As always, questions, additions, comments and corrections welcome.
New licenses
New programming
Returned to air
Gone silent
Sales
New construction permits
Expired construction permits
License renewals granted
Additional note
New licenses
- K16FB Globe (Telefutura Partnership) was granted a license to cover the construction of their translator station on channel 16. The station translates KFPH-TV 13 Flagstaff, and although licensed to and located in Globe, the signal can be seen quite clearly in Casa Grande and less clearly (if the antenna is pointed just right) in Chandler.
- K39FC Phoenix (KSAZ License) was granted a license to cover the construction of their new Flagstaff facilities on channel 39.
- K53IJ Prescott (KVFW-TV LLC) has been granted a license to cover construction of their new station in Prescott on channel 53. I have yet to see the station actually broadcasting programming.
- KDFQ-LP 47 Prescott (Una Vez Mas) has been granted a license to cover their move to channel 47. While its signal points away from populated areas, according to the FCC maps, I was able to receive the station in Cottonwood, but not within its predicted coverage area.
- KWKM-LP 10 Show Low (KM Communications) has been granted a license to cover construction of their new station in Show Low on channel 10. With the new license came a city of license change to Show Low instead of Concho.
New programming
- KQBN-LP 28 Prescott (Una Vez Mas) has dropped its rebroadcast of KNAZ-TV 2 Flagstaff in favor of Azteca America programming. Unknown if station is translator of KPDF-CA 41 Phoenix.
Returned to air
- KDFQ-LP 47 Prescott (Una Vez Mas), with its channel change complete, has returned to air and is broadcasting Azteca America programming. The station had been dark since being displaced from channel 24 by KTVK-DT several years ago.
Gone silent
- KCOS-LP 28 Phoenix (Aracelis Ortiz) is no longer transmitting an ID slate. There is no longer any visible signal. According to their website, http://www.fe-tv.com/ , they're expecting to be down for 6 months. As the notice was put up in late August or early September, a March 2007 return date seems plausible.
Sales
- Porter Mountain Antenna TV Association is donating KSAZ translator K07OJ Snowflake to KSAZ License. The donation will actually go into the books as a sale for $1 per government regulations. The donation allows the Association to exit the TV translator business; they allowed the licenses of their other two Porter Mountain translators, K05GB and K11NR, to expire. The transaction is technically pending FCC approval, but given its nature, can reliably be called a fait accompli.
- The sale of K20IQ from Telecom Wireless to Una Vez Mas was approved by the FCC in September and was consummated October 1st.
- Mojave Broadcasting Company is selling station K57JO Laughlin NV to 9th Island Broadcasting Inc. FCC approval is pending.
New construction permits
- The FCC has granted to K09KV Prescott (Meredith Corporation) a displacement construction permit to move LPDTV facilities to channel 30 due to interference concerns with KCFG 9 Flagstaff. Apparently, Meredith plans to have their LPTV translators on digital before the final switch to DTV, as KCFG is abandoning channel 9 in favor of channel 32 for their DTV operations. Upon grant of the license, the station's call letters will be K30JD-D.
Expired construction permits
- The construction permit for K20HY Quartzsite (Yuma Broadcasting Company) has expired.
License renewals granted
- KMCC 34 Laughlin NV (Cranston II LLC) has been granted a license renewal.
Additional note
- The Safford Spanish-language stations, KZOL-LP and K21GC, have been confirmed as translators of Univision station KTVW-TV 33 Phoenix and Telefutura station KFPH-TV 13 Flagstaff, respectively.