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Arizona TV Station Update - September 2008

dhett

dhett

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

Returned to air

  • The analog signal for KTTU-TV 18 Tucson (Belo) went dark for a few days due to a fire at the transmitter, but has since come back on air, albeit at reduced power. The digital signal was unaffected, as its transmitter is at another location.
  • KWTA-LP 31 Tucson (Venture Technologies) has returned to the air after more than four months silent. It is again broadcasting Jewelry Television.

Call sign changes

  • K27IJ Tacna (Hispanic Christian Community Network) has changed its call sign to KYPO-LP.

Special Temporary Authority (STA) granted

  • KTTU-TV 18 Tucson (Belo) has requested and was granted STA to operate its analog facilities at 53% power for the remainder of analog broadcasting, due to fire it experienced at its analog transmitting facility.
  • K30ES Globe (Globe LPTV) sought and was granted STA to operate at higher power (9.9 kW vs. 5 kW) in order to combat predicted interference from KUAT's digital operations in Tucson. Its antenna pattern will be changed to direct the higher-power signal away from Tucson.
  • K42EZ Santa Clara UT (Larry H Miller Communications) has been granted a six-month extension of their STA to operate.

Construction permits granted

  • KSAZ-TV 10.1 Phoenix (KSAZ License [Fox]) has been granted its application to convert its auxiliary facilities to digital now and to begin post-transition service on the auxiliary transmitter on February 18, 2009. At that time, the main transmitter will be converted from analog to digital.
  • K30ES Globe (Globe LPTV) has been granted a displacement permit to move to channel 50 and to move its broadcasting facility from Usery Mountain in East Mesa to South Mountain in south Phoenix, completing its 3-step hop from Globe to Phoenix. When licensed, its call sign will be K50LA. You would have thought that a city of license change would have been included in the application, but it wasn't. The action sinks any hope that Mako Communications might have had for getting a digital companion channel for K25DM, as they had requested channel 50.
  • K44BB Window Rock (Kee Long) has been granted its application to relocate its transmitter, and has corrected the elevation. They had given the number of feet above sea level in meters instead.
  • KFPH-TV 13.1 Flagstaff (Telefutura Partnership of Flagstaff) has amended its post-transition facilities application to reduce power from 58 kW to 40.6 kW and the application was granted by the FCC.

Transactions

  • K48JD Santa Clara & Washington UT (Newport Television License) has been sold to High Plains Broadcasting License. The transaction was approved by the FCC and has already been consummated.
  • K49IM Parker (Hispanic Christian Community Network) has been sold to Iglesia Manmin Toda la Creacion USA of Miami FL, and the FCC has given their blessing. There is one major stipulation to the sale: the FCC must allow the station to move closer to Phoenix or HCCN must buy it back. The Asset Purchase Agreement requires that the station must have coverage in Phoenix by the time the permit expires at the end of March 2009. That's going to be a tall order, considering how crowded the spectrum is in Phoenix.
  • The FCC has approved the sale of KVPA-LP 42 Phoenix (Latin America Broadcasting) to KRCA License.

Applications filed but not yet approved

  • K51HV Cottonwood (Trinity Broadcasting Network of Arizona) has applied for a construction permit to build a LPTV digital companion on channel 29. Its application had been in a mutually exclusive group, but with EICB-TV East dropping its competing application, the Trinity application became a singleton.
  • K59BP Verde Valley (Camp Verde TV Club) has submitted an application to bring its construction permit in line with its application to cover, lowering the power from 3.76 kW to 1.19 kW and changing from a translator stations to an LPTV station.
  • K43FO Las Vegas NV (3ABN) has applied for a construction permit to build a digital companion on channel 36.

Special Temporary Authority (STA) requested

  • KSAZ-TV 10.1 Phoenix (KSAZ License [Fox]) has requested an STA to operate its post-transition facilities from its auxilliary antenna at 20 kW, as specified in its DTV conversion plan. It plans to convert the existing auxiliary facilities once the STA is granted, and when the analog shutoff occurs, to broadcast temporarily from the auxillary tramsmitter while the primary antenna is being converted to digital.

Canceled licenses and permits

  • The construction permit for KBFG-LD 21 Flagstaff (KM Communications) has been canceled. It was to be a digital companion station to KBFG-LP 51, whose CP expired in August. The digital permit was not set to expire until January 2010.

Digital conversion plans

  • KUVE-TV 46.1 Tucson (Univision Tucson LLC) has modified its DTV conversion plan to specify construction and operation of its post-transition facilities by February 18, 2009. The prior plan had June 30, 2009 as the target date.
  • KSAZ-TV 10.1 Phoenix (KSAZ License [Fox]) has modified its DTV conversion plan to specify operation of its final post-transition facilities by March 31, 2009.
  • KMCC 34.1 Laughlin NV (Cranston Acquisition) has updated its DTV conversion plan to report new financing that will allow it to build its post transition facilities by October 31, 2008, and Bureau of Land Management authorization to bring a high voltage power line to the tower outside Dolan Springs AZ that will be used for their post-transition DTV operations.

Low-power DTV auction

The following auction applicants have been accepted for participation in the November 5 auction for LPTV digital companion channels:
  • KBBA-LP 10 (DTV51) Lake Havasu City (Smoke and Mirrors)
  • K23BJ (DTV51) Lake Havasu City (Tri-State Broadcasting)
  • KPCE-LP 29 (DTV49) Tucson (Word of God Fellowship [Daystar])
  • KEEN-CA 17 (DTV51) Las Vegas NV (Christian Communications of Chicagoland)
  • KUTG-LP 58 (DTV30) St. George UT (Lamar Veasey)
  • K67HK (DTV13) St. George UT (TCCSA [TBN])

The applications of the following have been deemed incomplete:
  • KPDF-CA 41 (DTV14) Phoenix (Una Vez Mas Phoenix)
  • KVPA-LP 42 (DTV14) Phoenix (KDMA Channel 25)1
  • K21CX (DTV49) Tucson (Ventana Television)
  • KNBX-LP 31 (DTV51) Las Vegas NV (Nevada Channel 6 [Equity Broadcasting])
  • KDLQ-LP 30 (DTV29) St. George UT (CCR-St. George IV [Clear Channel])
  • K09KP (DTV13) Washington UT (CCR-St. George IV [Clear Channel])
1- This station has since been sold from Latin America Broadcasting to KRCA License, and no mention of the LP DTV companion channel is made in the asset purchase agreement.
 
powergate92 said:
What does K30ES air?
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...the only thing I ever saw on it was infomercials; it was a Hispanic TV Network affiliate eight years ago but spent a long spell as a dark signal and reappesred in June...
 
dhett said:
  • K49IM Parker (Hispanic Christian Community Network) has been sold to Iglesia Manmin Toda la Creacion USA of Miami FL, and the FCC has given their blessing. There is one major stipulation to the sale: the FCC must allow the station to move closer to Phoenix or HCCN must buy it back. The Asset Purchase Agreement requires that the station must have coverage in Phoenix by the time the permit expires at the end of March 2009. That's going to be a tall order, considering how crowded the spectrum is in Phoenix.
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Tall order is right, there is no way they are getting that station into Phoenix. Parker, AZ and Phoenix, AZ are more than 125 miles apart. I guess if they didn't mind filing 3 or 4 times and somehow convinced KASW to leave their post-transition channel then perhaps they could move the station in.
 
stationi said:
dhett said:
  • K49IM Parker (Hispanic Christian Community Network) has been sold to Iglesia Manmin Toda la Creacion USA of Miami FL, and the FCC has given their blessing. There is one major stipulation to the sale: the FCC must allow the station to move closer to Phoenix or HCCN must buy it back. The Asset Purchase Agreement requires that the station must have coverage in Phoenix by the time the permit expires at the end of March 2009. That's going to be a tall order, considering how crowded the spectrum is in Phoenix.
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Tall order is right, there is no way they are getting that station into Phoenix. Parker, AZ and Phoenix, AZ are more than 125 miles apart. I guess if they didn't mind filing 3 or 4 times and somehow convinced KASW to leave their post-transition channel then perhaps they could move the station in.
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I'm sure a channel change would be involved. I guess they can use K30ES as a model, hopscotching from Globe to Roosevelt Lake to Mesa to Phoenix and moving to channel 50 to boot. Personally, I don't see it happening, given the short time until the CP expires.
 
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