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Between 7am and 9pm (most) weekdays you can see what's currently playing as well as what songs have been played throughout the day. You can also check out what was played on past days with our playlist archives.
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Award Winning Station

Radio 1190 is constantly honored for what we do best, winning "Best Radio Station" awards year after year. Click here to see our awards and articles written about us

What's Happening

CD of the Month

Radio1190's CD of the Month for June is Magik Markers' Balf Quarry, out on Drag City.

Magik Markers got their start eight years ago, inspired by no wave and hardcore, and have released a large number of CD-Rs and vinyl. This is their first release for the Drag City label. They caught the attention of Thurston Moore at an early show and were invited to open for Sonic Youth on a 2004 tour. Their relationship with Moore continued as he released several of their albums on his label Ecstatic Peace. The band's association with Moore, their noisy experimental sound and the Kim Gordan-like growl of singer Elisa Ambrogio draws plenty of comparisons to Sonic Youth, but they have created their own arresting aural identity.

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Play for Play

Free underwriting spots just for playing us in your establishment.

Here’s a way to get your business message heard on the radio without breaking the advertising budget. Putting your business message on Radio 1190 shows that you support the radio station, so it’s not really a commercial, it’s an announcement to the community that you care about the programming. Our ridiculously low underwriting rates just got lower!

Take out a basic $500 package for one month (25 spots at $20 apiece), agree to play Radio 1190 in your establishment for a couple of hours a day, and get the 25 spots for the second month absolutely free. 50 spots for $500 and a little exposure during business hours. This is perfect for a music store, gift shop, clothing store, or restaurant. If you don’t have a public venue in which you can play Radio 1190 for your clientele, give us a call and we will work something out.

It's absolutely the best advertising deal you will see all season. For more information call our underwriting director, Dave at 303-735-4895 or email him at DKelly@Radio1190.org. Don't let the sun go down on this great summer special!

Summer Makes for Later Listening

Radio 1190's FCC license dictates that we broadcast at 6800 watts in the daytime and 110 watts at night. So, when the sun goes down, our listeners in Denver, Ft. Collins, etc., usually switch to their computers for the online streaming. But with daylight savings time in force, we are enjoying our longest broadcast days of the year. So, when the work day, school day, or whatever day is over, punch your radio over to 1190 AM and check out our evening programming. It's summer, and Radio 1190 sounds great in happy hour and beyond!

Summer Schedule Warms the Dial

Unlike many college radio stations around the country who disappear for the summer, Radio 1190 stays up and running. Click here to find your favorite DJs and shows.

Alongside the stuff you know and love are some new and recently added shows you should definitely check out.

• The Best Medicine (Tuesday at 11 pm) - We have a lot of great comedy vinyl at the station, and now we finally have a place to play it. If it's funny, you'll hear it! Jesse and Allen are your hosts.
• Sign of the Times (Thursday at 9 pm) - Punk, hardcore, and lots of surprises from Zach.
• Audio Junkyard (Friday at 9 pm) - Live radio collages, Charles mixes in a lot of themes and rarities, belly dancing 8-tracks, lounge records, answering machine tapes, astronaut feedback. If it's audio, it could happen.
• Spacedog Radio Theatre (Sunday at 10 pm) - Full shows from radio's golden age, from the 1930s into the 1950s. Green Hornet, Lone Ranger, Jack Benny, Baby Snooks, Superman, Inner Sanctum, Richard Diamond, Hopalong Cassidy, and much more.
• The Me Generation (Friday at 7 pm) Ben dives into the world of New Wave and all that that would involve. Relive the 80s, the future looks bright!
• Summer School (Tuesday at 4 pm) Professor Mikey expands the idea of Old School to meet the New School and lots of stuff in between.

Westword names Radio 1190 Best Radio Station

For 11 years now, since we first took to the air in 1998, Radio 1190 has been recognized in Westword's Best of Denver issue. Here's this year's blurb:

By its very nature, Radio 1190, the University of Colorado at Boulder's station, has a very fluid staff, with DJs coming and going at various times of the year. But despite these frequent changes, 1190 has some important constants. The vast majority of hosts are more interested in exploring the variety of independent sounds being created today, as opposed to focusing on the most predictable or heavily hyped stuff — and instead of phonying up their presentations, their straightforward talks comes from the heart. That's giving it the old college try.

Check out other great Radio 1190 clippings here.

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