KTGM

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KTGM
GuamABC7Logo.png
Channels
Branding
  • ABC 7 (general, cable channel)
  • Guam News Now (newscasts)
Programming
Affiliations14.1: ABC
Ownership
Owner
Operator Lilly Broadcasting
KEQI-LD
History
First air date
October 1987(36 years ago) (1987-10)
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog: 14 (UHF, 1987–2009)
  • Digital: 17 (UHF, 2002–2009)
  • All secondary:
  • CBS (1987–1995)
  • Fox (1990−1999)
  • The WB (2001–2005)
Call sign meaning
  • Tamuning, Guam (city of license)
  • -or-
  • Television in Guam
Technical information [1]
Licensing authority
 FCC
Facility ID 29232
ERP 12.5 kW
HAAT 168 m (551 ft)
Transmitter coordinates 13°29′17″N144°49′30″E / 13.48806°N 144.82500°E / 13.48806; 144.82500
Translator(s) KPPI-LD 7 Garapan, Saipan, MP
Links
Public license information
Website guamnewsnow.com/abc-7/

KTGM (channel 14) is a television station in Tamuning, Guam, serving the U.S. territory as an affiliate of ABC. It is owned by Sorensen Media Group and operated by Lilly Broadcasting alongside low-power Fox affiliate KEQI-LD (channel 22). The two stations share studios on 111 Chalan Santo Papa in Hagåtña (Agana); KTGM's transmitter is located in the heights of Barigåda (Barrigada).

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History

KTGM signed on the air in 1987, broadcasting on NTSC analog channel 14. It was Guam's second commercial TV station after KUAM-TV had signed on 28 years prior, and the first TV station of any kind on Guam in nearly 14 years since PBS member KGTF's sign on. It has always been a primary ABC affiliate, but in the beginning also had a secondary CBS affiliation, which it shared with KUAM-TV. In 1986, it held a two-way satellite link with the Japanese state broadcaster NHK, the first involving the territory. [2]

KTGM added Fox programming in 1990, after being dropped by KUAM-TV and also carried some CNN programming. It was also the first television station in Guam to broadcast in stereo, becoming the sixtieth ABC affiliate overall to do so. At the time of the launch of such service, 10+1⁄2 hours of programming were in "true" stereo, while the rest was in synthesized stereo. [3] CBS was dropped in 1995 after KUAM-LP signed on. Fox was dropped as well by the end of the 1990s, shifting its focus to ABC programming, after which Fox was only available on cable via San Francisco Bay Area affiliate KTVU until 2005, when KEQI-LP picked up the affiliation. Between June 2001 and November 2005, KTGM also carried WB programming (previously carried by KUAM-LP).

KTGM used to be located on the third floor of the Atlantica Building at 692 North Marine Drive (now known as Marine Corps Drive) in Upper Tumon (Municipality of Tamuning). Due to the building's ownership issues, KTGM moved to a commercial building on Route 16 (now known as Army Drive) in Barrigada Heights in 2003.

In 2001, the station also launched a repeater, KPPI-LP, in Garapan, Saipan, Northern Marianas Islands, on VHF channel 7. The station started off as K07XG (November 19, 2001 – December 17, 2004), before gaining the callsign of KPPI-LP (December 17, 2004 – March 28, 2005). It was deleted for three days (as DKPPI-LP, from March 28 to 31, 2005), before being reinstated as KPPI-LP on March 31, 2005. It is the first and only broadcast station in Saipan since the shutdown of WSZE in 1980. [4] [5] The station was licensed for digital operation as KPPI-LD on VHF channel 7 effective March 21, 2022.

Originally owned and operated by Island Broadcasting, Inc., KTGM was purchased by Sorensen Media Group (then owner of five radio stations on Guam and Saipan, and now additionally three TV stations) in November 2005. [6] [7] Soon after, it moved its cable channel position from 14 to 7, hence the current station branding. In 2009, Sorensen moved the station's facilities, along with its sister stations, from Barrigada Heights to Hagåtña.

In 2008, KTGM apparently had its DTV construction permit expire, and was waiting for the FCC to reinstate it, which it did later that year. [8] On February 18, 2009, KTGM officially signed off its analog channel at 2 p.m. Chamorro Standard Time (6 p.m. HST/8 p.m. PST/11 p.m. EST on February 17, 2009) and switched on its ATSC digital channel 14. [9]

Programming and schedule

Because Guam is a day ahead of the continental United States and that most programs arrived by tapes from California, KTGM used to air most ABC shows (except those available through satellites) on a one-week delay basis. When KTGM carried WB programming, it was aired from 6 to 8 p.m. directly before ABC's prime time schedule, also on a one-week delay.

With advancing communication technology, KTGM now airs the complete ABC lineup on the "same day" (just a few hours behind Hawaii), meaning that a Monday through Sunday stateside pattern is aired on a Tuesday through Monday pattern on Guam due to the time zone and day-ahead hindrance. ABC's sports programs are aired with less delay, and often in the middle of the night, Guam time; some sporting events that air live in prime time often air in the late-morning hours in Guam—one example was Monday Night Football which, when it was on ABC, aired on Tuesdays at 11 a.m. in Guam.

In 2005, KTGM began airing repeats of their ABC children's and prime time shows (like Ugly Betty ) during the week after their original airings, which made them the only ABC affiliate to hold this unique programming distinction. It was discontinued in 2009.

News and weather

KTGM broadcast hourly weather segments from what it dubbed the "ABC14 WeatherCenter" between January 1999 and December 2002. (It was never revived after Super Typhoon Pongsona.)

The merger with Sorensen allowed KTGM to share resources with Sorensen's radio stations, and thus allowed the K57 (KGUM) news operations (which took on the name "Pacific News Center") to expand into television. KTGM's half-hour evening news began broadcasting in summer 2005, ending KUAM's monopoly of local TV news since 1998. The PNC TV news is broadcast live nightly at 6 p.m., then rebroadcast on KEQI-LD at 7 and 10:30 p.m., as well as on KTGM after ABC prime time programming at 10 p.m.

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References

  1. ↑ "Facility Technical Data for KTGM". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ↑ Batting 1000, Guam Business News, June 1986
  3. ↑ "Pacific Magazine". Google Books. 1989. Retrieved February 13, 2024.
  4. ↑ "(KPPI) “Same-Day” Programming for Saipan!" - Pacific News Center
  5. ↑ "TV Query Results -- Video Division (FCC) USA".
  6. ↑ "Application for Consent to Assignment of Broadcast Station Construction Permit or License". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. 2005. Retrieved October 23, 2014.
  7. ↑ "Consummation Notice". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. 2005. Retrieved October 23, 2014.
  8. ↑ "DTV Transition Status Report". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. 2008. Retrieved October 23, 2014.
  9. ↑ "List of TV stations to end analog on Tuesday" - Fox News
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