FCC cancels new Bay Area FM station

[Frequency1]

Call Sign: DKYPI-FM
Facility Id: 176033
FRN: 0017033333
Applicant Name: CENTRO DE INTERCESION Y ADORACION INTERNACIONAL, INC.
Frequency: 89.3
Channel: 207
Community of License: PIERCE, CA
Application Type: MINOR MODIFICATION TO A CONSTRUCTION PERMIT
Status: PERMIT CANCELLED
Status Date: 05/09/2011
Expiration Date: 05/09/2011

Here is the reason:
http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/getimportletter_exh.cgi?import_letter_id=26129

 

[recto101]

Frequency is too close of KPOO 89.5fm and KZCT 89.5 FM?

 

[emprex]

If you did not read from the past topic, there are a lot of 89.3 LOW Power FM station around the Bay Area. That's why it being canceled.

 

[Frequency1]

It was canceled by the FCC because they did not file the correct paperwork for the license to cover. They also never built the station.

 

[w9wi]

frequency1 has it.

If it had been too close to KPOO and KZCT, the FCC would never have issued a permit in the first place.

LPFMs cannot bump full-power stations from their channels.

 

[Lou_S]

Never mind ....

 

[DavidKaye]

Community of License: PIERCE, CA

Uh, can any of you tell me exactly where Pierce, CA is located? I can't find it on Google Maps, nor in the City-Data.com listing of all California communities.

 

[DaveBayArea]

Uh, can any of you tell me exactly where Pierce, CA is located? I can't find it on Google Maps, nor in the City-Data.com listing of all California communities.

Out of curiosity, I looked up the CP. I have no idea where the actual community is, but the tower site was just west of 680 between the Benicia bridge and Crockett.

Dave B.

 

[Lou_S]

Microsoft Streets and Trips places Pierce, CA about 4 miles east of Dunsmuir. I wonder if it's a "copyright" town used by mapmakers?

 

[DavidKaye]

Microsoft Streets and Trips places Pierce, CA about 4 miles east of Dunsmuir. I wonder if it's a "copyright" town used by mapmakers?

I get the feeling it is. The "CA Hometown Locator" website says it's in Solano County. There's a Pierce school district near Arbuckle, up along I-5 about 80 miles from SF.

A weather station shows the location of Pierce as 40° 14' 46", -120° 38' 32", making it 11 miles due south of Susanville, CA.

The TravelMath website says, "The closest major airport is Redding Municipal Airport (RDD / KRDD). This airport has domestic flights from Redding, California and is about 53 miles from the center of Pierce, CA."

This is so absurd. Where is Pierce and why does nobody, the FCC, the applicant, etc., clarify where Pierce is alleged to be? It's customary to mention the county when the town is so tiny as to not be known, such as, "Sunol, Alameda County, California."

One gets the feeling that somebody pranked the FCC on this one.

 

[DaveBayArea]

Out of curiosity, I looked up the CP. I have no idea where the actual community is, but the tower site was just west of 680 between the Benicia bridge and Crockett.

Dave B.

Sorry - mis-information there. I should have said 1/2 way between the Benicia Bridge and the Cordelia Jct. Not sure what I was thinking. I remember seeing a couple of app's where the proposed City of License was not a real city, but there were reasons listed in the application like "well, it isn't a city, but it should be - it has a park. It doesn't have a real post office, but there's a branch here" etc. This station was only 100 watts, and probably couldn't serve a real community. More like speculation that someday they'd be able to cover people. For a long time, K-love had a translator licensed to an unheard-of community. But it was really a district of Sacramento. Kind of like licensing a station to "Noe Valley, CA" and serving San Francisco. I think if you have the right lawyers, that works.

I do remember driving up that way last spring and seeing a small tower on a hill above the freeway. No antennas on it, IIRC. So they might have been trying to build. Not sure.

Dave B.