on many RTN affiliates with Luken alleging that Equity had left many obligations to RTN's creditors, including programming suppliers, unpaid. As a result, Luken restored a national RTN feed from its headquarters in Chattanooga, Tennessee, via SES Americom-owned satellite AMC 9 (83.0°W), with individual feeds to non-Equity-owned affiliates following on a piecemeal basis. Equity owned or operated stations lost RTN affiliation immediately, though Luken vowed to find new affiliates for RTN in those areas. A message displayed on-screen by Equity's stations in place of RTN gave Henry Luken's cell number as a contact number for viewers. As a result of this dispute, Luken pulled out of a deal to buy Equity's southwest Florida stations. By January 7, 2009, various Equity-owned or operated stations were broadcasting classic movies (or in some cases, Retro Jams) in place of RTN's content;. Around January 21, some of these stations began to carry This TV, a new subchannel network owned by MGM and Weigel Broadcasting. Digital transition issues In mid-December 2008, Equity filed notice with the Federal Communications Commission that more than a dozen of its individual analog-only full service stations would not be able to acquire equipment for digital TV transition without court approval, and these recently constructed full-power stations would therefore go dark at the end of digital transition (originally scheduled for February 17, 2009; since extended to June 12, 2009). Stations with existing digital broadcasts or low-power broadcasting stations on channels 2 - 51 would not be affected. Equity had requested that the FCC extend the expiry dates of digital construction permits for these stations, a possible means of retaining the affected licenses until a buyer can be found. Full-service stations taken dark at the end of digital transition include: KEGS (Goldfield, Nevada) Affected stations sold to Daystar: KUTF (TeleFutura, Logan, Utah) KQUP (ex-RTN, Pullman, Washington) KWBM (MyTV, Harrison, Arkansas) WBIF (This TV, Marianna, Florida) WNGS (This TV, Springville, New York) WNYI (Univisión, Ithaca, New York) Affected stations sold to Max Media, then closed down: KBTZ (Fox, Butte, Montana) KLMN* (Fox, Great Falls, Montana) KMMF (Fox, Missoula, Montana) Affected station sold to Pinnacle Media: KPBI (MyTV, Eureka Springs, Arkansas) Affected station sold to Tyler Media: KUOK (Univisión, Woodward/Oklahoma City) Affected station sold to Valley Bank, and then Fusion Communications: KWWF (ex-RTN, Waterloo, Iowa) * While KLMN had already applied to reduce its analog signal power to 50 kW, the license remained that