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Arizona TV Station Update - March 2007

dhett

dhett

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

New licenses

  • KDOS-LP 50 Globe (Telefutura Partnership) has been granted a license to cover its new station. It had been operating under automatic Program Test Authority since last month.
  • K23HB Flagstaff (Prism Broadcasting Network) has been granted a license to cover its new station. It had also been operating under automatic Program Test Authority since last month. Still no word on its programming.
  • KVCW-DT 29 Las Vegas NV (Channel 33 Inc.) has been granted a license to cover its new digital station.

New programming

  • KUTP 45 Phoenix once again has an outlet in Southern Greenlee County. Its Duncan translator, K65CM, owned by Southern Greenlee County TV Association, had gone silent. KUTP is now seen on channel 45. It is unknown whether SGCTVA just moved K65CM to channel 45 without FCC approval (or under STA that is not published in the database), or if they have fired up K45HI, a station for which they had a construction permit to build, but which expired 4/22/2006.

Sales

  • The FCC has approved the sale of construction permits for Laughlin NV stations K57JO and K63HJ from Mojave Broadcasting Company to 9th Island Broadcasting Inc. Both stations are to serve Laughlin and Bullhead City. The permit for K57JO is set to expire in August 2007; the permit for K63HJ is set to expire in August 2008.

Silent stations

  • Telefutura Partnership stations KZOL-LP 15 and K21GC, both of Safford, are silent, reason unknown. No silent STA has been filed, but it could be that the STA hasn't been filed yet, or that the shutdown is temporary, in which case, the STA wouldn't be necessary. KZOL-LP is a KTVW-TV translator; K21GC is a KFPH-TV translator. Safford residents can still receive Duncan's KTVW translator on channel 33.
  • K07IR York (Southern Greenlee County TV Association) is silent, reason unknown. It had been a translator of KOVT 10 Silver City NM, which in turn, is a satellite of KOAT 7 Albuquerque NM. There has been no filing with the FCC.

New construction permits

  • Class A station K36DU Bullhead City (Richard D. Tatham) has been granted a construction permit to build digital facilities on channel 36 and to flash cut to digital when finished.
  • KLVX translator K02FN Mesquite NV (Clark County School District) has been granted a construction permit to build a digital companion station on channel 25. Its new callsign will be K25JR-D.
  • KBYU translator K36FT Santa Clara UT (Brigham Young University) has been granted a construction permit to build a digital companion station on channel 53. Its new callsign will be K53JQ-D.
  • KSL-TV translator K11QQ Hildale UT (Bonneville) has been granted a construction permit to build a digital companion station on channel 15 to serve Hildale UT and Colorado City AZ. Its new callsign will be K15HS-D.

Special Temporary Authority

  • KMCC-DT 32 Laughlin NV (Cranston Acquisition) has been granted STA to operate a low-power digital television station to serve the Las Vegas metro area and parts of Arizona from the antenna farm in Henderson. KMCC is currently operating by STA in Laughlin on channel 32, but their permanent digital station, which is actually located near Dolan Springs, is supposed to cover the Las Vegas metro area as well as Laughlin/Bullhead City and the Mohave Valley.
  • K42EZ Santa Clara UT (Larry H. Miller) has been granted a six-month extension to their STA, to September 26, 2007. The station has been operating under STA since September 2000 while awaiting grant of application. This seems to be the same situation under which KSAZ translator K07YJ Bullhead City operated. Given the owner of K42EZ, it is highly probable that this station is a translator of KJZZ-TV 14 Salt Lake City UT.

Applications not yet granted

  • KPAZ-DT 20 Phoenix (Trinity Broadcasting Network) has applied for a license to cover their digital station. They had been operating under Special Temporary Authority.
  • K16GB Kingman (Smoke and Mirrors) has applied for a license to cover their new analog operations. According to a recent CP modification filing, they are supposed to be retransmitting K27EC Lake Havasu City, a Cornerstone TV Network station.
  • K54FW Tucson (Trinity Broadcasting Network) has had their application to move to channel 7 listed as a grantable application if no petitions to deny are filed.
  • KWWB-LP 45 Mesquite NV (Entravision) has applied for a license to cover their transmitter location move and modification to their broadcast pattern.

License renewals granted

  • The three LPTV stations owned by the Navajo Nation, K44BB Window Rock, K40AP Tsaile and K51AV Chinle, have been granted a license renewal. I have never picked up a signal from any of these stations; yet they claim to be on the air.
  • K30ES Globe (Globe LPTV LLC) has been granted a license renewal. I have never picked up a signal from this station, either, but they claimed to have been on the air. At the ERP for which they're licensed, their signal should be easily receivable in Globe.
  • K07OJ Snowflake (KSAZ License) has been granted a license renewal. The station had been owned by Porter Mountain Antenna Club, and KSAZ had invested some money into getting a watchable signal out of it. At first Porter Mtn didn't renew the license, but then KSAZ must have gotten wind of it, because the application for renewal was filed, and shortly thereafter, Porter Mtn donated the station to KSAZ (technically, sold it for $1 per FCC rules).
  • K51IO Bullhead City (Trinity Broadcasting Network) has been granted a license renewal. This is a new station; I would have thought that their original license would have been good until 2014. Guess not.
  • KDFQ-LP 47 Prescott (Una Vez Mas) has been granted a license renewal. Originally on channel 24, the station was silent after having been forced off the air by co-channel KTVK-DT, but came back on the air recently, broadcasting on channel 47 from Mingus Mtn., threading the needle between a channel 47 in Camp Verde and a channel 47 in Prescott. Although this one is licensed to Prescott, it doesn't reach the city, although it may reach Prescott Valley.
  • KKRP-LP 46 St. George UT (Fox Television Stations Group) has been granted a license for renewal.

Expiring construction permits

  • The permit for KBHD-LP 49 Bullhead City (Daystar Television Network) expired on March 22nd; no license application has been filed yet.
  • KAZT-TV translator K55GG Kingman (The Londen Group) has a construction permit to move to UHF channel 20 under calls K20ID. That permit is set to expire on April 14th. No word on whether or not the station is being built.
 
Update:

K16GB Kingman (Smoke and Mirrors) was granted its license to cover today.
 
Correction:

The COL for K36DU is Lake Havasu City, not Bullhead City.
 
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