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Gray buying KCPM Grand Forks

Mr Tony

Mr Tony

per northpine.com

Gray TV is buying a second full-power station in the Fargo-Grand Forks market, My Network TV station KCPM/27 (Grand Forks), from Charles Poppen's G.I.G. of North Dakota, LLC for $255,000. KCPM recently returned to the air after having been silent for much of the past year due to problems delivering programming to the transmitter. KCPM is currently licensed for an 11.1kW signal covering Grand Forks but could potentially seek an upgrade for as much as 1,000kW, possibly reaching Fargo. Gray also owns NBC affiliate KVLY-TV/11.1 (Fargo) and low-power CBS affiliate KXJB-LD (Horace-Fargo), the latter of which is simulcast on KVLY-DT2 and rebroadcast on LPTV stations in the Grand Forks and Mayville areas. Gray says in its filing that the purchase of KCPM should be allowed because of a recent FCC change that simplified rules to only restrict ownership of top-four stations; previously, Gray would have had to seek a waiver because the sale would have left fewer than eight TV ownership voices in the market

https://licensing.fcc.gov/cdbs/CDBS...?appn=101778549&qnum=5120&copynum=1&exhcnum=1
 
and now Gray is trying to use a loophole (the Coronavirus) to get the FCC to allow them to buy the station

http://www.northpine.com/blog/2020/...xception-to-restore-sell-grand-forks-license/

The owner of a Grand Forks TV station that Gray TV wants to buy is asking the FCC to grant a rarely-used exception that allows a license to remain valid even if the station was off the air for longer than a year, with Gray saying the move would allow it to provide more programming in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

Gray says it intends to use KCPM “as a key outlet for news, live press conferences, local public affairs programs, and other vital local public interest programming during the COVID-19 health crisis.”

Gray pledges that if the FCC restores KCPM’s license and approves the sale, it will close the deal within five days and then apply for a construction permit to move KCPM to KVLY’s tower within five days of closing.

Then, Gray says it will implement KCPM’s construction permit within ten days of its grant using equipment that is mostly already on hand. It will repurpose KVLY’s backup transmitter for KCPM and transmit from KVLY’s antenna using an existing combiner.
 
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