R.I.P.: Stu Haskell, Longtime Northern Colorado Broadcaster

Stu Haskell

Longtime Northern Colorado broadcaster Stu Haskell died Sunday, one day after his 71st birthday.

Haskell was Northern Colorado and southern Wyoming market president for iHeart Media radio stations, at the time of his death.

His radio history in the region began in the 1970s with KIIX-AM and KTCL-FM in Fort Collins.

In recent years after stations in the region were merged within the iHeartMedia, he served as market president and general manager of multiple stations.

Scott James, a broadcaster with 97.9 Big Country KXBG and also a Weld County commissioner, told the Reporter-Herald in eulogizing Haskell that he always understood the importance of community service.

“It says on the federal radio license ‘licensed to serve the public trust,’ and Stu Haskell never forgot that. He understood [that] implicitly … and it’s not only our license that required that, but also our hearts required that,” James said.

“I always felt he had our back,” James said in reference to working within a large corporate structure. “Stu understood how to satisfy our ‘uppers’ while truly serving our community.”