Recent FCC activity includes a new FM signal signing on in suburban Milwaukee and progress on several TV stations’ planned moves to UHF.
Category: Iowa
FCC Monitor: More Low-Power TV Sales, Extensions
Items crossing through FCC databases include news of a planned simulcast in Rockford, IL, and numerous low-power TV sales and extensions.
Iowa Station Makes Anticipated Flip to “K-Love”
KDCR/88.5 (Sioux Center) has made its anticipated change to the Contemporary Christian “K-Love” network ahead of the formal sale of the station to the network’s owner.
FCC Monitor: Iowa TV Station Upgrades
Recent items crossing through FCC databases include a Des Moines TV station upgrading and several low-power TV stations being deleted.
Townsquare Exits Crowded Cedar Rapids Top 40 Field
Townsquare Media has ended a ten-year-old Contemporary Hits format in the Cedar Rapids market after its agreement to run the station that had carried the format apparently expired.
Sinclair CW Stations to Add Evening National News
CW affiliates in Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Green Bay, and Omaha are due to begin carrying a late-evening national news block this fall.
Des Moines-Based Meredith Sells TV Group to Gray
Gray TV’s latest acquisition does not include any Upper Midwest TV stations but does have a regional connection: the seller is Des Moines-based Meredith Corporation.
FCC Monitor: Neb. UHF Move Advances; Wis. FM Permit Expires
A central Nebraska TV station’s proposal to move to UHF has advanced. Meanwhile, the FCC deleted an unbuilt FM translator station in rural Wisconsin.
Allen Media Picks Up Spinoffs from Gray/Quincy Deal
Allen Media will be the buyer of stations in seven markets, including four in Wisconsin and Iowa, that Gray TV is spinning off as part of its purchase of Quincy Media.
Tribal Radio Station Drops Proposal to Enter Sioux City Market
An FM station owned by the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska has dropped a proposal to enter the Sioux City, Iowa, market.