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| Broadcast area | Denver metropolitan area |
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| Frequency | 106.7MHz (HD Radio) |
| Branding | 106-7 The Bull |
| Programming | |
| Format | Country |
| Affiliations | Premiere Networks |
| Ownership | |
| Owner |
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| KBCO,KBPI,KDFD,KHOW,KOA,KDHT,KRFX,KTCL | |
| History | |
First air date | June 19, 1962; 63 years ago (1962-06-19) |
Former call signs | |
Call sign meaning | "Bull" |
| Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 29739 |
| Class | C0 |
| ERP | 100,000watts |
| HAAT | 408 meters (1,339 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 39°43′58.00″N105°14′8.00″W / 39.7327778°N 105.2355556°W /39.7327778; -105.2355556 |
| Links | |
Public license information | |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | 1067thebull |
KWBL (106.7FM) is acommercialradio stationlicensed toDenver, Colorado. It is owned byiHeartMedia and it broadcasts acountryformat branded as106.7 The Bull. KWBL carries twonationally syndicated country music shows from co-ownedPremiere Networks:The Bobby Bones Show on weekday mornings andCMT Nites with Cody Alan heard overnight. Theradio studios are located in theDenver Tech Center.
KWBL has aneffective radiated power (ERP) of 100,000watts. Thetransmitter is onLookout Mountain inGolden, amid thetowers for other Denver-area FM and TV stations.[2] KWBL broadcasts usingHD Radio technology. Its HD-2digital subchannel formerly carried theiHeartRadiosoft adult contemporary music service known as "The Breeze."
106.7 FM signed the air on June 19, 1962, as KLZ-FM. Initially airing a simulcast oftheir then-AM sister station, it flipped to a rock format August 4, 1965, and was America's first rock format radio station on the FM band.
In 1977, KLZ-FM changed their call letters toKAZY (now at 93.7FM inCheyenne, Wyoming) and continued with a mainstream rock format.
On April 20, 1994,KBPI took over the 106.7 frequency, moving from 105.9 (nowKALC).[3] The station aired anactive rock format, which was harder than what was previously heard on KAZY.
On March 19, 1996, KBPI made national headlines following the suspension of three of the station's disc jockeys, Joey Teenan, Dean Meyers, and Roger Beatty, after the station was interrupted by two of its disc jockeys, Meyers and Beatty, breaking intomosques and playing "The Star-Spangled Banner" with atrumpet and abugle blaring loud during its morning show, while the third jockey, Teenan, wore aturban and anAbdul Rauf shirt during a "Torture Tuesday" segment. Station manager Jack Evans called the stunt "an ill-conceived attempt at humor" and replied on the segment being "judgemental". Evans forced all three of its disc jockeys to leave the studio following the incident.[4]
In December 2017, iHeartMedia re-aligned multiple stations in the Denver,Colorado Springs,Fort Collins, and Cheyenne markets in order to form atrimulcast (which was later split up on January 28, 2019) of KBPI on the 107.9 frequency. To facilitate the move for the main signal, on the 1st, KYWY (anadult contemporary station inCheyenne, Wyoming, which was acquired by iHeart in 2016)[5][6] moved its existing format to anHD Radio subchannel ofKOLT-FM and its analog translator on 97.1, allowingKPAW to move itsclassic rock format and call letters to the 92.9 signal four days later. On the 11th, KBPI then moved its format and call letters to KPAW and translatorK300CP, while also adding a simulcast onKDZA-FM. The KYWY calls were warehoused on the former 106.7 signal; iHeart stated that the station would temporarily simulcast KBPI through the end of the year, and be re-launched with a new format after the end of the simulcast period.[7]
On December 18, 2017, at 5 p.m., KYWY dropped out of the simulcast and, following a 10-minute stunt montage of random TV and movie audio clips backed by a ticking clock, flipped tocountry music as106.7 The Bull, launching with a 10,000 song commercial-free marathon, starting with "Body Like a Back Road" bySam Hunt. The flip gave long-time country stalwartKYGO its first full-market competition since that station flipped to the format in 1979, while also competing withKWOF, which rimshots the market from the north (KWOF later flipped tosports talk in 2018 after its sale toKroenke Sports & Entertainment).[8] On December 26, 2017, KYWY changed its call letters to KWBL to match its new branding.[9]