KOSI

KOSI
City Denver, Colorado
Broadcast area Denver metropolitan area
Branding KOSI 101.1
Slogan "Real. Music. Variety."
"80's, 90's, 2K & Today"
Frequency 101.1 MHz (also on HD Radio)
First air date March 3, 1968
Format FM/HD1: Adult Contemporary
Christmas music (Nov.-Dec.)
HD2: Mormon Channel
ERP 98,600 watts
(100,000 watts with beam tilt)
HAAT 341 meters (1,119 ft)
Class C
Facility ID 67844
Callsign meaning Sounds like "cozy"
Owner Bonneville International Corporation
Sister stations KEPN, KKFN, KYGO-FM
Webcast Listen Live
Website KOSI101.com

KOSI (101.1 MHz) is a commercial FM radio station in Denver, Colorado. KOSI is owned by the Bonneville International Corporation and airs an adult contemporary music format. Its studios and offices are located on East Orchard Road in Greenwood Village, and the transmitter is on Mount Morrison in Genesee, above the Red Rocks Amphitheater.

KOSI broadcasts in the HD format. It carries the Mormon Channel on its HD2 subchannel.[1] KOSI's parent company, Bonneville, is a subsidiary of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

History

Beautiful Music

On March 3, 1968, KOSI-FM signed on the air.[2] It was the FM counterpart to AM 1430 KOSI in Aurora (now KEZW).

KOSI-AM-FM both aired a beautiful music format, with some hours simulcast and some hours separately programmed. The stations were owned by Bill Armstrong, who would later become a Republican Congressman and two term U.S. Senator. Armstrong sold KOSI-AM-FM to Westinghouse Broadcasting in 1981. KOSI 1430 became KEZW in March of that year, carrying an adult standards format, while KOSI-FM continued playing easy listening music.

Move to Adult Contemporary

In 1988, Westinghouse sold KOSI and KEZW to D&D Broadcasting, Inc. for $15.5 million.[3] In the 1980s, many easy listening stations found their audiences getting older, and not as attractive to advertisers. KOSI began adding more vocals and deleting some instrumental songs as a response.

On February 6, 1990, KOSI made the transition to soft adult contemporary music, with an all-vocal playlist.[4] By the early 2000s, KOSI, along with other Soft AC stations, began adding more upbeat titles to the playlist, making the transition to a mainstream Adult Contemporary sound.

Ownership Changes

In 1989, KOSI and KEZW were sold to Shepard Communications of Grand Rapids. Then in December 1992, Tribune Broadcasting acquired KOSI and KEZW for $19.5 million.[5] In December 2002, the two stations were sold to Entercom. From 2007 to 2011, KOSI aired the syndicated Delilah radio show in the evening. Delilah has since been replaced with local programming.

On July 14, 2015, as part of a merger with Lincoln Financial Media, the Department of Justice required Entercom to spin off several of its Denver stations to avoid going over ownership caps. Entercom decided to hand off KOSI, 98.5 KYGO-FM, 104.3 KKFN and 1600 KEPN to Bonneville International in exchange for Bonneville's KSWD in Los Angeles (now KKLQ). This resulted in KOSI and 1430 KEZW being separately owned for the first time. Both Bonneville and Entercom began operating their new clusters via Time Brokerage Agreements on July 17, 2015, until the transaction was consummated on November 24, 2015.[6]

Christmas Music

KOSI switches its format to all-Christmas music during the holiday season. The change generally takes place during the week prior to Thanksgiving and continues until midnight on December 26, at which point the format goes back to adult contemporary. In 2008, the Christmas music continued until December 27.

References

  1. ↑ http://www.hdradio.com/station_guides/widget.php?id=71
  2. ↑ Broadcasting Yearbook 1969 page B-28
  3. ↑ http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/Archive-BC-IDX/88-OCR/BC-1988-11-14-OCR-Page-0102.pdf#search=%22kosi westinghouse%22
  4. ↑ http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-RandR/1990s/1990/RR-1990-02-09.pdf
  5. ↑ Broadcasting & Cable Yearbook 1994 page B-59
  6. ↑ FCC Approves Entercom's Acquisition of Lincoln Financial Media

Coordinates: 39°43′45″N 105°14′06″W / 39.72917°N 105.23500°W / 39.72917; -105.23500

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