12 Facts About Kaiser Broadcasting

Kaiser Broadcasting purchased KULA-TV on May 8,1958, changed its calls to KHVH-TV on July 16,1958, and returned the original KHVH-TV license to the Federal Communications Commission .

Kaiser Broadcasting acquired San Francisco station KBAY-FM in 1960, renaming it KFOG-FM and implementing a beautiful music format.

Later in the 1960s, Kaiser explored new opportunities to expand its broadcast holdings on the U S mainland: construction permits were secured for multiple ultra high frequency stations, all in large markets, and KHVH-TV was sold off to help fund this expansion.

Kaiser Broadcasting started up two more stations, KBHK-TV in San Francisco and WKBF-TV in Cleveland, at the start of 1968.

In September 1967, the Kaiser Broadcasting Corporation announced plans for live television network operations by 1970.

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The high costs incurred, in addition to a weak economic picture nationally and a marketplace reluctant to embrace UHF, led Kaiser Broadcasting to suspend news operations throughout the entire chain on November 12,1970.

WKBF-TV management and Kaiser Broadcasting executives conceded that, due to WUAB signing on within months of WKBF-TV, the station never turned a profit and could not find consistent viewership or advertiser support in the Cleveland market.

In January 1977, Kaiser Broadcasting sold its stake in the station group to Field for a combined $42.

From 1965 onward, Kaiser Broadcasting consisted of stations of independent outlets that broadcast on the UHF band.

In Detroit, Boston and Cleveland, Kaiser Broadcasting-owned stations were the first independents in their respective markets.

At a time when viewer interest in watching UHF television was still at its infancy, the Kaiser Broadcasting group programmed aggressively with movies, off-network programs, and children's shows.

Many of the Kaiser Broadcasting stations purchased syndication rights for Star Trek before other large market stations as counterprogramming against evening news programs on the Big Three networks and, in the case of WKBF-TV, were aired in the same episode order as originally broadcast on NBC.