On January 17, 2020, Colorado Public Radio and Colorado College announced that Colorado Public Radio would take over the management of KRCC, the primary NPR member station in Colorado Springs. While Colorado Public Radio will handle all operations, Colorado College will continue to hold the license and the station will still be operated from Colorado Springs. Initially, the station's format of NPR news during the day and adult album alternative music at night remained the same. However, the station's daytime schedule was tweaked slightly to match that of CPR's all-news network, and KRCC added CPR's daily statewide news program, "Colorado Matters." As part of the agreement, Colorado College and Colorado Public Radio will collaborate on a "public media center" that will be home to KRCC, the Colorado College Journalism Institute, and Rocky Mountain PBS' Regional Innovation Center. CPR had expanded to Southern Colorado in 2016 with the purchase of Manitou Springs-licensed AM station KXRE, but in April it switched that station to a simulcast of KVOQ.