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KQSC
KQSC (1530 AM) is a radio station licensed to broadcast from Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States, with a daytime power of 15,000 watts, and can be heard by day from the outskirts of Denver to the state's border with New Mexico.
In August 2006, Don Crawford Jr. bought the then-KCMN and a sister station, KCBR, from his father's radio company, Crawford Broadcasting, for an undisclosed amount (formally, KCMN was purchased by a new company called DJR Broadcasting, owned
commercial KSCA broadcast classical music programming as a simulcast of KUSC. The call letters changed to KFAC in 1991, then to KQSC in 2004.
In February 2014, public radio station KCRW of Santa Monica, California purchased Santa Barbara classical station KDB for $1 million; the acquisition allows KCRW to extend its reach into the Santa Barbara area. With the Santa Barbara market facing the possible elimination of classical music programming, USC purchased KDB and that station began relaying KUSC's programming. Upon closing of the transaction on August 27