The station first
signed on as KRYT on March 3, 1987. It was the FM counterpart to
AM 1350 KGHF (now
KUBE). The
call sign reflected the station nickname "K-Right", as 107.9 is at the far right end of the FM dial. On December 1, 1988, the station changed its call sign to KRYT-FM. On January 1, 1993, the station was bought by the McCoy Broadcasting Company. It became KDZA-FM. The
KDZA call letters had previously been on
AM 1230 which had been sold to
Pueblo Community College. KDZA-FM had an
oldies format. On June 24, 2008, it switched to
classic hits, calling itself
Jet 107.9. In 2000, it was sold to
Clear Channel Communications, the forerunner of today's
iHeartMedia. On July 13, 2009, Clear Channel flipped KDZA-FM to
album rock and moved the studios and offices to Colorado Springs. KDZA-FM switched to
classic rock as
Z107.9 on November 30, 2011. A few years later, KDZA-FM got a boost in its coverage area when it was allowed to relocate its tower to
Cheyenne Mountain. The
height above average terrain (HAAT) increased from . On December 11, 2017, KDZA-FM flipped to
active rock as a repeater of
KBPI in
Fort Collins, and joined as part of a
trimulcast with
KPAW in Fort Collins and
K300CP in Denver. KDZA-FM changed its call sign to KBPL on January 23, 2018. On January 28, 2019, KBPL broke away from the trimulcast and began to operate autonomously from KBPI, carrying a separate playlist and adding local hosts during the afternoon and nighttime dayparts (while otherwise continuing to share hosts with KBPI). The station is being referred to on iHeartMedia's digital platforms as "KBPI South". ==References==