KFLQ

Last updated
KFLQ
Broadcast area Albuquerque metropolitan area
Frequency 91.5 MHz
BrandingFamily Life Radio
Programming
Format Contemporary Christian music - Christian Talk and Teaching
Affiliations Family Life Radio
Ownership
Owner
  • Family Life Broadcasting Inc.
  • (Family Life Broadcasting System)
History
First air date
February 2, 1976;48 years ago (February 2, 1976) (as KIPC)
Former call signs
KIPC (1976–1980)
KKTU (1980–1982)
KNFR (1982)
Call sign meaning
KFamily Life AlbuQuerque
Technical information
Licensing authority
 FCC
Class C
ERP 20,000 watts
HAAT 1,232 meters (4,042 ft)
Links
Public license information
Website myflr.org

KFLQ (91.5 FM) is a non-commercial, listener-supported radio station in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It owned by the Family Life Radio Network, based in Tucson, Arizona. KFLQ plays Contemporary Christian music with Christian talk and teaching programs, hosted by national religious leaders including Jim Daly, David Jeremiah and Charles Stanley.

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KFLQ is a Class C station. It has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 20,000 watts. The transmitter is atop Sandia Crest, amid the towers for other Albuquerque-area FM and TV stations. [1]

History

The All-Indian Pueblo Council filed for a construction permit with the Federal Communications Commission in December 1973. It wanted to build a noncommercial radio station in Albuquerque. It later changed its name to the Albuquerque Public Broadcasting Corporation. The council said that the station would feature multicultural and multilingual programming, including some programs in native languages, Spanish-language shows and English-language programming aimed at an African American audience. [2] [3] One employee of the Bureau of Indian Affairs was concerned that few Native Americans had FM radios. He thought that few people in the station's target audience would be able to receive it, saying, "I don't like this business of having FM stations". [3] In addition to the All-Indian Pueblo Council, a grant from the Department of Housing, Education and Welfare was used to start the station. [4]

It was given the call sign KIPC and was scheduled to begin broadcasting on November 1, 1975. But there were three months of delays and it signed on the air on February 2, 1976;48 years ago. [5] The station carried an eclectic mix of programs including NPR offerings, jazz music, and even Albuquerque City Council meetings. [5] It had a morning show called "Sound of the Drum" featuring "music of all Indians". [4]

KIPC had trouble raising the operating funds to stay on the air. By September 1977, it had gone dark while it worked to raise money. That left the University of New Mexico's KUNM-FM to emerge as the major public radio station for the city. [6] Albuquerque Public Broadcasting Corporation entered bankruptcy that same year. [7]

Two years later, the station was sold to Spindizzy PubCom. It became KKTU. Spindizzy had also obtained the construction permit for KQIV at 91.9 MHz in Corpus Christi, Texas. The stations in Albuquerque and Corpus Christi were sold to Family Life Radio in 1982. The price tag was $120,000. [8] On August 6 of that year, the station changed its call sign to KNFR. It changed again to the present KFLQ on November 29, 1982. The call letters stand for Family Life Radio in AlbuQuerque.

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References

  1. ↑ Radio-Locator.com/KFLQ
  2. ↑ "All Indian Pueblo parley is scheduled". Albuquerque Journal. September 24, 1975. Retrieved August 11, 2019.
  3. 1 2 Associated Press (September 26, 1975). "Indians Receive FM Radio Station". Silver City Daily Press. Retrieved August 11, 2019.
  4. 1 2 Walston, Ken. "Albuquerque's Newest Voices" (PDF). The Daily Lobo. p. 6. Retrieved August 11, 2019.
  5. 1 2 "Station Celebrates Anniversary". Albuquerque Journal. February 2, 1977. Retrieved August 11, 2019.
  6. ↑ Hoffman, Will (September 15, 1977). "KUNM-FM Offers Alternative Sound". Albuquerque Journal. Retrieved August 11, 2019.
  7. ↑ "Notice—Trustee's Receiver Sale". Albuquerque Journal. June 18, 1978. Retrieved August 11, 2019.
  8. ↑ "For the Record" (PDF). Broadcasting. October 18, 1982. p. 69. Retrieved August 11, 2019.

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