KEAD
| File:KEAD Station Door.jpg | |
| 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 | Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. |
| Links | |
Public license information | |
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]
Info
[edit | edit source]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
[edit | edit source]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]
References
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