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Arizona TV Station Update - July 2007

dhett

dhett

A little late, but...

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

New stations

  • According to their website, http://www.kmcommunications.com/lptv, KM Communications is listing LPTV stations KWKM-LP 10 Show Low and KWSJ-LP 12 Snowflake as fully automated affiliates of America One. I have not been able to confirm that the stations are actually on the air. The website lists the stations with city of license of Concho AZ, but the FCC granted a change of the cities of license to Show Low and Snowflake for channels 10 and 12, respectively.

Special Temporary Authority granted

  • K43IE Williams (KSAZ license) has been granted Special Temporary Authorization to operate on an expired license. When KSAZ-TV filed their license renewal, they included the translators they owned, but omitted K43IE. By the time they learned of the omission, the previous license had expired. KSAZ immediately shut down the station and filed a license renewal for the station, but also filed an STA request to continue operating while their license renewal was being processed. Had they been reading Radio-Info, they'd have known about their missed station. ;) Arizona TV Renewals (06/19/2006), Arizona TV Renewals Not Yet Filed (07/01/2006)

Construction permits granted

  • The University of Utah has been granted permission to build a digital companion channel to KUED translator K07PH LeChee (Page). The new station will be on UHF channel 33 and have the callsign K33JY-D.
  • KAFL-LP 20 Flagstaff (Una Vez Mas) has been granted permission to build its station on UHF channel 45. The station, originally with callsign K20IQ, was approved on the same channel as another station in Flagstaff, K20HS. After filing the application to move to channel 45, the station took the call letters KAFL-LP, so while the construction permit references callsign K45KL, the station is actually KAFL-LP and will be built on channel 45 as an Azteca America affiliate.
  • KDTP-LP 58 Phoenix (Daystar) has been granted permission to move to VHF channel 11. Currently a Jewelry Television outlet, Daystar plans to move their Daystar Television Network programming there, as they acknowledge and accept possible interference on full-service KDTP 11 Holbrook, saying that the two stations will have the same programming. It is unknown what they will do with Class A station KDTP-CA. One possibility will be to sell if off; another would be to convert the license type back to LP, as Class A primary spectrum protection will not continue after the digital transition. Without primary spectrum protection, a Class A will be no more than an LP station, but with local and children's programming requirements.
  • Brigham Young University has been granted permission to build a digital companion channel to KBYU-TV translator K33GE St. George UT. The new station will be on UHF channel 39 and have the callsign K39JZ-D.

Transactions

  • The FCC has approved the sale of Littlefield construction permit (CP) K30IP from Valley Broadcasting Company to Hispanic Christian Community Network (HCCN). Also included in the application is K30IG Carrara NV.
  • The FCC has approved the sale of Parker CP K49IM, Quartzsite CP K55KC and Tacna CP K27IJ from Yuma Broadcasting Company to HCCN.

Applications filed but not yet approved

  • K51IO Bullhead City (TBN) has submitted an application to flash cut to digital.
  • TBN translator K53IJ Prescott (Gerald Benevides) has once again applied to move to Towers Mountain near Crown King, but this time with an ERP reduction and antenna pattern change that should protect K53GF Phoenix. The previous application to move to that site was dismissed due to interference concerns with K53GF.
  • San Diego State University has filed several amendments to their application to build a full-power non-commercial educational television station in Brawley CA on UHF 26. One of the amendments is to waive the local studio rule, so that SDSU would not have to maintain a separate studio in the Imperial Valley. The station would be a full repeater of KPBS 15 San Diego.
  • K57JO Laughlin NV (Mojave Broadcasting Company) has requested to change the station type from low power to translator, and would translate KMCC 34 Laughlin NV. They have also requested to significantly reduce power and to broadcast from an antenna in Laughlin, rather than on the mountains over the city. It is unclear why they would want to do this, other than possibly cost, as doing so limits the station to merely rebroadcasting another's signal, and the station's signal will be completely redundant to KMCC's.

License renewals

  • KSAZ License has applied to renew the expired license for K43IE Williams.
  • The FCC has renewed the licenses of Belo stations KTVK 3 Phoenix, KMSB-TV 11 Tucson and KTTU-TV 18 Tucson. Included in the renewal are KMSB-TV translator K50FV Tucson, and KTVK translators in K54GI Flagstaff, K11LC Prescott, K38AI Cottonwood, K53GM Williams-Ash Fork and K57BO Globe-Miami. Also included is K34EE Prescott-Cottonwood, a translator of KASW 61 Phoenix, which is also owned by Belo.
  • The FCC has renewed the license of KOLD-TV 13 Tucson.
  • Counsel for K16DS St. George UT (Broadcast West) has filed a late license renewal. The station was acquired by the partnership DBA Broadcast West in 2003, but that partnership has since dissolved, and so, did not file for renewal of its license by the October 1, 2006 expiration date.

Applications dismissed

  • The application to move K57BD Tucson (TBN) to UHF channel 36 has been dismissed. The station broadcasts from atop Mt. Bigelow outside Tucson, and could possibly interfere with KPNX-DT 36 Phoenix now, and KFTU-DT 36 Douglas after the end of the DTV transition.
  • The FCC has dismissed the Equity's application to build a station on UHF channel 39 in Yuma.
 
Any idea what's going on with KBFY-LP of Fortuna, AZ? The station attempted to move to Henderson, NV and was granted but now the FCC CDBS database says "APPLICATION GRANT RESCINDED".
 
That's news to me. When the FCC rescinded the application grant, changing the status, they didn't update the status date, which is why I didn't pick it up.

What I did notice is that Equity's application on UHF ch. 39 in Yuma was dismissed. KBFY-LP already had a CP to move to ch. 39. in Fortuna (Yuma). I wonder if those are related?

I'll keep an eye out and let you know if I see anything.
 
So far, all I can find is an announcement in the Media Applications section of the FCC's Daily Digest from 7/20 that the grant was rescinded. It still doesn't say why.
 
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