KSFR

Infobox Radio station
name = KSFR


city = White Rock, New Mexico
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branding = "Santa Fe Public Radio"
frequency = 101.1 MHz
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format = Variety
power =
erp = 2,500 watts
haat = 568.0 meters
class = C2
facility_id = 67340
coordinates = coord|35|53|9.00|N|106|23|16.00|W|region:US_type:city
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former_callsigns = KTJB (1988-1988)
KKBZ (1988-1990)
KNLA (1990-1997)
KSFQ (1997-2007)
KSFQ (1997-2007)
owner = Santa Fe Community College
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website = [http://www.ksfr.org ksfr.org]
affiliations = Public Radio International

KSFR-FM 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.

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.

KSFR-FM is licensed to White Rock, New Mexico, and serving the Santa Fe area broadcasting on 101.1 FM. It is currently owned by Educational Media Foundation, a religious broadcaster which had purchased the station from Clear Channel. 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.

The station had been heard locally on the 90.7 frequency. 101.1 became the new home of KSFR in July 2007.

On June 29, 2007, KSFQ and KSFR (owned by Santa Fe Community College) announced that they intend on doing a frequency swap in the next three months, moving KSFQ to 90.7 FM and KSFR to 101.1 FM [ [http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/64028.html Public radio for a wider audience ] ] , with KSFR expanding its broadcast area south into Albuquerque and north into Taos. When the transition was completed, KSFR is now simulcasting on both the 90.7 and 101.1 frequencies until the deal is approved by the FCC.

Over the years 101.1 White Rock has had an Oldies format as KNLA "LA 101" in the early 90's and a 70's 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.

History of KSFR Call Letters

The call letters were originally used by an independent San Francisco classical music FM station, which began broadcasting on March 11, 1958. KSFR was purchased by Metromedia in the October 1966. Metromedia began switching 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. [ [http://www.bayarearadio.org/audio/ksfr/index.shtml KSFR Radio 94.9 FM - San Francisco ] ]

References

External links

* [http://www.ksfr.org KSFR official website]
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