KFCS
Radio station in Colorado Springs, Colorado
KFCS (1580 AM) is a radio station licensed to Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States. It is owned by Lindsey Salazar's Greeley Broadcasting Corp., and simulcasts the regional Mexican format of KRYE in Beulah.
History
KPIK went on the air in June 1957. It was owned by the Western Broadcasting Company, controlled by David Pinkston and Leroy Elmore. KPIK broadcast during the daytime only with 5,000 watts and broadcast a country music format from its first day of operation. The station expanded to FM when it acquired KLST (94.3 FM) in 1966 and converted it to a simulcast as KPIK-FM (now KILO). KPIK-FM was just the second all-country music station on FM in the United States. The AM and FM stations remained a simulcast through 1977, when the FM moved toward a more contemporary country sound as "Super K-94" while the AM station focused on more traditional country. That same year, station manager George James was elected to the Colorado Springs city council.
Pinkston, with various partners, owned the station until selling it to the Area Broadcasting Company, headed by James, in 1978; this separated it from the FM station.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “KFCS” as radio station in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
Why this record matters
The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as radio station in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q14684806. Authority coordinates are 38.720, -104.722. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1580, 1957, 1966 and 1977.
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This entry incorporates text from “KFCS” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.