It is licensed to serve Morris and Union Counties in northern New Jersey as a daytime-only AM radio station with an FM translator. Soon, it could be silenced for good, however.
Why? The station’s owner is extremely tardy with its annual FCC regulatory fees.
World Harvest Communications faces a license revocation if it does not pay the Commission for regulatory fees associated with WKMB-AM 1070 in Stirling, N.J.
How late is this licensee?
The Commission’s records show that it currently has unpaid regulatory fee debt of $1,874.97 for FY 2010; $2,085.40 for FY 2011; $2,465.13 for FY 2012; $2,610.27 for FY 2014; $2,593.57 for FY 2015; $2,888.48 for FY 2016; $2,852.96 for FY 2017; $2,562.50 for FY 2018; $2,781.25 for FY 2019; $3,465.45 for FY 2021; $3,154.85 for FY 2022; and $3,032.53 for FY 2023.
Total it all up, and that amounts to $32,367.36 past due to the FCC — money the agency tasked the Treasury Department with collecting. As that was unsuccessful the Commission is taking the action of ordering World Harvest to pay up, or demonstrate why a reduction or cancellation of the fee debt is warranted.
World Harvest has 60 days from September 23 to act.
