KVCN (106.7 FM) is a radio station licensed to Los Alamos, New Mexico, and serving Northern New Mexico, including Santa Fe and Albuquerque. It broadcasts a Conservative Christian radio format featuring programming from its owner's network, VCY America. KVCN has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 44,000 watts. The transmitter tower is on a high peak in Jemez Springs, in the Valles Caldera National Preserve, west of Los Alamos. Programming is also heard on a network of FM translators around New Mexico and Southern Colorado. Station history 106.7 signed on in 1987 as KBOM with a Spanish Contemporary music format. In 1990 it would be home to an Oldies format for northern New Mexico branded as "K-Bomb" with slogans such as Oldies Blast From the Past. The name referenced the city of license Los Alamos as being the birthplace of the atomic bomb. In 2000, it would be purchased by American General Media (AGM) along with Santa Fe area stations 107.5, 94.7, 1260 and 1400 from Withers Broadcasting Co. for $7 million. (The rest of the cluster would eventually be sold to Hutton Broadcasting). AGM already had its own oldies station on KABG, however the K-Bomb format would relocate to the 94.7 frequency in Santa Fe, although AGM would bring a permanent end to it in 2002. In early 2001, AGM would launch "The Planet" on 106.7 as KKPL with a modern rock format that used the slogan World Class Modern Rock. However, soon after its debut, Citadel Communications, a major player in the Albuquerque/Santa Fe radio market, would change two of its stations to rock formats, including a similar format on 103.3 FM as well as a classic rock station to compete against Clear Channel, which had owned most of the market rock radio stations at the time. This would put KKPL in competition with about six other area rock stations for advertising revenue. Longtime KTEG morning host "Buck" was among the local personalities at this short-lived station. Therefore, in late September 2001, after only nine months on the air, AGM had thrown in the towel and changed 106.7 to a Spanish language music format as "Radio Sol" with call letters KZNM. Initially, "Sol" had emulated the long running format on local public radio station KANW-FM 89.1, which features New Mexico-based Spanish-language music artists. The commercial effort did not succeed and the format on KZNM would eventually shift to