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KLVZ

KLVZ (810 AM "Legends 95.3 FM, 810 AM") is a commercial radio station broadcasting an oldies radio format, focusing on the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. LicensedtoBrighton, Colorado, it serves the Denver metropolitan area. The station is owned by Crawford Broadcasting.

The transmitter is co-located with the tower for sister station KLZ off Welby Road in Denver.^[1] The call letters KLVZ were used in the pilot episode of the TV sitcom ALF.

Programming is also heard on FM translator station K232FK, 94.3 MHz in Brighton as well as K237GG, 95.3 MHz in Denver.

The 94.3 FM translator receives exceptional interference from KMAX-FM in Fort Collins and KILO in Colorado Springs. The Denver area is more affected with KILO while the Northglenn area is affected with KMAX.

810 AM is a United States clear-channel frequency, on which KGOinSan Francisco, California and WGYinSchenectady, New York share Class A status.

History[edit]

The station first signed onasKHIL on April 26, 1956.^[2] It originally broadcast on 800 kHz. KHIL was a daytimer, required to be off the air at night to protect clear channel station XELOinCiudad Juarez, Mexico, the Class A station on AM 800. KHIL aired a middle of the road music format.

In 1969, the station was bought by Southwestern Broadcasters, which switched the call signtoKBRN and the format to Christian radio.^[3] In 1982, the station was acquired by Interstate Broadcasting Systems (who owned KYMS in Santa Ana at the time), which changed the call letters to KLTT (coupled with adopting the 80 K-Light moniker) but continued the religious format. Interstate Broadcasting Systems would sell KLTT to Mortenson Broadcasting Company in 1988.

Crawford Broadcasting bought the station for $700,000 in 1993.^[4] Crawford moved the KLTT call sign and religious format to AM 670, a station which transmits with 50,000 watts in the daytime, compared to AM 800's 1,000-watt signal. The new call letters were KLDC and the station broadcast a gospel music format.

In February 2006, KLDC moved one spot up the dial to 810 kHz.^[5] Even though AM 810 is also a clear channel frequency, its Class A stations, KGO San Francisco and WGY Schenectady, New York, are far enough away that the station could finally be given nighttime authorization to stay on the air, although at reduced power. By 2010, AM 810 was broadcasting a Spanish-language Christian radio format as KLVZ.

On August 1, 2011, KLVZ went off the air. There was no word if the station was off the air permanently. The station's website indicated July 31, 2011 was the final day of broadcast. The website thanked listeners, and told them to tune to other Crawford Broadcasting stations.^[6]

In October 2016, KLVZ, whose gospel format had moved to AM 1220 KLDC in April, returned to the air with Pop Classics, a mixture of adult standards and oldies from the 50's, 60's and 70's.^[7]

On April 13, 2020, KLVZ added a new simulcast translator on 95.3 FM (K237GG) to help boost the station's signal into downtown Denver. The station rebranded as Legends 95.3 FM, 810 AM, and refocused its playlist on oldies from the 50's, 60's and 70's, some of them little-played as compared to the much tighter playlists of other oldies stations.^[8] KLVZ also plays an hourly "legendary flashback" in its rotation, which consists of an adult standard.

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External links[edit]

• FCC History Cards for KLVZ

• KLVZ in the FCC AM station database
• KLVZinNielsen Audio's AM station database
• K232FK in the FCC FM station database
• K232FK at FCCdata.org