Get the inside scoop with Sportslook as we sit down with two local sports powerhouses: Vic Lopez, the voice of sports radio, and Jose Montoya, Assistant Athletic Director bringing the heat from behind the scenes! 🔥
Catch the full episode TONIGHT:
📺 Thursday, Nov 13 at 9 p.m. on Channel 3-2
🔁 Encore TONIGHT at 9:30 p.m. on Channel 3-1
Don’t miss the stories, the passion, and the plays that keep New Mexico sports alive! 🙌⚽🏀
Just a little pre-show warm-up before delivering the headlines 🦀🍥 Tune in live at 5 p.m.
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11/11/2025
To all veterans who have served and sacrificed for our nation, we extend our heartfelt gratitude. Your courage has protected our freedoms and we are forever grateful for the freedoms we enjoy because of you. Thank You!!
Many past and present employees and students of KENW-TV/FM have served and we appreciate each of you. In the comments below, post a picture of yourself in uniform so that we may recognize you.
Below is a photo of KENW's Founding Director, Mr. Duane W. Ryan.
11/09/2025
PART 2 IS HERE! 🥳
The conversation continues with Vietnam Veteran and Former U.S. Congressman Steve Pearce on You Should Know!
If Part 1 had you hooked... just wait. In this follow-up episode, Steve Pearce opens up even further about the experiences behind his new book You Had a Good Home… But You Left and the journey of finding purpose, identity, and a path forward.
This is a powerful, honest, and deeply human story — and you’ll only get it here.
📺 Tune In to You Should Know
Sunday, Nov. 9 at 5:00 p.m. on Channel 3-2
Tuesday, Nov. 11 at 9:30 p.m. on Channel 3-2
Thursday, Nov. 13 at 8:30 p.m. on Channel 3-1
Don’t miss Part 2. You’ll be talking about this one.
Find out on this week’s Sportslook as Rodeo Head Coach John Sharp and Softball standout Jordan Rivera share the grit, discipline, and heart behind their journeys. 🤠🥎
📺 Thursday, Nov. 6 at 9 p.m. on Channel 3-2
🔁 Encore Tonight at 9:30 p.m. on Channel 3-1
Tune in to join girls night plus Jaden live at 5 p.m.
11/04/2025
Did you know that a hens egg color differs from breed to breed?
Thank you to American AgCredit and the Roosevelt & Border Soil & Water Conservation Districts for supporting All About Ag.
Listen to full episodes through the link in the comment section
11/02/2025
📚 NEW BOOK ALERT! 🚨
Vietnam Veteran and Former U.S. Congressman Steve Pearce’s “You Had a Good Home… But You Left” is here — a raw, powerful journey of choices, change, and what it really means to find your way back home. 💭✨
🎙️ Get the inside story straight from Congressman Pearce himself in the first of a special two-part interview on You Should Know!
📺 Tune in:
Sunday, Nov. 2 – 5:00 p.m. on Channel 3-2
Tuesday, Nov. 4 – 9:00 p.m. on Channel 3-2
Thursday, Nov. 6 – 8:30 p.m. on Channel 3-1
Don’t miss the conversation that everyone will be talking about — heartfelt, honest, and unforgettable. 💬🔥
✨ Cultura x ENMU x Bosque Redondo Memorial✨
What an amazing day of learning and connection! 💛 Cultura joined forces with ENMU students at the Bosque Redondo Memorial Site for a hands-on journey through history and culture. 🌾
From cooking with ingredients once used by the Diné and Ndé, to shaping adobes and building shelters, students experienced the creativity and resilience of these communities in a powerful way. 🫓🏺🏕️
A beautiful reminder that learning comes alive when we listen, create, and honor the stories that came before us. 🙌
11/01/2025
Something You Should Know… 👀
Vietnam Veteran and Former U.S. Congressman, Steve Pearce, has a story to tell.
Find out what it is on the next episode of You Should Know.
🎥 Coming Sunday (11/2) at 5 p.m.
10/31/2025
🎬 A story of remembrance and resilience...
Our next episode of Cultura takes you to the Bosque Redondo Memorial at Fort Sumner Historic Site — a place where history still speaks.
Featuring powerful voices including
✨ Shawn Price (Diné Holy Man)
🏛️ Aaron Roth (Historic Site Manager)
🎓 Dr. Kristin Waldo (ENMU Associate Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice)
🤝 Mary Ann Cortese (President, Friends of the Bosque Redondo Memorial)
What stories will they reveal?
Stay tuned — more teasers are coming soon.
10/30/2025
🏈🏀 Get ready for a powerhouse Sportslook lineup!
This week’s episode features ENMU Head Football Coach Kelley Lee, standout player Jarius Stewart, and Head Basketball Coach Daven Võ — all sharing insights, stories, and what’s next for Greyhound athletics! 💪🐾
Catch Sportslook Thursday, Oct. 29 at 9 p.m. on channel 3-2 and again tonight at 9:30 p.m. on channel 3-1! Don’t miss it! 🎥🔥
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KENW-FM had a humble beginning in the attic of the Administration Building here at Eastern New Mexico University. In 1968, construction of the KENW-FM studios in the attic was aided by student volunteers; sound proofing was accomplished by tacking up large, waffled, egg case separators discarded from the university cafeteria. The FM station was on the air daily from 7 a.m. until around 10 p.m. and was operated totally by university students. The format was classical music, along with informational programs from international broadcast organizations, with some newscasts read by student announcers from copy produced by the UPI teletype machine located next to the front door leading into the attic studio.
On air, our low powered KENW-FM station identified itself as coming from “The Tower Room” in the Administration Building on the Campus of Eastern New Mexico University in Portales, NM. This was considered a much more dignified statement rather than saying that we were coming to you from the “attic” of the Administration Building. On Saturdays, during the live broadcasts of the Metropolitan Opera Season (December through April), the station was able to broadcast the opera by using a telephone line to bring the opera from New York City to Portales. The frequency response was not great, but opera buffs were thrilled to hear the live broadcasts.
Later, a carrier-current AM station was put on the air using the 680 KHz AM transmitter that was donated from the radio station in Los Alamos. That transmitter had been used during World War II to serve the city of Los Alamos with a type of broadcasting that could not be heard outside of the city (this was done to keep Los Alamos and its secret wartime mission hidden). When the KENW-AM station was put into service, it was very popular with the student operators because the AM station played the really good music.
KENW-TV also began broadcasting in the fall of 1968 by feeding a black and white picture to the cable company in Portales. The KENW-TV studio was located in the old Student Union Building which had been renamed the Communication Building and repurposed to house, among other things, the Anthropology Department, University Duplicating, and the TV studio. It broadcast Monday through Friday from early afternoon until 9 p.m. Since the station had only one 16 mm film chain and one video tape recorder, the local programs went out mostly live. Informational and travel films made up the rest of the schedule. A very popular daily children’s program was the locally produced “The Princess and the Magic Mirror,” featuring student actors playing the parts of the Princess and the animal puppets: Andy Antelope, Monty Moose, and Zachariah Zebra.
In the Summer of 1974, the newly hired TV staff began organizing the station in a new metal building specifically built to be the Broadcast Center. It was located on what had been a field for raising peanuts, located across the street from the University Purchasing Office. After KENW-TV’s initial broadcast at 5 p.m. on September 1st, 1974, the station began producing and broadcasting local TV productions, some of which are still being produced today. You Should Know and News 3 NM (originally named News, then High Plains Report, and then Scene 3 News). Creative Living (first named Creative Woman) started in 1976 and SportsLook began soon after. These local productions are still being produced today. Creative Living with Sheryl Borden is the only weekly public television program produced in New Mexico that is distributed nationwide.
In the Spring of 2006, we moved from the old metal building Broadcast Center to a brand new, state of the art facility in the newly constructed Communication Building, located on the corner of Sesame Street DR and Ave. N. Not only was the building new, but so was the technology; KENW-TV converted from single channel analog television service to multi-channel digital television, eventually moving to the present four-channel service.
