KBCO is an adult album alternative radio station licensed to Boulder, Colorado and serves the Denver-Boulder area. The station's format is an ecletic variety of blues, reggae, folk, pop, and rock from the late-1960s to the present, which they call "world class rock". Adult Album Alternative (also Triple-A, AAA, or Adult Alternative) is a radio format which has a broader, more diverse playlist than most formats and tends to appeal more to adults than to teenagers. ... A radio station is a sound broadcasting service. ... Pearl Street Mall in Downtown Boulder Boulder (40°1′N 105°16′W, Mountain Time Zone) is a city located in Boulder County, Colorado, United States. ... Denver skyline, 1999. ... Pearl Street Mall in Downtown Boulder Boulder (40°1′N 105°16′W, Mountain Time Zone) is a city located in Boulder County, Colorado, United States. ... The blues is a vocal and instrumental form of music based on a pentatonic scale and a characteristic twelve-bar chord progression. ... Reggae is a music genre developed in Jamaica. ... Folk music, in the original sense of the term, is music by and of the people. ... Pop music, in popular and contemporary parlance, is a subgenre of popular music. ... Rock and roll (also spelled Rock n Roll, especially in its first decade), also called rock, is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. ... The 1960s in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1960 and 1969, but the expression has taken on a wider meaning over the past twenty years. ...

The Clear Channel Communications outlet broadcasts at 97.3MHz with a ERP of 100kw. Studios are located on the well-known Pearl Street in Boulder. The current weekday on-air line-up at KBCO: 5:30-10am Bret Saunders and Robin Hart, 10am-3pm Ginger, 3pm-7pm Keefer, 7pm-Midnight Marcus. This article is about the company. ...

Scott Arbough, who started as a parttime DJ at KBCO in 1985, is the current Program Director.

History

KBCO, whose slogan is "World Class Rock", has been in the adult rock format since its sign on in June 1977 and has attracted a loyal following ever since. KBCO has been rated #1 in the Denver-Boulder Arbitron ratings with listeners 12+ years old several times (first in 1988). KBCO is often rated #1 with it's target audience 25-54 year old adults. The call letters stand for Boulder, CO.

In 1988, KBCO Studio C was born with a perfomance by Melissa Etheridge in a hallway. The studio has since upgraded and many artists in Colorado for a concert tour or promotion tour stops by to play live on the radio. The station relases a CD every year in late November or early December with the best or most memorable Studio C performances. The CDs sell out in a matter of hours. The 2005 disc was Studio C volume 17. Two retrospective CDs have been released combining the best of the previous CDs and a couple of unreleased songs. In 2005, the station debuted a HD channel playing only songs recorded in Studio C. 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

External link

• Station website