KABN Radio, Concord
FCC Termination Letter
December 21, 2005
On December 21, 2005, the Federal Communications Commission terminated the
license of Concord's KABN (1480 AM), which had been off the air for more than a
year. KABN began its life as 500-watt KWUN, but had only been transmitting
traffic and weather reports with a 25-watt signal from 1997 until 2004.
The FCC letter read, in part:
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The license for the above-referenced station expired on December 1, 2005. An
application for renewal of this station's license should have been filed by
August 1, 2005. To date, we have no record of receiving a license renewal
application for this station, and the station's license has expired by its own
terms.
Accordingly, all authority to operate station KABN(AM),
Concord, California, IS TERMINATED and the call letters ARE
DELETED. Any operation of this facility is now unauthorized
and must cease immediately. |
KWUN first went on the air from a studio-transmitter site near the Concord Naval
Weapons Station in November 1963. By 1978, the station moved its studios from
downtown Concord to the same site. The facility, located at 300 Holly Drive
(near Myrtle Drive), housed the studios and offices of KWUN until early 1993,
when the building was demolished and KWUN's five antenna towers were
dismantled after its owners lost their lease on the property.
A subdivision of upscale homes was later built on the land. Subsequently, it
operated with a temporary 25-watt transmitter from a site near Highway 4
adjacent to the Contra Costa Canal in Concord.
SOURCE: FCC Official Document, Bay Area Radio Museum Collection.
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