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Arizona TV Station Update - May 2007

dhett

dhett

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

New station licenses

  • KNAZ-DT 22 Flagstaff (Gannett) has been granted a license to cover construction of its DTV facilities.
  • K20ID Kingman (KAZT LLC) has been granted a license to cover construction. It replaces now-dark K55GG as the KAZT-TV translator in Kingman.
  • K41JE Williams (Belo) has been granted a license to cover construction. The new station is a translator of KASW channel 61 (CW).
  • K25JS-D St. George UT (Clear Channel) has been granted a license to cover construction. The new station is a companion to analog station K69CT, translating KTVX 4 Salt Lake City UT.
  • K52KG-D Washington UT (Clear Channel) has been granted a license to cover construction. The new station is a companion to analog station K28EA, translating KTVX 4 Salt Lake City UT.

Call sign changes
(These were actually from April. I accidentally omitted them last month.)

  • K20IQ Flagstaff (Una Vez Mas) has taken call letters KAFL-LP (likely for Azteca FLagstaff.) The station is still under construction and has an application to move to ch 45, as K20HS is already licensed to Flagstaff on ch 20.
  • K50JJ Prescott (KM Communications) has taken call letters KPVY-LP. The station is still under construction.

Construction permits granted

  • K54FW Tucson (TBN) has been granted a construction permit to move to channel 7, where it will have the new callsign K07YX. K54FW is being displaced by Aloha Partners, who successfully bid for the right to operate wireless services on the frequency now occupied by channel 54, and have notified TBN that they need to shut K54FW down or move it to another channel.
  • K67HO Laughlin NV (Smoke and Mirrors LLC) has been granted a construction permit to move to channel 26, where it will have the new callsign K26IX. The station is moving in-core.
  • KUTV Holdings Inc. has been granted a construction permit to flash cut Santa Clara UT translator K49AS to digital.

Modifications to existing construction permits

  • KSWT-DT 16 Yuma (Pappas) has been granted a six-month extension to its DTV construction permit, due to financial constraints.
  • KPAZ-DT 20 Phoenix (TBN) has been granted a six-month extension to its DTV construction permit, due to legal issues.
  • KCFG-DT 32 Flagstaff (KM Communications) has been granted a six-month extension to its DTV construction permit, due to technical, legal and financial issues. Their equipment had been late in arriving and their lease agreement with WTVA Inc., owners of former Flagstaff station KTFL, came into dispute after the death of WTVA's principal owner, Frank Spain. In addition, KM has had to restructure debt, as KCFG has not produced revenue for its owners.
  • KVOA-DT 23 Tucson (Evening Post Publishing Company) has been granted a modification to its DTV construction permit. The station is reducing its ERP from 650 kW to 405 kW, is moving their antenna location about 30 meters and changing antenna type.
  • KECY-DT 48 El Centro CA (Pacific Media Corporation) has been granted a modification to its DTV construction permit. The station is specifying its STA ERP of 67 kW for its licensed facilities instead of the maximization facilities at 950 kW. KECY will be returning to channel 9 once the DTV transition is over, so it doesn't make much sense to build full DTV facilities on a temporary channel, especially since cutting the ERP won't affect many customers.
  • KMCC-DT 32 Laughlin NV (Cranston II, LLC) has been granted a six-month extension to its DTV construction permit, due to unspecified technical and financial issues.

Silent notifications

  • On May 16, 2007, KPAZ-TV went silent due to equipment failure and filed notification with the FCC on May 30. The station was soon restored to air, but at 80% power. If they are unable to restore the station to full power by June 15, they will file an application for STA to continue operating at 80% power. Although the FCC database lists the station as Licensed and Silent, they are operational.

Station sales

  • KPPX 51 Phoenix (Paxson), has been sold to Citadel Investment Group (CIG) as part CIG's acquisition of KPPX' parent company. The transfer of control is awaiting FCC approval.
  • Hispanic Christian Community Network, Inc. (HCCN) has agreed to buy fourteen construction permits from Sunbelt Communications for $3000 each. Four of the permits are located in Arizona: K30IP in Littlefield, K49IM in Parker, K55KC in Quartzsite, and K27IJ in Tacna. HCCN and Sunbelt have applied to the FCC for approval of the sale. K27IJ's transmitter location is off by one degree to the north, placing it in Vicksburg instead of Tacna.

Applications filed but not yet approved

  • KECY-DT 48 El Centro CA (Pacific Media Corporation) has applied for a license to cover its DTV facilities.
  • Una Vez Mas has applied for a digital companion channel to KQBN-LP 28 Prescott. Although the LPDTV station lists Prescott as its city of license, it is to be located in the White Tanks Mtns. west of Phoenix and is to serve the west side of the Phoenix metro area on channel 47. Una Vez Mas and Daystar, who had an application for channel 46, worked out an agreement to eliminate interference.
  • Daystar has applied for a digital companion channel to KDTP-CA 48 Phoenix, to broadcast from the South Mtn. antenna farm on channel 46. Daystar and Una Vez Mas, who had an application for channel 47, worked out an agreement to eliminate interference.
  • Prism Broadcasting Network has applied for a digital companion channel to K23HB Flagstaff, to broadcast on channel 33.
  • Advance Ministries has amended its application for an analog LPTV station on channel 23 in Kingman. Channel 23 is already occupied by a station owned by Mohave County, who had filed opposition to Advance Ministries' application. Mohave County will drop their opposition to the application, provided Advance Ministries is granted their application, and immediately applies for a modification to the permit to specify a different channel.
  • Dean Mosely has had an application for a new LPTV station on channel 33 in Holbrook accepted by the FCC. The application shows the wrong transmitter location, the existing value putting the tower one degree north of Holbrook.
  • R&D Media Group has had six applications for new LPTV stations accepted by the FCC. The applications are for stations on channels 20, 35 and 38 in Mesquite, Nevada, and channels 17, 27 and 40 in St. George Utah. All should be able to be viewed in Arizona.

Applications dismissed

  • The application of K53IJ Prescott to move its transmitter location was dismissed. The station is licensed to broadcast from a location SW of Prescott, but wanted to move to Towers Mountain near Crown King. The FCC rejected the application due to interference to K53GF in Phoenix.
  • The application of KPDF-CA 41 Phoenix to increase its ERP to 150 kW was dismissed. The proposed changes would have caused impermissible interference to KVPA-LP 42 and to proposed digital companion station KUDF-LD 41 Tucson.

Special Temporary Authorizations (STA)

  • KNAZ-TV 2 Flagstaff (Gannett) has been granted an STA to operate at reduced power (70%) due to transmitter failure.
 
dhett said:
  • K54FW Tucson (TBN) has been granted a construction permit to move to channel 7, where it will have the new callsign K07YX.
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  • Did KOLD-TV 13 shut down their long-time translator on channel 7 (K07DA)
    when their transmitter moved from Mt. Bigelow to Tower Peak some years ago?

    Does KGUN-TV 9 still have a channel 2 translator on Tumamoc Hill?
 
KOLD-TV did shut down the ch 7 translator. I don't know if it was when they moved to Tower Peak, but I would imagine so, as it would have become redundant. I do know that the translator has not been on the air for the past five years. Raycom finally returned the K07DA callsign to the FCC on Aug. 27, 2004, so the channel has been available for assignment since then.

TBN tried to move the station to ch 7 back in Dec. 2005, but the FCC dismissed the application in Jun. 2006, I believe because they had applied for it as a regular frequency change and IIRC, the FCC had frozen channel changes until the LPDTV issue was settled. I think the freeze is still in effect - someone correct me if I'm mistaken. Back in February, TBN applied again, this time as a displacement application, which gets higher priority and qualifies as an exception to the FCC freeze. They're going to broadcast at a much lower ERP, even taking into account the switch from UHF to VHF. That's probably to avoid the need to coordinate with the Mexican government, since there is a full-power ch 7 in Nogales, Sonora. Mexico has been really ornery in agreeing to station changes, especially, it seems, when the station broadcasts TBN. I can think of two LPTV stations that could not upgrade facilities or change channels due to Mexican objection: K33CG in Sierra Vista and KFBY-LP in Yuma. Both were TBN stations. Of course, two instances do not make a valid conclusion, but it does make one wonder.

KGUN-TV has not had their ch 2 translator any time within the past five years either. They operated a translator on ch 60 from Tumamoc Hill, which would have been redundant to the one on ch 2. They moved the ch 60 translator to ch 16 on June 19, 2003. Journal Broadcast Corp. bought the Tucson stations (chs 2, 9, and 16) from Emmis on Dec. 5, 2005 and on Feb. 28, 2006, returned the K02BW callsign to the FCC.
 
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