KSDA-FM

Infobox Radio station


name = KSDA-FM
airdate = June 3, 1991
frequency = 91.9 MHz
city = Agat, Guam
area = Guam
format = Religious
owner = Good News Broadcasting Corporation
erp = 3,800 watts
branding = "Joy FM"
slogan = "Family Friendly Radio"
class = C
website =
callsign_meaning = Seventh-day Adventist Church |

KSDA is the call sign for the radio station JOY FM broadcast at 91.9 FM from Agana Heights, Guam, as well as the shortwave station broadcasting from Agat, Guam.

KSDA began as "Adventist World Radio-Asia" (AWR-Asia) in 1987 and continues to broadcast in shortwave to various countries in Asia. In 1990, AWR launched a local FM station at 91.9 MHz. JOY FM first broadcast from AWR's Agat studio, and later from Agana Heights.

When AWR shifted its mission away from local broadcasting, JOY FM's operation was passed on to the Guam-Micronesia Mission in the early 1990s. In 2000, Good News Broadcasting Corporation (GNBC), a non-profit 501-c3 organization composed of members from various Adventist entities on Guam, received JOY FM's FCC license from AWR.

The FM station was known as JOY 92 until mid-2008, when GNBC secured a construction permit for a transmitter on Saipan. The future Saipan transmitter will rebroadcast the Guam station on 89.9 MHz [ [http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/fmq?list=0&facid=172880 FCC Records for Construction Permit 172880] ] , necessitating the name change.

Call Sign History

The KSDA call sign was originally used by the campus/community FM radio station of La Sierra College (now La Sierra University) in Riverside, California. The radio operation of the college became independent and was an ancestor of the current KSGN.

ee also

* List of radio stations in Guam
* Media ministries of the Seventh-day Adventist Church

External links

* [http://www.awr.org/ Adventist World Radio (KSDA Shortwave radio)]
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