KNMM is a radio station licensed to Sangre de Cristo Broadcasting Co., Inc. in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States, the station serves the Albuquerque area. The station mostly airs a New Mexico music format, syndicating Fox News Radio and KOAT-TV for some news programming, KNMM has also reached a 3-year agreement to air live coverage of New Mexico State Aggies football and basketball. In March 2015, the then-KDEF was granted an FCCconstruction permit to triplex at the KSVA/KRZY transmitter site. The day power will be 1,500 watts and the night power will be 105 watts. On December 1, 2016, the station was licensed to Sangre de Cristo Broadcasting Co., Inc., which owns four stations in the Las Vegas, New Mexico area. KNMM also airs on FM translator K271CP 102.1 at 99 watts from the same site as the AM station. KNMM began airing on the translator in December 2017 but it has very limited reach as well as signal conflicts with KQUQ-LP broadcasting in the South Valley.
History
In 1976, 1150 started an all-news format as KNWZ. It featured both local news as well as news from CBS Radio. The station was KDRM on February 2, 1981. On March 6, 1981, the station changed its call sign to KDQQ, and on April 1, 1982, to KDEF. The station had aired a big band/nostalgia format throughout the 1980s and early 1990s.
Format changes
1997–1999
Sports/Talk with live college sports featuring New Mexico State University and local high school games. On air shows featured hosts Henry Tafoya in the morning drive and Dominic Zarella on afternoon drive. Afternoons and live sports was produced and directed by Brian Spieker, who is currently employed by Delicate Thunder Broadcast Audio as a consultant and contracting producer/technical engineer specializing in the News/Talk/Sports and News and Information formats by 5 groups across Minnesota, North Dakota and, Wisconsin.
2000–2002
The format changed to Radio Disney which featured music formatting for the 12- to 18-year-old demographic. KDEF continued carrying college and high school games in the evening.
2005
KDEF flipped to an oldies format and still carries high school and some NMSU sports. The station had gone through various changes in recent years including a Spanish language music format just before flipping back to the sports talk format in early 2012 which featured programming from Yahoo! Sports Radio.
Loss of license
On June 27, 2013, the station filed an application for Suspension of Operations/Request for Silent STA with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. The reason given was that it had lost the use of its licensed antenna site and that a new site had been found. It was granted on August 23, 2013. KDEF's license expired on October 1, 2013, for failure to file an application for renewal. It was deleted from the FCC database. The FCC wrote the following letter on September 30, 2013: Starting October 2, 2013, the FCC database stated "Deleted facility record. Deleted facilities cannot be reactivated. Interested parties must file an application for construction permit during the appropriate AM application filing window". However, on October 24, 2013, the FCC accepted for filing a renewal of the KDEF license. The license was reactivated on October 27, 2016 to Sangre de Cristo Broadcasting, however the station remained off the air. The station changed its call sign to KNMM on May 10, 2017. Throughout the summer the station had been on air playing oldies with no commercials or announcements only mentioning the legal identification. In late August the station changed to the current format.
