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Arizona TV Station Update - April 2007

dhett

dhett

As always, questions, additions, comments and corrections welcome.

New licenses

  • K16GB Kingman (Smoke and Mirrors) has been granted a license to cover its new analog low-power station on UHF channel 16. They claimed to the FCC that they would be rebroadcasting Cornerstone TV station K27EC Lake Havasu, but a recent trip to Kingman found just a test pattern.
  • KWWB-LP 45 Mesquite NV (Entravision) has been granted a license to cover its transmitter relocation and antenna pattern adjustment.

Silent stations

  • K30ES Globe (Globe LPTV) has been granted Special Temporary Authorization to suspend operations and go silent pending grant of a construction permit to relocate. The station had been experiencing problems with its electrical systems and went off the air on March 19th.

Transactions

  • The FCC has approved the sale of station K07OJ Snowflake from Porter Mountain Antenna TV Association to KSAZ License Inc.

New construction permits

  • K30ES Globe (Globe LPTV) had been granted a construction permit to relocate its transmitter to Castle Dome, near Apache Lake. Its new broadcast pattern should continue to cover Globe, but should also cover Apache Junction and Gold Canyon in the Phoenix area.
  • Yuma Broadcasting Company has been granted an original construction permit to build station K08OP to serve Parker. Its transmitter is to be located in the mountains on the California side of Parker Dam and is supposed to provide a signal reaching from Parker to Lake Havasu City. Yuma Broadcasting Company, owners of KYMA in Yuma, has recently allowed construction permits in Tacna and Quartzsite to go unbuilt. They have current construction permits in Tacna and Quartzsite, both expiring in August 2008, neither of which I expect to be built.
  • Advance Ministries Inc. (DBA New Life Christian School) has been granted an original construction permit to build station K14MZ to serve Blythe CA. Its transmitter would be located on the same mountain as the other Blythe transmitters and would also serve Ehrenberg AZ and parts of Quartzsite. The president of the organization that owns the permit is also the owner of K25AL, K27EC and K36DU in Lake Havasu City and K25HD in Bullhead City. It is conceivable that this station, if built, would be a TBN translator.

Special temporary authorizations granted

  • KNAZ-TV 2 Flagstaff (Gannett) has been granted an STA to operate at 70% power from their backup transmitter due to a failure at their primary transmitter on March 13. Stations may operate at variance from their license for up to 30 days, but are to file for STA after that.
  • KPHE-LP 44 Phoenix (Lotus TV) has been granted an STA to increase power to 150 kW. Lotus has has an application on file with the FCC for the power increase since March 2006. The FCC is not granting such requests at this time pending resolution of DTV and LPDTV applications, but does grant STAs on case-by-case basis.
  • KQBN-LP 28 Prescott (Una Vez Mas) has been granted an extension of STA that allows them to broadcast from Towers Mountain. They claim to still be seeking permanent facilities from which to originate their analog signal.

Applications not yet granted

  • K55GG Kingman (The Londen Group) has applied for a license to cover their new analog operations on channel 20. They are operating on channel 20, translating KAZT-TV, and have shut off channel 55. The new station callsign will be K20ID.
  • KUDF-LP 14 Tucson (Una Vez Mas) has applied for a construction permit to build LPDTV facilities on channel 41. Either KGUN dropped its competing application for an LPDTV companion for K16EO, their translator serving NW Tucson, Marana and Oro Valley, or KUDF was selected by the FCC as having the better application. The latter is likely because KUDF's signal will cover much more of the metro area.
  • KECY-DT 48 El Centro CA (Pacific Media Corporation) has applied to modify their construction permit to specify their current STA facilities as their licensed facilities. The original CP is for 950 kW; they operate under STA at 67 kW. They claim that they will only lose service to 2% of their potential viewing area, likely since the majority of the area affected is uninhabited. Quartzsite is likely the only major town affected.
  • K25JS-D St. George UT (Clear Channel) has applied for a license to cover their new LPDTV operations. The station is a companion channel to K69CT, which reaches parts of Arizona, and retransmits KTVX-DT.
  • K52KG-D Washington UT (Clear Channel) has applied for a license to cover their new LPDTV operations. The station is a companion channel to K28EA, which reaches parts of Arizona, and retransmits KTVX-DT.
  • Brigham Young University has applied for a construction permit to build LPDTV facilities on channel 39 to serve St. George UT as a translator of KBYU-DT. The station is to be a companion channel to K33GE, which reaches parts of Arizona.
  • The University of Utah has applied for a construction permit to build LPDTV facilities on channel 44 to serve Washington UT and vicinity as a translator of KUED-DT. The station is to be a companion channel to K47AK, which reaches parts of Arizona.

License renewals granted

  • KNAZ-TV 2 Flagstaff (Gannett) has been granted a license renewal.
 
Thanks for the Arizona station updates, always interesting looking at what going on around the state.

Speaking of KNAZ, I was wondering if Gannett still plans to sell it?
 
As far as I know, it's still for sale. They drastically cut back their news operations last September in hopes of cutting costs to make the station more attractive to buyers, but there's been no public announcements or developing stories.

Flagstaff / North-Central Arizona is in an awkward situation - larger than many markets, but really too small to be a viable market on its own. It's served by translator television, with the translators each owned by the primary stations in Phoenix. I don't imagine that the networks would allow independently-owned stations to affiliate with them, #1, due to Flagstaff's size, and #2, they wouldn't want to step on the toes of affiliates in the nation's #13 market, either by affiliating competing stations, or by reducing Phoenix's market rank by splitting off a major city into its own market.

I would think that Northern Arizona would be large enough to be an independent market. Putting together Mohave (Kingman, Bullhead City, Lake Havasu City), Yavapai (Prescott, Verde Valley), Coconino (Flagstaff) and Navajo (Winslow, Holbrook) Counties, you have about 210,000-215,000 TV households, large enough for a #125 market. It's just never going to happen though.
 
The problem with Northern Arizona is the terrain and geography of the area. Can you imagine small news operations trying to cover a geographical area that large??? I'm surprised that Gannett doesn't just keep KNAZ and just run it strictly as a satellite of Channel 12. With the only local news in the area, I'm sure that they could be profitable. Surely, the brilliant minds at Gannett could make it work! :D
 
To halloaaryn:

You're most welcome. Just glad to be value-added.

To formeraa:

That's how Gannett has been running KNAZ until now. The only local programming is their news operations. And it still doesn't turn as much profit as they want.
 
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