Bob Greenlee worked with consulting engineers and petitioned the Federal Communications Commission to boost KBCO's power.

The station produced an award-winning series of yearly broadcasts, collectively known as "Intervention Day: Planet Earth's Premier Holiday."

Greenlee moved KADE and KBCO to a state-of-the-art studio complex at 4801 Riverbend Road in East Boulder and then sold the stations to Noble Broadcasting in 1987.

During this time of KBCO's history, deejays selected the songs to play on their own shows from a broad music library.

The CDs, titled KBCO Studio C followed by the volume number, sell out quickly and all proceeds from the album are donated to the Boulder County AIDS Project and Food Bank of the Rockies.

In 2010, KBCO moved from its home at Pearl and Folsom in Boulder to the Clear Channel studios - now iHeartRadio - on S. Monaco in the Denver Tech Center shared with stations KOA, KBPI, KRFX, KPTT and KTCL.

The show, hosted by Nick and Helen Forster, originates from Boulder and features live performances and an emphasis on environmental issues.

[6] Mid-day host and music director Ginger, a 34-year KBCO veteran retired at the end of 2022, but may occasionally make a guest appearance.

[7][8][9] In 2005, KBCO received an experimental permit from the FCC and became the first FM radio station in the state of Colorado to implement "Multicasting."

[10] KBCO's HD3 subchannel carried the news/talk programming of co-owned AM 850 KOA, with two translator stations fed by it: 94.1 K231AA in Boulder and 94.1 K231BQ in Golden.