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Media Bureau Denies Must-Carry Complaint Against DirecTV

WGBP-TV, Opelika, Alabama, isn't a new station in the Atlanta designated market area eligible for mandatory carriage on DirecTV during the current election cycle, the FCC Media Bureau said Wednesday, denying a must-carry complaint brought by WGBP licensee CNZ Communications…

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in docket 21-153. WGBP has provided over-the-air service in the Atlanta market since 2014, and it didn't become a new station by virtue of putting its distributed transmission system transmitter in the Atlanta area in 2020, the agency said.