FCC Actions
The FCC is joining Nielsen in going after Houston translators owned by Centro Cristiano de Vida Eterna for alleged program origination along with other violations.
The FCC issued a Notice of Violation to 94.1 K231CN Houston for both originating programming and not rebroadcasting 880 KJOZ Conroe as licensed along with operating with a two wo bay circularly polarized omni directional antenna as opposed to its authorized directional pattern. K231CN operates as Regional Mexican “La Nueva 94.1“.
Nielsen in March issued a notice to subscribers that a pair of Houston translators were being used improperly, leading to misattributed estimates in recent Houston/Galveston market surveys. In those cases Centro Cristiano de Vida Eterna owned Regional Mexican “La Mejor 104.5” K283CH Houston had been encoding as 880 KJOZ and Spanish AC “Power 99.5” K258DA Houston and K258BZ Sugar Land were encoding as 1540 KGBC, but in reality neither station’s programming aired on those signals.
Centro Cristiano de Vida Eterna also received a Notice of Violation for its 90.5 K213CS Dallas TX. K213CS was observed in February for being off the air for over 30 days without notifying the commission. The tower owner confirmed to the FCC that K213CS has removed its equipment on December 5, 2025.
Ahead of announcing its new auction for vacant FM channels, the FCC has approved its own’s staff’s engineering analysis to delete the vacant Class C allocation on 103.3 in Freeport TX. The commission noted that what was previously KJOJ-FM was short-spaced by 182 kilometers to a vacant Class C2 allocation on the same frequency in Wharton TX and that no alternate channels are available that would comply with the minimum distance separation.
KJOJ-FM went silent in December 2020 after its 2000 foot tower collapsed in a storm. The FCC cancelled the license in June 2022.
Silent Notifications
- Loam Media’s 1150 WCUE Cuyahoga Falls OH (Tower site sold)
- Fuchs Radio’s 100.3 KJCM Snyder OK (Tower lease issues)
