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Coupla things. You write both:

>Golden West sold 25 KOKH to Heritage in 1985.

and

>In 1991 Heritage would buy 25 KOKH.

I'm confused. So Golden West at one point owned both channels 25 and 43? How did that work? And wait, did Heritage buy KOKH in 1985, or 1991?

Also, you should mention that KAUT was Oklahoma City's original Fox affiliate. Anyone know why and when KOKH took over the Fox affiliation?

Finally, Chris Craft never owned Channel 43... Paramount bought it from OETA.


> I do not remember what happened with KCPQ 13 Seattle/Tacoma.
> All I know was they began commercial operation in 1980.
>
> KAUT 43 though signed on with Business News by day and
> Subscription TV by night back in 1979 the same month 2 other
> independent stations 25 KOKH and 34 KGMC signed on (34 is
> now WB and 25 is now Fox). Golden West owned 43 KAUT. By
> 1982 KAUT added general entertainment to the daytime lineup
> and went general entertainment full time by 1984. Golden
> West sold 25 KOKH to Heritage in 1985.
>
> In 1988 Pappas almost bought Fox 25 KOKH. Under the deal 43
> KAUT would be sold to OETA and be flipped to Educational
> programming while KGMC 34 would be sold to Home Shopping
> Network. Pappas would buy programming from the other 2
> stations and fold it into 25 KOKH. But the deal was canceled
> in 1989.
>
> In 1991 Heritage would buy 25 KOKH. They sold 43 KAUT to
> OETA and folded assets onto Fox 25 KOKH. They eventually
> LMAd 34 KGMC becoming KOCB. The combo would go to Sinclair
> in 1996.
>
> Channel 43 would go educational in 1991 as "The Literacy
> Channel". KOCB 34 was the WB station so Oklahome City lacked
> a UPN station. In 1997 OETA sold 43 to Chris Craft. At that
> point they kept educational programming until 3 PM and
> general entertainment independent scheduling plus UPN after
> 3 PM. Eventually the daytime lease with Oklahoma Educational
> expired and 43 became a full time commercial station. When
> Fox bought Chris Craft channel 43 was spun off to
> Paramount/Viacom which merged with CBS and now 43 is owned
> by CBS and run as a UPN station. I think (it may have been
> since sold)
>
 
> Coupla things. You write both:
>
> >Golden West sold 25 KOKH to Heritage in 1985.
>
> and
>
> >In 1991 Heritage would buy 25 KOKH.
>
> I'm confused. So Golden West at one point owned both
> channels 25 and 43? How did that work? And wait, did
> Heritage buy KOKH in 1985, or 1991?
>
> Also, you should mention that KAUT was Oklahoma City's
> original Fox affiliate. Anyone know why and when KOKH took
> over the Fox affiliation?
>
> Finally, Chris Craft never owned Channel 43... Paramount
> bought it from OETA.
>
>
> > I do not remember what happened with KCPQ 13
> Seattle/Tacoma.
> > All I know was they began commercial operation in 1980.
> >
> > KAUT 43 though signed on with Business News by day and
> > Subscription TV by night back in 1979 the same month 2
> other
> > independent stations 25 KOKH and 34 KGMC signed on (34 is
> > now WB and 25 is now Fox). Golden West owned 43 KAUT. By
> > 1982 KAUT added general entertainment to the daytime
> lineup
> > and went general entertainment full time by 1984. Golden
> > West sold 25 KOKH to Heritage in 1985.
> >
> > In 1988 Pappas almost bought Fox 25 KOKH. Under the deal
> 43
> > KAUT would be sold to OETA and be flipped to Educational
> > programming while KGMC 34 would be sold to Home Shopping
> > Network. Pappas would buy programming from the other 2
> > stations and fold it into 25 KOKH. But the deal was
> canceled
> > in 1989.
> >
> > In 1991 Heritage would buy 25 KOKH. They sold 43 KAUT to
> > OETA and folded assets onto Fox 25 KOKH. They eventually
> > LMAd 34 KGMC becoming KOCB. The combo would go to Sinclair
>
> > in 1996.
> >
> > Channel 43 would go educational in 1991 as "The Literacy
> > Channel". KOCB 34 was the WB station so Oklahome City
> lacked
> > a UPN station. In 1997 OETA sold 43 to Chris Craft. At
> that
> > point they kept educational programming until 3 PM and
> > general entertainment independent scheduling plus UPN
> after
> > 3 PM. Eventually the daytime lease with Oklahoma
> Educational
> > expired and 43 became a full time commercial station.
> When
> > Fox bought Chris Craft channel 43 was spun off to
> > Paramount/Viacom which merged with CBS and now 43 is owned
>
> > by CBS and run as a UPN station. I think (it may have been
>
> > since sold)
> >
>

I remember one such thing in the Paducah, KY-Cape Girardeau, MO area. The current KET station there, WKPD-TV, Ch. 29, started out in the 70's as a commercial indie, WDXR-TV. That station eventually went bankrupt and signed off
around 1977. Then, about two or three years later, Ch. 29 was revived as a PBS
station, WKPD-TV, which became the KET(Kentucky ETV)station for Paducah. Does anyone have a history of WDXR-TV?
 
fybush said:
What's now WHYY-TV 12 in the Philadelphia market began as WDEL-TV 7 Wilmington DE, then moved to channel 12, becoming indie WVUE. Storer couldn't make a go of it, and ended up donating the facility to public TV WHYY (then on channel 35) in 1963. 35 became WUHY, a secondary station, and is now WYBE under different ownership.
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Ran across this thread looking up material related to the Fox acquisition in Seattle (found it because of the KCPQ info).

Minor correction for my friend Scott: WUHY-TV relinquished its channel 35 license August 31, 1976. WYBE was a new application/CP/license.
 
Another in the other direction: WNEG/channel 32 in Toccoa GA (Greenville/Spartanburg/Anderson S C/Asheville N C DMA) started out as an independent ion 1984. It became a CBS affiliate in 1995 controlled by WSPA in Spartanburg for the benefit of those who couldn't get Atlanta's WGNX (now WGCL), which switched to CBS after WAGA switched to Fox. In 2008, owner Media General sold WNEG to the of Georgia in Athens as a media training facility and the station reverted to independent status (running some shows from America One). In 2011, WNEG changed calls to WUGA and became a PBS station, rebroadcasting Georgia Public Broadcasting's World subchannel and moved broadcasting facilities to Athens. It still has Toccoa as its city of license.
 
Ccook55 said:
Another in the other direction: WNEG/channel 32 in Toccoa GA (Greenville/Spartanburg/Anderson S C/Asheville N C DMA) started out as an independent ion 1984. It became a CBS affiliate in 1995 controlled by WSPA in Spartanburg for the benefit of those who couldn't get Atlanta's WGNX (now WGCL), which switched to CBS after WAGA switched to Fox. In 2008, owner Media General sold WNEG to the of Georgia in Athens as a media training facility and the station reverted to independent status (running some shows from America One). In 2011, WNEG changed calls to WUGA and became a PBS station, rebroadcasting Georgia Public Broadcasting's World subchannel and moved broadcasting facilities to Athens. It still has Toccoa as its city of license.
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I saw on RabbitEars that WUGA is being handed over to Marquee Broadcasting. I Googled that and found out they own WMDT (ABC) Salisbury MD. Is Marquee about to turn WUGA back to a commercial station?

Crossposted to "Cursed TV Stations" thread and Atlanta TV board
 
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