The following are updates to stories previously reported here and other recent FCC filings and actions:
Iowa
Tegna CW affiliate KCWI/23.1 (Ames-Des Moines) is transmitting with 246kW rather than its usual 1,000kW due to an equipment failure that is being investigated, according to the station’s request for special temporary authority.
Michigan
Suzanne D. Henderson filed an application for the new station on 99.9 in Carney that she won in FCC Auction 109, specifying a 5.1kW/109m (class A) facility transmitting from an existing tower midway between Escanaba, Iron Mountain, and Menominee.
David R. Magnum informed the FCC that new FM translator W280GB/103.9 (Gladstone) is operating under program test authority. The translator listed its primary station as Escanaba Radio Group’s WDBC/680, which is also heard on W233CT/94.5 (Escanaba). Both FM signals transmit from the Escanaba area.
FideliTV, LLC closed on its purchase of future low-power TV station W16EF-D (Marquette) from HC2 Broadcasting on Aug. 28.
Minnesota
New FCC applications are providing more details of future work at the Telefarm site in Shoreview that is the home to several major Twin Cities TV transmitters. Hubbard Independent “45TV” KSTC-TV/5.2 (Minneapolis, RF30) has been granted a construction permit to move from Telefarm’s south tower to the north tower, where its antenna will be located just below a new combined antenna for KARE (to be RF31) and WCCO-TV (RF32). Meanwhile, Hubbard ABC affiliate KSTP-TV/5.1 (St. Paul, RF35) has applied to move from the north tower to a top-mounted antenna on the south tower.
The FCC approved the sale of future low-power TV stations K17OV-D and K30QX-D (Duluth) from CTB Spectrum Services Two, LLC to Lowcountry 34 Media, LLC.
FideliTV, LLC closed on its purchase of future low-power TV station K20KW-D (St. Cloud) from DTV America on Aug. 28.
Innovative Media Technologies closed on its purchase of future low-power TV station K26PF-D (St. Cloud) from DTV America on Aug. 31.
Nebraska
After earlier granting a two-step process changing its community of license and then its RF channel, the FCC has now formally approved a construction permit for the new facility for Gray TV NBC affiliate KSNB-TV/4.1 (Superior). It will change its community of license to York and move to RF channel 24, transmitting from the rebuilt KOLN-TV tower near Beaver Crossing with 260kW/430m. The new facility will reach Lincoln.
BDP Communications LLC closed on its purchase of KNTK/93.7 (Firth-Lincoln) from Home Field Communications LLC on Aug. 31. The station’s Sports format is unchanged.
North Dakota
Jordan Zeller is seeking to move a future FM station he won in the recent FCC auction from the Jamestown market to near Grand Forks. Originally allotted to Gackle as a class C1 (100kW/299m potential) station on 99.1, Zeller has instead applied to move the allotment to Emerado as a class A (6kW/100m) on 99.1. It would transmit from a site near Larimore, with fringe coverage of Grand Forks. The proposed station is short-spaced with CFPG-FM/99.1 (Winnipeg) but Zeller’s application says none of the interference to CFPG would be in Canada.
FideliTV, LLC closed on its purchase of future low-power TV stations K14PP-D, K17LT-D, K18NP-D, K32KX-D, and K33ML-D (Fargo) from DTV America on Aug. 28.
Roseland Broadcasting closed on its purchase of future low-power TV station K33QM-D (Grand Forks) from HC2 Broadcasting on Aug. 30.
South Dakota
Innovative Media Technologies closed on its purchase of future low-power TV station K06QJ-D (Sioux Falls) from DTV America on Aug. 31.
Wisconsin
FCC records show Magnum Communications’ WBDL/102.9 (Reedsburg) changed its callsign to WBOO on Aug. 24. The WBOO callsign was originally used on what is now WRPQ/740 (Baraboo) from 1967 to 1981 and was more recently parked on a low-power TV station in the Eau Claire area, which Magnum is in the process of selling.
Magnum Communications’ W267CL/101.3 (West Bend), which relays WIBD/1470, has applied to move to a taller tower west of town, adding coverage of Hartford while it reduces power slightly from 250 to 220 Watts.