KQTM

KQTM (101.7 FM, "The Team") is a radio station serving the Albuquerque, New Mexico, area. They are owned by Team Broadcasting and its city of license is Rio Rancho, New Mexico. The station broadcasts with an effective radiated power of 3 kW.

The station broadcasts a Sports Talk format as "The Team" as of August 1, 2008.

History

101.7 signed on the air in 1984 as talk outlet KZIA-FM, a sister to News station 1580 KZIA. KZIA-FM featured the ABC Talkradio network lineup which included Michael Jackson (English Accented talk show host not musician) Owen Spann, Ira Fistell, Ray Briem.

In 1989 it became KZKL-FM with a '50s and '60s oldies format branded as "Kool 102". The station became very popular for much of the 1990s and would last for more than a decade. In 2000 it had rebranded as KQEO-FM, a callsign that had once been used by a local AM top 40 station during the 60's until about the early 90's. However, by that time it was battling KABG-FM 98.5 and by May 2002, it would drop the oldies format after 13 years.