KRQE

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KRQE
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Branding	KRQE News 13
Slogan	Balanced News. Earning Your Trust.
Channels	13 (VHF) analog, 16 (UHF) digital
Affiliations	CBS
Owner	LIN TV
Founded	October 1953
Call letters meaning	K AlbuqueRQuE
Former callsigns	KGGM-TV (1953-91)
Former affiliations	UPN, The WB (part-time, January-October 1995)
Transmitter Power	30 kW/439 m (analog) 10.5 kW/270 m (digital)
Website	www.krqe.com

KRQE is a local television news station in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It is a CBS network affiliate and broadcasts on channel 13. KRQE is currently owned by LIN TV and is sister station to KASA-TV. Its transmitter is located on Sandia Crest, east of Albuquerque.

Contents 1 Satellite Stations 2 News 2.1 Lineup 3 History 4 Trivia 5 See also 6 External links

[edit] Satellite Stations

These stations rebroadcast KRQE's signal and add local content for other parts of the broadcast market:

• KBIM — Roswell, New Mexico (analog channel 10)
• KREZ — Durango, Colorado (anaog channel 6)

KREZ was originally a satellite station of KREX-TV in Grand Junction, Colorado.

In addition, there are several low-powered repeaters that carry KRQE's programming throughout New Mexico.

[edit] News

Ordinarily, KRQE produces four and a half hours of local news on weekdays and about an hour each weekend day. The station and its newscasts identify themselves as "KRQE News 13".

According to Nielsen Media Research, the station was long the number three station in the market in terms of local viewership, primarily because of CBS' ratings problems in markets that serve vast areas such as Albuquerque-Santa Fe, especially since the 1970s. However, it is now competing for the number one spot in a tight three-way race with the two other major network affiliates, KOB and KOAT.

Since September 16, 2006, KRQE also produces a one-hour, 9 pm newscast for Fox affiliate KASA-TV, which KRQE's owner recently purchased.

[edit] Lineup

• KRQE News 13 This Morning - 5 AM-7 AM weekdays
• KRQE News 13 at Noon - Noon-12:30 PM weekdays
• KRQE News 13 at Four - 4 PM-4:30 PM weekdays
• KRQE News 13 at 4:30 - 4:30 PM-5 PM weekdays
• KRQE News 13 at 5:30 - 5:30 PM-6 PM seven days a week
• News 13 on Fox 2 - 9 PM-10PM seven nights a week (on KASA)
• KRQE News 13 at Ten - 10 PM-10:35PM seven nights a week
• KRQE News 13 at Ten (Rebroadcast) 1:05AM-1:40AM seven nights a week

[edit] History

Channel 13 began operation in October of 1953 as KGGM-TV, owned by the Hebenstreit family's New Mexico Broadcasting Company along with KGGM radio. In the late 1960s, the Hebenstreits sold a minority share to Chicago's Harriscope Broadcasting, which at one point owned Telemundo's WSNS Chicago.

The Hebenstreits sold KGGM-TV to Lee Enterprises in 1991, and at that time the call letters were changed to KRQE. However, the name "New Mexico Broadcasting Company" continued on the station's license well into the 21st century.

In January of 1995 KRQE became a secondary UPN and WB affiliate running their programming on weekend overnights initially. They still continued as a primary CBS affiliate. In October of 1995 KASY (which was owned by Ramar Communications at the time) signed on channel 50. At that time, KRQE bought the entire broadcast day on KASY in the form of a local marketing agreement. KRQE moved the UPN and WB shows to Channel 50 along with second runs of a few talk shows airing on Channel 13 as well. They also ran cartoons and sitcoms on Channel 50. Channel 13 remained a CBS affiliate.

In 1999 Ramar sold KASY to Acme TV which also owns KWBQ (which signed on the previous year). As a result, the LMA with KRQE was terminated and KASY was then programmed by KWBQ.

Lee would eventually exit broadcasting and sold KRQE to Emmis Communications in 2000. In 2005, Emmis sold the station to LIN Television (the station's current owner) in a group deal. In 2006, LIN announced their purchase of Raycom Media-owned Fox affiliate KASA-TV, which KRQE took control of on September 1st. LIN's acquisition of KASA was finalized on February 27, 2007. [1]

KBIM-TV, Channel 10 in Roswell, New Mexico signed on in 1966 as the CBS affiliate for Southeastern New Mexico, replacing former CBS affiliate KAVE-TV in Carlsbad, New Mexico, which became an ABC affiliate. KREZ-TV, Channel 6 in Durango, Colorado originated in 1963 as a satellite of CBS affiliate KREX-TV 5 in Grand Junction, Colorado, becoming a KRQE satellite in 1994.

[edit] Trivia

• KRQE is one of few CBS affiliates not to air daytime network programming in a specific order. As The World Turns airs at 10 AM (should air at 1 PM as the third soap), The Price Is Right airs at 11 AM (should air at 10 AM), The Young and The Restless airs at 1 PM (should air first at 11 AM) and CBS Evening News would air at 5 PM (should air at 5:30 PM).
• Many early Westerns were filmed, at least partially, at KGGM. The large studio that they used is now KRQE's "Newsplex," a combination newsroom and news studio.
• Among many alumni at KRQE is the late Ray Rayner, formerly a children's television personality at WGN-TV in Chicago. He spent the last several years at KRQE before going into retirement.
• LIN Television has been recently criticised by various newspapers in New Mexico for the purchase of the Fox News affiliate in Albuquerque, which resulted in the loss of four anchoring positions. The Albuquerque Objectivist newspaper in October of 2006 referred to KRQE as the local "news empire".

[edit] See also

• Mark Ronchetti

[edit] External links

• Query the FCC's TV station database for KRQE
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KBIM
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KREZ

Broadcast television in the Albuquerque / Santa Fe market  (Nielsen DMA #45)
KASA 2 (Fox) (The Tube on DT2) - KOB 4 (NBC) - KNME 5 (PBS) - KOAT 7 (ABC) - KCHF 11 (Ind.) - KRQE 13 (CBS) - KTFQ 14 (TeleFutura) - KWBQ 19 (The CW) - KNAT 23 (TBN) - KQDF-LP 25 (AZA) - KYNM-LP 30 (Almavision) - KAZQ 32 (LeSea/3ABN) - KTVS-LP 36 (Ind.) - K38IM 38 (3ABN) - KLUZ 41 (Univision) - KTFA-LP 48 (HSN) - KASY 50 (MNTV) - KTEL-LP 53 (TEL) - K56FB 56 (JTV)
Local digital television channels
KNMD 9 (PBS) - KRMU 20 (PBS/RMPBS)
Out-of-market stations covering parts of the market and other over the air stations in New Mexico KENW 3 (PBS) - KVIH 12 (ABC) - KRWG 22 (PBS) - KRPV 27 (GLC) - KUPT 29 (MNTV) - K47DR 47 (TBN) - KTDO 48 (Telemundo)