santa fe area branding santa fe public radio frequency 101.1 mhz first air date 1966 format variety erp 2 500 watts haat 568.0 meters class c2 facility id 67340 transmitter coordinates 35 53 9.00 n 106 23 16.00 w 35.8858333 n 106.3877778 w 35.8858333 ; 106.3877778 callsign meaning k santa fe radio former callsigns ktjb 1988 1988 kkbz 1988 1990 knla 1990 1997 ksfq 1997 2007 affiliations public radio international owner santa fe community college webcast listen live website ksfr.org ksfr fm is a broadcast radio station licensed to white rock new mexico and serving the santa fe area broadcasting on 101.1 fm . ksfr is santa fe new mexico s community public radio station . it is owned by the santa fe community college and managed by the 501 c 3 non profit northern new mexico radio foundation . 1 2 the station features a wide variety of locally produced music news and talk shows as well as programming from the bbc democracy now and other national shows . ksfr s news team has won the associated press new mexico station of the year award in 2004 2005 and 2006 . the station had been heard locally on the 90.7 frequency . 101.1 became the new home of ksfr in july 2007 . contents 1 101.1 before ksfr 2 history of ksfr call letters 3 references 4 external links 101.1 before ksfr edit 101.1 white rock had aired commercial programming before 2007 . over the years it has had an oldies format as knla la 101 in the early 1990s and a 70s hits format as ksfq q 101 later in the decade . in 2000 it switched to hot ac as mix 101 but would shift to rhythmic oldies after clear channel bought the station . it began a smooth jazz format called the cat in early 2005 which ended in july 2007 . after clear channel announced its plan to go private in november 2006 they announced they intended to sell most of their radio stations outside of the top 100 arbitron markets including their santa fe only stations ksfq and kbac . both were sold to educational media foundation a religious broadcaster in 2007 however kbac 98.1 was soon sold to hutton broadcasting so it could retain its locally programmed adult album alternative format . on june 29 2007 ksfq and ksfr owned by santa fe community college announced that they intended on doing a frequency swap in the next three months moving ksfq to 90.7 fm and ksfr to 101.1 fm 3 with ksfr expanding its broadcast area south into albuquerque and north into taos . when the transition was completed ksfr was simulcasting on both the 90.7 and 101.1 frequencies until the deal was approved by the fcc . 90.7 is now kqlv k love a christian contemporary music format . history of ksfr call letters edit the call letters were originally used by an independent san francisco classical music fm station which began broadcasting on march 11 1958 . al levitt its co owner and general manager was one of the principal hosts . program director bill agee and bruce johansen who later became president and ceo of natpe the national association of television program executives were the other main personalities of this concert station . ksfr was purchased by metromedia in october 1966 . metromedia began switching to a rock music format in the spring of 1968 and on may 21 1968 they changed the call letters of ksfr san francisco to ksan . 4 references edit new management takes over ksfr . albuquerque journal albuquerque nm . january 8 2002 . retrieved 2009 08 29 . ksfr successful by staying close to home . journal north . albuquerque journal albuquerque nm . september 2 2002 . retrieved 2009 08 29 . public radio for a wider audience bay area radio ksfr radio 94.9 fm san francisco external links edit ksfr official website query the fcc s fm station database for ksfr radio locator information on ksfr query nielsen audio s fm station database for ksfr ksfr san francisco history 1968 audio of change from classical to rock v t e radio stations in the santa fe new mexico market by fm frequency 90.3 90.7 91.5 92.9 94.7 95.5 95.9 96.9 97.3 98.1 98.5 101.1 101.5 102.9 104.1 105.1 105.9 106.7 107.5 by am frequency 540 810 950 1260 1400 1490 noaa weather radio frequency 162.400 162.550 by callsign k240ec kabg kagm kanw hd2 kbac kdce kflq khfm kkrg fm kkss klbu kmrd lp knmx kqba kqlv krsn krzy fm ksfe ksfr kswv kteg ktrc kvsf kvsf fm kybr wxj33 wxj34 nearby radio markets albuquerque clovis four corners area roswell taos see also list of radio stations in new mexico ksfr salinas free radio 88 . fm pirate radio broadcasting 24 7 reggae retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title ksfr & oldid 737999108 categories radio stations in new mexicosanta fe county new mexicocommunity radio stations in the united statesradio stations established in 1966 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction 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