KJHM

KJHM-FM

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City of license	Strasburg, Colorado
Broadcast area	Denver, Colorado
Branding	Jammin' 101.5
Slogan	Denver's Old School
Frequency	101.5 MHz
Repeaters	KJHM-FM1 Commerce City
First air date	1968
Format	Rhythmic Oldies
ERP	93,000 watts
HAAT	625 meters
Class	C
Facility ID	38629
Transmitter coordinates	39°55′21.8″N 103°58′20.2″W
Callsign meaning	K JHaM min
Former callsigns	KJHM (9/23/10) KTNI-FM (3/20/06-9/23/10) KBRU-FM (7/28/78-3/20/06) KBRU (??-7/28/78)
Former frequencies	101.7 MHz (1978-2005)
Owner	Max Media (Max Radio of Denver, LLC.)
Sister stations	KDHT-FM
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	jammin1015.com

KJHM-FM (101.5 FM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Strasburg, Colorado, that broadcasts to the Denver, Colorado area airing a Rhythmic Oldies format branded as "Jammin 101-5". KJHM transmits at an ERP of 93,000 watts at 600 meters from a tower about 60 miles northeast of Denver in Bennett, Colorado, which is where sister station KDHT (Hot 107.1) broadcasts from. KJHM's signal isn't as strong in the Downtown Denver area as well as the western suburbs (Arvada, Colorado, Lakewood, Colorado, and Wheat Ridge, Colorado) even though there is a booster in Commerce City, which helps with the signal reach closer to Denver.

History

KJHM was originally KBRU 101.7, licensed to Fort Morgan with an adult contemporary format. KJHM-FM still has clear coverage over its old city of license.

Martini on the Rockies and Indie 101.5

The station was branded as "101.5 Martini On The Rockies" as KTNI, an adult standards format, for two years until switching to "Indie" modern rock format in February 2008. When the station changed, they used an on-air clicking sound effect of an iPod being randomly selected to play a song supposedly on the station's music playlist, to suggest the next song could be anything that was available on the device. This approach was used for a couple of months until it lost popularity with listeners.

According to FCC filings, the station's owner (KBRU-FM, LLC - a subsidiary of Denver Radio Company) sought bankruptcy protection in February 2008 and has since emerged from bankruptcy.

On January 16, 2009, the debtor in possession for Denver Radio Company received permission to operate the station temporarily without a main studio within 25 miles of the community of license, which is a requirement for all commercial radio stations. It plans to operate and run the station from a consolidated facility with station KONN in Aurora, Colorado.

Acquisition by Max Media and flip to Truth 101-5

The station was sold to Max Media in 2009. Upon the completion of the sale, on July 31, 2009, at 9am, KTNI dropped the alternative rock format, and moved online as Indie303.com. The station ran a week long stunt running with a "stripper format", and christening themselves as The Pole. The stunt was sponsored by Denver's local strip club Shotgun Willie's. At 4pm on Thursday, August 6, KTNI became a Talk format as "101-5 The Truth", simulcasting conservative talk along with local AM stations carrying the same programs surrounding the Denver market.

The Truth was Denver's lowest rated AM or FM radio station, and the lowest rated of all the formats on the frequency, according to Arbitron's PPM rating service. Local paid programming included "Green Rights Radio", "Lacrosse Talk" (which was the only radio show dedicated to the sport), "real talk 360" and "Zinna". It had no local programming originating from the station itself. It carried much of Talk Radio Network's programming lineup, including The Phil Hendrie Show, The alleged cult leader Roy Masters, Mancow's Morning Madhouse, Jerry Doyle, The Savage Nation, and Rusty Humphries. Tape-delayed broadcasts of Neal Boortz, Curtis Sliwa and Phil Valentine completed the station's weekday lineup.

Jammin 101-5

On September 3, 2010, at 4pm, KTNI changed their format to Rhythmic Oldies/Urban Oldies as "Jammin 101-5". This marks the second time the format and name was used in the Denver market, the first time being from 1999 to December 14th, 2005 when it was on 92.5 FM (now Country music KWOF) and used the KDJM call letters and "Jammin 92-5" moniker. The station brought back former KDJM afternoon host Cha Cha to host mornings in November 2010, as well as adding afternoon personality "SLiM"(formerly of KMEL San Francisco). The station uses jingles formerly heard on KPTT during its run as a Rhythmic AC station.

On September 23, KTNI's call letters were changed to KJHM-FM to reflect the "Jammin" moniker.

Ratings

As of the December 2010 Winter Arbitron Ratings, Jammin 101-5 scored a 1.8 share with a cume of over 230,000. It has yet to beat its 92.5 predecessor, which had a signal that covered the entire market, and was owned by a major company (first being Chancellor Media, then Infinity Broadcasting, and finally CBS Radio).

External links

• Query the FCC's FM station database for KJHM
• Radio-Locator information on KJHM
• Query Arbitron's FM station database for KJHM
• Indie303.com (webcast successor to "Indie 101.5" operated by Max Media)