KOAT-TV

KOAT-TV (channel 7) is a television station in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States, affiliated with ABC and CBS. Owned by Hearst Television, the station maintains studios on Carlisle Boulevard in Northeast Albuquerque, and its transmitter is located on Sandia Crest, northeast of Albuquerque. Twenty-seven repeaters carry its broadcast signal to much of New Mexico as well as southwestern Colorado and northeastern Arizona. KOAT-TV was the second station to broadcast in Albuquerque, signing on in October 1953 as one of two new TV stations in the city in the same month. It suffered financial difficulty twice in its first four years of operation, though ownership by Clinton D. McKinnon and the Steinman Stations group steadied operations. KOAT-TV's newscasts have generally led the Albuquerque–Santa Fe market in viewership since the mid-1970s. The station's fourth subchannel assumed the CBS affiliation for New Mexico on August 1, 2026.