KABQ-FM

Infobox Radio station


city = Santa Fe, New Mexico
name = KABQ-FM
city = Bosque Farms, New Mexico
area = Albuquerque and central New Mexico
airdate = 1995
frequency = 104.7 (MHz) HD Radio 104.7 HD-2 for Adult Album Alternative
format = Smooth Jazz
branding = "Smooth Jazz 104.7"
erp = 100,000 watts
haat = 257 meters (844 feet)
class = C1
facility_id = 65704
owner = Clear Channel
webcast = [http://www.smoothjazz1047.com/pages/listenlive.html Listen Live]
website = [http://www.smoothjazz1047.com/ smoothjazz1047.com]
callsign_meaning = AlBuQerque

KABQ-FM (104.7 MHz) is a radio station licensed to Bosque Farms, NM, USA, covering Albuquerque and central New Mexico. It is owned by Clear Channel and broadcasts a Smooth Jazz format at 100,000 watts. The format is programmed by Broadcast Architecture's Smooth Jazz Network.

On December 13, 2007, the station relocated from 104.1 to 104.7, a weaker signal in the Albuquerque market.

mooth Jazz radio in Albuquerque/Santa Fe

The first station in Albuquerque to adopt the smooth jazz format was KRZN-FM 101.3 "The Horizon" in 1994, launched just weeks before the areas' long time easy listening station KKJY-FM "K-Joy" switched to a classic hits format. In 1997, KRZN would move to 105.1 making the format available in Santa Fe, but after two years it would switch to a top 40 format, leaving the market without a smooth jazz outlet much to the dismay of its fans. However on Christmas day 2000, The Horizon would return to the airwaves on 101.3 and would once again get another shot on 105.1 in late 2001 and changing its callsign to KAJZ-FM. But by 2004 it would be dropped to the weaker 101.7 frequency and would be cut back to just two personalities and running a mostly automated format before it was axed. Ever since Univision's former smooth jazz station KAJZ (101.7 FM, now known as KQBT) changed to a rhythmic oldies (now Rhythmic Adult Contemporary) format in October 2005, the Albuquerque market was left without a smooth jazz radio station for about a year. American General Media intended on launching a smooth jazz station on KZNM (106.7 FM), however, they were beaten to the market by Clear Channel. American General Media had briefly run a smooth jazz format on KBOM-FM 94.7 in Santa Fe in 2004-2005 a few months after KAJZ moved to 101.7 which only covers Albuquerque.

In April 2005, Clear Channel launched a smooth jazz station for the Santa Fe market on KSFQ (101.1 FM). KSFQ has been since been sold to the Educational Media Foundation. KSFQ covers much less of the Albuquerque market than KABQ, and is intended to be a station solely for the Santa Fe market. After Clear Channel went private in November 2006, they intended on selling all radio stations outside of the top 100 Arbitron markets, including KSFQ. KSFR-FM (owned by the Santa Fe Community College) is currently simulcasting on their original 90.7 frequency and on KSFQ's 101.1 frequency. KSFQ will then broadcast on the 90.7 frequency, most likely under the K-Love religious network.

104.1 history

Prior to the switch to Smooth Jazz on September 29, 2006, 104.1 had a Hispanic Rhythmic format that began in early 2005 called "Mega 104.1" which played hip-hop and reggaeton but it failed to generate decent ratings or revenue. Clear Channel had also attempted to do Adult Album Alternative on that frequency as well when they had moved Santa Fe's KBAC to 104.1 in 2002. That stations eclectic format did not bring impressive results in Albuquerque and attempts to make changes came at the protest of Santa Fe listeners which would result in KBAC moving back to Santa Fe and a more mainstream version of AAA called "World Class Rock" would launch on 104.1 in late 2003 only to generate similar results. The station also had a Classic rock format as KLSK from 1991-2002.

External links

* [http://www.smoothjazz1047.com/main.html Smooth Jazz 104.7 - Official website]
* [http://www.broadcastarchitecture.com/about.html BA website]
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