The FCC has ordered the owner of a group of Spanish-language evangelical Christian radio stations to pay its overdue regulatory fee bill or face a license revocation for an FM radio station purchased nine years ago — placing it in similar status with seven other facilities that no longer exist which also have an outstanding bill to the Commission.
In February 2017, a broadcast licensee led by Maria Guel, wife of “serial translator applicant” Antonio Cesar Guel, acquired a Class A FM serving Wichita Falls, Tex., for $122,000. That station’s annual FCC regulatory fees haven’t been paid since 2023. Additionally, the FCC found that the regulatory fees for seven now-defunct radio stations and a now-defunct low-power digital TV station were unpaid in 2024.
As such, KZAM-FM in Pleasant Valley, Tex., is being eyed for a license revocation and call letter deletion, should Guel’s Mekaddesh Group fail to pay the Commission what it is owned.
For KZAM, that would be $2,025.25 for FY 2024 and $1,875 for FY 2025. However, there’s more that’s owed, linked to former stations KEVK-FM in Sanderson, KEVQ-FM in Crosbyton, KYLQ-FM in Encinal, KEVM-FM in Junction, KWFG-FM in Knox City, KDSP-FM in Spur, and KYLB-FM in Turkey, Texas. There’s also LPTV facility KZAU-LD in Killeen, Texas.
A total of $14,599.04 is owed for the now-former facilities; an attempt by the Treasury Department to collect the debt went unanswered.
I want to report the station La Mejor 92.9 FM located in Forth Worth, Texas at Ridgmar Mall, who operate without legal ID and do not have the permits to be on the air. Please investigate this station.
Valeria,
Your claims are patently false. “La Mejor 92.9” is FM translator K225BR at 92.9 MHz in Fort Worth, broadcasting under license from the FCC. It is using a digital multicast signal based at KLNO-FM to feed the FM translator. Verification can be found at the FCC’s LMS: https://enterpriseefiling.fcc.gov/dataentry/public/tv/publicFacilityDetails.html?facilityId=146564