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.
Nebraska
Edge Spectrum’s K20NE-D (North Platte) has applied to upgrade from 2kW to 15kW.
North Dakota
Double Z Broadcasting’s KDVL/102.5 (Devils Lake) returned to full power of 100kW on Sept. 14. As previously reported here, KDVL had been transmitting at reduced power with a backup transmitter after a fire destroyed its main transmitter last December.
Edge Spectrum’s K35MM-D (Minot) has applied to upgrade from 900 Watts to 15kW.
South Dakota
Hermosa Life Style Radio Corporation submitted a license to cover application indicating that new 100-Watt low-power FM station KHFJ-LP/94.5 (Hermosa) has signed on. The group’s initial application indicated the station would carry Christian programming.
Wisconsin
The FCC has rejected an application for review filed by UW-Milwaukee over its application for a new low-power FM station on 90.1 in Milwaukee. As previously reported here, the FCC dismissed the application because a typo in the coordinates placed the transmitter site in Chicago, and FCC rules did not allow the error to be corrected. The FCC has now found that the application for review, and two others outside the Upper Midwets, failed to demonstrate that the Media Bureau erred in its decision.