The following are updates to previously-reported items and other recent regulatory filings and actions concerning Upper Midwest broadcast stations. This report is created by the author and is not an official report of the FCC.
Iowa
KM Radio of Independence’s KQMG-FM/95.3 (Independence) reports that it went off the air Aug. 2 due to a transmitter failure. The station is awaiting delivery of a new transmitter.
Gray Media’s K27LD-D (Salix) was granted a move to channel 17 as K17PG-D, upgrading to 15kW.
DTV America’s K17MH-D (Cedar Falls) resumed operations Oct. 15.
Iowa PBS’ KRIN/32.1 (Waterloo) has withdrawn a 12-year-old application for a digital replacement translator on channel 18 in Dubuque. The withdrawal states that the application, which never received an FCC decision, “is stale and no longer complies with FCC rules.”
Minnesota
VCY America’s KVCS/89.1 (Spring Valley) resumed broadcasting using reduced power of 4kW TPO on Oct. 17.
Real Presence Radio’s KQAQ/970 (Austin) resumed full daytime power of 5kW on Oct. 1.
North Dakota
Digital Syndicate Networks’ KDKT/1410 (Beulah) requested special temporary authority to use 500 Watts daytime, rather than its licensed 1kW, due to a transmitter failure.
Wisconsin
The FCC has dismissed Oxford Lifestyle Educational Radio’s application for a new low-power FM station on 92.9 in Oxford. The action comes after the FCC issued a letter determining that the applicant was commonly-owned with other applicants seeking LPFM stations, which would violate rules prohibiting multiple ownership of LPFM stations.
The FCC denied an amendment requested by Madison Christian LPFM Radio to change frequencies on its pending application, which would have removed it from a potential time-sharing agreement with a competing applicant. Madison Christian LPFM Radio originally applied for 103.7 licensed to Monona with a transmitter in Madison; its amendment had proposed changing to 102.1 from a site in McFarland. It’s not immediately known why the amendment was denied.
Disclosure: Jon Ellis is an employee of Gray Media Group. The statements and views expressed in this posting are his own and do not reflect those of Gray Media Group.