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KQNM (94.5 FM & 1550 AM) is an American radio station based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It is owned by Vanguard Media LLC. Its studios are located in Northeast Albuquerque (a mile north of Central Avenue) and the transmitter tower is in the city's Old Town district northwest of downtown. ==FM broadcast== In early May 2011, KQNM (then KRKE on 1600 AM) began using an FM translator K298BK to rebroadcast the format at 99 watts in stereo on 107.5 FM and rebranding as "Cool 107.5". The station had previously been called "Real Oldies 1600". They had also changed their website to cool1075.com. The translator is owned by the Educational Media Foundation. This change brought the station to better compete with KABG 98.5 which serves as an Oldies/Classic Hits format, mainly playing music from the 60s, 70s and 80s. For the first year or so, the station continued to focus on the traditional 1960s based oldies format it had aired since 2005 as an AM-only station but since mid-2012, it began to shift more to classic hits like KABG and most other FM oldies stations. A construction permit was granted to this station on April 18, 2012 to move to the 94.5 frequency and increase power to the class maximum of 250 watts. On February 14, 2013 the station moved to new frequency re-branding as "The Greatest Hits KOOL 94.5" as well as completing a shift in the format to playing music from the 1970s and '80s competing directly with KABG. KOOL 94.5 was promoted as "Clutter-Free", featuring a music-intensive presentation without programming elements such as personality announcers, news, weather and traffic reports. KQNM however generated low ratings and since July 2013 faced additional competition from KABQ-FM 104.7 which features a 1970s-centric version of the format. In early 2014, the format had been shifting to focus more on music from the 1980s. On May 12 of that year, at 12:00 p.m., 1550 and 94.5 re-branded as "94-5 The 80's Channel" with an all-80s pop/new wave format making it the first time this format has aired in the Albuquerque market since KKOB-FM dropped the format in late 2002. The last song on Kool 94.5 was ''Hold On'' by Wilson Phillips, and the first song on 94.5 The 80's Channel was ''Video Killed the Radio Star'' by The Buggles. Originally, the new format had a large emphasis on music from the New Wave genre from artists like Duran Duran, The Police, and Blondie as well as early alternative rock acts such as The Cure, R.E.M., and The Psychedelic Furs. However, with ratings very low, the station adjusted its playlist to include more pop and hard rock acts from the 1980s in late July 2015. The station's website krke.fm had also been taken down along with its live stream and Facebook page. At 10:38 p.m. (MT) on September 27, 2015, an announcement began playing on a repeating loop saying that the format was leaving the air and would return after the first of the year on a different frequency. It also identified the station as "KQNM Albuquerque" and suggested that listeners tune into KDSK on 93.7 which airs a 10,000 song oldies format. The last song played was "Take Me Home Tonight" by Eddie Money. At around 2 p.m. on September 30, this station began airing long DJ sets of mostly trance music both instrumental and with vocals with no sweepers or commercials but only identifying itself once an hour as "EDM 94-5" followed by the legal identification around 10 minutes from the top of the hour. As of October 6, 2015, the station was in a dead air status, with neither static nor audio broadcast. Since October 9, both KQNM and K233CG are off the air. On October 19, KQNM filed a silent notification with the FCC citing that programming had been discontinued in preparation for a sale of the station.〔https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101693268&formid=910&fac_num=4705〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「KQNM」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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