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KGIG-LP (104.9 FM, "104.9 The Gig") is a low-power FM
radio station Radio broadcasting is the broadcasting of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience. In terrestrial radio broadcasting the radio waves are broadcast by a land-based rad ...
broadcasting a
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format with some music programming devoted to local bands. Licensed to
Modesto, California Modesto ( ; ) is the county seat and largest city of Stanislaus County, California, United States. With a population of 218,069 according to 2022 United States Census Bureau, U.S. Census Bureau estimates, it is the List of cities and towns in Ca ...
, United States, the station is currently owned by Fellowship of the Earth.


History

The
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issued a
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for the station on June 30, 2003. The station was assigned the KQRP-LP
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on July 10, 2003, and received its license to cover on May 2, 2005. On April 17, 2012, the station changed its call sign to the current KGIG-LP.


References


External links


NEW official KGIG website


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