![]() On October 26, 1972, Scherer was shot in the station's lobby by the husband of a volunteer for the local cut-ins of the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon, who had perceived Scherer wrapping an arm around the woman as a flirting attempt which angered the husband. Captain Billy was a sea captain with a Dutch boy white haircut sticking out from under a sea Captain's hat and big brush moustache. The format was a kids' peanut gallery on bleachers holding about 50 seats with games and banter between cartoons, à la Bozo's Circus. KGGM talent Earnest "Stretch" Scherer, known as Captain Billy, came over to the station from KOB in the mid-1950s he hosted a children's show called Captain Billy's Clubhouse. The large studio that it used was renovated in 2000 into KRQE's "Newsplex", a combination newsroom and news studio. ![]() Many early Westerns were filmed, at least partially, at KGGM. ![]() In the late 1960s, the Hebenstreits sold a minority share to Chicago's Harriscope Broadcasting, which at one point owned WSNS-TV in Chicago (among other stations). 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). ![]()
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