Media Bureau Rejects Gray Market Modification Request
The FCC Media Bureau rejected a Kentucky market modification petition from Gray Television seeking satellite carriage for WYMT-TV Hazard and WKYT-TV Lexington, due to technical and economic infeasibility and the stations being “duplicating network affiliates,” said an order in Thursday's…
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Daily Digest. Dish Network and DirecTV carry WKYT, and adding WYMT “would circumvent the carriers’ right not to carry a duplicating network affiliate,” the bureau said. “We understand and acknowledge the desire for local programming by the residents of eastern Kentucky, as evidenced by more than 2,000 commenters that support the Petition,” the bureau said. “Unfortunately, the request pending before us simply is not permitted under the statutory scheme.”