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Arizona TV station update - November 2007

dhett

dhett

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

New licenses

  • KVFA-LP 6 Yuma (KM Communications) has been granted a license to cover construction of a new station. The owners' website claims that it is an independent station; the reality is that the station is silent, having lost its lease on the antenna site following the sale of the antenna.


New programming

  • KCOS-LP 28 Phoenix (Aracelis Ortiz Corporation) has switched over to programming from La Familia Network (LFN). Both LFN and Fe TV are owned by Faith Pleases God Church of Harlingen TX, which is affiliated with Aracelis Ortiz Corporation. The station ends programming and goes to test pattern by 11 PM, although as a Class A station, it is supposed to broadcast a minimum of 18 hours a day. Maybe it's on air at 5 AM...


Defunct station

  • The sale of KVSW-LP 38 Winslow (Longfoot Communications) to Asset Management Solutions was terminated, and Longfoot entered into another agreement to sell the station to Tom Werner from the San Diego area. That proposed sale was also terminated, and KVSW-LP has ceased operations and has surrendered its license to the FCC.


Transactions

  • The sale of K25DM from Latin America Broadcasting to Mako Communications has been consummated.
  • Pacific Media Corporation has entered into an agreement to sell KECY-TV 9 El Centro CA to Gulf-California Broadcast Company. The two companies have had a long-time working agreement, and Gulf-California has had an option since 1997 to purchase the station. Gulf-California's KESE-DT is on KECY-DT's 9.3 subchannel.


Construction permits granted

  • KWTA-LP 31 Tucson (Venture Technologies Group) has received a construction permit to move to channel 51. They had claimed displacement due to being with the protected contours of KUAT-DT 6.1 (30) Tucson, KOLD-DT 13.1 (32) Tucson, and KSAZ-DT 10.1 (31) Phoenix.
  • K30ES Globe (Globe LPTV) has applied for and been granted a construction permit to move to Usery Mountain in east Mesa. At the beginning of the year, they were located on a mountaintop south of Globe, with an application to move to a mountaintop location south of Roosevelt Lake. The signal contour from the new site had just a little overlap to that from the old site, just enough to be considered a minor change. See contour map. The FCC granted that application on April 16 and granted a license on October 2. Now, the new application, like the last one, again has very little contour overlap. See contour map. In Phoenix, channel 30 is very undesirable, due to full-power DTV stations on 29 (KAET 8.1) and 31 (KSAZ 10.1) and severe n+15 interference from KUTP 45. However, on February 17, 2009, that all goes away. KAET and KSAZ return to their VHF signals, and KUTP remains on its DTV channel, 26. That's a textbook case of being opportunistic and moving your station from a small, rural town to a large, urban market is two easy steps. I was never able to receive any signal from their Globe site, and have never received one from their Roosevelt Lake site. The cynic in me wonders if, once this new location is licensed, the next step is to place the station up for sale, having dramatically increased its value.


Applications filed but not yet approved

  • KUVE-DT 46.1 (47) Green Valley (Univision) has applied for a license to cover its construction permit for a new digital TV station. It has been operating under Program Test Authority for some time, broadcasting the KUVE 46 Green Valley Univision feed on 46.1 and the KFTU 3 Douglas Telefutura feed on 46.2.
  • KVOA-DT 4.1 (23) Tucson (KVOA Communications) has applied for a license to cover its construction permit for a new digital TV station. It has been operating under Program Test Authority.
  • KVFA-LP 6 Yuma (KM Communications) has applied to change their broadcast site to a new tower, approximately two miles east of the old site. They lost the lease to the old antenna site when it was sold. In the meantime, KM has also applied for Special Temporary Authorization to begin broadcasting from the new site at reduced power. The temporary facilities generally replicate the licensed facilities, but the facilities applied for will increase their coverage dramatically.
  • KCFG-DT 9.1 (32) Flagstaff (KM Communications) has applied for a license to cover its construction permit for a new digital TV station. I have not seen the station on air yet. Unlike the old facilities, broadcasting from atop Mt. Elden and limited by site restrictions to 1 kW, the new facilities will be on the old KTFL tower on Mormon Mountain and will be at full power, reaching as far south as Cordes Junction, as KNAZ-DT and KFPH-DT do.
  • KSWT-DT 13.1 (16) Yuma (Pappas Telecasting) has applied for an extension until February 17, 2009, of its construction permit for full DTV facilities, citing financial issues, which are not publicly disclosed. They have been operational for nearly a year, broadcasting CBS on channel 13.1 and CW on 13.2.
  • Tri-State Broadcasting has submitted the long-form application for a digital companion channel to KKAX-LP 36 Kingman, to air on channel 38. They cleared up interference issues with other area applicants seeking a station on channel 39, and were declared a singleton applicant.
  • K25DM Phoenix (Mako Communications) has requested to move to channel 6, claiming displacement due to interference from co-channel KAZT-DT Prescott and KMSB-DT Tucson. There is already an application to put a low-power digital companion channel for KTVP-LP on channel 6 from the same location, but analog displacement applications have priority over digital companion channel applications, and KTVP-LP is owned my Mako Communications.
  • KMCC-DT 34.1 (32) Laughlin NV (Cranston Acquisition) has requested a six-month extension to its construction permit for full DTV facilities, citing legal and financial issues, which are not publicly disclosed in its application. KMCC has also requested an extension of the STA under which they have been providing low-power DTV coverage to Laughlin NV, Bullhead City AZ and Needles CA. The full-power signal, originating from near Dolan Springs AZ, would cover Las Vegas NV as well as the Laughlin/Bullhead City area.


Applications dismissed

  • The FCC has dismissed an application by Charles Townsend III to build a new low-power television station serving Yuma on channel 20.
 
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