Brent Stevens, former Program Director of KHFM, describes the history of Albuquerque’s first commercial FM station. KHFM began in 1954 as a project by two Highland High School teachers and grew in power and reach over the decades. After several ownership changes and a threatened format shift, the classical music station ultimately moved from 96.3 to 95.5 MHz and became a non-commercial station in 2017 under the nonprofit KHFM Community Partners, preserving its classical format.
The program was presented at the Albuquerque Museum on Sunday, July 20, 2025.
Brent Stevens hosts Saturday mornings and Sunday afternoons at 95.5 KHFM, New Mexico’s listener-supported Classical Music station. His interviews with locally and nationally renowned performers air regularly on KHFM, and he hosts pre-concert talks and events with the state’s performing arts organizations. Brent is also a sound designer and recording engineer/producer. Brent produces broadcasts of Opera Southwest, heard locally and nationwide in WFMT’s American Opera Radio Series, and broadcasts of The Santa Fe Opera, heard on KHFM weekly in July and August. His recording of the OSW production of Faccio’s Amleto (Hamlet) has been featured in the Metropolitan Opera’s gift shop and was named one of the top 10 opera cds of the year by Opera Today.
Brent is the former Program Director of KHFM, and also served as the station’s first Executive Director as it became a non-commercial public station in 2017.
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