KEAD

KEAD was the callsign for two defunct American Forces Radio and Television Service radio stations on Wake Island, an unorganized, unincorporated territory of the United States.^[2]

KEAD

Broadcast area	Wake Island
Frequency	1490 kHz[1]
Programming
Format	Free-form
Ownership
Owner	Armed Forces Radio and Television Services
History
First air date	before February 1969[1]
Technical information
Licensing authority	FCC
Power	500 watts
Transmitter coordinates	19°17′N 166°39′E
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS

Info

On 1490 kHz AM, the station carried a mix of free-form live programming hosted by military personnel and other workers stationed on the island, while on KEAD-FM 104.5 MHz, the station played pre-recorded easy-listening music off reel-to-reel tapes.^[3] The KEAD callsign was previously assigned to the Civil Aeronautics Authority navigation service station based on the island.^[4]

Recent discoveries

In 2011, some 9,000 vintage vinyl records provided by AFRTS to the station from the mid-1960s into the 1970s were discovered in the old studio in a restricted area of the Wake Island Airfield terminal building.^[2][5]