MEKADDESH GROUP CORPORATION has filed to cancel these stations

[Frequency1]

MEKADDESH GROUP CORPORATION has filed to cancel these stations:
KEVQ-FM Crosbyton
KYLQ-FM Encinal
KEVM-FM Junction
KWFG-FM Knox City
KEVK-FM Sanderson
KDSP-FM Spur
KYLB-FM Turkey
The only one I do not see canceled yet is KZAM-FM Pleasant Valley

These are all associated with Antonio Guel.

Bureau Issues HDO for HCCN, Antonio Cesar Guel, and Jennifer Juarez

Bureau commences a hearing proceeding relating to Hispanic Christian Community Network, Inc., Antonio Cesar Guel, and Jennifer Juarez.

www.fcc.gov

 

[radioislife2020]

Wonder if these frequencies will ever be licensed again.

 

[K.M. Richards]

MEKADDESH GROUP CORPORATION has filed to cancel these stations:
KEVQ-FM Crosbyton
KYLQ-FM Encinal
KEVM-FM Junction
KWFG-FM Knox City
KEVK-FM Sanderson
KDSP-FM Spur
KYLB-FM Turkey
The only one I do not see canceled yet is KZAM-FM Pleasant Valley

These are all associated with Antonio Guel.

Bureau Issues HDO for HCCN, Antonio Cesar Guel, and Jennifer Juarez

Bureau commences a hearing proceeding relating to Hispanic Christian Community Network, Inc., Antonio Cesar Guel, and Jennifer Juarez.

www.fcc.gov

Thank you for phrasing that to make the legal distinction which so many get wrong. An owner can take a station silent and then surrender the license to the FCC (a "cancellation application"), but it is the latter who actually "cancels" the authorization. My point in mentioning this is that owners can take stations silent under STAs and not be considered "cancelled".

Quirk in the system? Those cancellation applications are marked "dismissed and active" in LMS. Yet the calls now have the "D" in front of them indicating they are deleted from the database.

That said, Guel and Juarez have been in a long, drawn-out battle with the Commission for some time now, as referenced in your three (!) links, and I am hoping that this is an indication that they actually know where the white flags are kept.

Wonder if these frequencies will ever be licensed again.

If Congress ever gives the FCC approval to conduct FM auctions again, previously used allocations are usually on the list of facilities included. Real world: These are Class A rimshots that barely touch the nearby major communities, so I don't know that anyone will want to license them again.

 

[b-turner]

I wonder if any of these were actually on the air. While most had significant power, I have to question how these stations reached enough of a listener base to be viable. Sanderson, most definitely, would not be viable with only about 800 people reached in a county that might very well have the lowest population count per square miles (around .3 persons per square mile).

 

[SnottyNose799]

KZAM, the non-canceled one, has been on-air before. Last time I heard it was low power several years ago... Not on last time I drove through the area in 2023.

 

[b-turner]

Looking at these spots, none are viable for a radio station reaching speakers of Spanish.

Below are some figures: Radio Locator shows none of these stations on air nor does RecNet

KEVQ-FM Crosbyton Population 1,442 within zip code 1,721 - Radio Locator shows 36 distant, 16 local stations received in town - none in town
KYLQ-FM Encinal Population 496 within zip code 1,397 - Radio Locator shows 26 distant and 9 local stations received in town - 2 are in town
KEVM-FM Junction Population 2,490 within zip code 4,160 (4,374 live in county) - Radio Locator shows 13 distant and 5 local stations received in town - 4 are in town
KWFG-FM Knox City Population 941 within zip code 1,131 - Radio Locator shows 16 distant and 3 local stations received in town - none in town
KEVK-FM Sanderson Population 567 (695 live in county of 2,358 square miles) - Radio Locator shows 0 stations received in town
KDSP-FM Spur Population 848 within zip code 1,303 (1,669 in county) - Radio Locator shows 17 distant and 1 local stations received in town - none in town
KYLB-FM Turkey Population 270 within zip code 359 - Radio Locator shows 15 distant and 4 local stations received in town - none in town

Hispanic Population:
Crosbyton: 47.65%
Encinal: 93.7%
Junction: 32.03%
Knox City: 36.81%
Sanderson: 53.92%
Spur: 40.09%
Turkey: 26.81%

Population in 2000
Crosbyton - 1,874
Encinal - 629
Junction - 2,618
Knox City - 1,219
Sanderson - 861
Spur - 1,088
Turkey - 494

Population Figures from hometownlocator.com and reflect July 2024 figures.
Radio Locator default setting is Distant Stations. Local stations are those that put a 60 dbu over the community on FM and are strong enough on AM to stop when you scan the dial. Coverage areas tend to be larger in many of these spots because there's nothing to compete with the signal.

I have been through all these communities. I knew the owner of the AM station in the late 1980s in Junction (the only one in town then). I know what the Junction, Crosbyton and Spur newspapers look like with an emphasis on advertising. I never saw a Knox City paper. Sanderson has had a number of newspapers and the most recent is a 4 pager that is every other week operated by a non-profit organization. Encinal and Turkey don't have a paper. All print is in English.

 

[Kent]

KYLQ-FM Encinal Population 496 within zip code 1,397 - Radio Locator shows 26 distant and 9 local stations received in town - 2 are in town

Not sure what the signal parameters would have been for KYLQ (and don’t really care to look them up), but you might have a chance if you could cover Laredo with it. Granted, Laredo isn’t exactly a big money market, but it would seem to have plenty of format holes. There's otherwise next-to-nothing between San Antonio and Laredo. You couldn’t run anything cheap enough to squeeze out of a living covering that area. People have tried and gone broke multiple times.

KDSP-FM Spur Population 848 within zip code 1,303 (1,669 in county) - Radio Locator shows 17 distant and 1 local stations received in town - none in town

Again, might have a chance if you could get a listenable signal into Lubbock. Otherwise, it's about the same as the area between San Antonio and Laredo. Might have a slightly larger population, but it wouldn’t be enough to make a difference.

I wonder if some of these license applications were merely speculations with the idea of moving them to larger areas?

 

[b-turner]

I suspect they were speculation applications. My thought was they're designed to be 'in the way' stations. Pay me big bucks and I go away.

 

[SnottyNose799]

For what it's worth, I found this on KZAM. https://radiodiscussions.com/threads/kzam-in-wichita-falls.601244/

I did hear the variety Jack-FM like format described in the thread. It sounded nice and clean, natural/noncompressed.
I also heard "Cat Country" 96.3 KXXN when it was owned by its original owner... That one sounded like 98.7 so I suppose they had the same engineering.