co-owned with KKSE-AM-FM. KKSE-FM carries local sports hosts most of the day and carry syndicated programming from Fox Sports Radio nights and weekends. KKSE-AM carries syndicated programming from Fox Sports Radio full-time.

The station first signed on in 1923 as KFEL, owned by Gene O'Fallon and broadcasting from the Albany Hotel. It is Denver's second-oldest radio station. After several frequency moves, it eventually settled on its current location of 950 AM. O'Fallon sold the station to Standard Examiner Publishing of Ogden, Utah, in 1954, and the new owners changed the call sign to KIMN.

For most of the next three decades, KIMN was Denver's highly rated Top 40 outlet. It was KIMN that presented the Beatles at the Red Rocks Amphitheatre in August 1964. The station was inducted into the Colorado Music Hall of Fame for its contribution to the Colorado music scene in the 1950s and 1960s. By the late 1980s, KIMN evolved from Top 40 to oldies.

Denver's first airborne traffic reporter was Don Martin on KIMN's "Air Alert", who later became the vice-president of news operations, and is considered the pioneer of live news coverage in Denver. In 2007, Martin was inducted into the Broadcast Pioneers of Colorado Hall of Fame.

At Noon on April 26, 1988, after airing a 19-hour retrospective of KIMN's history, the station flipped to country music and adopted the KYGO call letters. The programming was separate from co-owned KYGO-FM.

While the FM station concentrated on current and recent country hits, the AM used a deeper library and more personality. It was also a CBS Radio News Network affiliate. KYGO continued for six years playing country music before its owner, Jefferson-Pilot Communications decided on a new direction for the station. (Jefferson-Pilot later became the Lincoln Financial Group.)

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