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Tuesday, March 5 2024

Arizona TV Station Update - February 2024

As always, questions, additions, comments and corrections welcome.

New Licenses

  • K24KS-D 15.x Flagstaff (Scripps Broadcasting Holdings LLC) has been granted a license to cover its move to a different tower. Technical specifications: Ch 24; TL 35° 14' 25" N, 111° 35' 52" W (Mt. Elden); ERP 0.824 kW HP; HAAT 621 m / 2037 ft.

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Thursday, February 8 2024

Arizona TV Station Update - January 2024

As always, questions, additions, comments and corrections welcome.

New Licenses

  • K24KS-D 15.x Flagstaff (Scripps Broadcasting Holdings LLC) has requested a license to cover its move to a different tower in the same antenna farm. Technical specifications: Ch 24; TL 35° 14' 25" N, 111° 35' 52" W (Mt. Elden); ERP 0.824 kW HP; HAAT 621 m / 2037 ft.

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Sunday, January 14 2024

Arizona TV Station Update - December 2023

Here's wishing everyone a blessed and prosperous 2024!

As always, questions, additions, comments and corrections welcome.

Programming Changes

  • KTVK 3.x (24) Phoenix (Gray Television Licensee LLC) has replaced Circle with Outlaw on channel 3.3. The creators of Circle have ended the broadcast diginet, while Jonathan Katz, Warner Bros. Discovery, Lionsgate and Gray Television have entered into a joint venture called Free TV Networks, which has created Outlaw, a western-themed diginet, and The 365, a black-themed diginet.
  • KPHO 5.x (17) Phoenix (Gray Television Licensee LLC) has added a new subchannel, airing AZ Family Sports Network and identifying as KPHE-LD channel 44.2.

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Friday, December 8 2023

Arizona TV Station Update - November 2023

As always, questions, additions, comments and corrections welcome.

Programming Changes

  • KNXV-LD 15.2 Phoenix (Scripps Broadcasting Holdings LLC) has picked up The CW affiliation.
  • KASW 61.1 Phoenix (Scripps Broadcasting Holdings LLC) has begun to air Arizona Coyotes games.
  • KDVD-LD 50.3 Globe (Globe LPTV LLC) has replaced the rescan graphic with programming from The Family Channel.

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Tuesday, November 7 2023

Arizona TV Station Update - October 2023

As always, questions, additions, comments and corrections welcome.

New Licenses

  • KVCW 33.x (29) Las Vegas NV (KUPN Licensee LLC) requested and has been granted a license to cover its construction permit to reduce the power of its auxiliary broadcast facility at its primary distributed transmission site, DTS-1, from 164 kW to 57.14 kW.

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Thursday, October 12 2023

Arizona TV Station Update - September 2023

As always, questions, additions, comments and corrections welcome.

New Licenses

  • KAZS 27.x Yuma (Gray Television Licensee LLC) requested and has been granted a license to cover its original construction permit, as amended. Technical specifications: Ch 27; TL 33° 3' 2" N, 114° 49' 41" W (Black Mtn.); ERP 100 kW H / 30 kW V DA 0.75° EBT; HAAT 434 m / 1423 ft.
  • KAZF 32.x Flagstaff (Gray Television Licensee LLC) requested and has been granted a license to cover its original construction permit, as amended. Technical specifications: Ch 32; TL 34° 58' 8" N; 111° 30' 31" W (Mormon Mtn.); ERP 100 kW H / 30 kW V DA 1° EBT; HAAT 433 m / 1421 ft.

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Monday, September 11 2023

Arizona TV Station Update - August 2023

As always, questions, additions, comments and corrections welcome.

New Licenses

  • KPNX 12.X (18) Mesa (Multimedia Holdings Corporation) requested and has been granted a license to cover construction of a new auxiliary broadcast facility on the same tower as its main facility. Technical specifications: Ch 18; TL 33° 20' 0" N, 112° 3' 51" W (South Mtn.); ERP 715 kW HP DA 0.55° EBT; HAAT 520 m / 1704 ft.
  • K04SE-D Parker (Lowcountry 34 Media LLC) requested and has been granted a license to cover its modified construction permit to relocate following irreparable damage to the tower at its previous broadcast location. Technical specifications: Ch 4; TL 33° 35' 45" N, 113° 21' 5" W (Snowbird West RV Park); ERP 0.9 kW DA HP; HAAT -12 m / -39 ft (6 m / 20 ft AGL).

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Saturday, August 19 2023

Arizona TV Station Update - July 2023

As always, questions, additions, comments and corrections welcome.

New Licenses

  • KOLD-TV 13.x (32/13) Tucson (Gray Television Licensee LLC) requested and has been granted a license to cover a power increase at its digital replacement translator. Technical specifications: Ch 13; TL 32° 14' 52" N, 111° 7' 1" W (Tucson Mtns.); ERP 1 kW HP (0.75° EBT); HAAT 618 m / 2027 ft.

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Tuesday, July 11 2023

Arizona TV Station Update - June 2023

As always, questions, additions, comments and corrections welcome.

Programming Changes

  • KVPA-LD 42.x (34) Phoenix (KCRA License LLC) has lost its JTV feed on channel 42.3. The station displays color bars in its place.
  • K25MK-D 2.x Camp Verde (The Camp Verde TV Club) is on the air with a digital signal and has changed its primary station from KPNX Mesa to KNAZ-TV Flagstaff.

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Wednesday, June 14 2023

Arizona TV Station Update - May 2023

As always, questions, additions, comments and corrections welcome.

New Licenses

  • KMCC 34.x (32) Laughlin NV (Ion Television Licensee LLC) requested and was granted a license to cover its construction permit to change the broadcast antenna, increase the power, lower the antenna height, and change polarization to 50% elliptical at its DTS2 location. Technical specifications: Ch 32; TL 36° 7' 45" N, 115° 11' 28" W (KTNV studios); ERP 200 kW H / 100 kW V DA 1° EBT; HAAT 60 m / 197 ft.

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Friday, May 19 2023

Arizona TV Station Update - April 2023

Better late than never. As always, questions, additions, comments and corrections welcome.

Arizona TV Station Update wishes to thank AVS Forum members KyL416 and theMysticSeer for contributing to this month's update.

New Licenses

  • K25MK-D 12.x Camp Verde (The Camp Verde TV Club Inc.) requested and has been granted a license to cover its antenna change. Technical specifications: Ch 25; TL 34° 28' 12" N, 111° 52' 25" W (Porcupine Mtn.); ERP 0.287 kW HP DA; HAAT 694 m / 2276 ft.

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Friday, April 7 2023

Arizona TV Station Update - March 2023

As always, questions, additions, comments and corrections welcome.

New Licenses

  • K10RW-D Lake Havasu (Lowcountry 34 Media LLC) requested and has been granted a license to cover its power increase and antenna reorientation. Technical specifications: Ch 10; TL 34° 28' 41" N; 114° 24' 31" W (Cor. Havasu Lake Rd. & Siwavaats Way, Havasu Lake CA); ERP 1 kW DA HP; HAAT -113 m / -371 ft (6 m / 20 ft AGL).

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Saturday, March 4 2023

Arizona TV Station Update - Nov 2022 - Feb 2023

After a long, unplanned hiatus due to a crazy schedule, the Arizona TV Station Update is back! Let's get caught up with what's been happening since November; it's been quite eventful!

As always, questions, additions, comments and corrections welcome.

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Thursday, February 16 2023

Terrain Data Fixed!

It's been a long time coming.

If you've ever looked at the Longley-Rice coverage maps in or near Des Moines, IA; Providence, RI; Florence, SC; or Gainesville, FL; you've probably noticed that they have odd diamond-shaped areas where the maps just look wrong. What's wrong is that the SRTM-3 data that is used by SPLAT to create those maps has diamond-shaped holes in it in those places. Using functions SPLAT has for handling it, I had patched in other lower-resolution data, and while it helped, it still wasn't really correct.

Yesterday I got a question from a friend about where the SRTM-3 data had moved to, since the links on the SPLAT webpage are dead now. I went looking and found it, but then I noticed a message that said the data had been updated in 2015 and now had some of the holes in the data have been patched. I grabbed the files that cover the Iowa hole, which was the worst of the four, and reran one of the maps. Sure enough, the hole there is now patched and the maps came out looking correct.

I'm in the midst of rerunning the maps that were impacted by that issue in Iowa. As of this writing, I've also grabbed the patched terrain for the South Carolina hole, and tested it on WBTW to prove that hole is also patched. Once I'm done with Iowa, I'll move on to South Carolina. I also intend to fix the maps in Florida and Rhode Island, but I'll do those after South Carolina is done. I'm going in order of how offensive I found the missing data to be; Iowa was clearly worst, but the other three are all somewhat minimal just because of how close to sea level the terrain is in those places. I personally found the South Carolina one to be most jarring, followed by Florida (pretty flat), followed by Rhode Island (decent portion of the diamond was in the ocean anyway).

It's going to take some getting used to the fact that those maps are now correct. It's been wrong for literally the last 15 years and I'm very used to it. I also want to note that there is at least one additional hole that I'm aware of in the US, in southwest Texas, but as I recall there are few or no TV stations that reach it, so I'm not sure if I'll need to do much there.

Finally, there was also a separate flaw in the terrain near the Salton Sea in California. I've tried replacing the terrain data with newer data here as well and the issue appears to be resolved per the KESQ map I ran. I'll be rerunning maps in that area as well.

UPDATE (2/16/2023 at 3:08PM ET): So the Iowa maps should be done. Let me know if you spot any I missed. I am in the midst of rerunning the Yuma stations impacted by the Salton Sea issue. I reran WBZ to test the Rhode Island fix and am happy with it. I reran WUFT and WXGA to test the Florida fix and I'm not as happy with that one. I'm going to think on that one a bit and focus on the other areas before deciding what to do there. In any event, expect to continue to see replacement maps near Florence, Providence, and Palm Springs in the coming days.

Friday, November 4 2022

Arizona TV Station Update - October 2022

As always, questions, additions, comments and corrections welcome.

New Licenses

  • KDPH-LD 48.x (13) Phoenix (Word of God Fellowship Inc.) has been granted a license to cover its construction permit to switch from a directional signal to a non-directional signal. Technical specifications: Ch 13; TL 33° 20' 4" N, 112° 3' 44" W (South Mtn.); ERP 3 kW (HP); HAAT 473 m / 1551 ft.
  • K04SE-D Parker (Lowcountry 34 Media LLC) has been granted a license to cover its original construction permit. Technical specifications: Ch 4; TL 33° 37' 43" N, 113° 46' 12" W (Pride Travel Center, I-10 & Vicksburg Rd.); ERP 0.2 kW DA HP; HAAT -39 m / -128 ft (6 m / 20 ft AGL).

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Tuesday, October 11 2022

Arizona TV Station Update - September 2022

As always, questions, additions, comments and corrections welcome.

New Licenses

  • KVGA-LD 12.x Las Vegas NV (Digital Networks-Southwest LLC) has requested a license to cover its construction permit to move to Black Mountain. Technical specifications: Ch 12; TL 36° 0' 34" N, 115° 0' 23" W (Black Mtn.); ERP 3 kW (HP); HAAT 304 m (997 ft).

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Tuesday, September 6 2022

Arizona TV Station Update - August 2022

As always, questions, additions, comments and corrections welcome.

New Licenses

  • KDPH-LD 48.x (13) Phoenix (Word of God Fellowship Inc.) has requested a license to cover its construction permit to switch from a directional signal to a non-directional signal. Technical specifications: Ch 13; TL 33° 20' 4" N, 112° 3' 44" W (South Mtn.); ERP 3 kW (HP); HAAT 473 m (1551 ft).
  • K32ME-D 3.x Camp Verde (Verde Valley TV Club) requested and has been granted a license to cover its flash cut to digital. Technical specifications: Ch 32; TL 34° 28' 12" N, 111' 52' W (Squaw Peak); ERP 0.122 kW HP; HAAT 684 m. (2244 ft.)

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Wednesday, August 10 2022

Arizona TV Station Update - June/July 2022

As always, questions, additions, comments and corrections welcome.

New Licenses

  • KESE-LD 35.x Yuma (NPG of Yuma-El Centro LLC) requested and was granted a license to cover its modification to its transmitting antenna height. Technical specifications: Ch 35; TL 32° 38' 31" N, 114° 33' 37" W (S Ave 4E & E County 14th St); ERP 8 kW DA HP 0.25° EBT; HAAT 58 m / 190 ft.
  • K06QW-D Sentinel (Lowcountry 34 Media LLC) has requested a license to cover its original construction permit, as amended. Technical specifications: Ch 6; TL 32° 51' 34" N, 113° 12' 43" W (I-8 & Agua Caliente Rd.); ERP 1 kW DA HP; HAAT 23 m / 75 ft.

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Monday, June 13 2022

Arizona TV Station Update - May 2022

As always, questions, additions, comments and corrections welcome.

New Licenses

  • KBFY-LD 41.x (2) Fortuna (KBFY LLC) has been granted a license to cover its displacement from its analog channel and conversion to digital. Technical specifications: Ch 2; TL 33° 3' 2" N, 114° 49' 41" W (Black Mtns.); ERP 3 kW DA HP; HAAT 380 m (1246 ft).
  • K04SE-D Parker (Lowcountry 34 Media LLC) has requested a license to cover its original construction permit. Technical specifications: Ch 4; TL 33° 37' 43" N, 113° 46' 12" W (Pride Travel Center, I-10 & Vicksburg Rd.); ERP 0.2 kW DA HP; HAAT -39 m (-128 Ft), 6 m (20 ft) AGL.

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Sunday, May 1 2022

Arizona TV Station Update - April 2022

As always, questions, additions, comments and corrections welcome.

New Licenses

  • KBFY-LD 41.x (2) Fortuna (KBFY LLC) requested a license to cover its displacement from its analog channel and conversion to digital, using its temporary antenna due to delays in delivery of its permanent antenna, but withdrew the application two days later. Technical specifications: Ch 2; TL 33° 3' 2" N, 114° 49' 41" W (Black Mtns.); ERP 3 kW DA HP; HAAT 380 m (1246 ft).
  • KBFY-LD 41.x (2) Fortuna (KBFY LLC) has requested a license to cover its displacement from its analog channel and conversion to digital, using its permanent antenna. Technical specifications: Ch 2; TL 33° 3' 2" N, 114° 49' 41" W (Black Mtns.); ERP 3 kW DA HP; HAAT 380 m (1246 ft).

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