KRKE

KRKE

City of license	Albuquerque, New Mexico
Broadcast area	Albuquerque, New Mexico
Branding	Real Oldies Cool 107.5
Frequency	1600 kHz
Translator(s)	107.5 K298BK (Sandia)
Format	Oldies
Power	50,000 watts (day) 175 watts (night)
Class	D
Facility ID	65257
Transmitter coordinates	35°10′14.00″N 106°37′51.00″W
Former callsigns	KNUS (1988-1989) KZKL (1989-1993) KRLL (1993-1995) KNOS (1995-1989) KZKL (1989-1993) KDZZ (1997-1999) KIVA (1999-2002) KANM (2002-2005)
Owner	Vanguard Media LLC
Sister stations	KIVA
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	cool1075.com

KRKE (1600 AM) is an American radio station based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It broadcasts a 1950s and 1960s oldies music format as "Real Oldies Cool 107.5" and is owned by Vanguard Media LLC. Craig Collins has been program Director since 2006. KRKE Line Up Features Long Time Albuquerque personalities "Double C" Craig Collins, Barbara Fox and Steve Suttle. Weekends feature Elvis Only, Dick Clark & Tom Kent. The station is streamed online along with its talk radio sister station KIVA (1550 AM).

The KRKE call letters originated at 610 AM, when that Albuquerque station switched to pop music in the 1970s, to compete with longtime market leader KQEO.

Cool 107.5

In early May 2011, KRKE began using an FM translator to rebroadcast the format in stereo on 107.5 FM and rebranding as "Cool 107.5". The station had previously been called "Real Oldies 1600". They had also changed their website to cool1075.com. This change brings the station to directly compete with KABG 98.5 which serves as an Oldies/Classic Hits format, mainly playing music from the 60's, 70's& 50'S

Translators of KRKE

Call sign	MHz	City of license	Facility ID	Power (W)	Class	Additional Information
K298BK	107.5	Sandia, New Mexico	88468	20	D	FCC

History

1600 began its oldies format in early 2005 after stunting with an all Elvis format for a couple of weeks at the end of 2004. 1600 had previously been "The mix of New Mexico" as KANM. It also had an all-news format as KIVA from 2000-2002 after it had moved to 1600 from 1580 AM. It was the home of Radio Disney as KDZZ in the late 90's and had a classic country format as KRLL from 1993-1995 but for many years was an AM simulcast for KZKL-FM (101.7) "Kool 102" an oldies station.

The station was assigned the call sign KNUS on 1988-11-05. on 1989-09-27, the station changed its call sign to KZKL, on 1993-11-01 to KRLL, on 1995-11-01 to KNOS, on 1996-06-14 to KZKL, on 1997-11-28 to KDZZ, on 1999-09-13 to KIVA, on 2002-10-22 to KANM, on 2005-04-01 to the current KRKE,

External links

• Query the FCC's AM station database for KRKE
• Radio-Locator Information on KRKE
• Query Arbitron's AM station database for KRKE
• Query the FCC's FM station database for K298BK