FCC orders China-owned Phoenix TV to cease US-Mexico broadcasts within 48 hours

The Federal Communications Commission gave a Chinese government-linked Phoenix Radio, which broadcasts from Mexico into the United States, just 48 hours to cease its cross-border operations after it concealed the company’s ties to Beijing.

The FCC’s International Bureau announced Monday that it dismissed a broadcast application to deliver Mandarin Chinese programming from a studio located in California to XEWW-AM in Mexico for rebroadcast back over the border into the U.S. The FCC said the application was dismissed “because the parties failed to include in their application a key participant” — Phoenix TV — “which produces the Mandarin programming in its studio.”