Kirksville MO - Ottumwa IA HDTV OTA - Page 3

Looks like bad news for the Kirksville translator displacement app. It's being dismissed, though I can't find if that's per FCC action or the applicant's request.

Meanwhile, long-time TBN rebroadcaster K42AM Ottumwa was part of the huge donation of TBN properties to the Minority Media Telecommunications Council. MMTC in turn is in the process of selling the station, now KUMK-LP to New Moon Communications:

IOWA:
It appears Ottumwa is poised to get an NBC-TV affiliate this fall. New Moon Communications says in a press release to All Access that it plans to convert low-power station KUMK-LP/42 (Ottumwa) to an NBC affiliate with local news. The move would give the Ottumwa-Kirksville market a complete set of all four major networks for the first time. New Moon is buying KUMK and three other LPTV stations outside the Upper Midwest from the Minority Media and Telecommunications Council, which received them as a donation from the Trinity Broadcasting Network. (6/27/2011) (from Upper Midwest Broadcasting at Northpine.com)

I was back in Iowa this past week and word is the relocated OATS translator tower has been completed and should be lighting up soon. The OATS business model could be really tough, since OATS doesn't receive help from WHO or KCCI.

Perhaps the specter of a competing NBC affiliate in KUMK could cause WHO to consider its stance on assistance??

update: KYOU's app to move Kirksville translator to ch 22 was dismissed earlier this month...not sure why

also TBN's former satellator K42AM, (which in fact was the predecessor of channel 15 KOIA, later KYOU) is now KUMK-LP and is in the process of being sold to New Moon Communications. KUMK will have NBC affiliation. More here..

Since there hasn't been much action here, I thought I'd mention the apparent crash and burn of proposed NBC 42 in Ottumwa as it's for sale [URL=http://www.radiotvdeals.com/35.html?m8:search[sel_text0]=LPTV;search[group]=933740;search[nested]=1]http://www.radiotvdeals.com/35.html?m8:search[sel_text0]=LPTV;search[group]=933740;search[nested]=1[/URL]

Wonder if KYOU would like to frost the folks at Quincy Newspapers from north (KWWL) to south (WGEM) by running an NBC subchannel?

Don't expect WHO-TV to be back on the Ottumwa translator. Word is that OATS is R.I.P. Their Copperhead Rd. tower site was sold in November..http://wapello.iowaassessors.com/sale.php?gid=147229&sid=361 Little birdies on the tower say the new owner wants the towers gone.