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Media Bureau Approves WSBS Market Mod

The FCC Media Bureau approved an unopposed petition to modify the market of WSBS-TV Key West, Florida, to include 41 cable communities in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale designated market area, said an order Thursday. Petitioners WSBS and parent Spanish Broadcasting System…

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said “a series of market modification decisions between 1996 and 1999 deleted the Communities from the Station’s market,” the order said. Since then, SBS bought WSBS and changed its programming to “provide specialized Spanish-language local service to the Hispanic population in the Communities,” the order said. “Facts support the grant of the Petitioner’s request to modify the market of the Station by reinstating the Communities that were previously deleted.”