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Arizona TV Station Update - October 2014

dhett

dhett

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

Programming changes

  • Sinclair has switched around the network lineups on KSNV-DT 3.x (2), KVMY 21.x (22) and KVCW 33.x (29), all of Las Vegas NV. Formerly, the lineup was:
    • 3.1 NBC
    • 3.2 Cozi TV
    • 3.3 Antenna TV
    • 21.1 My Network TV
    • 21.2 Estrella TV
    • 21.3 get TV
    • 33.1 The CW
    • 33.2 This TV
    • 33.3 Zuus Country
    The new lineup is:
    • 3.1 NBC
    • 3.2 Estrella TV
    • 3.3 get TV
    • 21.1 NBC
    • 21.2 Cozi TV
    • 21.3 Antenna TV
    • 33.1 The CW
    • 33.2 My Network TV
    • 33.3 This TV
    Zuus Country is no longer available.

Call sign changes

  • Sinclair has changed the call sign of KSNV-DT 3.x (2) Las Vegas NV to KVMY and has changed the call sign of KVMY 21.x (22) Las Vegas NV to KSNV (with no suffix).

Transactions

  • The FCC has granted the assignment of license of K19IP-D Flagstaff from Luke Skelton to Good News Broadcasting Network, Inc., which is managed by Skelton.
  • The FCC has granted the assignment of license of K38LW-D Payson from Luke Skelton to Good News Broadcasting Network, Inc.
  • The FCC has granted the assignment of license of K50LV-D Prescott, operating via STA on channel 32 under temporary call sign K32LO-D, from Luke Skelton to Good News Broadcasting Network, Inc.
  • The FCC has granted the pro forma assignment of permit of K48NG-D El Centro CA from Gulf-California Broadcast Co. to NPG of Yuma-El Centro, LLC.
  • The FCC has granted the assignment of license of KEEN-CD 17.x Las Vegas NV from Christian Media Associates International, Inc. to LeSEA Broadcasting Corporation.
  • K39KW-D Yuma (Arizona Conference Corporation of Seventh Day Adventists) has requested assignment of its construction permit to Good News Broadcasting Network, Inc. The transaction is awaiting FCC approval.
  • SagamoreHill of Phoenix Licenses, LLC, submitted a proposal to sell KASW 61.x (49) Phoenix to K. James Yager on October 17.
  • SagamoreHill of Phoenix Licenses, LLC, submitted a proposal to sell KASW 61.x (49) Phoenix to Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc., on October 30, apparently negating the earlier proposed sale to K. James Yager.
  • KPHO Broadcasting Corporation submitted a proposal to sell KASW translators K34EE-D 61.x Prescott-Cottonwood and K41JE Williams to Nexstar Broad
  • K48NJ-D Needles CA (Tri-State Christian Radio) has requested assignment of its construction permit to Good News Broadcasting Network, Inc.casting, Inc., on October 30.

Construction permits and Special Temporary Authorizations (STAs) granted

  • K39KW-D Yuma (Arizona Conference Corporation of Seventh Day Adventists) has been granted a permit to construct its station at a new location, near Yuma International Airport. The originally approved location, at the Telegraph Pass electronics site, has restricted stations to 1.8 kW ERP. Technical specifications: Ch 39; TL 32-38-31 N, 114-33-37 W (E. County 13th St. & S. Avenue 4 E); ERP 15 kW directional; HAAT 82 m.
  • K50LV-D Prescott (Good News Broadcasting Network, Inc.) has been granted a six-month extension of its STA to change transmitter location and to operate on channel 32, while it awaits Mexican concurrence. The new STA expires April 8, 2015. Technical specifications: Ch 32; TL 34-29-25 N, 112-31-57 W (Mt. Francis); ERP 1.2 kW directional; HAAT 487 m.
  • K04QP-D has been granted a six-month extension of its construction permit to raise its power. The station has until April 12, 2015 to complete construction. Technical specifications: Ch 4; TL 32-12-53 N, 111-0-20 W (Tumamoc Hill); ERP 2 kW non-directional; HAAT 153 m.
  • K19JV-D has been granted an STA to operate with its new antenna at lower power and in a direction pointing away from Mexico while it awaits Mexican concurrence of its request to switch antennas and to rotate its main radial from 65° to 205°. The STA requests a main radial at 25°, in the opposite direction of its request, so that it can be on the air by the end of 2014. Technical specifications: Ch 19; TL 33-22-37 N, 112-13-31 W (Baseline Rd. & 78th Ave.); ERP 0.3 kW directional; HAAT -25 m. (33 m. AGL)
  • K29KP-D has been granted an STA to operate with an omnidirectional antenna at lower power, while it awaits Mexican concurrence of its request to switch from a directional antenna to an omni-directional antenna at its originally-approved power. The station would like to be on the air by the end of 2014. Technical specifications: Ch 29; TL 33-9-39 N, 111-48-4 W (IR 68 & Stotonic Rd.); ERP 2.7 kW non-directional; HAAT 1 m. (33 m. AGL)
  • K17JQ St. George UT (EICB-TV East, LLC) has been granted a construction permit to flash cut to digital. Technical specifications: Ch 17; TL 37-3-50 N; 113-34-22 W (Webb Hill); ERP 1 kW non-directional; HAAT 62 m.
  • The Regents of the University of New Mexico and the Albuquerque Board of Education have filed an application for a new translator station for KNME, to serve Zuni Pueblo NM and points along SH 53 into Arizona on channel 43.

Construction permits and STAs requested

  • K40KZ St. George UT (EICB-TV East, LLC) has requested a digital companion channel. Technical specifications: Ch 15; TL 37-3-50 N; 113-34-22 W (Webb Hill); ERP 1 kW non-directional; HAAT 59 m.

Dismissed, canceled, expiring or expired

  • The FCC has dismissed KPCE-LP's application for a companion digital channel on channel 49 due to Mexican objection. The proposed station was too close to a co-channel allotment in Nogales, Sonora, 70 miles to the south.
  • The FCC dismissed KCOS-LP's license for failure to renew then reinstated it after discovering that the station had submitted a renewal application.
  • The FCC has canceled the license for KTUD-CD 25.x (20) Las Vegas NV and dismissed its license renewal application, due to failure to broadcast within a one-year period.

License renewals

  • The FCC granted license renewals through October 1, 2022 to 160 TV stations in Arizona, Nevada and Utah. See the license renewals post for a complete list of stations.
 
Dismissed, canceled, expiring or expired

The following licenses were dismissed for failure to file a renewal application:
  • K02MT Parker (Arizona West Media, LLC) - bought by the most recent owner for $1,000, payable in ten installments of $100, and never broadcast a signal
  • K11OB Bouse (Bouse Booster Club, Inc.) - the owners forgot this station when they turned in their licenses for channels 4 and 7 in 2007
  • K15DX Fredonia (Western Kane County Special Service District #1)
  • K32FK Chinle (Christian Broadcasting Communications)
  • K33CG Sierra Vista (Florinda Mae Balfour, Conservator for Richard Richards)
  • K40AP Tsaile (The Navajo Nation) - station never broadcast a signal
  • K44BB Window Rock (The Navajo Nation) - station never broadcast a signal; was replaced by K45LU-D
  • K49BX Martinez Lake (Wellton-Mohawk Irrigation & Drainage District) - the owners forgot this station when they turned in their out-of-core Wellton licenses in 2012
  • K51AV Chinle (The Navajo Nation) - station never broadcast a signal
  • KCAB-LP Casa Grande (Central Arizona Broadcasting) - the station had a good run but got caught with no place to go in the digital transition
 
That KPCE thing is interesting. The Nogales 49 allotment is just that—an allotment with no authorized digital station (though I suspect it will be XHNOS-TDT, or perhaps XHNON-TDT when all is said and done). The allotment is in the FCC database and is apparently authorized for up to 741 kW, though that certainly will not be the ERP that is actually used seeing as those two (Televisa) stations have an ERP of 103 kW each.

While XHNSS-TDT 31 (7.x) is the only station actually on, Azteca (which has pretty much every transmitter nationwide with a TDT authorization in the wings) has authorization for XHFA-TDT 15 (2.x) and XHNOA-TDT 24 (22.x).

As for the Gila River stations that want to sign on under STAs while waiting on Mexico City... 19 is allotted to Puerto Peñasco but is not going to be used for anything (they tried in the early-mid 90s to put this 19 out to bid, along with a bunch of UHFs in northern Mexico, and very few of them made it to air...the callsign was to have been XHPON-TV), and XHHMS-29 is in Hermosillo. Unless Mexico is going to take that 19 allotment and build something on it — which does not seem to be the case, given that 22, 23, 25 and 48 are all allotted there for digital — I expect the IFT to come around and approve those applications.
 
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