KRQE

KRQE is a television station in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States, affiliated with the Fox network. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group and operated alongside KWBQ, an affiliate of The CW, and KASY-TV, an independent station with MyNetworkTV. The three stations share studios on Broadcast Plaza in Albuquerque; KRQE's transmitter is located on Sandia Crest, east of Albuquerque. KRQE went on the air as CBS affiliate KGGM-TV on October 4, 1953. It was owned by the Hebenstreit family alongside KGGM radio and the first Albuquerque TV station to transmit from Sandia Crest. While it was remembered for non-news local programs such as Captain Billy, a popular children's show that ended when the host was murdered in 1972, it was a laggard in the area of local news, with low ratings and poor quality. General manager Bruce Hebenstreit produced several made-for-TV movies at the station in an attempt to create a market for its own programming; the movies exacerbated strife within the family, which only ended when Bruce died in 1987.