The buyer of an Albuquerque AM station obviously believes that it can be salvaged from the FCC junk heap. On the FCC’s website, it has the deadly capital D listed ahead of its call letters.
That’s D as in Deleted.
It is a fate usually reserved for stations that have failed to broadcast for more than a year, and particularly if they failed to get specific FCC permission to go silent for any period of time.
The station is KDEF-AM.
The seller is RAMH Corporation, headed by President Henry Tafoya.
The buyer is Sangre de Cristo Broadcasting Inc., headed by Matias C. Martinez and Martha Martinez.
The price is $250,000 cash.
The station is said to be operating under an STA and its license renewal is pending. Currently, despite continuing to post the D ahead of the calls, the FCC database describes it as being licensed.
KDEF-AM is a Class B on 1150 kHz with 5 kW-D, 500 W-N, DAN. The station has applied to come back on the same frequency with 1.5 kW-D, 105 W-N, ND.
