KTGM

Infobox_Broadcast
call_letters = KTGM
city =
station_
station_slogan = Giving You More
station_branding = ABC 7 "(cable channel)"
analog = 14 (UHF)
digital = 17 (UHF)
other_chs =
affiliations = ABC
network =
founded =
airdate = October 19, 1987
location = Tamuning, Guam
callsign_meaning = Tamuning, GuaM
former_callsigns =
former_channel_numbers =
owner = Sorensen Television Systems, Inc.
licensee =
sister_stations =
former_affiliations =
effective_radiated_power = 6.8 kW (analog)
2 kW (digital)
HAAT = 74 m (analog)
-16 m (both)
class =
facility_id = 29232
coordinates = coord|13|29|20|N|144|49|14|E|type:landmark_scale:2000
homepage = [http://www.abc7guam.com/ www.abc7guam.com]

KTGM (ABC 7) is a full-power television station located in Barrigada, Guam (licensed to Tamuning, Guam) transmitting over analog channel 14, digital 17 and on cable 7 (where they use a modified version of the Circle 7 logo). The station is owned by Sorensen Television Systems, Inc. and is the ABC affiliate for United States territory of Guam.

History

KTGM signed on the air in 1987 as a dual ABC/Fox/CBS affiliate. It dropped the Fox and CBS affiliations by the end of the 1990s, shifting its focus to ABC programming. Between 2002 and 2005, KTGM also carried WB programming (previously carried by KUAM-LP).

KTGM was previously located on the third floor of the Atlantica Building at 692 North Marine Drive in Upper Tumon (Municipality of Tamuning). Due to the building's ownership issues, KTGM moved to a commercial building on Route 16 (now known as Army Drive) in Barrigada Heights in 2003.

Originally owned and operated by Island Broadcasting, Inc., KTGM was purchased by Sorensen Media Group (then owner of five radio stations on Guam and Saipan, and now additionally three TV stations) in 2005. Soon after, it moved its cable channel position from 14 to 7, hence the current station branding.

As of 2008 KTGM, who is expected to make the conversion from its analog channel 14 to digital channel 17 in 2009, apparently had its DTV construction permit expire, and is waiting for the FCC to reinstate it. [ [http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101231446&formid=387&fac_num=29232 From FCC] ]

Programming and Schedule

Because Guam is a day ahead of the continental United States and that most programs arrived by tapes from California, KTGM used to air most ABC shows (except those available through satellites) on a one-week delay basis. With advancing communication technology, KTGM now airs the complete ABC lineup on the "same day" (just a few hours behind Hawaii), meaning that a Monday through Sunday stateside pattern is aired on a Tuesday through Monday pattern on Guam due to the time zone and day-ahead hindrance. A listing of its modified primetime lineup can be found at the external link below. Programs from ABC Sports are aired with less delay, and often in the middle of the night, Guam time.

In addition, KTGM also repeat most of their ABC children's and primetime shows (like Ugly Betty) during the week after their original airings, thus making them the only ABC affiliate to hold this unique programming distinction.

News and Weather

KTGM broadcast hourly weather segments from what it dubbed the "ABC14 WeatherCenter" between January 1999 and December 2002. (It was never revived after Supertyphoon Pongsona.)

The merger with Sorensen allowed KTGM to share resources with Sorensen's radio stations, and thus allowed the K57 (KGUM-AM) news operations (which took on the name "Pacific News Center") to expand into television. KTGM's half-hour evening news began broadcasting in summer 2005, ending KUAM's monopoly of local TV news since 1998. Currently, the PNC TV news is broadcast live nightly at 6 pm, then rebroadcast on KEQI (Fox-6) at 7 pm and 10:30 pm, as well as on KTGM after ABC prime time programming at 10 pm.

References

External links

* [http://www.abc7guam.com/ Official website]
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