4/8/25
Member stations of Rocky Mountain Community Radio (RMCR), a coalition of non-commercial radio stations in Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming, have won a combined 63 awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and Colorado Broadcasters Association.
RMCR member stations won a combined 41 CBA awards across all markets, with Aspen Public Radio claiming five (5), KOTO in Telluride winning three (3), KVNF in Paonia/Montrose winning four (4), KUVO in Denver winning five (5), KSUT in Ignacio winning five (5) with one of those recognizing KSUT Tribal Radio, KDNK in Carbondale winning one (1), KRFC in Fort Collins winning seven (7), and KUNC in Greeley winning eleven (11), including CBA Station of the Year in a major market.
In the SPJ Top of the Rockies competition, member stations of RMCR won a combined 22 awards, with KHOL in Jackson, WY winning five (5), KVNF in Paonia/Montrose winning seven (7), Aspen Public Radio winning two (2), KUNC winning five (5), and KGNU in Boulder/Denver winning three (3).
Much of the award winning work was broadcast across the entire RMCR network.
“It’s fantastic to see the outstanding journalism of our RMCR stations being recognized,” says RMCR Managing Editor Maeve Conran. “These stations are doing vital work—reporting on the news that matters to their communities and amplifying their stories.”
The collaborative model that began with a handful of Colorado stations in the 1980s as High Country Community Radio Coalition (HCCRC), has grown over the past thirty years to include more than twenty stations in Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and New Mexico.
In addition to the managing editor position, RMCR has a part-time digital editor, a grant writer, a book keeper, and in 2024 hired its first rural climate reporter. The network is also part of the new Colorado Capitol News Alliance (CCNA), a collaboration between KUNC News, Colorado Public Radio, Rocky Mountain PBS, and The Colorado Sun, and shared with Rocky Mountain Community Radio and other news organizations across the state. Funding for the Alliance is provided in part by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
The stations of Rocky Mountain Community Radio include:KAFM – Grand Junction
KAJX – Aspen
KBUT – Crested Butte and Gunnison
KDNK – Carbondale
KDUR – Durango
KFFR – Winter Park
KGNU – Boulder and Denver
KHEN – Salida
KHOL – Jackson Hole, WY
KLZR – Westcliffe
KOTO – Telluride
KRCL – Salt Lake City, UT
KRFC – Fort Collins
KSJD – Cortez
KSJE – Farmington, NM
KSUT – Ignacio
KUNC – Greeley
KUVO – Denver
KVCU – Boulder
KVNF – Paonia and Montrose
KZMU – Moab, UT
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