KFKA

KFKA ("NoCo's Home for News, Sports and Talk") on 1310 AM is a radio station licensed to Greeley, Colorado that serves the Fort Collins-Greeley area.

In addition, the college had a history of radio research and experimentation that dated to before World War One, although information about these early activities is limited.

On June 16, 1914 the Greeley Tribune reported that physics professor Frank L. Abbott had obtained a "$500 wireless outfit" that included a two-kilowatt spark transmitter capable of making Morse code transmissions, and with the help of local radio amateurs Raymond Wolfe and Alphonse Mott was installing an antenna atop the college's administration building.

KFKA has traditionally traced its pre-history to May 21, 1921, the date that an unlicensed amateur station with the self-assigned call letters "GGM"[6] was transferred by Gordon G. Moss from his family ranch to the Colorado State Teachers College campus.

[7] (Another account states that Moss "began in 1909 with a... hand-wound radio transmitter that transmitted a dot-and-dash signal from the Coronado Building located on the southeast corner of 9th Street and 10th Avenue in downtown Greeley.

In 1930 KFKA was sold to the Mid-Western Radio Corporation and converted from a non-commercial station to commercial operations. [ 11 ]