WGBP-TV (channel 66) is a television station licensed to Opelika, Alabama, United States, affiliated with Merit Street Media.
Owned by CNZ Communications, the station broadcasts from a two-site distributed transmission system, with transmitters at Cusseta and Warm Springs, Georgia.
[7] As a ministry, the station was hindered by its location in Opelika and not the main population center in its coverage area, Columbus, Georgia.
When station manager Ron E. Cottle proposed opening a Columbus studio in 1987, neighbors near the planned facility protested its location in a residential area.
[11] The WB, however, was not a panacea for its poor signal, which continued to trouble local cable companies that refused to carry the station; a plan to move to the tower of WRBL and WTVM in Cusseta, Georgia, fell through.
[18] During the rebuild, Pappas proceeded with its relaunch plans, including changing the call sign to WLGA on June 27, 2005.
[24] The station returned to the air in 2012 with WeatherNation and later Antenna TV, but it continued to be in Pappas's liquidating trust.
[26] CNZ invested in adding a second transmitter at Warm Springs, Georgia, converting the station into a distributed transmission system (DTS).
[27] In January 2022, the FCC denied a carriage complaint made by WGBP-TV against satellite TV provider DirecTV, but it signaled that the station would qualify for must-carry status in both Columbus and Atlanta during the next round of retransmission consent elections.