KDEF is a radio station

Radio station

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  broadcasting a Oldies

Oldies

Oldies is a term commonly used to describe a radio format that concentrates on music from a period of about 15 to 55 years before the present day....

 format. Licensed to Albuquerque, New Mexico

Albuquerque, New Mexico

Albuquerque is the largest city in the state of New Mexico, United States. It is the county seat of Bernalillo County and is situated in the central part of the state, straddling the Rio Grande. The city population was 545,852 as of the 2010 Census and ranks as the 32nd-largest city in the U.S. As...

, USA, the station serves the Albuquerque area. The station is currently owned by Ramh Corporation and features programing from CNN Radio.

History

The station went on the air as KDRM on February 2, 1981. on March 6, 1981, the station changed its call sign to KDQQ, and on April 1, 1982, to the current KDEF.

Format changes:
1997 - 1999 Sports/Talk
with live college sports featuring New Mexico State University and local high school games. On air shows featured hosts Henry Tafoya in the morning drive and Dominic Zarella on afternoon drive. Afternoons and live sports was produced. and engineered by Brian (Douglas) Spieker, who is currently employed as a talk host in Wichita Kansas in the sports talk format.

2000 - 2002 The format flipped to RADIO DISNEY which still featured music formatting for the 12-18 year old demographic. KDEF-AM continued carrying college and high school games in the evening daypart.

2005 KDEF flipped to an oldies format and still carries high school and some NMSU sports.