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All Scripps-owned KNXV translators to go digital this month

dhett

dhett

KNXV will be converting their 4 Northern Arizona translators this month, beginning this Thursday, according to their newscast tonight and their website.

http://www.abc15.com/dpp/about_us/news_releases/abc15-high-definition-coming-to-more-arizona-cities

11/10 - Prescott
11/17 - Kingman
11/22 - Cottonwood
11/30 - Flagstaff

The signal will be off at least one day in each city.

Prescott and Cottonwood will flash cut on their analog channels, 47 and 44, respectively, Kingman will be moving from channel 57 to channel 30, and Flagstaff will be moving from channel 52 to channel 24.
 
Prescott's digital signal is on air.

Also, Belo and Gannett have fired up their Prescott digital translators, Belo's on channel 11 and Gannett's on channel 6, which used to be a translator of KPNX, located on Mt. Francis, but is now a translator of KNAZ, located on Mingus Mtn. KNAZ is a satellite of KPNX, but only carries NBC programming. It doesn't carry the weather subchannel.
 
Haven't been able to confirm, but I assume the Kingman digital translator is now on air on channel 30, replacing the out-of-core analog station on channel 57 that had been silent for some time.

Kingman now gets coverage from three digital translators of KNXV: K27DA-D and K44DK-D, which are owned by Mohave County, and K57FY - soon to be K30LL-D - which is owned by Scripps Media, licensee of KNXV. K27DA is licensed to Big Sandy Valley, which lies east and southeast of its Ghetts Peak transmission site, but the signal is only viewable in Kingman, on the northwestern side of the mountain range, while K44DK, on Hayden Peak, is licensed to Kingman, as is K30LL, also on Hayden Peak.

All three signals overlap, so I wonder if Mohave County has tried to pick up another station. I'm not sure what percentage of the population there is Spanish-speaking, but KTVW is a possibility, as is KTAZ. For English-speaking audiences, KPPX is available as an Ion station. Any of the three has to be better than KMOH, the local Tr3s affiliate (and a complete waste of Mohave County's only full-power signal IMO). However, logistics may be a problem for any new Phoenix station. South Mountain and the Hualapai Mountains are about 145 miles apart by air, so I don't know if OTA reception is possible or feasible. I'm too lazy to actually research this, but I think the Kingman translators get their signals from Phoenix via microwave, and new microwave links would have to be approved by the FCC and then set up.

Mohave County can pick up Las Vegas stations OTA, as Black Mountain is only half as far from Kingman as South Mountain - about 70-75 miles. Mohave County already picks up KLAS in Kingman on K31BI-D and KLVX in Chloride on K32DW-D. While the networks and most of the secondary subchannels are the same, Kingman viewers would have a choice of when to watch network fare, as Phoenix follows the early prime schedule, and Las Vegas the late prime schedule, plus there's a one-hour time zone difference in the winter.
 
K44CN in Cottonwood has now been switched over to digital, with the expected ABC/LWN subchannels. Only K52CM in Flagstaff remains to be converted now; that will happen next Wednesday 11/30, and all KNXV translators will be digital.

Also, after launching their 7.5 kW digital facility, K47DJ in Prescott was just informed by the US Forest Service that they would be only limited to 1.2 kW - there doesn't seem to be any reason why. Scripps filed an [acronym=Special Temporary Authorization]STA[/acronym] request to broadcast at 1.2 kW while they negotiate with the Forest Service. The STA was granted.

Finally, K38AI Cottonwood has announced that it would be converting next week, although they didn't specify a date. See the video of the scroll on K38AI, which also is an example of one of those rare instances where a translator is allowed to broadcast something not on the primary station. Sadly, the video contains footage of tonight's airplane crash in the Superstition Mountains, in which it is believed that three adults and three children perished.
 
The 1.2 kW limit on Mt. Francis apparently came about in a site user's group meeting I was not invited to as a site owner. Indeed, it is a surprise to many of us.
 
The conversion in Flagstaff scheduled for today was postponed because of high winds.

How much work is actually done up on the mast during a conversion like this that would be affected by winds?
 
dhett said:
Finally, K38AI Cottonwood has announced that it would be converting next week, although they didn't specify a date. See the video of the scroll on K38AI, which also is an example of one of those rare instances where a translator is allowed to broadcast something not on the primary station. Sadly, the video contains footage of tonight's airplane crash in the Superstition Mountains, in which it is believed that three adults and three children perished.
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K38AI is now broadcasting 38.1 KTVK and 38.2 ThisTV.
 
ihEARDtHAT said:
The conversion in Flagstaff scheduled for today was postponed because of high winds.

How much work is actually done up on the mast during a conversion like this that would be affected by winds?
Click to expand...

Since the Flagstaff station is moving to a new channel, chances are they're replacing the entire antenna.
 
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