Broadcast area Guam Power 10,000 watts Sister stations KUAM-FM, KUAM-TV City of license Hagåtña Owner Pacific Telestations, LLC Branding Isla63 | First air date March 3, 1954 Callsign meaning GUAM Frequency 630 kHz Format Talk radio Area Guam | |
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Former frequencies 610 kHz (1954–1978)
612 kHz (1978–2007) Slogan Your Island Pride Station (2007–2014) | ||
KUAM (630 AM) Isla 63 is a radio station broadcasting from the village of Dededo, in the United States territory of Guam. The station's format is Chamorro music and Talk radio.
History
The station is owned by Pacific Telestations, LLC (a company of the local conglomerate Calvo Enterprises, Inc.) and was Guam's first radio station, having signed on the air on March 3, 1954. They are also the sister station to KUAM-TV, KUAM-LP and KUAM-FM.
Long known as Isla61, KUAM changed its broadcast frequency from 612 kHz to 630 kHz in July 2007. [1] This move enables most radios with digital tuners found locally (built for the Americas' ITU Region 2 interval of 10 kHz) to tune precisely to the station's frequency instead of being 2 kHz off (when tuned to 610 kHz).
After Typhoon Pongsona hit Guam on December 8, 2002, Isla61 was off the air for more than one year. Programs such as the morning talk "Positively Local" and the TV news simulcast were instead carried by sister station KUAM-FM, the only Pacific Telestations radio outlet during that time. The KUAM-TV nightly newscast at 6 pm is simulcast on Isla63.