WSFG-LD 51 is a
low-power television
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station in
Fayette County, Alabama
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which receives
religious programming
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via satellite for terrestrial rebroadcast.
WSSF-LP 48 was a station commonly owned with WSFG-LD.
In 2008 both stations, despite their LPTV status, successfully forced their programming onto West Alabama TV Cable, a local
cable television
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provider in
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Winfield-
Fayette, Alabama
Fayette is a city and the county seat of Fayette County, Alabama, United States. The population was 4,619 at the 2010 census, down from 4,922 at the 2000 census.
History
Originally known as "La Fayette", it incorporated on January 15, 1821. W ...
, by using the
terrestrial loophole in federal
must-carry
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North America Canada
Under current CRTC regulations, the lowest tier of service on ...
regulations which allow "qualified LPTV stations" to obtain mandatory cable carriage normally reserved for full-power stations.
[http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-08-2645A1.txt ] The use of this provision is based on a claim that no full-power station serves Fayette County, that the community is not part of any of the 160 largest
metropolitan statistical area
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s and that the stations meet specific technical criteria (such as signal coverage and number of hours of programming) which apply to full-service stations seeking carriage.
WSSF-LP's license was cancelled by the
Federal Communications Commission
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on September 9, 2013, due to the station failing to file an application for license renewal.
Digital television
Digital channels
The station's digital signal is
multiplexed
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Low-power television stations in the United States
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