Dismissals
A pair of stations that sought to use the Coronavirus to temporarily increase power saw their applications quickly dismissed. Larry Fuss’ Contemporary Communications sought to increase 101.5 KZYQ Eudora AR from 6kW to 14kW, while Damon Collins’ Blackbelt Broadcasting proposed increasing 96.3 WLYB Livingston AL from 3.4kW to 8kW both from their current towers. The stations both sought waivers for auxiliary licenses with the higher power to “improve reception inside houses, where more listening is now occurring due
to people working from home in response to Covid-19″ on an indefinite or permanent basis, unless it causes actual interference with a neighboring station, in which case the Station would “return to its original licensed parameters.” The waiver request stated that any station that operated with less than 25,000 watts should be approved with LPFM’s the lesser of 250 watts or a 7.1km 60dBu contour, translators 500 watts, and Class A, B1 and C3 stations the lesser of 25,000 watts or a 39.1 km 60dBu countour.
Bustos Media’s application for a translator on 101.1 in Auburn WA to rebroadcast 1210 KMIA Auburn-Federal Way due to interference it would create to Northwest Rock N Roll Preservation Society’s 101.1 K266BM Olympia WA feeding 104.1 K281CI Tacoma. Both translators rebroadcast 99.9 KGHO-LP Hoquiam WA.
STA Filings
A third AM seeks experimental authority to convert to all digital operation. Brian Walsh’s Oldies 1450 WIOE Fort Wayne IN seeks to join the application of Radio One’s 1310 WTLC Indianapolis to go all-digital with an additional subchannel on or before May 22. WIOE’s analog programming will continue to be heard on 104.3 W282CH Fort Wayne.
Bustos Media has filed a Silent STA for 1310 KZXR/95.3 K237GY Prosser WA due to the economic conditions caused by COVID-19.
Washington University has taken student-run 90.3 KWUR St. Louis off the air as only essential employees are remaining on campus.
Intelli LLC has taken Vietnamese 1510 KSPA Ontario CA off the air after losing access to its tower site. The station notes that its tower has been dismantled.