KM Communications Inc.

KM Communications, Inc. is the owner of several television and radio stations throughout the United States. The company, based in Skokie, Illinois, gets its name from the first names of its President, Myoung Hwa Bae and her husband, Kun Chae Bae. Their son, Kevin Joel Bae, is the General Manager of the company.

Founded in 1988, KM Communications has grown to nine radio stations and 32 television stations, with construction permits for seven additional radio and nine additional television stations.

The stations owned by KM Communications get their programming from a variety of sources, but the most common affiliation is with Westwood One for their radio stations and Youtoo America network for their television stations.

Station list

AM radio

• KQMG 1220 kHz (Silent) Independence, Iowa

FM radio

• KWKM-FM 95.7 MHz (Hot Adult Contemporary) St. Johns, Arizona
• KTKB-FM 101.9 MHz (Independent) Hagåtña, Guam
• KQMG-FM 95.3 MHz (Silent) Independence, Iowa
• WLCN-FM 96.3 MHz (Country) Atlanta, Illinois
• WDLJ-FM 97.5 MHz (Classic rock) Breese, Illinois
• WMKB-FM 102.9 MHz (Regional Mexican) Earlville, Illinois

Full-service television

• KWKB-TV channel 20 (The CW) Iowa City, Iowa

Class A television

• WOCK-CD channel 4 (MundoMax on 13.1, Korean on 13.2) Chicago, Illinois
• WSKC-CD channel 22 (Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation on 22.1) Atlanta, Georgia

Low-power television

• KWKM-LP channel 10 (Youtoo America) Show Low, Arizona
• KWSJ-LP channel 12 (Youtoo America) Snowflake, Arizona
• KPIF channel 15 (RTV) Pocatello, Idaho
• KTKB-LD channel 26 (The CW) Tamuning, Guam
• WCRD-LP channel 44 (Youtoo America) Carthage, Illinois
• WBKM-LP channel 46 (Youtoo America) Chana, Illinois
• WRDH-LP channel 7 (Youtoo America) Holcomb, Illinois
• WMKB-LP channel 25 (Youtoo America) Rochelle, Illinois
• K34JH-D channel 34 Winnfield, Louisiana ( Construction Permit granted, not on the air)
• K44HN channel 44 Winnfield, Louisiana ( Construction Permit granted, not on the air)

Former radio stations formerly owned by KM Communications

• KBKY-FM 94.1 MHz (Spanish Religious) Merced, California - Now Owned by Radio Alfa y Omega, LLC.

Former television stations formerly owned by KM Communications

• WOCH-CD channel 41 (The Works) Chicago, Illinois - Now Owned by NRJ TV, LLC.
• WMKE-CD channel 7 (Soul of the South Network) Milwaukee, Wisconsin - Now owned by LocusPoint Networks

Defunct television stations formerly owned by KM Communications

• KEJB channel 43 (Was MyNetworkTV) El Dorado, Arkansas
• KCFG channel 9 (silent) Flagstaff, Arizona
• KNJO-LP channel 6 (Was America One) Holbrook, Arizona
• KRDN-LP channel 5 (Was Daystar Television Network) Redding, California
• WPNG-LP channel 3 Pearson, Georgia
• WPDW-LP channel 26 Pearson, Georgia
• KHIK-LP channel 47 Kailua-Kona, Hawaii
• WIIB-LP channel 7 (Was America One) Farmersburg, Indiana
• WHFE-LP channel 18 (Was America One) Sullivan, Indiana
• WKMF-LP channel 32 (Was America One) Sullivan, Indiana
• WVGO-LP channel 54 (Was America One) Sullivan, Indiana
• W44CE channel 44 Vidalia, Louisiana
• KTXF-LP channel 5 Abilene, Texas
• KPPY-LP channel 53 Beaumont, Texas
• KCCG-LP channel 33 Corpus Christi, Texas
• KETK-LP channel 53 (Was NBC) Lufkin, Texas (Was controlled by ComCorp-owned KETK-TV)
• KSVH-LP channel 23 Victoria, Texas
• KBEO channel 11 (Was RTV) Jackson, Wyoming (satellite of KPIF)

Note

KM Communications should not be confused with the similarly named, Virginia-based KM Broadcasting, which is named after founders Robert Kelly and Peter Martine; that company owns WXOB-LP in Richmond.