{"id":360060,"date":"2026-03-22T23:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T23:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/360060\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T23:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T23:43:09","slug":"nielsen-acknowledges-houston-ppm-encoder-misuse-from-illegally-operating-translators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/360060\/","title":{"rendered":"Nielsen Acknowledges Houston PPM Encoder Misuse From Illegally Operating Translators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/houstonxlator-200x200-jpeg.webp.jpeg\" alt=\"Power 99.5 La Mejor 102.5 Houston\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-343953\"  \/>Nielsen has 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.<\/p>\n<p>Nielsen said that Regional Mexican \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lamejordigital.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">La Mejor 104.5<\/a>\u201d K283CH Houston had been encoding as 880 KJOZ and Spanish AC \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/lapowerfm.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Power 99.5<\/a>\u201d K258DA Houston and K258BZ Sugar Land were encoding as 1540 KGBC, but in reality neither station\u2019s programming aired on those signals.<\/p>\n<p>The translators, all owned by Centro Cristiano de Vida Eterna, have been known in the market to have been originating their own content for multiple years. K258DA and K258BZ are licensed to rebroadcast Hector Guevara Ministry Corp\u2019s 850 KEYH Houston, but that station is carrying the programming of Spanish Christian \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/visionlatina.com\/texas\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Radio Vision Latina<\/a>\u201d to feed SDK Franco\u2019s 105.3 K287BQ Houston. K283CH is licensed to rebroadcast Hector Guevara Ministry Corp\u2019s 880 KJOZ Conroe. That station has been noted silent for the past couple of weeks after most recently airing the programming of Primera Iglesia Evangelica de Apostles y Profetas\u2019 leased \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/purotejanofm.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tejano 106.1<\/a>\u201d K291CE Houston. In all, five translators in the market are licensed by the FCC with KJOZ as its parent signal.<\/p>\n<p>KGBC, owned by Siga Broadcasting, in reality simulcasts Patrick Broadcasting Conservative Talk <a href=\"https:\/\/ksevradio.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">700 KSEV<\/a> Tomball.<\/p>\n<p>Nielsen also said it was not able to determine when the encoder misuse began, and is working with station management to rectify these issues on a going-forward basis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nielsen has issued a notice to subscribers that a pair of Houston translators were being used improperly, leading&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278],"class_list":{"0":"post-360060","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}