Strangely, I went to look up the status of this and it appears to no longer show in FCCinfo or FCC searches. At one point it had the calls KXRL, but unsure if it was ever built. Database issue or deleted permit?
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Fresno / Central Valley 93.5 Earlimart
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In LMS shows DDKXRL (deleted deleted)
That's a heavy loss to take, with a winning bid of $194K. Wonder what happened?
Sounds like this Earlimart station is now late...
DKXRL filed this when requesting the cancelation of the CP.
Request for CP Cancellation – Background Statement
In April of 2024, the landowners, Sill Properties, decided it was not in their best interest to proceed with the needed tower lease on the Tennessee Knob hilltop. Suggested lease rates would have made the proposed FM radio station not economically viable. Attempts to co-locate on the hilltop’s Wireless Internet Service Provider (WISP) tower also proved unsuccessful.
Without access to the Tennessee Knob hilltop, the Earlimart-based channel 228A (Facility ID #762399) construction permit (CP) realistically could not be built out.
Compounding this situation were the following geographical and technical considerations:
This community-channel allocation pair eventually may be viable, either under the proposed “Class A10” category or reassigned to another nearby community. However, associated with Earlimart, California as a ”Class A”, the allocation parameters proved too limiting
Request for CP Cancellation – Background Statement
In April of 2024, the landowners, Sill Properties, decided it was not in their best interest to proceed with the needed tower lease on the Tennessee Knob hilltop. Suggested lease rates would have made the proposed FM radio station not economically viable. Attempts to co-locate on the hilltop’s Wireless Internet Service Provider (WISP) tower also proved unsuccessful.
Without access to the Tennessee Knob hilltop, the Earlimart-based channel 228A (Facility ID #762399) construction permit (CP) realistically could not be built out.
Compounding this situation were the following geographical and technical considerations:
- Earlimart lacks water towers, acceptable tall buildings, or other structures for antenna placement that meet required community-of-license (COL) coverage mandates.
- The greater Earlimart region does not offer any ASR-listed towers that achieve sufficient height and required adjacent channel-distance separation (with respect to KISV, KFSO, and KSKS).
- The greater Earlimart region lacks even non-ASR-listed, telco-grade towers that meet required 100% COL 70 dBu F(50,50) coverage and adjacent-channel separation as required.
- No other privately-held candidate tower land sites in the region (with existing infrastructure) were capable of achieving Earlimart COL coverage, even through the use of alternate propagation algorithms such as Longley-Rice.
This community-channel allocation pair eventually may be viable, either under the proposed “Class A10” category or reassigned to another nearby community. However, associated with Earlimart, California as a ”Class A”, the allocation parameters proved too limiting
One would think they would have a appropriate signed lease or signed option to lease with renewal prices for 20 + years when they bid. I don't know the particulars of California law but there can be provisions for tax and insurance rates put on the document.
So the FCC made six figures on something that was unbuildable.
Not surprised, but what an unfortunate waste of money.
Not surprised, but what an unfortunate waste of money.
It's not that open and shut. I was a party to a Construction Permit. I had to secure 'site assurance'. I contacted the tower owner, talked out our needs and received the needed email saying space was available on the tower.
It was almost a year later when we were ready to sign an agreement with the tower company but the height we requested had a new client but we could go on their tower about 80 feet below what we needed.
Simply put, nothing was available in the area and we hadn't the funds to go through the red tape of building a tower between all the hoops city, county and state officials and environmental concerns we faced in getting approval. It was simply best to cut our losses.
When we applied everything looked great.
It was almost a year later when we were ready to sign an agreement with the tower company but the height we requested had a new client but we could go on their tower about 80 feet below what we needed.
Simply put, nothing was available in the area and we hadn't the funds to go through the red tape of building a tower between all the hoops city, county and state officials and environmental concerns we faced in getting approval. It was simply best to cut our losses.
When we applied everything looked great.
The FCC did not make six figures on this canceled CP. Any revenue goes to the General fund not the FCC.
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