KLZ is a talk radio station licensed to Denver, Colorado

Denver, Colorado

The City and County of Denver is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado. Denver is a consolidated city-county, located in the South Platte River Valley on the western edge of the High Plains just east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains...

 and is owned by Crawford Broadcasting

Crawford Broadcasting

Crawford Broadcasting is a family-owned media company based in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania. Crawford Broadcasting primarily owns radio stations mostly with Christian and Oldies/Nostalgia formats.-History:...

. Programming includes The Laura Ingraham Show

The Laura Ingraham Show

The Laura Ingraham Show is a three-hour American radio show hosted by conservative commentator Laura Ingraham on Talk Radio Network. , the show is broadcast live on Channel 2, from 9 a.m...

, The Savage Nation

The Savage Nation

The Savage Nation is an American radio show hosted by conservative commentator Michael Savage on Talk Radio Network. His show is heard by 8-10 million listeners a week and syndicated across the U.S. in over 300 markets, making it the 3rd most listened to radio show in the country...

, Dave Ramsey

Dave Ramsey

David L. Ramsey III is an American financial author, radio host, television personality, and motivational speaker.Ramsey's syndicated radio program The Dave Ramsey Show is promoted with a tagline that "It's about your life and your money," and it is heard on over 450 radio stations throughout the...

 and Bob Dutko

Bob Dutko

Bob Dutko is a conservative Christian talk show host in Detroit, Michigan, USA on the Crawford Broadcasting Network.-Background:Bob grew up in the Worldwide Church of God, which at the time was a religious cult, before converting to Christianity at age 19. At 47, he has been married 24 years and...

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History

KLZ began broadcasting in 1922 and is Denver's oldest radio station. From 1954 until 1972 KLZ was owned by Time-Life Broadcasting. In 1972 Time-Life sold KLZ AM and FM to Group One Broadcasting.

The KLZ callsign originally identified a marine radio station aboard the Speedwell. The ship sank in the Gulf of Mexico

Gulf of Mexico

The Gulf of Mexico is a partially landlocked ocean basin largely surrounded by the North American continent and the island of Cuba. It is bounded on the northeast, north and northwest by the Gulf Coast of the United States, on the southwest and south by Mexico, and on the southeast by Cuba. In...

 on September 29, 1920 during a hurricane with nine lives lost.

It is a former affiliate of ESPN Radio

ESPN Radio

ESPN Radio is an American sports radio network. It was launched on January 1, 1992 under the original banner of "SportsRadio ESPN." ESPN Radio is located at ESPN headquarters in Bristol, Connecticut...

 and Sporting News Radio.