By BREEANNA JENT | The Gazette
A popular Cañon City country radio station and its news/talk sister station will cease operations at the beginning of the new year.
Nebraska-based Royal Gorge Broadcasting will close down both the 104.5 Star Country KSTY and news/talk 1400 KRLN radio stations on Jan. 1, according to a Dec. 23 written statement posted on Facebook pages for both stations and signed by “the staff.”
The venerable KRLN serves Fremont County and started broadcasting on Aug. 15, 1947. KSTY, which serves Cañon City, Pueblo and the Colorado Springs area, first broadcast on June 1, 1975 as KRLN-FM. It was a country music station by 1991 and became KSTY on Dec. 30, 1994.