Armstrong, Ontario: 1450KHz:
Hornepayne, Ontario: 1010KHz:
Mayo, Yukon: 1230KHz:
Stations moving to FM.
91.3, 92.3, and 104.9 respectively. All three are 40-watt AM LPRTs,a nd all three will be 50-watt FMs -- none of these are DX powerhouses!
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Armstrong, Ontario: 1450KHz:
Hornepayne, Ontario: 1010KHz:
Mayo, Yukon: 1230KHz:
Stations moving to FM.
91.3, 92.3, and 104.9 respectively. All three are 40-watt AM LPRTs,a nd all three will be 50-watt FMs -- none of these are DX powerhouses!
Ch Calls Pr City ERP/ HAAT 2 CFCN-TV-16 AB Oyen 540/ 111 2 CFGC-TV-2 ON North Bay 3,400/ 90 2 CFRN-TV-5 AB Lac La Biche 2,130/ 104 2 CHBX-TV ON Sault Ste. Marie 100,000/ 183 2 CIII-TV-2 ON Bancroft 100,000/ 390 2 CJCH-TV-5 NS Sheet Harbour 480/ 71 2 CJOX-TV-1 NL Grand Bank 4,670/ 117 2 CKBQ-TV SK Melfort 11,500/ 150 2 CKCO-TV-2 ON Wiarton 100,000/ 286 2 CKND-TV-2 MB Minnedosa 100,000/ 396 2 CKPG-TV BC Prince George 8,300/ 330 3 CFQC-TV-1 SK Stranraer 100,000/ 268 3 CFRN-TV-2 AB Peace River 2,400/ 170 3 CFTK-TV BC Terrace 7,600/ 454 3 CICI-TV-1 ON Elliot Lake 19,000/ 123 3 CISA-TV-1 AB Burmis 225/ 128 3 CITM-TV BC 100 Mile House 720/ 584 3 CITO-TV ON Timmins 72,400/ 148 3 CJCB-TV-6 NS Port Hawkesbury 5,600/ 90 3 CJOM-TV NL Argentia 2,178/ 129 3 CKKM-TV BC Oliver/Osoyoos 930/ 954 3 CKLT-TV-1 NB Florenceville 19,000/ 195 3 CKRN-TV-3 QC Bearn/Fabre 3,640/ 166 3 CKTN-TV-3 BC Nelson 135/ -569 4 CFJC-TV BC Kamloops 3,700/ 153 4 CFRN-TV-9 AB Slave Lake 320/ 336 4 CHAT-TV-1 AB Pivot 2,750/ 191 4 CIII-TV-4 ON Owen Sound 20,600/ 131 4 CITO-TV-3 ON Hearst 3,320/ 165 4 CJCB-TV NS Sydney 100,000/ 98 4 CJCN-TV NL Grand Falls 55,000/ 183 4 CKEM-TV-1 AB Red Deer 3,480/ 230 4 CKYB-TV MB Brandon 54,700/ 407 5 CFCN-TV-4 AB Burmis 382/ 334 5 CFCN-TV-9 BC Cranbrook 116/1,040 5 CFER-TV-2 QC Sept-Iles 23,000/ 284 5 CFJC-TV-6 BC 100 Mile House 980/ 570 5 CH4467 BC Ootsa Lake 100/ 275 5 CHRO-TV ON Pembroke 100,000/ 163 5 CICI-TV ON Sudbury 100,000/ 324 5 CJDC-TV BC Dawson Creek 5,000/ 313 5 CKCW-TV-2 PE St. Edward 470/ 104 6 CFQC-TV-2 SK North Battleford 16,800/ 178 6 CFTK-TV-1 BC Prince Rupert 1,250/ 594 6 CHAT-TV AB Medicine Hat 30,000/ 203 6 CJCB-TV-1 NS Inverness 9,400/ 310 6 CJCH-TV-6 NS Caledonia 51,500/ 193 6 CJOH-TV-6 ON Deseronto 55,500/ 205 6 CKCK-TV-2 SK Willow Bunch 27,100/ 263And a handful of digital ones:
Ch Calls Pr City ERP/ HAAT 2 CKPR-DT ON Thunder Bay 1,200/ 366 2 CKSA-DT AB Lloydminster 8,100/ 221 3 CHAU-DT-1 QC Ste. Marguerite 522/ 200 4 CFTF-DT-4 QC Forestville 1,115/ 124 4 CHAU-DT-7 QC Riviere-au-Renard 300/ 228 4 CHFD-DT ON Thunder Bay 1,200/ 366 4 CIMT-DT-1 NB Edmundston 1,062/ 117 4 CITL-DT SK Lloydminster 9,100/ 221 5 CHAU-DT QC Carleton 5,560/ 483 6 CIII-DT ON Paris 4,000/ 311 (going to ch. 17?) 6 CIII-DT-6 ON Ottawa 650/ 261 (going to ch. 14?)
The following stations have changed calls recently:
Mobile, Alabama 1480 WTKD from WABB Van Buren, Arkansas 1060 KRUZ from KOAI Ocean City, Maryland 1590 WIJK from WAMS Beverly, Massachusetts 1570 WMVX from WNSH Glencoe, Minnesota 1310 KGLB from KTWN Conway, New Hampshire 1050 WPQR from WBNC Conway, New Hampshire 1340 WBNC from WPQR Buffalo, New York 970 WDCZ from WNED Belton, South Carolina 1390 WABB from WROP Powell, Tennessee 1040 WWAM from WKTI Clifton Forge, Virginia 1230 WXCF from WHTU Seattle, Washington 1090 KFNQ from KPTK
South Bend, Indiana: 1620KHz:
WDND sold to Fort Wayne Catholic Radio.
This group owns WLYV-1450 Fort Wayne. One might guess the nature of the programming from the name of the organization :)
Madison, Wisconsin: 1670KHz:
WTDY stunting with all Christmas music.
Obviously a format change is in the offing. Rumor has it this station will go all-sports after the holidays.
aurorabob reports CHFA-680 Edmonton is now silent, it's moved to 90.1 FM.
From a legal standpoint it's a bit more complicated than that :) .
CHFA is the Edmonton station of the Radio-Canada Premiere Chaine, the spoken-word French-language network.
For a few years now, it's been relayed on an "embedded repeater" on 101.1 FM with about 3,900 watts of power. The repeater calls are CHFA-10-FM.
Around the same time, the second French-language service, "Espace Musique", came to Edmonton on CBCX-FM-1, on 90.1 with about 100,000 watts. CBCX-FM-1 is a relay transmitter for 89.7 Calgary.
With the recent changes: - CHFA 680 AM leaves the air. - CHFA-10-FM and CBCX-FM-1 swap transmitters & frequencies. (CHFA-10-FM is now on 90.1 with 100,000 watts; CBCX-FM-1 is now on 101.1 with 3,900 watts.)
Station requests move to 92.3 FM, 50w/76cm (antenna about 2 feet above average terrain) at 47-54-16N/73-46-39W.
Station relays (and will continue to relay) CBFG-FM 103.5 Chisasibi.
1,000 watts day & night, non-directional.
44-53-17N/89-39-07W
Southwest of Wausau
RAMS I
620 watts day & night, non-directional.
43-58-48N/71-06-39W
Mt. Washington Radio & Gramophone, LLC
The following AM stations have changed calls recently:
Fresno, California 940 KFIG from KYNO Fresno, California 1430 KYNO from KFIG Georgetown, Kentucky 1580 WWTF from WGVN Boston, Massachusetts 1510 WUFC from WWZN Conway, New Hampshire 1340 WPQR (new station) Atlantic City, N.J. 1450 WPGG from WENJ Spindale, N. Carolina 1520 WVOH from WGMA
Wainwright, Alberta: 830KHz:
CKKY moving to FM.
CKKY has applied for permission to move to 101.9 FM. Such permission is nearly always granted.
Yellowknife, Northwest Territories: 1340KHz:
CFYK moving to FM.
CFYK has been granted permission to move to 98.9 FM.
Montreal, Quebec: 600KHz:
Permit granted for new station.
10,000 watts daytime
5,000 watts nighttime
If I recall properly, this is directional day & night with different patterns. It's the old CFCF facility -- CFCF changed calls to CINW & moved to 940 before permanently leaving the air.
The new station will be English news/talk.
Birach Broadcasting, holders of a permit to build a new AM station at Terre Haute, Indiana, have requested permission to modify their permit to specify a facility that would serve Chicago. This involves a move of 206km (128 miles) to the north.
The Terre Haute facility would have run 250 watts day & night, with a directional antenna at night.
The proposal is to change the city of license to Peotone, Illinois. The transmitter would be located at 41-18-42N/87-50-08W. This is just west of Peotone, and between Kankakee and Joliet.
Power would be 4,800 watts daytime, 1,150 watts at night. A directional antenna would be used at all hours, with different patterns day & night.
This frequency became available when the previous licensee of a station on 640 at Terre Haute had their license revoked. The licensee had been convicted of serious felonies in a state court.
CKGM is an English-language all-sports station which recently moved from 990 to 690. The station sought permission to flip from English to French, while remaining an all-sports outlet.
Simultaneously, the station's owners sought to merge with another large Canadian broadcast group. The latter application was denied. (for reasons that have nothing to do with the Montreal language flip) The CKGM language flip request was contingent on approval of the ownership transfer; with the transfer dead, so is the move to French.
Do not assume this won't come up again -- and it is very possible it will be approved.
City changed from Williams.
6,000 watts daytime
1 watt nighttime
non-directional all hours
35-12-47N/114-06-50W
Site is 7km west of Kingman.
This station on Radio-Canada's French-language Premiere Chaine network requires expensive repairs to the towers for its 540KHz transmission facility.
They've decided to instead use the silent facility on 1550KHz previously used by English-language station CBE. (CBE moved to 97.5 FM last year) The 1550 site is in better condition.
The 1550 facility is 10,000 watts directional, same pattern day & night, at 42-12-56N/82-55-15W. It will not adequately cover the city of Sarnia (which 540KHz does) so an FM transmitter on 98.3 with about 2,300 watts power will be installed there.
The station would dismantle its 3-tower directional antenna and use a single tower for non-directional operation. Power would remain at 1kw, and the tower location would not change.
The following AM stations have recently changed call letters:
Gadsden, Alabama 1350 WTDR from WGAD Rainbow City, Alabama 930 WGAD from WJBY Delta, Colorado 1400 KJYE from KDTA Elmhurst, Illinois 1530 WCKG from WJJG Brazil, Indiana 1130 WFNF from WSDX Schenectady, New York 1240 WPTR from WVKZ Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Is. 1090 WUVI from WGOD
The following AM stations have had their licenses cancelled recently:
WCER-900 Canton, Ohio WSHN-1550 Fremont, Michigan CJRN-710 Niagara Falls, Ontario
Lebanon, Oregon: 1100KHz:
Permit granted for new station
3,900 watts daytime
1,500 watts nighttime
Directional, different patterns day & night
44-33-29N/122-49-26W
Jessica Lund
Port au Choix, Newfoundland & Labrador: 790KHz:
CFNW moving to FM.
Plymouth, North Carolina: 1470KHz:
WJPI license cancelled.
CFLM-1240 has been granted permission to move to 97.1 FM.
The CRTC has granted two new radio stations in the Toronto area -- and denied 23 applications.
Two applications for AM stations were denied: see post below.
Two applications for FM stations were granted:
Markham, Ontario 105.9 1,600 watts/21m adult alternative, and 37% ethnic. Toronto, Ontario 88.1 875 watts/328m "Indie" rock
21 applications for FM stations were denied:
CIRR-FM to move from 103.9 CKFG-FM to move from 98.7 CHOQ-FM to move from 105.1 CBC to relay CJBC AM 860 CFZM to relay AM 740 2308739 Ontario Inc. business news 7954689 Canada Inc. news/talk Durham Radio easy listening Family FM Inc. "family friendly" variety mix Frank Torres blues/rock Larche Communications adult alternative Michael Wekerie adult alternative MTSD Broadcast ethnic Newcap Inc. modern adult Radio 1540 Ltd. ethnic Radio Ryerson Inc. campus Skvakkumaran Sivapathasundaram ethnic Stanislaus Antony "emerging genres" Tosan Lee ethnic, for English-speaking Asians Trust Communications religious WorldBand Media news/talk
All 21 proposed the use of 88.1MHz. This frequency became available when CKLN-FM's licence was revoked in January 2011. Radio Ryerson's application was an attempt to reauthorize CKLN.
CRTC felt this would not be the most efficient use of the spectrum, as it would be possible (presumably through use of a directional antenna) to use 1480 both daytime and nighttime. They also felt the split-frequency operation would be confusing to the audience.
The following AM stations have changed call letters recently:
Montgomery, Alabama 1170 WGMP from WACV Moultrie, Georgia 1400 WHLJ from WHBS Ocean City, Maryland 1590 WAMS from WQMR Albuquerque, New Mexico 1550 KRKE from KIVA Albuquerque, New Mexico 1600 KIVA from KRKE Buffalo, New York 970 WDCZ from WNED
Five CBC LPRTs in Alberta are moving to FM
Edson, Alberta: CBXD: from 1540 to 95.3:
Fort Vermilion, Alberta: CBKC from 1460 to 105.1:
Grande Cache, Alberta: CBWI from 1450 to 92.3:
High Level, Alberta: CBKD from 1560 to 99.5:
Rainbow Lake, Alberta: CBXX from 1240 to 101.5:
All five AM stations are 40-watt "LPRTs", and all five will remain LPRTs with 50 watts on FM.
CKSB-1050 is currently operating a 2,800-watt FM relayer in downtown Winnipeg on 90.5. They've applied for permission to move this FM station to 88.1 from the site southwest of the city formerly used by the CBC's analog TV stations there. The move would include a power increase to 100,000 watts.
(the TV stations ironically moved to the downtown site when they converted to digital -- however, CBC's 160kw Radio Two FM transmitter is still at the southwestern site, along with three private stations)
Assuming the power increase is granted for the FM station, the CBC will close AM 1050.
Sparks, Nevada: 1060KHz
New station KFOY on the air:
10,000 watts daytime
250 watts nighttime
Directional, different patterns day & night
39-30-06N/119-44-03W
HUTH-PENNEY BROADCASTING LLC
Sparks is a Reno suburb.
Melbourne, Florida 1560 WLZR from WINT Orlovista, Florida 810 WRSO from WEUS Augusta, Georgia 1480 WCHZ from WGUS Agana, Guam 1350 KUSG new station Cedar Falls, Iowa 1250 KCFI from KDNZ Waseca, Minnesota 1170 KRUE from KOWZ Bellevue, Nebraska 1180 KZOT from KOIL Omaha, Nebraska 1290 KOIL from KKAR Fulton, New York 1300 WOSW from WAMF Bayamon, Puerto Rico 1600 WCMA from WLUZ Humboldt, Tennessee 1190 WJPJ from WHUN
Juneau, Alaska: 1400KHz:
Application filed for new station.
25,000 watts daytime
1,000 watts nighttime
non-directional all hours.
58-22-37N/134-37-21W
James Warren Tipton, Jr.
Red Bluff, California: 1580KHz:
Application filed for new station.
3,000 watts daytime
1,000 watts nighttime
Directional at night only
40-10-15N/122-15-51W
IHR Educational Broadcasting
Lebanon, Oregon: 1100KHz:
Application filed for new station.
3,900 watts daytime
1,500 watts nighttime
Directional day & night, different patterns
44-33-29N/122-49-26W
Jessica Lund
Springville, Utah: 1580KHz:
Application filed for new station.
10,000 watts daytime
570 watts nighttime
Non-directional all hours
40-10-49N/111-38-34W
RAMS III
Not sure whether this is a policy change or just a clerical error...
For years, there has been a KFMT-FM on 105.5 in Fremont, Nebraska.
On Tuesday... the FCC assigned the calls KFMT to a new FM station in Lewistown, Montana.
Now, the calls *are* different. (no -FM in Montana) However, it's not been FCC policy in the past to allow the same four-letter "base call" to be used on two different stations in the same service by using or not using the -FM or -TV suffix.*
* it *has* been permissible to use them on two different stations in *different* services -- for example, on a full-power TV station and a LPTV. (WPXJ-LP Jacksonville, Florida and WPXJ-TV Batavia, New York, for example)
From a mid-1960s press release. The call letters and city have been changed to make it a bit of a challenge -- everything else is as in the original: Really, if you read the right sentence, it's a dead giveaway...
"WXXX-TV, NBC, Channel 13, {city, state} announces expanded coverage beginning in early June.
A new broadcasting tower rising 2,000 feet above the surrounding terrain will make WXXX-TV the largest single NBC station in terms of geographic coverage.
The new tower will more than double the number of potential viewers in WXXX's area -- from 325,000 to 760,000. It will also add 200,000 cows to the coverage area, according to Leo Howard, station manager.
The new tower is the tallest man-made structure east of the Mississippi, according to station officials, and rises over twice as high as the world famous Eiffel Tower."
The FCC has released the first set of rules for DTV channel sharing. As you may remember, this concept is similar to that of DTV subchannels. Indeed, from a technical standpoint, it's identical to the concept of subchannels – the only difference is that the two (or more) subchannels are licensed to and operated by different owners.
Channel sharing is voluntary.
No station will be required to split its channel. Stations must decide who they want to share with, the FCC will not assign sharing partners.
At this time, only stations participating in the incentive auction will be eligible for channel sharing. An incentive auction has been proposed that will allow stations to sell their spectrum for wireless use.
In the initial plan, if someone buys a station's spectrum, that station goes off the air. With channel sharing, that station can "move in" with another station that agreed to auction spectrum as well. Each station gets half the auction proceeds – and gets to stay in business.
Each sharing station is licensed separately.
Each station will hold a separate license and callsign. Each station is independently responsible for compliance with FCC programming regulations.
For example, assume WXXX and WYYY share a channel. WYYY decides not to keep a public file. WYYY will be sanctioned with a large fine – WXXX will not be sanctioned.
Each sharing station is entitled to the same must-carry rights on cable & satellite as they'd have if they had their own transmitter.
I have a couple of questions the FCC release doesn't answer...
What happens if there are technical violations involving the shared transmitter?
If one of the partners in a sharing arrangement loses its license (or voluntarily goes out of business) what happens to the other one?
Sharing makes strange bedfellows.
The FCC decided not to allow LPTVs to engage in channel-sharing arrangements. Only full-power and Class A stations may do so.
Strangely enough, they may share with each other. The Commission has not yet decided what to do with the technical rules if this happens. (as the vast majority of full-power stations use far more power than is allowed for a Class A.)
Strangely, they haven't decided what to do if a Class A that hasn't converted to digital yet volunteers to share. (seems to me the sharing process would inherently require the Class A station to go digital...)
Commercial and non-commercial stations may share a channel. The FCC has not yet decided whether to allow them to share a channel that's reserved for non-commercial use. However, it looks to me as if they're inclined to allow it.
The Commission anticipates future situations where a station may wish to change its city of license in order to move in with a sharing partner whose facility cannot serve the station's existing community.
Anniston, Alabama 1490 WFZX from WGBZ Turrell, Arkansas 1180 KXIQ from WPLX Pueblo, Colorado 1350 KCCY from KDZA Walsenburg, Colorado 1180 KSPK (new station) Toccoa, Georgia 1420 WLET from WHTD Brandon, Mississippi 970 WFQY from WJFN Ellenville, New York 1370 WJIP from WRWD Hudson, New York 1230 WHUC from WAIP Remsen, New York 1480 WRCK from WADR Rome, New York 1450 WKAL from WRUY Raleigh, N. Carolina 850 WPTK from WKIX Moore, Oklahoma 640 KWPN from WWLS Astoria, Oregon 1230 KVAS from KKEE Pawtucket, R.I. 550 WSJW from WBZS Conroe, Texas 880 KJOZ from KJOJ Uvalde, Texas 1400 KGWU from KVOU Forks, Washington 1490 KFKB from KRKZ Oak Harbor, Washington 1110 KRPA from KWDB
AL Anniston 1490 WFZX from WGBZ AR Turrell 1180 KXIQ from WPLX CO Pueblo 1350 KCCY from KDZA CO Walsenburg 1180 KSPK (new station) GA Toccoa 1420 WLET from WHTD MS Brandon 970 WFQY from WJFN NY Ellenville 1370 WJIP from WRWD NY Hudson 1230 WHUC from WAIP NY Remsen 1480 WRCK from WADR NY Rome 1450 WKAL from WRUY NC Raleigh 850 WPTK from WKIX OK Moore 640 KWPN from WWLS OR Astoria 1230 KVAS from KKEE RI Pawtucket 550 WSJW from WBZS TX Conroe 880 KJOZ from KJOJ TX Uvalde 1400 KGWU from KVOU WA Forks 1490 KFKB from KRKZ WA Oak Harbor 1110 KRPA from KWDB
Centre, Alabama 1560 WZTQ from WLYJ
Holt, Alabama 1340 WMHZ new station
Sanford, Maine 1220 WWSF from WPHX
Reno, Nevada 1180 KCKQ new station
Rochester, New Hampshire 930 WPKX from WGIN
Raleigh, North Carolina 570 WFNL from WQDR
Pawtucket, Rhode Island 550 WSJW from WBZS
Dallas, Texas 1480 KBXD from KNIT
Kennewick, Washington 1340 KJOX from KTCR
Yakima, Washington 1390 KTCR from KJOX
KEJA-91.7 Cale, Ark.
WAKP-89.1 Smithboro, Ga.
KEIS-90.3 York, Nebr.
KJOG-91.1 Cleveland, Okla.
WGBQ-91.9 Lynchburg, Tenn.
South Tucson, Arizona 1330 KWFM CC from KJLL
Oakland, California 910 KKSF CC from KNEW
Oakland, California 960 KNEW CC from KKGN
Meridian, Idaho 890 KYWN CC from KDJQ
Charleston, Illinois 1270 WRJM CC from WEIC
Denham Springs, La. 1210 WLRO CC from WSKR
Summersville, W. Va. 1230 WSGD CC for NS
New Holstein, Wis. 1530 WLWB CC from WMBE
Haleyville, Alabama 1230 WWWH from WJBB
Tucson, Arizona 1450 KTZR from KWFM
White Hall, Arkansas 1190 KJJI for new station; believed to be testing..
Eureka, California 790 KEJY from KWSW
Eureka, California 980 KWSW from KINS
Hiawassee, Georgia 1230 WJUL from WNGM
Hilo, Hawaii 1450 KMCA for new station
Decatur, Indiana 1540 WJZI from WADM
Sanford, Maine 1220 WWSF from WPHX
Baltimore, Maryland 860 WFSI from WBGR
Morningside, Maryland 1580 WNEW from WHFS
Isleta, New Mexico 1510 KOAZ from KMYN
Columbus, Ohio 820 WVSG from WOSU
Mount Angel, Oregon 1130 KQRR from KPWX
Columbia, S. Carolina 560 WXBT from WVOC
Newport, Tenn. 1060 WNPC from WGGQ
Huntington, W.Va. 1200 WEMM from WNBL
Hurricane, W.Va. 1110 WMUX from WIHY
Stevens Point, Wis. 1010 WPCN from WSPT
Village of Superior, Wis. 1560 WIVS for new station