KRQE
 
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Albuquerque-Santa Fe, New Mexico United States |
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| Branding | KRQE News 13 Fox New Mexico (DT2) |
| Slogan | Reporting You Can Trust |
| Channels |
Digital: 13 (VHF) Virtual: 13 (PSIP) |
| Subchannels | 13.1 CBS 13.2 Fox |
| Owner |
Nexstar Media Group (LIN of New Mexico, LLC) |
| First air date | October 4, 1953 |
| Call letters' meaning | AlbuqueRQuE |
| Sister station(s) | KWBQ, KASY-TV |
| Former callsigns | KGGM-TV (1953–1992) |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 13 (VHF, 1953–2009) Digital: 16 (UHF, 2002–2009) |
| Former affiliations |
Secondary: UPN / The WB (January–October 1995) DT2: ZUUS Country (2014–2015) Dark (2015–2016) GetTV (2016–2017) |
| Transmitter power | 21.5 kW |
| Height | 1287 m |
| Facility ID | 48575 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 35°12′40.3″N 106°26′59.3″W / 35.211194°N 106.449806°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | krqe.com |
KRQE, digital channel 13, is the CBS-affiliated television station (and Fox-affiliated television station on KRQE-DT2 or Fox New Mexico) serving the Albuquerque, New Mexico television market; the station is owned by Nexstar Media Group and is currently sister stations to The CW affiliate KWBQ (channel 19) and KASY (channel 50), and both stations share a studio on Broadcast Plaza in Albuquerque (across the street from KOB). KRQE took over the Fox affiliation for New Mexico on channel 13.2 in January of 2017 following the sale of its former station, KASA-TV to Ramar Communications, which changed KASA into a Telemundo affiliate.
Its transmitter is located on Sandia Crest, east of Albuquerque.
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. The large studio that it used is now KRQE's "Newsplex," a combination newsroom and news studio. KGGM talent Earnest "Stretch" Scherer, known as Captain Billy, 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 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. Scherer was shot in the station's lobby after a misunderstanding involving a jealous husband. He died later at a hospital. Among many alumni at KGGM/KRQE is Ray Rayner, formerly a children's television personality at WGN-TV in Chicago. He spent the last several years at KRQE before going into retirement.
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