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It was all but certain that Roger Wahl, a convicted felon, would be stripped of his broadcast license for an FM radio station in Somerset County, Pa., after an August 2022 determination from the FCC's Administrative Law Judge. This week, Wahl was officially given a revocation order.

The end is near for Pennsylvania radio station owner Roger Wahl, who has received a Revocation Order from the Chief of the FCC's Enforcement Bureau that effectively shuts down his station in 40 days — with one meagerly possible route for Wahl to avoid such an action.

The decision is ultimately up to the four FCC Commissioners. However, the Administrative Law Judge overseeing the license revocation hearing for a convicted felon in Central Pennsylvania has made it clear just where she, the Presiding Judge and the Enforcement Bureau stand. Roger Wahl, licensee of WQZS-FM 93.3 in Meyersdale, Pa., has effectively waived his opportunity to participate in the hearing. As such, the proceeding has been terminated, setting up a revocation and deletion of the station's call letters.

On Tuesday (7/12), RBR+TVBR exclusively reported on the return to the airwaves of WQZS-FM 93.3 in Meyersdale, Pa., of Roger Wahl. It appears that the FCC's Enforcement Bureau read the article late Tuesday, as its Acting Chief immediately sent the Administrative Law Judge a motion for a status conference.

The licensee of a low-powered FM radio station serving the Central Pennsylvania town of Meyersdale will not play a role in the ongoing license revocation hearing involving convicted felon Roger Wahl. But, that's not to say the American Militia Association (AMA) won't have a say at a later date, based on the course of discovery and prosecution of the hearing proceeding.

Until today, the American Militia Association's key fight was to protect the Second Amendment's right to bear arms, through schools and efforts designed to promote and enhance the welfare of communities in Somerset County, Pa. Now, the non-profit group has a new battle it's waging. It wants the FCC to prevent Roger Wahl from keeping his FM radio station.

FCC Administrative Law Judge Jane Hinckley Halprin on Friday issued a Discovery Order that compels Roger Wahl, a convicted felon who stands to lose the license to his FM radio station in Central Pennsylvania, to comply to discovery requests from the FCC's Enforcement Bureau in the proceeding.

A new date has been put on the calendar for this all-important event, which could be Wahl's last gasp at holding on to ownership of his Pennsylvania FM radio station.

Pennsylvania radio station owner Roger Wahl, a convicted felon, was all but expected to participate in a pre-hearing conference on Thursday with the FCC's Administrative Law Judge, who issued a Hearing Designation Order to determine if Wahl should be stripped of his license. That didn't happen. This puts WQZS's future on shaky ground anew.

The fate of Roger Wahl, who could be stripped of the ownership of his Class A FM radio station in Pennsylvania, will become that much clearer come January 13, 2022. That is the date of an initial status conference to be conducted virtually as part of a Hearing Designation Order led by the FCC's Administrative Law Judge, Jane Hinckley Halprin.

The owner of a Class A radio station serving Somerset County, Pa., convicted of a felony and multiple misdemeanors under the Pennsylvania Crimes Code and charged with voyeurism and soliciting men to establish rape of a female, is not losing control of his station just yet. RBR+TVBR has learned a written appearance as required by the FCC's Administrative Law Judge was indeed sent to the Commission in timely fashion.

Seven months after his return to the airwaves at a Class A radio station he controls, Roger Wahl now faces a license revocation hearing at the FCC. It's tied to his conviction of a felony and multiple misdemeanors in a case that left the victim and her attorney vocally disappointed. Now, Wahl must face the music in Washington.

A 70-year old owner of a Pennsylvania radio station in November was placed on a three-year “restricted probation” for a series of criminal sexual acts at a sentencing hearing that could save him from a FCC license revocation hearing. This included wearing an electronic monitor for a four-month period. Now, he's back behind the mic in his longtime morning shift.

EXCLUSIVE: A radio personality and station owner in Southwestern Pennsylvania known locally as “The Commander” was to be sentenced today on felony rape charges. That didn't happen, because the man late last week filed a motion to withdraw his guilty plea. Why? He's still willing to plead guilty, but without one key charge.

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