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| Frequency | 1520kHz |
| Programming | |
| Format | Nostalgia |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Service 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′12.5″N81°35′43.4″W / 34.253472°N 81.595389°W /34.253472; -81.595389 |
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Public license information | |
WKMG (1520AM) was a radio station broadcasting all varieties of music from 1968 to 2011 inNewberry, 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 acountry 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 theFederal 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]
§312(g) letter sent on 10/4/17. Letter returned as undeliverable and license canceled on 11/9/17.
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