He has his three FM stations back, for now. And, he continues to operate a Class B AM with 1kw during daylight hours from 2 towers and 300 watts at night from 3 towers.
Royce International Broadcasting, led by Ed Stolz, still faces the very real possibility of no longer operating the FMs he successfully wrestled back from court-appointed receiver Larry Patrick as part of a separate bankruptcy filing in a Nevada federal court.
All this time, the AM, serving Las Vegas, was immune to headlines and attention. The FCC’s Enforcement Bureau just changed that.
Lark Hadley, the Region Three Director for the Enforcement Bureau, on Thursday sent Stolz’s Silver State Broadcasting a Notice of Violation for a transmitter site problem he’s now being asked to explain to the Commission.
It involves KBET-AM 790, licensed to Winchester, Nev., and serving Southern Nevada.
On Dec. 15, 2021, agents of the FCC Enforcement Bureau’s Los Angeles Office found that the KBET tower fence gate was unlocked. That’s a rule violation, as a locked enclosure is a must in the eyes of the Commission.
Hadley needs a written statement within 20 days of March 2 explaining the matter, with a copy sent to Silver State’s address on file and to its legal counsel, Barry Wood of Wood & Maines P.C.
With the reply, Hadley and his team will likely move forward with a Notice of Apparent Liability for Forfeiture, or consider this a warning to an individual whose likely got bigger concerns to deal with — namely, emerging from bankruptcy with the likely sale of the FMs, enabling him to keep running KBET regardless of whatever penalty may await from Hadley.
