It’s not generally known that 1936 Republican Presidential candidate Alf Landon (who had a summer home in Evergreen) was a radio station owner in Colorado.  

On August 1, 1949 Radio Daily announces that  former presidential candidate Alf Landon was selling  KTLN Denver.  KTLN signed on  just a year earlier and was the first new station licensed in Denver after World War II.  

Like many stations of the day, KTLN changed frequencies several times, from 1180 to 990 and eventually to 1280AM. 

In 1969, KTLN would make a slight call letter change to KTLK.  The station went Top 40, competing against KIMN.  1280 KTLK  would go country eleven years later as KBRQ (eight years later KIMN would also go country as KYGO AM)..  The KTLK call letters reappeared briefly in Denver in the 1990s, on 760AM as a talk station.

While the reason for the sale was that Denver was too far from Landon’s Kansas headquarters, the company would later own stations in Ft. Collins and Craig, and also in Wyoming.  Landon’s Fort Collins stations were KIIX-AM and FM.  KIIX-AM exists today as a Classic Country station, while the FM side evolved into the modern rock station KTCL, now part of iHeart’s current Denver lineup of stations.