KRQE (channel 13) is a television station in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States, affiliated with CBS and Fox.

Channel 13 began operation in October 1953 as KGGM-TV, owned by the Hebenstreit family's New Mexico Broadcasting Company along with KGGM radio (610 AM, now KNML).

The format was a kids' peanut gallery on bleachers holding about 50 seats with games and banter between cartoons, à la Bozo's Circus.

[3] Among many alumni at KGGM/KRQE is Ray Rayner, formerly a children's television personality at WGN-TV in Chicago; he "retired" to Albuquerque in 1980 and became the weather presenter for KGGM-TV's newscasts for five years in the early 1980s.

The New Mexico Broadcasting Company acquired semi-satellite KBIM-TV (channel 10) in Roswell, which had until that time operated independently as a CBS affiliate, for $5 million in 1989.

[5] Citing the station's perceived reputation as a perennial third-place news outlet, Lee changed the call letters—at Andrew Hebenstreit's suggestion—to KRQE[5] on September 7, 1992.

Both networks moved to KASY-TV (channel 50) when it signed on that October, with KRQE running KASY under a local marketing agreement (LMA) with Ramar Communications.

In 2006, LIN announced its purchase of Raycom Media-owned Fox affiliate KASA-TV, which KRQE took control of on September 15.

KREZ-TV (channel 6) in Durango, Colorado, began operations September 15, 1963, as KJFL-TV, a free-standing local independent station owned by Jeter Telecasting;[7] it went off the air after its facilities were destroyed in a February 1964 fire,[8] and the station was sold, rebuilt and returned to the air on September 9, 1965, as KREZ-TV, a satellite of CBS affiliate KREX-TV (channel 5) in Grand Junction, Colorado.

Following the acquisitions of KBIM and KREZ, in the late 1990s, KRQE branded as "CBS Southwest" in hopes of positioning itself as a regional network.

[17] KRQE-DT2, branded Fox New Mexico, is the Fox-affiliated second digital subchannel of KRQE, broadcasting in 720p high definition on channel 13.2.

KRQE held this position for nearly four years until January 7, 2021, when Sinclair Broadcast Group moved the intellectual property of Sinclair-controlled WTTE in Columbus, Ohio, to a digital subchannel of ABC affiliate WSYX (which Sinclair owns outright) as part of the Columbus market's adoption of ATSC 3.0.

In contrast, most CBS affiliates serving large stretches of territory either dominate their markets or are solid runners-up.

The station has experienced a resurgence in recent years, however, and now wages a spirited three-way battle for the top spot in the market with KOAT and KOB.

by KRQE, also due to budget cuts by the parent company, a move that also eliminated a primary local news source for the Four Corners Region.

Debuting on September 16, 2006, Fox New Mexico (then on KASA) airs a one-hour nightly newscast produced by the main KRQE studios.

The station's digital signal is multiplexed: On February 2, 2016, KRQE added GetTV, a channel that features classic movies from the 1930s to 1960s from Sony Pictures Entertainment, as a subchannel.