The Navajo Nation Gets A Big Albuquerque AM

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For many years, a Class B AM with 1 daytimer tower and 3 nighttime towers licensed to Corrales, N. Mex., has served the Albuquerque market with Spanish-language programming.


This saw the signal used for regional Mexican programming, and then a religious format, en español.

Now, the facility is poised to take on a whole new form of multicultural broadcasting.

Licensee El Camino Communications, headed by Victor Camino, has opted to donate KKNS-AM 1310 to The Navajo Nation.

It’s a big tribal entity, and has used Class B KTNN-AM 660 in Window Rock, Ariz., as its longtime voice, with programming specifically targeting Native Americans in the region.

Now, KKNS and KTNN will be siblings.

Terms call for the Navajo Nation to assume Camino’s outstanding FCC obligations. He owes the Commission some $18,524.80 in outstanding fiscal 2019 regulatory fees.

Serving as the Navajo Nation’s legal counsel in this transaction is Lauren Lynch Flick of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP.