KIVA (1600 kHz) is a

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licensed to Albuquerque, New Mexico. It is owned by the Rock of Talk LLC and airs a

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. Studios and offices are located at 2309 Renard Place Southeast, near the

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. KIVA broadcasts with 10,000

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s by day. To protect other stations on 1600 AM at night, it reduces power to 175 watts. The

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tower is on Arno Street, near Interstate 25, about a mile from the studios.

Programming

On weekdays, KIVA carries mostly nationally syndicated

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shows. They include Glenn Beck,

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, Bill O'Reilly,

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, Buck Sexton and "

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with

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." KIVA also features a local afternoon show called "The Rock of Talk" with Eddy Aragon from 4:00 to 6:45 pm. Aragon has been named the Albuquerque Journal Readers Choice Winner for Radio Personality for the last four years from 2017 to 2020. Weekend hosts include

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, and "Ground Zero with Clyde Lewis." Saturdays are dedicated to business talk with local broadcasts from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm. On Sundays, Christian talk and teaching programs including Hometown Heroes and The Lutheran Hour and the live Sunday edition of ''

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'' as well as Free Talk Live on Saturday and Sunday evenings. There is no

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. KIVA brands itself as "Fox News ABQ.FM." Hourly news updates are provided by Fox News Radio as well as bottom of the hour business updates on weekdays from Fox Business. The station broadcasts via its MP3 streams which can be accessed at www.abq.fm. It also broadcasts in an MP3 format. You can also find Rock of Talk on Roku, Amazon Fire and Apple Plus TV. To watch the stream live go to www.rockoftalk.tv.

History

On June 6, 1956, the station first

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as KHAM. It originally was a

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on AM 1580, required to go off the air at sunset to avoid interfering with other stations. It had a

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format as KRLL from 1993 to 1995 and was the home of Radio Disney as KDZZ from October 1997 to July 1999, but for many years was an AM

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for

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station "Kool 102" KZKL-FM ( 101.7). In 2000, the

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authorized the station to move from AM 1580, a

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clear channel frequency where the Albuquerque station could not broadcast at night, to AM 1600, a regional frequency which would allow it to broadcast around the clock. The station switched to an

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format as KIVA from 2000 to 2002 after the frequency switch. 1600 began an

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format as KRKE in early 2005 after stunting with an all

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format for a couple of weeks at the end of 2004. The talk format for KIVA began on June 15, 2009 on 1550 AM. On August 28, 2012 KIVA swapped frequencies with KRKE moving KIVA to 1600, while KRKE switched from 1600 to 1550. 1600 had previously been "The mix of New Mexico" as KANM. The station was assigned the

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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 KRKE, and on 2012-08-28 to the current KIVA.

FM Broadcast

KIVA first began broadcasting in June 2013 on

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station K240BL 95.9 MHz in Albuquerque. The translator signal was upgraded to the maximum 250 watts from 47 watts in September 2014. In March 2017 KIVA began broadcasting on K229CL 93.7 which had previously aired 1240

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until it moved to 92.9 which is owned by the same company. In April 2017 95.9 went silent. On January 1, 2021 the 93.7 translator went silent while all references to it were removed from the stations' website and social media pages months before the time it went silent. A recent FCC filing states that the owner (Telebeeper of New Mexico) is negotiating with another station for rebroadcast on the translator. KIVA continues to be heard on AM 1600 where it has been since 2011 and the website at www.rockoftalk.com.

References

External links

KIVA website

The Rock of Talk KIVA Facebook

FCC History Cards for KIVA
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