KSBS-FM | |
City: | Pago Pago, American Samoa |
Area: | American Samoa |
Airdate: | April 14, 1988 |
Frequency: | 92.1 MHz |
Format: | Polynesian-easy listening with jazz |
Erp: | 15,000 watts |
Haat: | -28m (-92feet) |
Class: | C3 |
Facility Id: | 58760 |
Coordinates: | -14.2947°N -170.6622°W |
Callsign Meaning: | "Samoa Broadcasting System" |
Former Callsigns: | KASN-FM |
Owner: | Samoa Technologies, Inc. |
Website: | http://www.ksbsfm92.com/ |
Licensing Authority: | FCC |
KSBS-FM (92.1 FM) is Samoa's first commercial FM radio station broadcasting a variety format including local Polynesian, oldies, easy listening music. KSBS-FM broadcasts religious programming on Sunday mornings as well as hourly news from the BBC World Service, NPR, Voice of America, Radio Australia and Radio New Zealand International. Licensed by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to Pago Pago, American Samoa, it serves the general American Samoa area.[1] Also known as "Island 92", KSBS-FM is owned by Samoa Technologies.
The station was assigned the KSBS-FM call letters by the Federal Communications Commission on April 6, 1988.[2]
The call letters KSBS were earlier assigned to an FM station in Kansas City, Kansas, which began broadcasting October 5, 1947. It operated on 105.9 MHz and was licensed to Sunflower Broadcasting System Incorporated.[3]