FCC has accepted for filing assignment of KKNS (1310), Corrales license from El Camino Communications to The Navajo Nation. A donation agreement between the parties is attached to the FCC application. Native Broadcast Enterprise, the "donee", operates KTNN (660) the 50K "Voice of the Navajo Nation" and KWRK (96.1) "Country Capital". KKNS has been mostly silent for some time.
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KKNS transfer filed
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They lost their transmitter site several years ago and were operating from a wire hung on a building for a while, but seem to have a CP to run 5kw day and about 80 watts at night on a shared tower. The owner, Victor Camino, was a co-worker at HBC in LA many years ago... good guy, bad market.
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When KKNS came back on the air a few months ago, I heard them up here in Laramie, WY at/after dark several times. Whatever their license to cover application specified was what they were using when i heard them (according to fcc filings)
What would the Navajo Nation want with an AM station in Albuquerque? Could their programming also appeal to those on the Isleta, Sandia, Santa Ana, San Felipe and Zia Pueblos? It would be AM only and KTNN seems to be mostly music which they also broadcast on 101.5 out around Gallup. Or since KKNS currently does not seem to have a transmitter here could they move it out to the reservation? KEMR 1080 was recently permitted to move from Milan to Moriarty 120 miles east.
Currently there is no signal on 1310. 1510 also does not seem to use its AM signal much either while 103.7 is still going. 840 and 730 were also off today while 1240 is very weak but their translators are up and running like always.
Currently there is no signal on 1310. 1510 also does not seem to use its AM signal much either while 103.7 is still going. 840 and 730 were also off today while 1240 is very weak but their translators are up and running like always.
My guess is if the deal gets FCC approval they will apply to move the 1310 signal to the Navajo Nation. Check out the Native Broadcast Enterprise website showing their place in St Michaels AZ, very nice building with several studios. With the license as a donation and facilities already there, they would be ahead in the game. As far as AM in Abq, it's dribbled down to several AM stations warehousing a source for FM signals although KDSK apparently has plans to build a transmitter site in Rio Rancho for 1240. And 1350, the Podcast Channel, IMHO is not much above dead air.
I had the great pleasure of visiting the KTNN/KWRK studios last year and just wrote about it on my Site of the Week page:
www.fybush.com/site-20200410/
But they can't move KKNS up there. That would be a major change, and the FCC doesn't allow those for AM stations right now. It will have to stay somewhere around ABQ.
www.fybush.com/site-20200410/
But they can't move KKNS up there. That would be a major change, and the FCC doesn't allow those for AM stations right now. It will have to stay somewhere around ABQ.
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