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K20NF-D

valvashon

valvashon

IGLESIA PENTECOSTAL VISPERIA DEL FIN, the group behind the very ill fated and extremely poorly run and now deleted KEJI-FM Darrington, has filed a License to Cover for a new low power TV station on RF channel 20 in Seattle. To get a sense of the history of this organization, do a search on the Seattle-Tacoma radio forums for my post on KEJI, which ran an open carrier for nearly two full years from a location other than their licensed one and supposedly fed two translators from this station, one in Everett and one on what I believe is called South Mountain in Olympia.

This time around, the license is for an LP TV station which according to FCCdata.org, has been marched in from the Ellensburg area, supposedly occupying several transmitter locations along I-90, the latest one being a very odd pattern serving the Kanasket area near Kent. That was on channel 23, which they lost in the repack. I have done numerous OTA scans and never once ran across this station from any location that I was at and I suspect that none of these facilities were ever built.

The latest L2C was filed for a transmitter and antenna with an ERP of 5KW from the KING-TV tower in Seattle, granted on 3/16/22. I work at a nearby broadcast facility with a UHF antenna pointed directly at the KING-TV tower in order to monitor our NextGen broadcast which comes from that tower. I was curious as to what effect a station on RF 20 would have on our wireless microphone system, so I hooked a spectrum analyzer to that antenna. To date, there has been no hint of a station on RF 20, nor has it been picked up on the NextGen TV when I have re-scanned it.

Furthermore, an inquiry into KING brought a response from an engineer stating that the only TV broadcasts coming from their tower are KING RF 25, KONG RF 31 and KRUM RF 24 and that (pharaphrasing here) "Iglesia... does not have permission to build a facility at our location".

Has anybody else received a signal from this one, now or ever? I'm guessing that they filed a license to cover so the station wouldn't get deleted while they look for a tower to broadcast from.
 
Geez. Unfortunately there are a lot of these fly-by-night LPTV/LD operators who file for licenses to cover, having never built or even made arrangements with a tower site landlord. They file for the license to cover because they've run out of time on the C.P. Their hope is they'll be able to file a new C.P. to relocate the site before getting caught. Like any slime-ball's, all they do is create future work and scrutiny for honest and forthright applicants.

I've often been puzzled why the Commission doesn't require at least a minimum of an LOU (Letter Of Understanding) with the tower site landlord to be filed with the C.P. application, rather than just coordinates, HAAT, and AMSL.
 
I refer to stations like these as phantom stations in my Arizona TV Station Update post in the Phoenix forum. Many belonged to a Dallas-based organization called Hispanic Christian Community Network, or HCCN. I've been tracking three of them for about 15 years in western Arizona. One of them has steadily marched toward Phoenix and is about to reach their destination, I believe.

K20NF-D, formerly K23KI-D, was indeed an HCCN station when granted its original construction permit in Ellensburg as part of the 2009 Rural Filing Window. Like so many HCCN properties, this one has been sold to another owner, ostensibly representing a Spanish-language Pentecostal Christian organization, which, I would not be surprised if it were to be found to still be linked to the owners of the now-defunct HCCN. Interestingly, K20NF-D claimed to be a rebroadcaster of KRUM-LD in its license to cover application, and the president of its licensee is also president of KRUM-LD's licensee.

My prediction: the next filing from K20NF-D will be an application for assignment of authorization. The newly licensed station is much more valuable in Seattle than it was in Ellensburg.
 
dhett said:
I refer to stations like these as phantom stations in my Arizona TV Station Update post in the Phoenix forum. Many belonged to a Dallas-based organization called Hispanic Christian Community Network, or HCCN. I've been tracking three of them for about 15 years in western Arizona. One of them has steadily marched toward Phoenix and is about to reach their destination, I believe.

K20NF-D, formerly K23KI-D, was indeed an HCCN station when granted its original construction permit in Ellensburg as part of the 2009 Rural Filing Window. Like so many HCCN properties, this one has been sold to another owner, ostensibly representing a Spanish-language Pentecostal Christian organization, which, I would not be surprised if it were to be found to still be linked to the owners of the now-defunct HCCN. Interestingly, K20NF-D claimed to be a rebroadcaster of KRUM-LD in its license to cover application, and the president of its licensee is also president of KRUM-LD's licensee.

My prediction: the next filing from K20NF-D will be an application for assignment of authorization. The newly licensed station is much more valuable in Seattle than it was in Ellensburg.
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I don't see that this was sold to the current owner- the original paperwork that I see for this Ellensburg allocation on fccdata.org shows the Del Fin organization applying for the license but maybe they were just a shell applicant. But that's just a minor point in all this. I do find it curious that they have stated that they will be rebroadcasting KRUM which comes from the same tower that K20NF-D is supposed to be on (so why rebroadcast it?) and that KRUM has been sitting on color bars with a marginally correct ID "KRUM SEATTLE" for 11 months now. Really nothing worth rebroadcasting.
 
The company I worked for several years ago was sniffing for potential acquisition, a group owner of LPTV's scattered around the country. At least one third of the stations weren't even on the air. I literally couldn't find the second third, and the third-third was barely operational with old antiquated gear, damaged antennas, or held together literally with duct tape. A couple of the working stations just had a color bar slate with their call letters up.
After inspecting the group, I told the CEO that we would be crazy to even consider buying the 'stations'.
 
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