KSDA-FM (91.9 FM) is the call sign for the

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JOY FM broadcast at 91.9 FM from

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, in the

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territory of

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. KSDA began as "Adventist World Radio-Asia" (AWR-Asia) in 1987 and continues to broadcast on

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from Agat, Guam to various countries in Asia. In 1990, AWR launched a local FM station at 91.9 MHz. KSDA-FM first broadcast from AWR's Agat studio, and later from Agana Heights. When AWR shifted its mission away from local broadcasting, KSDA-FM's operation was passed on to the church's Guam-Micronesia Mission in the early 1990s. In 2000, Good News Broadcasting Corporation (GNBC), a non-profit 501-c3 organization composed of members from various Adventist entities on Guam, received KSDA-FM's license from AWR. The FM station was known as JOY 92 until mid-2008, when GNBC secured a construction permit for a transmitter on

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. The Saipan transmitter

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rebroadcasts the Guam station on 89.9 MHz,FCC Records for Construction Permit 172880
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