Classic Country comes back to Colorado Springs

[ChaseW]

According to KCCY 96.9's Facebook Page KDZA-AM 1350 is now Classic Country and they are now KCCY 1350.

[Ivan Badget]

Actually, KCCY 1350 is a Pueblo station. I lived in Colorado Springs in the late 80s, and Pueblo's AM 1350 was only receivable on a good AM radio in Colorado Springs. My Emerson alarm clock radio could not pick up AM 1350 at all.

[Kent]

First of all, hi, Ivan!  Long time, no see.  Hope you've been well.

Secondly, yes, you're correct.  1350 has always been a Pueblo station.  96.9 was also technically a Pueblo station, though it was definitely targeting Colorado Springs when I spent the summer of '01 there.  I'm not sure when it started going after Colorado Springs, but I believe it moved to the tower west of town sometime after 1990.  KDZA-FM, I understand, is in that area, too, now, but I remember it as having a choppy signal in the Springs in '01. 

I noticed my old friend Tom Travis was doing afternoons on KCCY 1350 (and this wouldn't be unusual as he appears on several of Clear Channel's country stations).  I believe he's OM/PD of their Oklahoma City stations.  I knew him when he was afternoons at KKIX "Kix 104" in Fayetteville/Springdale, AR almost 20 years ago.  I know it's hard for some on these boards to believe, but he always thought of me as quite a pain when he worked for Noalmark in Northwest Arkansas!