A new radio station in the East Valley

The EVT reports that a long-awaited community FM proposal by the East Valley Institute of Technology as been granted by the FCC:

Twelve years after putting in the original FCC application, students in the radio broadcasting program at Mesa’s East Valley Institute for Technology are on the verge of really being heard.

Late last month, Steve Grosz, EVIT radio broadcast instructor, learned the FCC awarded the school a preliminary construction permit for a full-powered community FM radio transmitter and tower. Grosz expects the full permit to be awarded by the end of the July.

“I thought this would never happen,” Grosz said.

The news came via e-mail and Grosz said, “I screamed.”

The new station’s frequency is 90.7.

The story doesn’t say so, but I assume it will be operating under the FCC’s low power rules, which generally mean less than 100 watts, so the listening area will be limited to west Mesa and east Tempe.

The class does a radio show now, which you can get to off a button on the lower left-hand corner of the school’s web site. (The easiest way is to click on the yellow “Listen to Goldmine Radio” bar, which will bring it up through iTunes.)