KTGM
ABC/Fox affiliate in Tamuning, Guam
KTGM (channel 14, cable channel 7) is a television station in Tamuning, Guam, serving the U.S. territory as an affiliate of ABC and Fox. The station is owned by Lilly Broadcasting. KTGM's transmitter is located in the heights of Barigåda (Barrigada), Guam; master control and most internal operations are based at Lilly Broadcasting's headquarters on State Street in downtown Erie, Pennsylvania.
KEQI-LD (channel 22) is a low-power translator of KTGM.
History
The FCC opened an application for UHF channel 14 on September 24, 1982, the first low power application in Guam. Guahan Airwaves got its bid approved in November 1983 and had until November 9, 1984 to start its transmissions.
K14AM signed on the air at 7 p.m. on October 29, 1984, owned by Guahan Airwaves, with facilities at the Atlantica Guam building in Upper Tumon, under the callsign K14AM. 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. Initially an independent operation carrying multilingual programming to cater to the island's diverse ethnicities in addition to hoteliers and telecommunications workers, as well as classic movies in English, in July 1985 it started adding CNN programming in late August 1985 after an agreement signed in early July. In 1986, it held a two-way satellite link with the Japanese public broadcaster NHK, the first involving the territory.
“KTGM” enters the record as aBC/Fox affiliate in Tamuning, Guam. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what KTGM, affiliate and Tamuning can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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