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| Broadcast area | Middlesex |
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| Frequency | 1070kHz |
| Branding | Harvest Radio |
| Programming | |
| Format | Gospel music |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | World Harvest Communications, Inc. |
| History | |
First air date | February 1972; 53 years ago (1972-02) |
Call sign meaning | K&M Broadcasters (original owner) |
| Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 32985 |
| Class | D |
| Power | 250 watts (day) |
Transmitter coordinates | 40°40′35″N74°28′36″W / 40.67639°N 74.47667°W /40.67639; -74.47667 |
| Translator(s) | 100.7 W264BT (Edison) |
| Links | |
Public license information | |
| Website | Harvest Radio Website |
WKMB (1070AM) is a radio station broadcasting anUrban Gospelradio format.Licensed toStirling, New Jersey, United States, the station serves parts ofMiddlesex County,Morris County,Somerset County andUnion County. The station is owned by World Harvest Communications, Inc.[2]
WKMB is adaytimer.AM 1070 is aclear channel frequency reserved forKNX Los Angeles. That requires WKMB tosign-off at sunset to avoid interfering with this station and Class BWFNI inIndianapolis.
The station also broadcasts on simulcast translator W264BT on 100.7 FM inEdison, New Jersey.
WKMB signed on in February 1972 with anadult contemporary format under the ownership of Herb Michaels. It changed to acountry music format in 1979; in 2002, WKMB became the only commercial radio station in the New York City area to broadcast country music aftera four-station simulcast on 107.1 FM dropped the format for Spanish-language programming. Following Michaels' death in 2002, his heirs sold the station to King's Temple Ministries, who converted WKMB to a gospel music station on January 19, 2003. King's Temple Ministries had earlier bought time onWERA before that station shut down in 1997. From 2003 until 2015, WKMB broadcast from WERA's former studios at 120 West 7th Street in Plainfield.[3]
WKMB's license was canceled on June 14, 2017, for not paying debts it owed to theFederal Communications Commission (FCC), which prevented the renewal of the station's license.[4] WKMB returned to the airwaves on July 1, 2017, from studios at 232 East Front Street in Plainfield, after having its license renewal application reinstated by the FCC on June 30.
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