KPPO

For the airport in La Porte County, Indiana, United States, assigned ICAO code KPPO, see La Porte Municipal Airport (Indiana).

KPPO (90.5 FM) is a non-commercial radio station licensed to serve the community of Mapusaga, a village on Tutuila island in the American territory of American Samoa. The station's broadcast license, issued in December 2011, is held by the Second Samoan Congregational Church of Long Beach. KPPO broadcasts a religious radio format.

KPPO

Mapusaga, American Samoa
Frequency	90.5 MHz
Programming
Language	English
Format	Religious
Ownership
Owner	Second Samoan Congregational Church of Long Beach
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	173754
Class	C3
ERP	750 watts
HAAT	492 meters (1,614 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	14°19′3″S 170°45′51″W
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Webcast	KPPO Listen Live

History

In October 2007, the Second Samoan Congregational Church of Long Beach applied to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for a construction permit for a new broadcast radio station. The U.S. Federal Communications Commission granted this permit on January 12, 2009, with a scheduled expiration date of January 12, 2012.^[2] The new station was assigned call sign "KPPO" on May 12, 2009.^[3] After construction and testing were completed in December 2011, the station was granted its broadcast license on December 7, 2011.^[4]