KPBD (89.3 FM) is a defunct American

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that was licensed to serve the

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, the

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. The station's

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was held by Paulino Bernal Evangelism. The station began broadcasting in June 2005 and went

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in May 2009 which led to the cancellation of the station's broadcast license in June 2011.

Programming

KPBD broadcast a

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to the greater Big Spring-Snyder, Texas, area as a member of the La Nueva Radio Cristiana

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History

In April 1998, Paulino Bernal Evangelism applied to the

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(FCC) for a

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for a new broadcast radio station. After disputes between multiple applicants for the permit were resolved, the FCC granted this permit on June 3, 2002, with a scheduled expiration date of June 3, 2005. The new station was assigned

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"KPBD" on May 24, 2005. After construction and testing were completed in late May 2005, the station was granted its

on January 26, 2006. The station fell silent for the first time on August 12, 2008. In their August 20, 2008, application for

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to remain silent, the station's owners cited "a malfunction with the equipment" for the extended lack of broadcasting. The station briefly resumed broadcasting on May 28, 2009, during an attempt to resolve technical issues but shut down the same day after the station's engineer determined the equipment was "not able to maintain operation within licensed parameters". In their August 20, 2009, application for a new authority to remain silent, the license holder blamed "miscommunication" for their failure to notify the FCC of the events of May 2009. The new application was accepted for filing on August 21, 2009, and the original application was dismissed on August 26, 2009. In the application, station owner Paulino Bernal Jr., stated his belief that repairs could be completed "within the next month" and regular broadcasting resumed. The station never resumed broadcasting, officially falling

for the final time on May 28, 2009. Under the terms of the

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, as a matter of law a radio station's

is subject to automatic forfeiture and cancellation if they fail to broadcast for one full year. In June 2011, the FCC notified licensee Paulino Bernal Evangelism that the license for KPBD had expired as a matter of law on May 29, 2010. (The license for "K231AL", this station's

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, was declared expired at the same time.) After the KPBD broadcast license was cancelled, the KPBD call sign was deleted from the FCC database on June 7, 2011.

References

External links

Query the FCC's FM station database for KPBD
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