The following requests for special temporary authority were sought from the FCC during the month of September:
Three Saga Communications signals in Yankton, SD are affected by flooding at their transmitter site northeast of the city.
WNAX/570 tells the FCC that flooding which began Sept. 15 has rendered the station’s nighttime directional pattern switching inoperative. WNAX normally uses 5kW non-directional day and 5kW directional at night; it’s temporarily using 1.25kW nondirectional at night.
The flooding also knocked out K245DA/96.9 and K260BO/99.9, which transmit from the same site. Filings say the flooding rendered the FM transmitters inoperative. K245DA relays WNAX’s Farm/News/Talk format and K260BO carries the “Outlaw Country” format originating on WNAX-FM-HD2. (WNAX-FM transmits from a different site.)
i3G Radio’s KKAA/1560 (Aberdeen, SD) went off the air Sept. 18. A notification of suspension of operations tells the FCC that i3G is evaluating operational options for the station, “including possible modifications to allow for more efficient and cost-efficient operation.” KKAA is licensed for 10kW day and night, using a three-tower directional array during the day and six towers at night. It had most recently rebroadcast the Farm/Country format of KQLX/890 (Lisbon, ND). KKAA had previously been silent from Oct. 2017 until Feb. 2018 when i3G Radio, headed by Robert J. Ingstad, bought the station.
Townsquare Media’s “Mix 97.3” (KMXC Sioux Falls, SD) and “Hot 104.7” (KKLS-FM Sioux Falls) recently moved to new temporary facilities following the partial collapse of their shared tower northwest of Sioux Falls during a spring 2018 snowstorm. The stations said in requests for special temporary authority filed Sept. 9 that tower work was expected to begin in September. They are now transmitting from a temporary site northeast of Sioux Falls. KMXC is using 2.1kW/47m, while KKLS-FM is using 2.1kW/65m. Both are normally licensed for 100kW from taller antennas.
Legacy Communications tells the FCC that it’s being forced to move KUVR/1380 (Holdrege, NE) and its FM translator, K245CK/96.9, after being evicted from the land on which the KUVR tower stands. A filing says the stations will be temporarily moved to the KUVR studios in Holdrege, from where K245CK has received permission to continue transmitting at 250 Watts. K245CK’s application says a separate filing from KUVR is forthcoming.
KMRV/1160 (Waukon, IA) is transmitting at reduced power from a temporary facility due to losing the lease for its licensed transmitter site effective Oct. 1. KMRV is licensed for 880 Watts day and 26 Watts night, non-directional. The special temporary authority calls for using a half-wavelength dipole at sister station KNEI-FM’s tower site, with 250 Watts day and night. KMRV is the originating station for K256CS/99.1, carrying an Adult Contemporary format as “99.1 The River.” The FM signal was off the air temporarily due to lightning damage from about Sept. 20 to 22, according to its Facebook page.
4-Watt St. Mary’s University station KSMR/92.5 (Winona, MN) tells the FCC it went off the air Sept. 4 due to malfunctioning equipment.
45-Watt Cornell College station KRNL-FM/89.7 (Cornell, IA) tells the FCC it went off the air Sept. 27 after a power surge affected the station’s “tower,” studio console, and EAS system.
One outage that isn’t long enough to require an FCC filing: KCCK/88.3 (Cedar Rapids) says it went off the air Friday, Sept. 27, due to a lightning strike, and expects to return to the air Monday, Sept. 30.
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