KICH

Last updated
KICH
Broadcast area Guam
Frequency 630 kHz
Branding"Isla63"
Programming
Format Chamorro music/Talk (online only)
Ownership
OwnerGood News Broadcasting Corporation
History
First air date
March 14, 1954;70 years ago (1954-03-14)
Former call signs
KUAM (1954–2021)
Former frequencies
610 kHz (1954–1978)
612 kHz (1978–2007)
Technical information
Facility ID 51236
Class B
Power 10,000 watts
Transmitter coordinates
 13°26′53″N144°45′22″E / 13.44806°N 144.75611°E / 13.44806; 144.75611
Links
Website http://www.kuam.com

KICH (630 AM) is a radio station broadcasting from the village of Dededo, in the United States territory of Guam.

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As KUAM, it was Guam's first commercial radio station, broadcasting from 1954 to 2020. It aired Chamorro music and talk radio. Isla63 became an online radio station when Pacific Telestations discontinued operation in 2020 for economic reasons and sold the license.

History

The station was owned by Pacific Telestations, LLC (a company of the local conglomerate Calvo Enterprises, Inc.) and was Guam's first commercial radio station, having signed on the air on March 14, 1954. When it started up, the Armed Forces Radio Service station that had operated at 1380 kHz since September 1949 ceased operations. [1] It was originally owned by Harry Engel and his Radio Guam; Engel started KUAM-TV (channel 8) three years later. The station was sold in 1964 to Pacific Broadcasting Corporation and to Pacific Telestations in 1977. [2]

Long known as "Isla61", KUAM changed its broadcast frequency from 612 kHz to 630 kHz in July 2007. This move enables most radios with digital tuners found locally (built for the Americas' ITU Region 2 interval of 10 kHz) to tune precisely to the station's frequency instead of being 2 kHz off (when tuned to 610 kHz).

After Typhoon Pongsona hit Guam on December 8, 2002, Isla61 was off the air for more than one year. Programs such as the morning talk "Positively Local" and the TV news simulcast were instead carried by sister station KUAM-FM. The KUAM-TV nightly newscast at 6 p.m. was simulcast on Isla63.

On April 20, 2020, it was confirmed that KUAM Communications would conclude broadcasting after 66 years on the radio on May 1. [3] In filing to take the station temporarily silent, Pacific noted that it had discontinued operation of KUAM for economic reasons. [4]

The license was then donated to Good News Broadcasting Corporation effective May 10, 2021. New KICH call letters were applied on May 18, 2021.

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References

  1. ↑ Abcede, Jose C. (March 16, 1954). "AFRS, Pioneer Of Radio Broadcasting In Guam, Bows Out To A New Era". Guam Daily News. p. 4. Retrieved June 5, 2020.
  2. ↑ Slavit, E. Max (November 27, 1988). "KUAM, what's in the future?". Pacific Sunday News. Retrieved June 5, 2020.
  3. ↑ "CHamoru radio trailblazer Isla 63 AM to cease broadcasting on May 1". www.kuam.com. Retrieved 2 March 2021.
  4. ↑ "BLSTA - 20200504AAF Notification of Suspension of Operations / Request for Silent STA — KUAM (AM)".


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