KPAW


KPAW is a radio station licensed to F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming. Owned by iHeartMedia, it broadcasts a classic rock format branded as 92.9 The Bear.

History

92.9 license

The station was assigned the call letters KOLT-FM on February 7, 2007. It was known previously as a Regional Mexican, prior to that a country music station, and the original frequency to KMOR-FM in Scottsbluff, Nebraska, which broadcast a classic rock format before the move to Cheyenne.
As of 2016, it operated with a hot adult contemporary format as 92.9 The Boss. KOLT-FM was acquired by iHeartMedia in January 2016, after its previous owner, Tracy Broadcasting Company, defaulted on a loan and was repossessed by the Valley Bank & Trust. In April 2016, the station flipped to adult contemporary as Star 92.9, and adopted the call letters KYWY.

KPAW intellectual unit

On July 27, 1975, KCOL-FM first signed on. It was the sister station to AM 1410 KCOL. KCOL-FM aired a beautiful music format. In 1988, the station switched to a Top 40 format as KIMN, which were the call letters of a popular Top 40 station in Denver in past years. The station took the call letters KPAW in 1995, at first keeping its Top 40 sound, then moving to classic hits around 2000, and later to classic rock.
On December 5, 2017, iHeartMedia moved KPAW's intellectual unit and call sign to the 92.9 frequency, so it could shift KBPI's programming to 107.9 from 106.7 to form a trimulcast, which officially launched on December 11, 2017. iHeartMedia promoted that this change strengthened the station's signal and reach.