WKMG (AM)

WKMG (1520 AM) was a radio station broadcasting all varieties of music from 1968 to 2011 in Newberry, South Carolina.

WKMG

Newberry, South Carolina United States
Frequency	1520 kHz
Programming
Format	Defunct (formerly 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″N 81°35′44″W
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS

The station license was last owned by Cornell Blakely.^[2][3] Service Radio Company, Inc. owns the property.

History

The station signed on May 22, 1968, with a country 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 the Federal 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]