The FCC Media Bureau denied a must-carry complaint involving WFBD...
The FCC Media Bureau denied a must-carry complaint involving WFBD Destin, Fla. The bureau granted Comcast’s petition to modify the station’s designated market area to exclude Chickasaw, Mobile, Prichard, Saraland and Dauphin Island, in the Mobile, Ala.,-Pensacola-Ft. Walton Beach, Fla.,…
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DMA (http://xrl.us/bnjnh4). “WFBD has no history of carriage despite being on the air for seven years, and no discernible viewership in the communities at issue,” the order said. “In addition, WFBD has failed to demonstrate that it provides any local programming to the communities at issue.” The station is geographically far from those communities and doesn’t cover them with a Grade-B signal, according to standard engineering analysis, the order said.