Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) contractor Jeff Hugabonne circulated a memo Tuesday, February 11, 2025, telling EAS administrators that,
“Effective immediately, FEMA has changed the designated broadcast station assignment for San Diego national level EAS (PEP):
From (old): KOGO (AM) (FCC Facility 51514)
To (new): KHTS (FM) (FCC Facility 20697) and KLSD (AM) (FCC Facility 34452)
On February 6, 2025, Audacy License filed for Minor Changes to move KBZT (FM) 94.9 and KXSN (FM) 98.1 MHz from the KFMB transmitter site multiplexed FM antenna on Mt. Soledad across the street to the KGTV site multiplexed FM antenna, where they would join sister stations KYXY (FM) 96.5 and KSON (FM) 103.5. Neither station proposes a change in coverage. The KGTV site has long implemented a 10-bay, 1/2-wave spaced ERI SHPX antenna for its FM tenants. In 2021, several stations had moved from the KGTV and UCSD towers to the KFMB site.
This month we’ll meet in person to catch up with each other as the new year gets underway. We’ll see a presentation from WiseDV, the company headquartered in San Diego that builds TV broadcast channel playout system WisePlay and the live studio production assistance system WiseStudio, as well as other video control modules. Vassil Lefterov and Atul Anandpura are scheduled to represent WiseDV.
Join us Wednesday, February 12, at 12:00 noon at iHeartMedia, 9660 Granite Ridge Drive, San Diego. We’ll provide a light lunch and drinks.
Robert “RJ” Russell, SBE National Frequency Coordination Manager, sent the following bulletin this week to local coordinators:
“On November 18, 2024, the SBE was informed by the office of the Chief Information Officer, Department of Defense, that the SBE’s frequency coordination services in the 2GHz band would no longer be required. The SBE’s services end on January 31, 2025.
Continue reading DoD Ends SBE 2 GHz ENG Frequency CoordinationOn January 24, 2025, the FCC approved the amended applications for the upcoming 96.9 MHz San Diego LPFM stations. The three parties, each broadcasting from a different location, have agreed to a complex schedule of operating hours to share the single channel.
The Football Camp for Kids station will transmit from a pole in front of Dixieline Lumber in National City west of Interstate 5.
The Labors Training and Community Development Alliance station will transmit from a pole across the freeway in National City, just east of I-5.
The Justice Overcoming Boundaries in San Diego County station will transmit from a structure in Bonita’s Long Canyon Park.
The three associations have three years to construct the stations.