WKMG (AM)

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WKMG
Frequency 1520 kHz
Programming
Format Defunct (formerly nostalgia)
Ownership
OwnerService Radio Company, Inc.
History
First air date
May 22, 1968 (1968-05-22)
Last air date
November 9, 2017 (2017-11-09) (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″N81°35′44″W / 34.25333°N 81.59556°W / 34.25333; -81.59556 (WKMG)
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Public license information

WKMG (1520 AM) was a radio station broadcasting all varieties of music from 1968 to 2011 in Newberry, South Carolina.

The station license was last owned by Cornell Blakely. [2] [3] Service Radio Company, Inc. owns the property.

The 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]

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References

  1. ↑ "Facility Technical Data for WKMG". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ↑ "WKMG Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
  3. 1 2 3 "Blakely, Cornell". Motown Junkies. December 10, 2013. Retrieved April 17, 2021.
  4. ↑ Broadcasting & Cable Yearbook 1999 (PDF). 1999. p. D-398. Retrieved November 15, 2017.
  5. ↑ "Application Search Details: BAL-19881011EE". CDBS Public Access. Washington, D.C.: Federal Communications Commission . Retrieved December 31, 2017.
  6. ↑ "Application Search Details: BAL-20001208ADG". CDBS Public Access. Washington, D.C.: Federal Communications Commission . Retrieved December 31, 2017.
  7. ↑ Doyle, Peter H. (October 4, 2017). "Re: WKMG(AM), Newberry, SC" (PDF). CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission . Retrieved December 31, 2017.
  8. ↑ "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.


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