KGRE (AM)
regional Mexican radio station in Greeley, Colorado, United States
KGRE (1450 kHz) is an AM radio station broadcasting a Regional Mexican format. Licensed to Greeley, Colorado, United States, it serves the Ft. Collins-Greeley area. The station is currently owned by Greeley Broadcasting Corporation.
History
KYOU
The station went on the air as KYOU on August 24, 1948. Owned for 30 years by the Meroco Broadcasting Company, the station broadcast with 250 watts of power from a transmitter at 2424 6th Avenue. In 1961, KYOU relocated its transmitter outside of town and boosted its daytime power to 1,000 watts. KYOU was primarily a full-service station with ABC and Intermountain Network news, while its sister station KGRE (92.3, later 92.5 FM), established in 1967, aired middle-of-the-road music. KYOU-KGRE was acquired by O'Kieffe Broadcasting, owned by Donald O'Malley and George Keiffer, in 1978 for $770,000.
The 1980s and 1990s: ownership carousel
The 1980s brought a series of changes to 1450 AM, beginning with a 1983 sale of 84 percent of the stations to Kenneth R. Greenwood for $310,000 in October 1983 that provided immediate cash relief to O'Kieffe.
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