KM Communications Inc.

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KM Communications, Inc. is the owner of several television and radio stations throughout the United States. The company, based in Skokie, Illinois, gets its name from the first names of its President, Myoung Hwa Bae and her husband, Kun Chae Bae. The company does not get it's name from their son, Kevin Joel Bae, who is the General Manager of the company.

Founded in 1988, KM Communications has grown to nine radio stations and 32 television stations, with construction permits for seven additional radio and nine additional television stations.

The stations owned by KM Communications get their programming from a variety of sources, but the most common affiliation is with ABC for their radio stations and America One network for their television stations.

1 Station list
2 Note
3 External links

[edit] Station list

[edit] AM radio

KQMG 1220 kHz (ESPN) Independence, Iowa

[edit] FM radio

KWKM-FM 95.7 MHz (ABC Radio) St. Johns, Arizona
KBKY-FM 94.1 MHz (FOX Sports Radio) Merced, California
WPNG-FM 101.9 MHz (ABC Radio) Pearson, Georgia
KTKB-FM 101.9 MHz (Independent) Hagåtña, Guam
KQMG-FM 95.3 MHz (ABC Radio) Independence, Iowa
WLCN-FM 96.3 MHz (ABC Radio) Atlanta, Illinois
WDLJ-FM 97.5 MHz (ABC Radio) Breese, Illinois
WMKB-FM 102.9 MHz (ABC Radio) Earlville, Illinois

[edit] Full-service television

KEJB channel 43 (MyNetworkTV) El Dorado, Arkansas
KCFG channel 9 (America One) Flagstaff, Arizona
KWKB-TV channel 20 (The CW/MyNetworkTV) Iowa City, Iowa
KPIF channel 15 (The CW) Pocatello, Idaho
KBEO channel 11 (The CW) Jackson, Wyoming (satellite of KPIF)

[edit] Class A television

WSKC-CA channel 22 (Religious) Atlanta, Georgia (repeater of unrelated WATC)
WOCK-CA channel 13 (Azteca America) Chicago, Illinois
WOCH-CA channel 41 (Ethnic/Korean) Chicago, Illinois
WMKE-CA channel 7 (America One) Milwaukee, Wisconsin

[edit] Low-power television

KNJO-LP channel 6 (America One) Holbrook, Arizona
KWKM-LP channel 10 Show Low, Arizona
KWSJ-LP channel 12 Snowflake, Arizona
KRDN-LP channel 5 (Daystar Television Network) Redding, California
WWPD-LP channel 41 Douglas, Georgia
WPNG-LP channel 3 Pearson, Georgia
WPDW-LP channel 26 Pearson, Georgia
KTKB-LP channel 26 Tamuning, Guam
KHIK-LP channel 47 Kailua-Kona, Hawaii
WCRD-LP channel 44 (America One) Carthage, Illinois
WBKM-LP channel 46 (America One) Chana, Illinois
WRDH-LP channel 7 (America One) Holcomb, Illinois
WMKB-LP channel 25 (America One) Rochelle, Illinois
WIIB-LP channel 7 (White Springs TV Network) Farmersburg, Indiana
WHFE-LP channel 18 (White Springs TV Network) Sullivan, Indiana
WKMF-LP channel 32 (White Springs TV Network) Sullivan, Indiana
WVGO-LP channel 54 (White Springs TV Network) Sullivan, Indiana
W44CE channel 44 Vidalia, Louisiana
KTXF-LP channel 5 Abilene, Texas
KPPY-LP channel 53 Beaumont, Texas
KCCG-LP channel 33 Corpus Christi, Texas (silent pending transmitter move)
KLSB-LP channel 53 (NBC) Lufkin, Texas (controlled by ComCorp-owned KETK-TV)
KSVH-LP channel 23 Victoria, Texas (silent pending resolution of program source problems)

[edit] Note

KM Communications should not be confused with the similarly-named, Virginia-based KM Broadcasting, which is named after founders Robert Kelly and Peter Martine; that company owns WXOB-LP in Richmond and W25CS in Chesapeake.