KTGM
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| Tamuning, Guam | |
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| Branding |
ABC 7 (general, cable channel) Pacific News Center (newscasts) |
| Slogan | Giving You More |
| Channels |
Digital: 14 (UHF) Virtual: 14 () |
| Subchannels | 14.1 ABC 14.2 Simulcast of KEQI-LP |
| Translators | KPPI-LP 7 Saipan, MP |
| Affiliations | ABC |
| Owner |
Sorensen Media Group (Sorensen Television Systems, Inc.) |
| First air date | October 19, 1987 |
| Call letters' meaning | Tamuning, Guam |
| Sister station(s) | KEQI-LP, KGUM, KGUM-FM. KZGZ |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 14 (UHF, 1987–2009) Digital: 17 (UHF, 2002–2009) |
| Former affiliations |
CBS (secondary, 1987–1995) Fox (secondary, 1990s) The WB (secondary, 2001–2005) |
| Transmitter power | 12.5 kW |
| Height | 168 metres (551 feet) |
| Facility ID | 29232 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 13°29′17″N 144°49′30″E / 13.48806°N 144.82500°E |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www |
KTGM, channel 14, is an ABC-affiliated television station located in Tamuning, Guam. The station is owned by Sorensen Media Group, and is a sister station to Fox affiliate KEQI-LP. Together they maintain studios on 111 Chalan Santo Papa in Hagåtña (Agana). Its transmitter is located in the heights of Barigåda (Barrigada).
KTGM signed on the air in 1987, broadcasting on NTSC analog channel 14. It was Guam's second commercial TV station after KUAM-TV had signed on 31 years prior, and the first TV station of any kind on Guam in nearly 17 years since PBS member KGTF's sign on. It has always been a primary ABC affiliate, but in the beginning also had a secondary CBS affiliation, which it shared with KUAM-TV. It added Fox programming in 1990, after being dropped by KUAM-TV. CBS was dropped in 1995 after KUAM-LP signed on. Fox was dropped as well by the end of the 1990s, shifting its focus to ABC programming, after which Fox was only available on cable via San Francisco Bay Area affiliate KTVU until 2005, when KEQI-LP picked up the affiliation. Between June 2001 and November 2005, KTGM also carried WB programming (previously carried by KUAM-LP).
KTGM used to be located on the third floor of the Atlantica Building at 692 North Marine Drive (now known as Marine Corps Drive) in Upper Tumon (Municipality of Tamuning). Due to the building's ownership issues, KTGM moved to a commercial building on Route 16 (now known as Army Drive) in Barrigada Heights in 2003.
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