KNMX

KNMX (540 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a Spanish Variety format. Licensed to Las Vegas, New Mexico, United States, the station serves the Santa Fe area. The station is currently owned by Sangre De Cristo Broadcasting Co, Inc. and features programming from CNN Radio.
540 AM is a Canadian and Mexican clear-channel frequency. KNMX must reduce nighttime power in order to prevent skywave interference to the dominant Class A stations on this frequency.
History.
On April 11, 1979, San Miguel Broadcasting Company, Inc., filed to build a new radio station at 540 kHz in Las Vegas. The Federal Communications Commission approved the construction permit in December, and the station began broadcasting in October 1980. It was the area's first Spanish-language radio outlet, though it took three years for KNMX to turn a profit.
San Miguel owned the station until 1993, when it filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy. Sangre de Cristo acquired KNMX in 1996 for $235,000, after the station had been placed in trusteeship.