KUAM-TV

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KUAM-TV

Hagåtña, Guam
Branding	News 8
Slogan	It's All About the World at Home
Channels	8 (VHF) analog, 2 (VHF) digital
Affiliations	NBC
Owner	Pacific Telestations, Inc.
Founded	1956
Call letters meaning	Guam
Former affiliations	CBS (secondary 1956-1995) ABC (third party 1956-1987) FOX (third party 1987-1995)
Transmitter Power	22.9 kW/305 m (analog) 0.035kW/282 m (digital)
Website	www.kuam.com

KUAM-TV is the NBC affiliate serving Guam. The station is currently owned by Pacific Telestations, Incorporated, and is a sister station to CBS-affiliate KUAM-LP.

1 History
2 Newscasts
3 Current Weekday anchors
4 Alumni
5 See also
6 External links

[edit] History

KUAM is Guam's first television, having signed on the air in 1956 as a primary NBC/secondary CBS affiliation, with ABC serving as a third party/auxiliary affiliate throughout its first 31 years on the air. When Fox debuted in 1987 they also carried its lineup as well, but that same year ABC would go to then-new sign-on KTGM (Who would later pick up the Fox affiliation in 1990), while KUAM would sign-on a LPTV sister to carry the CBS lineup in 1995.

Despite being affiliated with all four networks at the time, KUAM was hindered by the fact that Guam was a day ahead of the United States and that most of the shows, especially those from the network, were sent via air and/or mail, which meant that viewers would have to wait from a period of two weeks to a month to see any of the offerings. When they were not showing any network fare they featured local in-house programming, syndicated shows and films (mostly travel or cultural) to make up the difference.

But as technology and satellite started to take off and expand KUAM began to gradually catch up with the rest of the continental United States. Today the station now follows the complete NBC schedule, but on a Tuesday through Monday pattern rather than the traditional Monday-Sunday pattern, with the exception of NBC's sports lineup, which live in the early morning hours of Sunday (for all Saturday games and events) and Monday (for all Sunday games and events).

One of the company's proudest moments came in 2006 when its online presence, KUAM.com, received honors as that year's National Edward R. Murrow Award for having the best small market web site, a feat unprecedented for a Guam broadcasting company.