SEQUIM — The Dungeness Valley was granted its own community radio station — KSQM-FM 91.5 — on Friday.
“The construction permit was issued today by the FCC,” Rick Perry, cofounder of Sequim Community Broadcasting Inc., said Friday afternoon.
“This gives us permission to build it,” and provide music of the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s, plus weather and traffic reports and other local information free of traditional commercials, from eastern Port Angeles to Diamond Point.
Perry has been seeking a Federal Communications Commission license to broadcast here since early 2005.
He said he’s invested about $20,000 in legal and engineering costs, and will sink another $60,000 into the radio station by the time it goes on the air.
