{"id":432528,"date":"2026-05-17T22:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T22:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/432528\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T22:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T22:26:09","slug":"fcc-report-5-17-houston-translator-cited-for-originating-programming-wrong-antenna-pattern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/432528\/","title":{"rendered":"FCC Report 5\/17: Houston Translator Cited For Originating Programming &#038; Wrong Antenna Pattern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        FCC Actions<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/fccseal2020.png\" alt=\"FCC Seal 2020 Federal Communications Commission\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-187366\"  \/>The FCC is joining Nielsen in going after Houston translators owned by Centro Cristiano de Vida Eterna for alleged program origination along with other violations.<\/p>\n<p>The FCC issued a Notice of Violation to 94.1 K231CN Houston for both originating programming and not rebroadcasting 880 KJOZ Conroe as licensed along with operating with a two wo bay circularly polarized omni directional antenna as opposed to its authorized directional pattern. K231CN operates as Regional Mexican \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lanuevahouston.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">La Nueva 94.1<\/a>\u201c.<\/p>\n<p>Nielsen in March <a href=\"https:\/\/radioinsight.com\/headlines\/343952\/nielsen-acknowledges-houston-ppm-encoder-misuse-from-illegally-operating-translators\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">issued a notice to subscribers<\/a> that a pair of Houston translators were being used improperly, leading to misattributed estimates in recent Houston\/Galveston market surveys. In those cases Centro Cristiano de Vida Eterna owned Regional Mexican \u201cLa Mejor 104.5\u201d K283CH Houston had been encoding as 880 KJOZ and Spanish AC \u201cPower 99.5\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>Centro Cristiano de Vida Eterna also received a Notice of Violation for its 90.5 K213CS Dallas TX. K213CS was observed in February for being off the air for over 30 days without notifying the commission. The tower owner confirmed to the FCC that K213CS has removed its equipment on December 5, 2025. <\/p>\n<p>Ahead of announcing its new <a href=\"https:\/\/radioinsight.com\/headlines\/351845\/fcc-to-hold-fm-auction-in-february-2027\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">auction for vacant FM<\/a> channels, the FCC has approved its own\u2019s staff\u2019s engineering analysis to delete the vacant Class C allocation on 103.3 in Freeport TX. The commission noted that what was previously KJOJ-FM was short-spaced by 182 kilometers to a vacant Class C2 allocation on the same frequency in Wharton TX and that no alternate channels are available that would comply with the minimum distance separation. <\/p>\n<p>KJOJ-FM went silent in December 2020 after its 2000 foot tower <a href=\"https:\/\/radioinsight.com\/headlines\/203657\/estrella-media-shuffles-signals-in-houston-following-loss-of-two-tower-sites\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">collapsed in a storm<\/a>. The FCC cancelled the license  <a href=\"https:\/\/radioinsight.com\/headlines\/230078\/fcc-report-6-26-fcc-clarifies-class-d-fm-public-file-obligations\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in June 2022<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Silent Notifications<\/p>\n<p>Loam Media\u2019s 1150 WCUE Cuyahoga Falls OH (Tower site sold)<br \/>\nFuchs Radio\u2019s 100.3 KJCM Snyder OK (Tower lease issues)<\/p>\n<p>FM Changes<br \/>\nThis content is for Premium Annual and Premium Monthly members only.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/radioinsight.com\/login?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fradioinsight.com%2Fheadlines%2F352897%2Ffcc-report-5-17-houston-translator-cited-for-originating-programming-wrong-antenna-pattern%2F\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Log In<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/radioinsight.com\/membership-account\/membership-levels\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Register<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FCC Actions The FCC is joining Nielsen in going after Houston translators owned by Centro Cristiano de Vida&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-432528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}