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Hubby of former KRQE anchor sues station for trying to bust up their relationship.
Univision sells 101.7 KBTK-FM to some other media conglomerate. Rhythmic Oldies format gives way to sports talk. Ian Martin shaking in his boots.
NMSU President Michael Martin is shortlisted to lead Louisiana State University. And by "short list" we mean a list of one.
Facebook institutes more stringent privacy policies to protect young people from online predators. The Lutherans are gonna be pissed.
Local attorney continues to argue "Melvin and Howard" case in federal appeals court. No really, this is still going on.

10 Comments

Comment by jeff on May 16, 2008 at 8:22am: sports talk? 101.7 was the only place to catch 70's funk...gah!!!!!! radio in this town!!!!!

Comment by Tricross on May 16, 2008 at 8:29am: Just wanna say thanks to all of the volunteers at the Ride Your Bike to Work breakfast sites. Great crew at the Erna Ferguson library.

Comment by once banned twice shy on May 16, 2008 at 10:06am: Tricross:
You're welcome. Even though I wasn't at the Erna Ferguson site...but I will pass on your thanks to those who were.

Comment by jonnyblujeans on May 16, 2008 at 11:32am: The state of radio everywhere is pretty sad. I encourage everyone to give some love to Santa Fe's indiesf.com . Streaming for now, working on getting a broadcast signal. Very much like KCRW or KEXP.

Comment by Bret on May 16, 2008 at 12:30pm: indiesf.com will not play WMP. So I can't listen to it at work. bummer.

Comment by shotsie on May 16, 2008 at 1:56pm: Hey, thanks, JBJ - I'll give indiesf.com a try... support local streaming.... maybe some Duke City types could do the same...

Comment by SoyJames on May 16, 2008 at 2:34pm: Damnit!!! That was one of the last stations I allowed in my presets!

Comment by Adelita on May 16, 2008 at 2:53pm: Yup, I'm gonna miss that station. Need to get my funk somewhere...

Comment by jonnyblujeans on May 17, 2008 at 9:20am: Bret, I noticed problems with WMP as well. Try opening this:
http://energy14.egihosting.com:6222/
It runs like a champ on VLC in Ubuntu :)

Comment by Robert S. on May 19, 2008 at 2:14am: KRQE Ruiz story: good thing we have a morning newspaper still. I can't believe the "gentleman's agreement" we have in this town with TV personalities and potentially bad publicity. You don't hear KOB (and I assume KOAT, I don't watch them anymore) reporting the Ruiz lawsuit story, just like for the few tv personality drunk driving incidents I didn't see any TV newscast report them. They were only reported in the newspaper to the best of my recollection. If you have to ask why there are still newspapers, it is because there is the freedom to report stuff you see snuffed from being reported on local tv.

As for the trial, I can't wait to see how it turns out, especially considering Ruiz's lawyer, the male equivalent of Gloria Allred. He must have serious ego withdrawl any day that his name isn't in the newspaper or on tv.

Univision radio sale - I"m glad to get another sports station (for the chance of more live sporting events on the dial when I'm out and about until wi-fi comes to Albuquerque en masse) and I don't think Ian-Peein'-Martin needs to worry because that station will probably affiliate itself with one of the two worst sports radio networks. Ian should be glad to work at a station with ESPN radio, by far the best of the three.

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