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Roger Wahl has recovered after reportedly being very sick and spending time in a Somerset County, Pa., hospital and rehabilitation center. In fact, he's back on the air. This will likely only fuel calls for the FCC to swiftly move forward with its license revocation hearing against Wahl, a convicted felon who is self-defending himself against the Commission.

WQZS-FM licensee Roger Wahl, who is in the middle of a license revocation hearing for being a convicted felon, is reportedly seriously ill and is presently in the Intensive Care Unit of a regional hospital. News of his hospitalization surfaced after the main daily newspaper serving Somerset County, Pa., offered a detailed account of Wahl's Commission predicament.

The licensee of WQZS-FM 93.3 in Meyersdale, Pa., Roger Wahl, has been fingered by the Commission's Enforcement Bureau for failing to fully participate in a license revocation hearing tied to his status as a convicted felon.  It's something ALJ Jane Hinckley Halprin has warned Wahl about. How she responds to the Bureau's Motion could seal Wahl's fate.

Roger Wahl could lose his license for WQZS-FM in Meyersdale, Pa., if the FCC's Administrative Law Judge finds his felony conviction weighty enough to strip him of the Class A station, deleting its call letters and leaving the 93.3 MHz vacant. He offered a response to Enforcement Bureau interrogatories in his license revocation hearing that some might argue seals his fate as an ex-licensee.

Roger Wahl is a convicted felon. He's also the owner of an FM radio station and faces a possible license revocation. That may not happen for a year, however.

Convicted felon Roger Wahl could see the license cancellation and call letter deletion of his 630-watt FM radio station atop Mt. Hunsrick, serving Somerset County, Pa., following a Hearing Designation Order and subsequent FCC Commissioner vote. But, there's a new plot line straight out of a soap opera: it now appears that a long-lost equity holder in the FM has emerged — or so the person alleges.

Roger Wahl is the 100% owner of a Class A FM in a small Western Pennsylvania town. Wahl, a.k.a. "The Commander," became a town celebrity by offering local news headlines and school lunch menus to listeners. Now, Wahl is in big trouble, and it could impact his ownership of WQZS-FM.

The long-awaited approval of a privatization effort that would bring TEGNA ownership under Standard General control, with a large minority non-voting stake in the television station owner held by Cox Media Group's majority owner, Apollo Global Management, has not come. Instead, the FCC has issued a Hearing Designation Order — an ominous sign for Soo Kim.

In a matter of days, a Hearing Designation Order that will determine the fate of the licensee of a radio station who has been convicted of a felony will commence. While the FCC's Administrative Law Judge will be the one to decide the matter, a pastor heard Sundays on the station has started up a petition asking the Commission to allow the station to pass on to the owner's daughter.

A 70-year old owner of a radio station serving a rural portion of Western Pennsylvania to the southeast of Pittsburgh on Monday was placed on a three-year "restricted probation" for a series of criminal sexual acts at a sentencing hearing that could save him from a FCC license revocation hearing.

One week ago, RBR+TVBR learned that a Keystone State radio station owner was ready to plead guilty to felony rape charges. That transpired July 8, putting the transfer of his Class A FM to his adult daughter, made June 1, in question. The FCC had approved the deal, which awaited closing, ahead of the conviction. On Monday, the Commission changed its mind.

The attorney representing the woman that's at the center of the investigation tells RBR+TVBR the licensee of a radio station in Pennsylvania will plead guilty to a felony on Wednesday. What does this mean for the FM? It could negate the licensee's attempt to transfer the station to his daughter for a token cost of $10.