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Auction 109 results for Arizona

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RF101

The FCC posted the final results for the recent FM Broadcast Auction. Final bids involving Arizona allocatons (or potential rimshotters into AZ) are here:

ID (w / Station Class)CityROUNDFinal BidWinner
MM-FM1178-ADesert Hills19$266,000ITM, LLC
MM-FM1188-BEssex (CA)35$190,000ITM, LLC
MM-FM1180-C1Overgaard1$20,000Estrella Broadcasting LLC
MM-FM1184-C1Tusayan15$17,000Estrella Broadcasting LLC
MM-FM1067-CFirst Mesa1$15,000Across Nations
MM-FM1181-ASalome15$4,300Estrella Broadcasting LLC
MM-FM1182-ASells1$1,500Estrella Broadcasting LLC
MM-FM1179-C2Ehrenberg0noneFCC Held
MM-FM1183-C2Snowflake0noneFCC Held


The Essex, Californiia allocation can be used as a Needles-Mojave Valley rimshotter. Desert Hills is the Lake Havasu area.


Any comments, thoughts?
 
RF101 said:

The Essex, Californiia allocation can be used as a Needles-Mojave Valley rimshotter. Desert Hills is the Lake Havasu area.

Any comments, thoughts?
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Needles and its area are dying, with population declines, store closing and water restrictions on agriculture.
 
Salome? I'd have to echo @DavidEduardo comments about being in the middle of nothin'.

Tusayan, First Mesa and Sells are all in Native American reservations. Sells actually has KOHN (91.9), owned by the Tohono O'odham Nation. You can certainly get into some areas out there that all you hear is that (or one of the translators).

Would Estrella Broadcasting try to compete against a community radio formatted station?
 
kwthom said:
Salome? I'd have to echo @DavidEduardo comments about being in the middle of nothin'.

Tusayan, First Mesa and Sells are all in Native American reservations. Sells actually has KOHN (91.9), owned by the Tohono O'odham Nation. You can certainly get into some areas out there that all you hear is that (or one of the translators).

Would Estrella Broadcasting try to compete against a community radio formatted station?
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Tusayan had a station about ... 13 years ago..around 06-08, it was allegedly a commercial operation.. 92.3 i think it was? went dark when the owner fell in ill health. and now, the folks who own some Press-kit area stations, have a visitors information station there, a full power commercial outlet on 102.5
 
Desert Hills (Lake Havasu North) readily could be upgraded to C3. Conceivably even a C2 could result but that additional hardware/power would not produce much more audience count. I have never been there but I suspect it's a bunch of retired folks - a good demo for radio. Was $266K a good valuation on that market?
 
Tusayan is the town adjacent to the south rim of the Grand Canyon; they'll be an itinerant, tourist-based audience there.

Lake Havasu... :cool: Snow-birds during the cool months, but when it gets hot (oh, like April), they all start heading back north - rapidly. Decent population originating north of the 49th parallel...well, at least before the pandemic.

I just pass thru that region periodically, so I don't have any deep insight on how much is there already. It's typical small-town America. It just happens to sit on a watershed that's going to go thru some dark times over the next generation or two with the western drought we're experiencing. If the buyer thinks they can find a niche, it might keep them from starving to death.
 
ITM LLC has submitted their paperwork for the new 106.3 (Auction 109) in Desert Hills. As expected, the proposal calls for a one-step upgrade to a Class C3 from the auction's original Class A. Much of Needles now falls inside the 60dBu contour. Unexpectedly, ITM chose to use a fairly low elevation antenna site with an HAAT 60.6M for a full 25kw ERP. (With several higher antenna sites in the Lake Havasu area I am wondering about this power-aggressive stategy.)

Details here:



That's what you get for $266K...
 
Well.. I meant to say Fort Mohave....

So .. .Here are the financials per 1K pop:

$ 266K Desert Hills ===> 70,097 60dBu (59,045 70dBu) ===> $3.79 per 1K (60dBu)
$ 190K Fort Mohave ===> 59,235 60dBu (12,176 70dBu) ===> $3.21 per 1K (60dBu)
 
RF101 said:
Salome's entry also has been posted - just 100 watts ERP on 106.5 MHz.
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I can't imagine that this is anything else but a placeholder that can activate the license while the figure out how to move it to either Phoenix or Prescott.

If anyone here has been to Salome, they realize that it is a gas station and a couple of stores, a post office, a fire station and a bunch of double wides and lots of very old RVs being used as homes. Even the cacti don't particularly like living there.
 
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DavidEduardo said:
If anyone here has been to Salome, they realize that it is a gas station and a couple of stores, a post office, a fire station and a bunch of double wides and lots of very RVs being used as homes. Even the cacti don't particularly like living there.
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Poor-man's version of Quartzite. Seriously. That's winter-season snowbird stuff right there.

Thus, trying to make enough money to play radio out there just *might* be a challenge, even for you, sir. :cool:
 
DavidEduardo said:
If anyone here has been to Salome, they realize that it is a gas station and a couple of stores, a post office, a fire station and a bunch of double wides and lots of very RVs being used as homes. Even the cacti don't particularly like living there.
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But.....Salome is "where she danced".
 
It's Friday 9/17... Still no sign of any Heber-Overgaard filing yet for Estrella. They paid $20K for a C1 entry.
 
Hmmm.... It's 9/22 and no Heber-Overgaard paperwork. Perhaps Estrella decided to toss in the towel on their $20K C1 auction plans for that town.. Perhaps "discretion is indeed the better part of valor"...
 
Case solved for previously-thought missing Heber-Overgaard 94.7 (Channel 234) paperwork . Estrella won in Auction 109 for $20K the permit for "MM-FM1180-C1" . It seems Estrella moved the proposed station to a site near Sedona, assigning the community of license to the Village of Creek. The signal has been downgraded to a Class A at 500 watts ERP at 226.8M HAAT. (The application is currently in "Accepted for Filing" status.)

The FCCdata.org listing is here: https://fccdata.org/?lang=en&facid=762491

The engineering study is here:

Re-allocation study is here:

This is a smart move - a smaller physical layout still gives 52,181 population in the 60dBu and 14,538 in the 70dBu. Perhaps Estrella can figure out how to upgrade this to a C3 at some point.
 
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