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Arizona TV Station Update - June 2011

dhett

dhett

A very quiet month in the Grand Canyon State. It's just too hot to do anything!

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

New licenses

  • KVOA 4.x (23) Tucson (KVOA Communications, Inc. [Evening Post Publishing Company]) has been granted a license to cover its post-transition facilities, over 3-1/2 years after applying for the license. Technical specifications: Ch 23; TL 32-24-56 N, 110-42-50 W (Mt. Bigelow); ERP 405 kW directional; HAAT 1123 m.
  • KTVP-LD 22.x Phoenix (Mako Communications LLC) has been granted a license to cover its flash cut digital operations. The station currently airs Almavision on channel 22.1, Mexicanal on channel 22.2, and color bars on channels 22.3 and 22.4. Technical specifications: Ch 22; TL 33-19-58 N, 112-3-59 W (South Mtn); ERP 5 kW directional; HAAT 460 m. KTVP has already been operating under these specs per STA.
  • K31KS-D 2.x (31) LeChee (Big Water Municipal Corporation) has been granted a license to cover its original construction permit. The station serves Page as a translator for KUTV 2.x Salt Lake City UT via K39FT-D Garfield UT. Technical specifications: Ch 31; TL 36-51-20 N, 111-26-26 W; ERP 0.1 kW directional; HAAT 8 m.
  • KECY-TV 9.x El Centro CA (Gulf-California Broadcast Company) has been granted a license to cover its final post-transition facilities. Technical specifications: Ch 9; TL 33-3-19 N, 114-49-44 W (Black Mtn.); ERP 50 kW directional; HAAT 478 m.

Programming changes

  • KAZT-TV 7.x Prescott (KAZT LLC [The Londen Group]) has added MeTV as a third subchannel. The programming also airs on its digital translators KAZT-CA 36 Phoenix, K20ID-D Kingman, K24DK-D Bullhead City and K17DA-D Lake Havasu City.
  • KDPH-LD 48.x (46) Phoenix (Community Television Educators, Inc. [Daystar]) has added JTV (Jewelry Television) as a second subchannel. The JTV stream identifies to PSIP as channel 58.1.
  • K42IQ-D Flagstaff (EICB-TV East, LLC) is on the air, more than two years after being licensed. It airs programming from Cornerstone Television Network.
  • K18DD Camp Verde (Central States Communications) has dropped 3ABN in favor of Amazing Facts TV, joining co-owned station K19FD Camp Verde. While K19FD operates from Squaw Peak and serves Camp Verde, K18DD operates from Mingus Mtn. and serves Cottonwood, Clarkdale and Cornville. 3ABN programming continues to be provided in Camp Verde by K21GE Camp Verde, and in Cottonwood, etc. by K46IL Verde Valley. Both stations are owned by The Camp Verde TV Club, which also operates the two Central States stations.
  • KDTP-LP 58 Phoenix (Community Television Educators, Inc. [Daystar]) has shut down its analog signal, having moved JTV programming to a digital channel on RF 46, identifying as channel 58.1.
  • KTVW-CA 6 Flagstaff (KTVW License Partnership, G.P. [Univision]) has shut down its analog signal on channel 6, which it had continued to operate per Special Temporary Authorization after bringing its digital signal online.
  • KPDF-LD 41.4 Phoenix (Una Vez Mas Phoenix License LLC) has returned to airing a slide advertising the station for lease, replacing an on-screen display of what looked like a DVD player setup.

Transactions

  • Minority Media and Telecommunications Council has agreed to sell to Digital Networks several of the television stations that it received as a donation from Trinity Broadcasting Network. Digital Networks is owned by Henry Luken, owner of the RTV network, and part-owner of MyFamilyTV. Included in the sales agreement are K51IO Bullhead City and K38CX Shonto. K41ER Globe/Miami was also donated to MMTC by TBN but its donation has not yet consummated, and it is not included in the proposed sale to Digital Networks. Purely speculation: perhaps it is to be sold to Scripps Media to give KNXV-TV an OTA repeater in Globe/Miami, as all the other major Phoenix stations have?

Construction permits and Special Temporary Authorizations granted

  • K61FB 12.x (48) Globe-Miami (Multimedia Holdings Corporation [Gannett]) has been granted a six-month extension of its Special Temporary Authorization to operate digital facilities on channel 48, with the temporary call sign of K48MJ-D. The new STA extension runs through December 30. The station has also been recommended for issuance of a construction permit. Technical specifications: Ch 48; TL 33-20-31 N, 110-52-14 W (Madera Peak); ERP 3 kW directional; HAAT 685 m.
  • K38AU Tohatchi NM (Kee Long) has been granted a modification to its digital flash cut construction permit. It will change its antenna type from cardioid to omnioid and reduce its ERP from 2.62 kW to 0.62 kW, with minor reduction in predicted service area from its original flash cut proposal, which relocated the station from Crownpoint to Tohatchi. However, all of the service area in Arizona lost in this modification will be covered by new station K45LU-D Window Rock. Both K45LU-D and K38AU will rebroadcast the signal of analog station K44BB Window Rock. Technical specifications: Ch 38; TL 35-54-37 N, 108-46-26 W (Deza Bluffs); ERP 0.62 kW directional; HAAT 597 m.

Applications and Special Temporary Authorizations requested

  • K36DU Lake Havasu City (Richard D. Tatham) has once again requested to flash cut to digital. Its last CP expired in March 2010 without being built, but since then, Mohave County and KAZT have switched their Lake Havasu City stations to digital. The previous CP was for a 7 W weakling which was predicted to cover the same contour as the current 1.53 kW analog facility; this application is for a much more robust signal. Technical specifications: Ch 36; TL 34-36-4 N, 114-22-13 W (Goat Hill); ERP 2.6 kW directional; HAAT 13 m.

Dismissed, canceled, expiring or expired

  • The original construction permit for analog station K20IA Prescott (Marty Weiss) is set to expire on July 11. I don't see this station getting built.
 
Dave,

Some time ago there was an item about KSAZ (RF10) requesting a power increase. Is that still in the works or did it get shot down?
 
The last power increase application for KSAZ was in June 2008, from 20 kW to 53 kW, but it was cut it back to 48 kW in July 2009. KSAZ applied for a license to cover the 48 kW last March, meaning that's when they started operating at the higher power output. The license was granted in April. So, they're on their final facilities.
 
Missed this one:

Applications and Special Temporary Authorizations requested

  • KUVE-DT 46.x Green Valley (Univision Tucson LLC) has proposed a Distributed Transmission System (DTS) to solve the Mt. Lemmon shadowing issue that all of the stations transmitting from Mt. Bigelow have. In addition to their existing Mt. Bigelow operation, they propose to add a transmitter in the Tucson Mtns. west of downtown with a signficant null to the west. Site 1 technical specifications: Ch 46; TL 32-24-54 N, 110-42-56 W (Mt. Bigelow); ERP 172 kW directional; HAAT 1113 m. Site 2 technical specifications: Ch 46; TL 32-14-56 N, 111-6-58 W (Tucson Mtns.); ERP 5 kW directional; HAAT 574 m.

Interesting to see how the Tucson stations have dealt with the Mt. Lemmon shadowing. KVOA and KGUN had LPTV translators in the analog era, both have been converted to digital. KUAT used a full-power satellite in the analog era, which of course is now digital; KUAS rebroadcasts KUAT's primary on its primary, but its secondary services are different than KUAT's. KOLD, in the Tucson Mtns. in the analog era, but on Mt. Bigelow now, elected to use its old facilities as a replacement transmitter which has the same license as the primary. Neither of the Belo sister stations KTTU and KMSB was on Mt. Bigelow in the analog era, and both are now, but neither attempts fill-in service for Marana and Oro Valley. KMSB even recently gave up a Mt. Bigelow LPTV translator that it could have relocated to the Tucson Mtns. KHRR kept its primary transmitter in the Tucson Mtns. And now KUVE is going the DTS route.
 
dhett said:
The last power increase application for KSAZ was in June 2008, from 20 kW to 53 kW, but it was cut it back to 48 kW in July 2009. KSAZ applied for a license to cover the 48 kW last March, meaning that's when they started operating at the higher power output. The license was granted in April. So, they're on their final facilities.
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Thanks. I thought their digital signal had improved substantially over what it was right after the digital conversion.
 
"In addition to their existing Mt. Bigelow operation, they propose to add a transmitter in the Tucson Mtns. west of downtown with a signficant null to the west."

Significant null to the west"? Why? There is nothing to the west of the Tucson Mountains until you reach Yuma.

Wouldn't they null to the east so as not to cause interference with their Mt. Bigelow signal to the main population of Tucson?
 
It's a standard pattern used to cover the Santa Cruz Valley and up through the Oro Valley area. Even though the null to the west (WSW actually) is notable, it still covers Picture Rocks and the populated areas west of the Tucson Mtns. Further west? It's all empty Indian Reservation. Why waste the signal, especially when the main signal already covers it? As for interference, DTS is supposed to be engineered so that the overlapping signals don't cancel each other.
 
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