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Arizona TV Station Update - January 2022

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

New Licenses

  • KYPO-LD 27.x Tacna (LMO Christian Media Inc.) was granted a license to cover its flash cut to digital. Technical specifications: Ch 27; TL 33° 45' 7" N, 113° 40' 33" W (approx. 5 miles SW of Salome); ERP 5 kW ND HP; HAAT 112 m. (367 ft).
  • K19FD-D Camp Verde (Camp Verde TV Club) requested and was granted a license to cover its flash cut to digital. Technical specifications: Ch 19; TL 34° 28' 13" N, 111° 52' 24" W (Squaw Peak); ERP 0.5 kW DA HP 3° MBT; HAAT 677 m (2221 ft).
  • K21GE-D Camp Verde (Camp Verde TV Club) requested and was granted a license to cover its flash cut to digital. Technical specifications: Ch 21; TL 34° 28' 13" N, 111° 52' 24" W (Squaw Peak); ERP 0.5 kW DA HP 3° MBT; HAAT 677 m (2221 ft).
  • K23BJ-D Lake Havasu City (Tri-State Broadcasting LLC) has been granted a license to cover its flash cut to digital. Technical specifications: Ch 23; TL 34° 36' 9" N, 114° 22' 16" W (Goat Hill); ERP 2.41 kW DA HP; HAAT 47 m (154 ft).
  • K23FZ-D Camp Verde (Camp Verde TV Club) requested and was granted a license to cover its flash cut to digital. Technical specifications: Ch 23; TL 34° 28' 13" N, 111° 52' 24" W (Squaw Peak); ERP 1 kW DA HP 3° MBT; HAAT 677 m (2221 ft).
  • K25MK-D Camp Verde (Camp Verde TV Club) requested and was granted a license to cover its flash cut to digital. Technical specifications: Ch 25; TL 34° 28' 12" N, 111° 52' 25" W (Squaw Peak); ERP 0.287 kW DA HP; HAAT 679 m (2227 ft).
  • K27PC-D Yuma (Jose Rivera Miramontes) has been granted a license to cover its construction permit to change antennas and reduce power. Technical specifications: Ch 27; TL 32° 40' 21" N, 114° 20' 10" W (Telegraph Pass); ERP 1 kW DA HP; HAAT 400 m (1312 ft).
  • KGHD-LD 6.x Las Vegas NV (Obidia Porras) requested and has been granted a modification to its request for license to cover, which now specifies elliptical polarization. Technical specifications: Ch 6; TL 35° 56' 46" N, 115° 2' 37" W (Arden Peak); ERP 3 kW DA EP; HAAT 571 m (1873 ft).

Notice of Proposed Rulemaking

  • KVVU-TV 5.x (9) Henderson NV (Scripps Broadcast Holdings LLC) has been granted its request for rulemaking to change the allotment for Henderson NV from RF channel 9 to RF channel 24.

Transactions

  • Allen Media has been granted and has consummated a corporate restructuring, resulting in an upstream change in ownership of Tucson TV License Company LLC, licensee of the following stations:
    • KVOA 4.x Tucson
    • K04QP-D Casas Adobes
    • K28OY-D Sierra Vista
  • Apollo Global Management has consummated its corporate restructuring, resulting in an upstream change in ownership of Blackhawk Broadcasting LLC, licensee of KYMA-DT 13.x Yuma.
  • KEEN-CD 17.x Las Vegas NV (Christian Television of Las Vegas Inc.) requested, was granted and has consummated a change in board membership.

Construction permits, Tolling and Special Temporary Authorizations (STAs) granted

  • KASW 61.x (27) Phoenix (Scripps Broadcasting Holdings LLC) has been granted an extension of its Legal STA to continue to broadcast its non-primary programming on ATSC 1.0 stations with no ATSC 3.0 simulcast so that it may continue to use its bandwidth to host NextGen services for other Phoenix-market stations.
  • K04SE-D Parker (Lowcountry 34 Media LLC) requested and has been granted a change of broadcast location from Guadalupe Peak to the junction of I-10 and Vicksburg Rd, approx. 14 miles to the east. Technical specifications: Ch 4; TL 33° 37' 43" N, 113° 46' 12" W (Jct. I-10 & Vicksburg Rd.); ERP 0.2 kW DA HP; HAAT -39 m (-128 ft) (6 m 20 ft AGL).

Construction permits, Tolling and STAs requested

  • KBFY-LD 41.x (2) Fortuna (KBFY LLC) has requested Special Temporary Authority to go on the air with parameters less than those authorized in the construction permit. Grant of the STA would allow the station to go on the air with a week while it waits for its final equipment to come in. Technical specifications: Ch 2; TL 33° 3' 2" N, 114° 49' 41" W (Black Mtn.); ERP 0.59 kW DA HP; HAAT 350 m (1148 ft).
  • KWSJ-LD 9.x Snowflake (KM Communications Inc.) has modified its request for tolling to add a statement describing why the tolling is being requested, which is due to delays in getting equipment.
  • KWKM-LD 13.x Show Low (KM Communications Inc.) has modified its request for tolling to add a statement describing why the tolling is being requested, which is due to delays in getting equipment.
  • K18JL-D Phoenix (HC2 Station Group Inc.) has requested an extension of its Silence STA. The station went silent in June prior to KPNX moving to channel 18 and is preparing to move to channel 12, vacated by KPNX in July.
  • KVGA-LD 12.x Las Vegas NV (Digital Networks-Southwest LLC) has requested a Silence STA in order to move to a new location.
  • KVTE-LD 35.x Las Vegas NV (Mountain Ridge Holdings Inc.) has requested an Engineering STA to operate at reduced power due to the need for equipment repair. Licensed to operate at 10 kW, the station is requesting to operate at 0.9 kW until repairs can be made.

Expired, Expiring, Canceled or Dismissed

  • The construction permit for K34OH-D Wellton (Landover 2 LLC) has been canceled by the FCC.
  • The construction permit for K34QG-D Buckeye (Fiberlessnet Inc.) has been canceled by the FCC.

Rulemaking Requests and Notifications

  • KVVU-TV 5.x (9) Henderson NV (KVVU Broadcasting Corporation) has been granted a rulemaking to substitute UHF channel 24 for VHF channel 9 in the Table of Allotments for Henderson NV. KVVU-TV has been instructed to file a minor change request within 30 days of the FCC Report & Order, released January 12.

NextGen TV

  • KVCW 33.x (29) Las Vegas NV (KUPN Licensee LLC) has requested an extension of its Legal STA, allowing it to only simulcast its primary stream in NextGen format, so that it can host other stations' NextGen operations.
  • KGHD-LD 6.x Las Vegas NV (Obidia Porras) has requested a modification of its license to specify NextGen operations. The station also intends to broadcast as a "FrankenFM", with an analog FM signal in the highest roughly 0.5 MHz of its allocation, receivable at 87.7 MHz on the FM dial.

Comments

1. On Sunday, February 6 2022, 23:00 by Doug W9WI

VERY minor correction -- KVVU isn't a Scripps station -- its ultimate owner is Gray Television, having recently acquired the station from Meredith. Indeed, the name on the license appears to have changed to "Gray Television Licensee, LLC".

2. On Monday, February 7 2022, 03:20 by dhett

Don't know why that got in there - I knew better. Thanks for the catch!

3. On Saturday, February 12 2022, 08:45 by CaptinKirk

Still no hint of any ATSC 3.0 signals in Tucson. My next-gen tuner on my tv is very sad with the big fat 0 on next-gen stations.

4. On Wednesday, February 16 2022, 19:26 by Bleen Gloob

It appears channel 9 KGUN 9.x, the VHF hd channel in Tucson has repaired their problems of staying on the air. When they added ION at 9.5 and Newsy at 9.6, it was to much for their equipment and things were replaced.
Channel 13.x has a program change. 13.4 is no longer ION but a repeat channel of 13.1. Evidently their contract with ION expired......