The FCC has set its regulatory fees for the 2022 fiscal year. All licensees of commercial AM & FM stations, CPs, translators and boosters that were licensed on October 1, 2021 will be required to pay the fees utilizing the FCC’s CORES system by September 28. Full procedures can be read here.
Other fees include:
- Construction Permit for New AM: $655
- Construction Permit for New FM: $1145
- Broadcast Auxiliary Station License: No Fee
- FM Translator/FM Booster: $330
Hispanic Target Media has entered into a pair of Consent Decrees for its license renewals across its network “Radio Amigo” branded Regional Mexican stations.
A petition to deny was filed against 106.7 KPQS Waterford CA by Grace Orthodox Presbyterian Church of Modesto claiming the station has been mostly off the air for eighteen months prior to January 2022. The station’s tower site lease was terminated by American Tower Corporation in June 2021 for non-payment, but it has continued to operate from the site while attempting to resolve the issue. Following an FCC letter, KPQS submitted photographs of the KPQS facility, power bill receipts, a copy of the lease agreement, and statements of employees proving the station was operational, however admitted to failing to maintain its online public file.
Hispanic Target Media also agreed to a consent decree for its other six licenses in California for the same failure to maintain its public files. Those stations are: 92.7 KUTM Kerman, 95.1 KHMJ Trona, 100.9 KHMU Buttonwillow, 105.7 KOHM Ridgecrest, 106.3 KPQW Willows, and 106.5 KEGT San Miguel.
The following property owners have been issued Notices of Illegal Pirate Broadcasting for pirate stations emanating from their properties:
- Edward P. Stallworth – 89.1 Battle Creek MI
- Onick Bouquet – 105.7 Brentwood NY
- Hager Management, Inc. and 1720 Nostrand Avenue Corp. – 98.9 Brooklyn NY
- Alex Weiss, Lili Weiss, Karen Weiss and Edward Weiss – 95.9 Flushing NY
Deletions
As first reported in our station sale report, Cabrini University has turned in the license of 89.1 WYBF Radnor Township PA. Cabrini will receive $125,000 when the FCC approves time share partner 89.1 WXVU Villanova’s application to operate full-time on the frequency. WYBF’s student-run programming will continue online as CavalierRadio.com.
Silence Notifications
- Titus Harvest Dome Spectrum Church’s 1400 WZAZ Jacksonville FL (transmitter issues)
- Garner Ministries’ 1440 WGMI Bremen GA (transmitter site sold)
- Family Stations’ 91.9 KFRW Great Falls MT (termination of tower lease)
- Estuardo Valdemar Rodriguez’s 1370 WLLN Lillington NC (transmitter failure)
- Loud Media’s 94.1 WNYV Whitehall NY (transmitter issues)
- Oberlin College Broadcasting’s 91.5 WOBC-FM Oberlin OH (studios undergoing renovations)
- New Spirit Revival Center Ministries’ 1000 WCCD Parma OH (transmitter site sold)
- North Texas Radio Group’s 93.9 KFON Groveton TX (transmitter failure)
- Tarrant Radio Broadcasting’s 1220 KZEE Weatherford TX (power interruption)
- Burbach of DE’s 1340 WXKX Clarksburg WV (damage from lightning strike)
FM Changes
After just completing its COL change from Decatur to Hopewell TN,
