KVVV-LD
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KVVV-LD is a low-power television station in Houston, Texas, with a permit to build a digital station on channel 15.
History
Originally owned by VVI LPTV Inc., the station began broadcasting under the call sign K53FV at the end of 1991. It had been licensed to broadcast on channel 55, but made way for full-power KTBU by moving to channel 53 by the time it took to the air. The original transmitter site was at the top of the Texas Commerce Tower in downtown Houston.
The station was sold to Pappas Telecasting on July 1999. The new owners changed the call sign to KVVV-LP on February 21, 2000.
During its brief time on the air under Pappas ownership, the station served as a repeater of Pappas' full-power station on channel 57, KAZH.
Pappas took the station off the air March 1, 2001, and the station remained off the air through November 2004.
In June 2004, the station was granted permission to move to a new tower site near Moses Lake north of Texas City. During construction, the tower at the Texas City site was found to be unsafe, and Pappas requested permission to broadcast temporarily from Missouri City beginning in September 2006.[1]
On September 11, 2007, KVVV-LP was granted a permit to build a digital station on channel 15.[2] The change in channel assignment was due to the FCC's auction of block B of the lower 700 MHz frequency band, which is now used by cellular telephones.
Pappas Telecasting's financial difficulties forced KVVV-LP to go off the air November 3, 2007.
KVVV-LP's channel 53 analog transmitter was returned to the air briefly on October 30, 2009, to avoid cancellation of its license. (Federal law mandates that a station that is silent for more than a year must surrender its license.) A short time after transmissions resumed, a line carrying coolant to the transmitter burst, spraying coolant over the engineer and the transmitter. The station shut down immediately and has not been on the air since.[3]
The station's call sign was changed to KVVV-LD on January 28, 2011.[4]
References
- ^ "Engineering STA". Federal Communications Commission. Retrieved September 2, 2010.
- ^ "Application for Authority to Construct or Make Changes in a Low Power TV, TV Translator or TV Booster Station". Federal Communications Commission. Retrieved September 2, 2010.
- ^ "Notification of Suspension of Operations / Request for Silent STA". Federal Communications Commission. Retrieved September 2, 2010.
- ^ "Broadcast Actions, January 28, 2011". Federal Communications Commission. Retrieved January 28, 2011.