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Channel 68 Los Angeles

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e-dawg

I know Channel 68 used to be KVST (70s) , KEET (80s), follow by a low-power Home Shopping Network during the 90s and 2000s. If KEET was still on the air instead of FCC force them off the air. Will this tv station become Daystar or other Non-Commercial Religious station? Since Channel 68 during the analog days was reserved as (Non-Commercial/Educational station)
 
e-dawg said:
I know Channel 68 used to be KVST (70s) , KEET (80s), follow by a low-power Home Shopping Network during the 90s and 2000s. If KEET was still on the air instead of FCC force them off the air. Will this tv station become Daystar or other Non-Commercial Religious station? Since Channel 68 during the analog days was reserved as (Non-Commercial/Educational station)
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The callsign of the 1980s incarnation of channel 68 was actually KEEF. The KEET calls are assigned to the PBS member station in Eureka.
 
e-dawg said:
Will this tv station become Daystar or other Non-Commercial Religious station? Since Channel 68 during the analog days was reserved as (Non-Commercial/Educational station)
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I am trying to stay behind the scenes as much as possible, since certain people here "report" me every time I look cross-eyed at someone, but since I both administer the UHF History site and have lived in the Los Angeles television market for my entire life (70 years this May), I have to chime in here.

First, in the move to digital television, all vacant analog channels were removed from the allocations table. No one could apply to put "channel 68" back on the air; that part of the UHF band is no longer used for television broadcasting.

Reference the footnotes to my article at the UHF History site for channel 28 (once the WRH server comes back up; that is where the site is hosted). The first incarnation of channel 68 was underfunded and went dark because they couldn't pay the electric bill. The second incarnation was taken off the air because of technical rules violations, the most egregious of which was the transmitter drifting off channel.

So this station will not "become" anything. It has been dead for decades and will not return. (And IIRC, there is a rule here about fantasy speculating ...)
 


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