California Oregon Broadcasting was the second owner of KIEM, from 1961 to 1975 and lost about $400,000 in its sale to Ingham Comm, which later resold in 1985 to Precht TV for even money, according to FCC transfer documents. Having sold out its Eureka TV station, California Oregon came back into the market with translator K47CP on channel 47, relaying its KRCR from Redding. In 1987 it built full-power KAEF and the FCC cancelled its license on channel 47.
However you did see Trinity Broadcasting on TV30 at one time, as they do have a channel 47 license, unfortunately it is for the city of Alturus, California.. Use of channel 47 in Alturus is no longer possible because of the digital TV assignments needed for Redding. Thus K47EH has been displaced and granted use of channel 30, in Alturus. For those of you weak in geography, Alturus is located a mere 200 miles east of Eureka. Trinity is currently trying to convince the FCC that it can locate a tranmitter at Eureka and somehow still serve the city of Alturus. Such a thought defies all logic and laws of physics (the law of God transcends physics?). With the wisdom of Solomon, the FCC split the baby and now its 47 in Eureka and 30 in Alturus and no more cryin..
Why did they even think that they might be granted such an outrageous claim? Its easy if you look at Trinity Broadcasting itself and its Home station KTBN in Santa Ana CA, the signal that will be translated by this outlet. You see TV40 when I was a kid served Fontana CA, one of the precious few TV licenses granted inland, away from Los Angeles. They had local (non-Los Angeles) programming and events coverage, I even saw the studio when I was in high school. When Trinity purchased the license they immediatly moved the transmitter southwest of town. From that position it covered Fontana and the inland valley, but it also had marginal coverage over Santa Ana. Then Trinity asked the FCC to make Santa Ana an additional served community. Then it built a powerful new transmitter at a location in Los Angeles (the city it really wanted to serve). This was possible because TV station protection contours are only considered over land and not the ocean, so it is always possible to change a transmitter location seaward an not cause prohibited interference. Now it asked the FCC to make Santa Ana its sole city of license and no longer does Fontana have a local television station. This process of "transmitter walking" is legal if not moral, but then no one expects Trinity to make business decisions based on morality.
One 'real' broadcaster is Pappas Telecast, which plans to operate a low power television from Eureka on Channel 35 with programs from Mexico on the Azteca network. They are licensed as KEAZ .
