KDEF

KDEF

City of license	Albuquerque, New Mexico
Broadcast area	Albuquerque area
Branding	The Kids Station
Frequency	1150 kHz
Format	Oldies
ERP	5,000 watts day 500 watts night
Class	B
Facility ID	227
Transmitter coordinates	35°12′6″N 106°35′54″W
Former callsigns	KDRM (1981-1981) KDQQ (1981-1982)
Affiliations	CNN Radio, New York Yankees Radio Network
Owner	Ramh Corporation

KDEF (1150 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a Oldies format. Licensed to Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, the station serves the Albuquerque area. The station is currently owned by Ramh Corporation and features programing from CNN Radio.

History

The station went on the air as KDRM on February 2, 1981. on March 6, 1981, the station changed its call sign to KDQQ, and on April 1, 1982, to the current KDEF.

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 engineered by Brian (Douglas) Spieker, who is currently employed as a talk host in Wichita Kansas in the sports talk format.

2000 - 2002 The format flipped to RADIO DISNEY which still featured music formatting for the 12-18 year old demographic. KDEF-AM continued carrying college and high school games in the evening daypart.

2005 KDEF flipped to an oldies format and still carries high school and some NMSU sports.

External links

• Query the FCC's AM station database for KDEF
• Radio-Locator Information on KDEF
• Query Arbitron's AM station database for KDEF