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{{short description|CBS/Fox affiliate in Albuquerque, New Mexico}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2024}}
{{for|the airport in Window Rock, Arizona, assigned the ICAO code KRQE|Window Rock Municipal Airport}}
{{Infobox television station
| callsign = KRQE
| logo = KRQE Primary Logo 2018.png
| logo_size = 150px
| image = Fox New Mexico Logo.png
| image_size = 100px
| location = [[Albuquerque]]–[[Santa Fe, New Mexico]]
| country = United States
| city = Albuquerque, New Mexico
| digital = 13 ([[VHF]])
| virtual = 13
| branding = {{ubl|KRQE News 13|Fox New Mexico (DT2)}}
| affiliations = {{ubl|'''13.1:''' [[CBS]]|'''13.2:''' [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]]|'''13.3:''' [[Bounce TV]]}}
| owner = [[Nexstar Media Group]]
| licensee = Nexstar Media Inc.
| sister_stations = {{hlist|[[KASY-TV]]|[[KWBQ]]}}
| airdate = {{start date and age|1953|10|04|p=y|br=yes}}
| former_callsigns = KGGM-TV (1953–1992)
| former_channel_numbers = {{ubl|'''Analog:''' 13 (VHF, 1953–2009)|'''Digital:''' 16 ([[UHF]], 2002–2009)}}
| former_affiliations = [[UPN]] and [[The WB]] (secondary, January–October 1995)
| callsign_meaning = Albuquerque
| licensing_authority = [[FCC]]
| facility_id = 48575
| erp = 21.5 [[kW]]
| haat = {{convert|1287|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}
| coordinates = {{coord|35|12|40.1|N|106|26|59|W|type:landmark_scale:2000}}
| translators = ''see {{section link||Satellite stations and translators}}''
| website = {{URL|https://www.krqe.com/}}
}}
'''KRQE''' (channel 13) is a [[television station]] in [[Albuquerque, New Mexico]], United States, affiliated with [[CBS]] and [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]]. Owned by [[Nexstar Media Group]], it is [[sister station|sister]] to [[Santa Fe, New Mexico|Santa Fe]]–licensed [[The CW|CW]] affiliate [[KWBQ]] (channel 19) and [[MyNetworkTV]] affiliate [[KASY-TV]] (channel 50), both owned by [[Mission Broadcasting]] with certain services provided by Nexstar through [[shared services]] agreements. The three stations share studios on Broadcast Plaza in Albuquerque; KRQE's [[transmitter]] is located on [[Sandia Mountains|Sandia Crest]], east of Albuquerque.
==History==
Channel 13 began operation in October 1953 as KGGM-TV, owned by the Hebenstreit family's New Mexico Broadcasting Company along with KGGM radio (610 AM, now [[KNML]]). In the late 1960s, the Hebenstreits sold a minority share to [[Chicago]]'s Harriscope Broadcasting, which at one point owned [[WSNS-TV]] in Chicago (among other stations). Many early [[Westerns]] were filmed, at least partially, at KGGM.{{Citation needed|date=August 2012}} The large studio that it used was renovated in 2000 into KRQE's "Newsplex", a combination newsroom and news studio.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/39583594/|first=Barbara|last=Chavez|title=KRQE Launches State-of-Art Newsplex, Welcomes Old Hand|page=B1|work=Albuquerque Journal|date=June 20, 2000|access-date=November 24, 2019}}</ref>
KGGM talent Earnest "Stretch" Scherer, known as Captain Billy, came over to the station from KOB in the mid-1950s; he hosted a [[children's show]] called ''Captain Billy's Clubhouse''. The format was a kids' [[peanut gallery]] on bleachers holding about 50 seats with games and banter between [[animated cartoon|cartoons]], à la ''[[Bozo's Circus]]''. Captain Billy was a sea captain with a Dutch boy white haircut sticking out from under a sea Captain's hat and big brush moustache.
On October 26, 1972, Scherer was shot in the station's lobby by the husband of a volunteer for the local cut-ins of the ''[[Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon]]'', who had perceived Scherer wrapping an arm around the woman as a flirting attempt which angered the husband. He died of his injuries on December 18, and the man was committed to the New Mexico Behavioral Health Institute in [[Las Vegas, New Mexico]], as he was diagnosed with [[post-traumatic stress disorder]] caused from his [[World War II]] service. He escaped and fled to Arizona, remaining there until his death in 1991 as extradition to New Mexico was refused by those authorities.<ref>{{cite book  | last = Hollis  | first = Tim  | author-link = Tim Hollis  | title = Hi there, boys and girls!: America's local children's TV shows  | publisher = [[University Press of Mississippi]]  | year = 2001  | isbn = 1-57806-396-5}}</ref>
Among many alumni at KGGM/KRQE is [[Ray Rayner]], formerly a children's television personality at [[WGN-TV]] in Chicago; he "retired" to Albuquerque in 1980 and became the weather presenter for KGGM-TV's newscasts for five years in the early 1980s.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/39587765/|work=Albuquerque Journal|date=January 31, 2004|title=Former Albuquerque Weatherman Kept Busy on TV|first=Paul|last=Logan|page=D10|access-date=November 24, 2019}}</ref>
After having sold off KGGM radio in 1973, the Hebenstreits sold 42 percent of KGGM-TV to [[Lee Enterprises]] in 1985. The New Mexico Broadcasting Company acquired semi-satellite [[KBIM-TV]] (channel 10) in [[Roswell, New Mexico|Roswell]], which had until that time operated independently as a CBS affiliate, for $5 million in 1989. The purchase created financial strains on the Hebenstreits, who opted to sell their remaining shares to Lee in 1991.<ref name="slipping">{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/39582619/hebenstreit_familys_kggmtv_slipping/|title=Hebenstreit Family's KGGM-TV Slipping Into History|first=Rick|last=Nathanson|work=Albuquerque Journal|page=C3|date=July 31, 1992|access-date=November 24, 2019}}</ref> Citing the station's perceived reputation as a perennial third-place news outlet, Lee changed the call letters—at Andrew Hebenstreit's suggestion—to KRQE{{r|slipping}} on September 7, 1992. However, the name "New Mexico Broadcasting Company" continued on the station's license well into the 21st century.
In January 1995, KRQE became a secondary affiliate of both [[UPN]] and [[The WB]], running their programming on weekend overnights. Both networks moved to [[KASY-TV]] (channel 50) when it signed on that October, with KRQE running KASY under a [[local marketing agreement]] (LMA) with Ramar Communications. Ramar sold KASY to [[ACME Communications]], owner of [[KWBQ]], in 1999, and the LMA with KRQE was dissolved.
Lee would eventually exit broadcasting and sold KRQE, along with most of the rest of its group, to [[Emmis Communications]] in 2000. In 2005, Emmis, in its own exit from television, sold the station to [[LIN TV Corporation]] in a group deal that included sister stations [[WLUK-TV]] in [[Green Bay, Wisconsin|Green Bay]], [[WALA-TV]] and [[WFNA (TV)|WBPG]] in [[Mobile, Alabama|Mobile]]–[[Pensacola]], and [[WTHI-TV]] in [[Terre Haute]]. In 2006, LIN announced its purchase of [[Raycom Media]]-owned [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]] affiliate [[KASA-TV]], which KRQE took control of on September 15. LIN's acquisition of KASA was finalized on February 22, 2007.<ref>http://www.lintv.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=282&Itemid=114 {{Bare URL inline|date=March 2022}}</ref> The acquisition earned LIN TV criticism from area newspapers for the resulting [[layoff]]s, as well as what the ''Albuquerque Objectivist'' newspaper in October 2006 referred to as the creation of a local "news empire" in KRQE.{{Citation needed|date=July 2007}}
KBIM-TV in Roswell signed on in February 1966 as the CBS affiliate for Southeastern New Mexico, replacing former CBS affiliate KAVE-TV in [[Carlsbad, New Mexico]], which became an [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] affiliate (eventually becoming KOCT, a satellite of rival [[KOAT-TV]]). KBIM became a KGGM/KRQE satellite in 1990. [[KREZ-TV]] (channel 6) in [[Durango, Colorado]], began operations September 15, 1963, as KJFL-TV, a free-standing local [[independent station]] owned by Jeter Telecasting;<ref name=by1964>{{cite book|title=Broadcasting Yearbook 1964|year=1964|page=A-10|url=http://www.davidgleason.com/Archive%20BC-YB/1964/Section%20A%20%20TV%20Broadcasting%20Yearbook%201964.pdf|access-date=May 15, 2011}}{{Dead link|date=February 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> it went off the air after its facilities were destroyed in a February 1964 fire,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://durangoherald.com/articles/68977|title=And the West is History|date=February 18, 2014|access-date=September 2, 2020}}</ref> and the station was sold, rebuilt and returned to the air on September 9, 1965, as KREZ-TV, a satellite of CBS affiliate [[KREX-TV]] (channel 5) in [[Grand Junction, Colorado]].<ref name=b-krezstart>{{cite news|title=New TV stations|url=http://www.davidgleason.com/Archive%20BC/65-OCR/BC-1965-09-20-Page-0071.pdf|access-date=May 15, 2011|newspaper=[[Broadcasting & Cable|Broadcasting]]|date=September 20, 1965}}</ref> KREZ operated as such for nearly 30 years (with many attempts at regional news along the way) before becoming a KRQE satellite in 1995. A deal to sell KREZ to Native American Broadcasting, LLC was reached in April 2011;<ref name=tvbr-krezsold>{{cite news|title=LIN sends an Albuquerque TV satellite out of its orbit|url=http://www.rbr.com/tv-cable/tv_deals/lin-sends-an-albuquerque-tv-satellite-out-of-its-orbit.html|access-date=April 23, 2011|newspaper=Television Business Report|date=April 22, 2011}}</ref> upon the sale's completion, KREZ was to become a full-scale independent station (with plans for extensive local programming), and change its call letters to KSWZ-TV.<ref name=dh-kreztokswz>{{cite news|title=Local company agrees to buy KREZ-TV|url=http://www.durangoherald.com/article/20110508/NEWS01/705089892/-1/s|access-date=May 15, 2011|newspaper=[[The Durango Herald]]|date=May 8, 2011}}</ref> However, {{as of|2017|10|df=us|lc=y}}, the sale has not been completed, and KREZ remains a KRQE satellite.
Following the acquisitions of KBIM and KREZ, in the late 1990s, KRQE branded as "CBS Southwest" in hopes of positioning itself as a regional network. However, this went nowhere, largely because the other stations in the market have long branded themselves by their call letters (even after acquiring or starting their own satellite stations), and in 2000 the station changed its branding to "KRQE News 13".
On May 18, 2007, LIN TV announced that it was exploring strategic alternatives that could have resulted in the sale of the company.<ref>http://www.lintv.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=298&Itemid=114 {{Bare URL inline|date=March 2022}}</ref>
On August 7, 2009, KRQE began offering [[Mobile TV]] using [[BlackBerry]].<ref name=LIN>{{cite news|url=http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/326796-LIN_TV_Develops_Blackberry_App_For_Mobile_TV_Service.php?q=digital+tv |title=LIN TV Develops Blackberry App For Mobile TV Service|last=Eggerton |first=John |date=August 7, 2009 |work=[[Broadcasting & Cable]] |access-date=August 11, 2009}}</ref>
On March 21, 2014, it was announced that [[Media General]] would acquire LIN.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-linmedia-offer-idUSBREA2K0S720140321|title=Media General to buy LIN Media for $1.6 billion|author=Sruthi Ramakrishnan|date=March 21, 2014|publisher=Reuters|access-date=March 21, 2014}}</ref> The merger was completed on December 19.<ref>[http://www.mediageneral.com/press/2014/dec19_14_merger.html Media General Completes Merger With LIN Media] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141219194453/http://www.mediageneral.com/press/2014/dec19_14_merger.html |date=December 19, 2014 }}, Press Release, [[Media General]], Retrieved December 19, 2014</ref> Just over a year later, on January 27, 2016, it was announced that the [[Nexstar Broadcasting Group]] would buy Media General for $4.6 billion. After selling KASA to Ramar Communications, KRQE became part of "Nexstar Media Group."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mediageneral.com/press/2016/jan27_2016nexs.html |title=Nexstar Broadcasting Group Enters into Definitive Agreement to Acquire Media General for $4.6 Billion in Accretive Cash and Stock Transaction |access-date=January 28, 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160130083411/http://www.mediageneral.com/press/2016/jan27_2016nexs.html |archive-date=January 30, 2016 }}</ref> The sale was completed on January 17, 2017.<ref>[http://www.nexstar.tv/nexstar-broadcasting-group-completes-acquisition-of-media-general-creating-nexstar-media-group-the-nations-second-largest-television-broadcaster/ Nexstar Broadcasting Group Completes Acquisition of Media General Creating Nexstar Media Group, The Nation’s Second Largest Television Broadcaster] [[Nexstar Media Group]], January 17, 2017. Retrieved January 17, 2017.</ref>
==KRQE-DT2 (Fox New Mexico)==
'''KRQE-DT2''', branded '''Fox New Mexico''', is the Fox-affiliated second [[digital subchannel]] of KRQE, broadcasting in [[720p]] high definition on channel 13.2.
On January 18, 2017, KRQE-DT2 took over the Fox network affiliation for the Albuquerque market.<ref>{{cite web|title=FOX New Mexico|url=http://krqe.com/fox-new-mexico/|website=KRQE.com|publisher=LIN Television Corporation|access-date=January 16, 2017}}</ref> The subchannel's programming was transferred from Santa Fe-licensed KASA-TV (channel 2), which had been the market's Fox affiliate from 1993 until 2017; KASA, in turn, inherited the Fox affiliation from KGSW-TV (channel 14, now occupied by [[KTFQ-DT]]) after that station's owner, the [[Providence Journal Company]]), bought the channel 2 license in 1993 (KGSW had been affiliated with Fox since the network's launch in 1986). KASA was sold to Ramar Communications, which changed the station into a [[Telemundo]] affiliate.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.abqjournal.com/810810/switching-channels-purchases-will-move-telemundo-fox.html|title=Switching channels: Purchases will move Telemundo, Fox|date=July 19, 2016}}</ref>
With the move, KRQE became the largest station by market size to have a subchannel-only Fox affiliation and the largest by market size to have a dual affiliation with two of the "Big Four" networks. KRQE held this position for nearly four years until January 7, 2021, when [[Sinclair Broadcast Group]] moved the intellectual property of Sinclair-controlled [[WTTE]] in [[Columbus, Ohio]], to a digital subchannel of ABC affiliate [[WSYX]] (which Sinclair owns outright) as part of the Columbus market's adoption of [[ATSC 3.0]].
==News operation==
Ordinarily, KRQE produces eight hours of local news on weekdays and four hours each weekend day that airs between KRQE and Fox New Mexico, for a total of 48 hours a week. In regards to the number of hours devoted to news programming, it is the highest local newscast output among all broadcast television stations in the Albuquerque market (as well as the state of New Mexico) combining the main KRQE channel and Fox New Mexico. The station and its newscasts identify themselves as "KRQE News 13".
According to [[Nielsen Media Research]], the station was long a distant third in the market in terms of local viewership from the 1970s through the 2000s. This was largely because its competitors, KOB-TV and KOAT-TV, were two of their networks' strongest affiliates. In contrast, most CBS affiliates serving large stretches of territory either dominate their markets or are solid runners-up. The station has experienced a resurgence in recent years, however, and now wages a spirited three-way battle for the top spot in the market with KOAT and KOB. Since September 15, 2006, KRQE also produces an hour-long, 9 p.m. newscast for Fox New Mexico on 13.2. Fox New Mexico also airs a 10:35&nbsp;p.m. newscast.
KBIM-TV offered local newscasts at 5:30&nbsp;p.m. and 10 p.m. on Monday thru Fridays. However, due to budget cuts, the newscasts were canceled in December 2008; KBIM was southeast New Mexico's only source of local news with local news offices in Roswell, Carlsbad and [[Hobbs, New Mexico|Hobbs]] for many years. KREZ-TV's local newscasts from Durango were canceled several years earlier{{when|date=December 2021}} by KRQE, also due to budget cuts by the parent company, a move that also eliminated a primary local news source for the Four Corners Region.
On August 8, 2010, KRQE became the first and only station in New Mexico to broadcast their newscasts in true high definition (KRQE newscasts on Fox New Mexico are also in high definition). A new set and new graphics debuted on the first HD broadcast, and KRQE also switched to "The CBS Enforcer Music Collection" theme music package for the HD debut. In 2016, the station dropped "The Enforcer" package in favor of "Locals Only" by Stephen Arnold Music.
On October 24, 2018, KRQE debuted a new state of the art digital set, and also updated its logo, including a CBS logo at the bottom of their current logo.
===Newscasts on Fox New Mexico===
Debuting on September 16, 2006, Fox New Mexico (then on KASA) airs a one-hour nightly newscast produced by the main KRQE studios. Originally titled ''News 13 on Fox 2'', the newscast was renamed ''KRQE News 13 at 9'' on August 8, 2010, the same evening KRQE began broadcasting all newscasts in true high definition. During Fox New Mexico newscasts, and in cases of breaking news, Fox New Mexico carries [[Fox News]] coverage, as it is the Fox affiliate, rather than the [[CBS News]] coverage used by KRQE 13.1, the CBS affiliate. Prior to September 16, 2006, KOB-TV produced the newscast, titled ''Fox 2 News at Nine'', for six years.
Since 2015, Fox New Mexico has featured a morning news program simulcast with KRQE 13.1 from 4:30 to 7 a.m. and airs local news from 7 to 9 a.m. when KRQE 13.1 airs ''[[CBS Mornings]]''.
Currently, Fox New Mexico airs seven hours of local news each weekday, including 4½ hours in the morning (4:30–9 a.m.), a one-hour 6 p.m. newscast, another hour at 9 p.m., and a 10:35&nbsp;p.m. broadcast.
====''New Mexico Living''====
Since late 2010, Fox New Mexico (then on KASA) has produced the local lifestyle program originally titled ''New Mexico Style'' hosted by Nikki Stanzione. In 2014, the show was renamed ''2 KASA Style'' and was hosted by Chad Brummett and Brittany Flowers. In fall 2016, the show was renamed ''New Mexico Living'' and added Carmelina Hart as a co-host. After her departure in 2017, Kristen Currie became co-host before her departure in July 2019. Alexa Romero was named permanent co-host with Brummett in August 2019. Airing from 9 to 10 a.m., it covers topics such as food, fashion and local entertainment, along with weather and breaking news. (The show immediately re-airs at 10 a.m. on KWBQ.)
==Technical information==
===Subchannels===
{{more|KBIM-TV#Subchannels|KREZ-TV#Subchannels}}
The station's digital signal is [[Multiplex (TV)|multiplexed]]:
{| class="wikitable"
|+Subchannels of KRQE<ref>[http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=KRQE#station RabbitEars TV Query for KRQE]</ref>
! scope = "col" | [[Digital subchannel#United States|Channel]]
! scope = "col" | [[Display resolution|Res.]]
! scope = "col" | [[Aspect ratio (image)|Aspect]]
! scope = "col" | Short name
! scope = "col" | Programming
|-
! scope = "row" | 13.1
| [[1080i]] || rowspan=3|[[16:9]] || KRQE-HD || [[CBS]]
|-
! scope = "row" | 13.2
| [[720p]] || FoxNM || [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]]
|-
! scope = "row" | 13.3
| [[480i]] || Bounce || [[Bounce TV]]
|- style="background-color:#DFEBF6; border-top: 2px solid #003399;"
! scope = "row" | [[KASY-TV|50.3]]
| rowspan=2|480i || 4:3 || Get TV || [[getTV]] ([[KASY-TV|KASY-DT3]])
|- style="background-color:#DFEBF6;"
! scope = "row" | [[KASY-TV|50.4]]
| 16:9 || Court || [[Court TV]] ([[KASY-TV|KASY-DT4]])
|}
{{legend|#DFEBF6|Broadcast on behalf of another station}}
On February 2, 2016, KRQE added GetTV, a channel that features classic movies from the 1930s to 1960s from [[Sony Pictures Entertainment]], as a subchannel. GetTV was previously shown locally on [[KUPT-LD]] channel 16.2 since Fall 2014. GetTV moved to KASY-TV channel 50.3 on January 14, 2017, to make way for Fox programming on January 18. On December 27, 2017, KRQE added Bounce TV on 13.3 as part of Nexstar's overall network deal with [[Katz Broadcasting]] that saw their networks spread throughout KRQE, KWBQ and KASY in the market.
===Analog-to-digital conversion===
KRQE shut down its analog signal, over [[VHF]] channel 13, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States [[Digital television transition in the United States|transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts]] under federal mandate. The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition [[UHF]] channel 16 to VHF channel 13.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf |title=DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds |access-date=March 24, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130829004251/http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf |archive-date=August 29, 2013 }}</ref>
===ATSC 3.0 and 4K TV===
The station website has announced that on December 13, 2022, KRQE "will be preparing for the arrival of 4K TV".<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.krqe.com/home/nextgen-tv/ | title=NextGen TV | date=November 10, 2022 }}</ref> However, few details have been given as to where the broadcast will be available other than asking viewers to re-scan their TVs to continue to receive some channels in ATSC 1.0. KOAT has filed a notification that it will also be available in ATSC 3.0 on the same date with KASY-TV as the host station.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://enterpriseefiling.fcc.gov/dataentry/public/tv/draftCopy.html?displayType=html&appKey=25076f9184355b6801847bacb67e2f02&id=25076f9184355b6801847bacb67e2f02&goBack=N | title=Licensing and Management System }}</ref>
===Satellite stations===
These stations rebroadcast KRQE's signal and add local content for other parts of the [[broadcast market]]:
{| class="wikitable"
! Station
! [[City of license]]
! [[channel (broadcasting)|Channels]]<br />([[virtual channel|VC]] / [[digital terrestrial television|RF]])
! First air date
! [[effective radiated power|ERP]]
! [[HAAT]]
! [[Facility ID]]
! Transmitter<br />coordinates
! Public license<br />information
|- style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"
| {{nowrap|'''[[KBIM-TV]]'''}}
| [[Roswell, NM]]
| 10<br />10 ([[VHF]])
| {{start date and age|1966|2|23|p=y}}
| 24.32&nbsp;[[kW]]
| {{convert|610|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}
| 48556
| {{coord|33|3|20|N|103|49|14|W|type:landmark_scale:2000|name=KBIM-TV}}
| {{FCC-TV-Station-profile|KBIM-TV|Profile}}<br />{{FCC-LMS-Facility|48556|3=LMS}}
|- style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"
| {{nowrap|'''[[KREZ-TV]]'''<sup>1</sup>}}
| [[Durango, CO]]
| 6<br />15 ([[UHF]])
| {{start date and age|1963|9|15|p=y}}
| 46&nbsp;kW
| {{convert|90.4|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}
| 48589
| {{coord|37|15|46|N|107|54|0.2|W|type:landmark_scale:2000|name=KREZ-TV}}
| {{FCC-TV-Station-profile|KREZ-TV|Profile}}<br />{{FCC-LMS-Facility|48589|3=LMS}}
|- style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"
|}
Note:
*<sup>1</sup> KREZ was independent station KJFL-TV from 1963<ref name=by1964/> until going [[Dark (broadcasting)|dark]] on March 2, 1964; it returned to the air September 9, 1965, as KREZ-TV,<ref name=b-krezstart/> a satellite station of [[KREX-TV]] in [[Grand Junction, Colorado]], and remained as such until February 28, 1995. LIN was in the process of selling KREZ to Native American Broadcasting, LLC.<ref name=tvbr-krezsold /> The [[Federal Communications Commission]] (FCC) approved the sale in late May 2011, but Native American Broadcasting never closed on the purchase and the station remains with Nexstar {{as of|2019|11|df=us|lc=y}}. Nexstar's buyout of Media General reunited KREZ with KREX.
===Translators===
{{more|KBIM-TV#Translators|KREZ-TV#Translators}}
In addition, there are several low-powered repeaters that carry KRQE's programming throughout New Mexico, including the following:
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|181264|3=K35JR-D}}''' [[Arrey, New Mexico|Arrey]] & [[Derry, New Mexico|Derry]]
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|61487|3=K29GO-D}}''' [[Cortez, CO]]
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|48561|3=K35HB-D}}''' [[Deming, New Mexico|Deming]]
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|35562|3=K22MS-D}}''' [[Eagle Nest, New Mexico|Eagles Nest]]
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|11465|3=K19MP-D}}''' [[Gallup, New Mexico|Gallup]]
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|48560|3=K09EP-D}}''' [[Grants, New Mexico|Grants]], etc.
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|48568|3=K25HJ-D}}''' [[Hornsby Ranch, New Mexico|Hornsby Ranch]], etc.
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|48559|3=K30OJ-D}}''' [[Las Vegas, New Mexico|Las Vegas]]
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|48582|3=K30GL-D}}''' [[Many Farms, AZ]]
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|22272|3=K22EW-D}}''' [[Mora, New Mexico|Mora]]
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|48588|3=K15MF-D}}''' [[Raton, New Mexico|Raton]], etc.
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|58899|3=K33OA-D}}''' [[Romeo, New Mexico|Romeo]], etc.
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|59098|3=K29LN-D}}''' [[Santa Rosa, New Mexico|Santa Rosa]]
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|181538|3=K30KU-D}}''' [[Silver City, New Mexico|Silver City]]
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|48572|3=K21FD-D}}''' [[Taos, New Mexico|Taos]], etc.
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|190584|3=K29KT-D}}''' [[Thoreau, New Mexico|Thoreau]]
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|11568|3=K25HV-D}}''' [[Truth or Consequences, New Mexico|Truth or Consequences]]
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|48581|3=K15LZ-D}}''' [[Tucumcari]]
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|125596|3=K26OV-D}}''' [[Zuni, New Mexico|Zuni]]
==References==
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==External links==
*{{official website|https://www.krqe.com/}}
*[https://www.krqe.com/foxnewmexico Fox New Mexico website]
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