WKMG (1520 AM) was a radio station broadcasting all varieties of music from 1968 to 2011 in Newberry, South Carolina.
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| Frequency | 1520 kHz |
| Programming | |
| Format | Defunct (formerly nostalgia) |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Service Radio Company, Inc. |
| History | |
First air date | May 22, 1968 |
Last air date | November 9, 2017 (date of license cancellation) |
| Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 17766 |
| Class | D |
| Power | 1,000 watts day |
Transmitter coordinates | 34°15′12″N 81°35′44″W / 34.25333°N 81.59556°W |
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Public license information | |
The station license was last owned by Cornell Blakely.[2][3] Service Radio Company, Inc. owns the property.
History
editThe station signed on May 22, 1968, with a country music format.[4] The license transferred from Service Radio Company, Inc. to Durst Broadcasting Company, Inc. on January 1, 1989,[5] and from Durst to Cornell Blakely[3] on March 20, 2001.[6]
WKMG was deleted by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on December 2, 2011, for failure to file for the renewal of its license, which expired a day earlier. The license was reinstated on December 15, 2011.[citation needed]
On October 4, 2017, the FCC informed WKMG that it believed the station had been silent for over a year and ordered the station to provide its full operational status since August 9, 2011; in attempting to inform WKMG on May 10, 2017, of unpaid debts it owed to the commission, FCC staffers discovered that license owner Cornell Blakely[3] had died on December 2, 2013, and that WKMG's phone number had been disconnected.[7] After the FCC's notification was returned as undeliverable, the WKMG license was cancelled on November 9, 2017.[8]
References
edit- ^ "Facility Technical Data for WKMG". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ^ "WKMG Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
- ^ a b c "Blakely, Cornell". Motown Junkies. December 10, 2013. Retrieved April 17, 2021.
- ^ Broadcasting & Cable Yearbook 1999 (PDF). 1999. p. D-398. Retrieved November 15, 2017.
- ^ "Application Search Details: BAL-19881011EE". CDBS Public Access. Washington, D.C.: Federal Communications Commission. Retrieved December 31, 2017.
- ^ "Application Search Details: BAL-20001208ADG". CDBS Public Access. Washington, D.C.: Federal Communications Commission. Retrieved December 31, 2017.
- ^ Doyle, Peter H. (October 4, 2017). "Re: WKMG(AM), Newberry, SC" (PDF). CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. Retrieved December 31, 2017.
- ^ "Broadcast Actions" (PDF). Federal Communications Commission. November 15, 2017. Retrieved November 15, 2017.
§312(g) letter sent on 10/4/17. Letter returned as undeliverable and license canceled on 11/9/17.
External links
edit- FCC History Cards for WKMG
- Application Search Results for facility ID 17766
- Correspondence Folder for facility ID 17766
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