[3] The transmitter is located on Cheyenne Mountain amid other Colorado Springs-area TV and FM stations.
[4] But the station's history began in 1944 as a public address system for the campus of Colorado College.
In April 1951, it received the first non-commercial FM license in the state of Colorado, operating from a World War II surplus transmitter.
From the 1980s onward, it built a series of translators to help better penetrate its largely mountainous service area.
It also increased the power of the primary transmitter, In the 1980s, the tower height was boosted to over 2,100 feet (640 m), making the signal comparable to other major FM stations in Colorado Springs.