Laytonville, Calif., is a bucolic town along U.S. 101 in Northern Mendocino County. Technically, it is a part of the vast San Francisco-Oakland-San Francisco DMA. As such, a broadcast ministry wrote the FCC seeking modification of the television market for a broadcast TV station with a tower in this town, giving it “must carry” status.
Comcast opposed the request, which would have forced it to add this religious noncomm to its Santa Rosa, Calif., lineup.
The Senior Deputy Chief of the FCC Media Bureau’s Policy Division has sided with Comcast, denying the station owner’s request.
