Judge Ends WQZS/Meyersdale, PA License Revocation Hearing After Licensee Fails To Respond To Hearing Order

Hearing Terminated

Administrative Law Judge JANE HALPRIN has terminated the license revocation hearing for Oldies WQZS/MEYERSDALE, PA after licensee ROGER WAHL failed to show up for the hearing. The matter is being sent back to the FCC for a final determination, with WAHL being deemed having waived his right to a hearing. The FCC initially issued an Order to Show Cause on OCTOBER 19th, and sent a copy of the order to the wrong address; a letter was resent to WAHL on NOVEMBER 8th and he did not appear before the NOVEMBER 29th deadline.

WAHL was convicted in 2019 of spying on a woman in her bathroom with a hidden camera, impersonating her on a dating site, sending nude photos of her to another man, and soliciting the man for sex, then destroying the evidence upon learning that police were investigating the matter. An attempt to transfer the station to daughter WENDY SIPPEL was initially approved and then reversed by the FCC in 2020, and SIPPEL's motion to intervene in the license revocation hearing was dismissed by Judge HALPRIN as moot.

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