The FCC has revoked the license of 1060 KIJN(AM) in Farwell, Texas.
KIJN operated with a Spanish religious format as “My Jesus Radio” on a daytime-only, 10,000-watt Class D AM signal. Farwell is located in the southwest Texas panhandle on the New Mexico border, just east of Clovis, N.M., in Parmer County.
The commission said KIJN’s owner, Unidos Para Cristo, failed to pay regulatory fees for each fiscal year from 2013 to 2024, accumulating a debt of approximately $27,000.
The FCC also dismissed the pending application to renew the station’s license. In the renewal application it filed in 2021, KIJN claimed it was exempt from the commission’s application fees, citing its nonprofit status.
In December, the Media Bureau and its Office of Managing Director issued an order to “pay or show cause,” requiring KIJN to either pay the full debt or explain within 60 days why the fees should be waived or deferred. The order also stated that failure to provide evidence or payment could result in license revocation.
It said that, to date, KIJN has neither paid its debts nor responded to the order.
The commission issued a similar order in 2020.
Following this order, however, KIJN’s license was revoked and the commission initiated the process of deleting the call sign from its databases.
The revocation does not relieve Unidos Para Cristo of its obligation to resolve the outstanding debt, the commission noted.
Mike Rodriguez, listed as the owner of Unidos Para Cristo, acquired the station from Metropolitan Radio Group in 2008.
The KIJN callsign is used on 92.3 FM, also licensed to Farwell and formerly co-owned with 1060 AM. The FM signal is owned by Top O’ Texas Educational Broadcasting Foundation and airs programming from the Kingdom Keys Radio Network.
