The decision was met with dissension even from FCC chairman Rosel H.
However, much to both parties' surprise, the FCC voted 4–2 to designate the transaction for hearing in August 1969. Ĭowles announced the sale of KTVH to the WKY Television System of Oklahoma City for $4.4 million in December 1968. In 1963, the station activated a new transmitter located northwest of Burrton and east of Hutchinson, operating from the tallest broadcast tower in the state at 1,504 ft (458 m). The four stations then formed the Kansas Broadcasting System (KBS), which claimed coverage of 66 Kansas counties. Further, KAYS-TV joined CBS on November 1, 1962. KAYS-TV purchased the financially struggling Goodland station, then known as KLOE-TV, and combined the two as one operation. In 1961, KTVC switched affiliations from ABC to CBS. KWGB-TV aired CBS and NBC programs, while KTVC and KAYS-TV were ABC affiliates engaged in a regional hookup with KAKE-TV known as the "Golden K Network". 1957 brought the launch of KTVC at Ensign, serving communities including Dodge City and Garden City, and in 1958, television stations were established at Goodland ( KWGB-TV) and Hays ( KAYS-TV). Īs KTVH grew, other television stations were set up in western and central Kansas. The FCC allowed it to identify as "Hutchinson–Wichita" in 1959 and further tossed out petitions for reconsideration from the two Wichita commercial stations. Cowles also made a second effort at seeking permission to identify more closely with Wichita in 1958 the station's president, Joyce Swan, cited confusion from national advertisers, who thought the dual designation of Wichita and Hutchinson signified separate markets, and stated that "it is obvious that an advertising media that covers a large area must cater to the largest metropolitan market". A power increase from 240,000 watts to the class-maximum 316,000 watts followed in 1957. Cowles expanded channel 12's Wichita presence in 1956 by purchasing the former studios of KEDD, the first station to be built in that city, which had just closed.
In 1955, Wichita-Hutchinson Company sold 80 percent of KTVH to the Des Moines-based Minneapolis Star and Tribune Company (owned by the Cowles family), for $1.07 million. KAKE radio and television petitioned the FCC in November 1954 to order KTVH to stop identifying as a "Wichita station" it declined to do so. Its attempts to provide service to Wichita, in what would become a running theme in the first three decades of station history, rankled the stations licensed there. In August 1954, channel 12 opened a satellite studio in Wichita's Lassen Hotel. KTVH was the first television station to open that covered Wichita, the state's largest city, and recognized that much of its viewing audience would be in the air capital. The first test pattern went out on June 24, 1953, ahead of July 1, when the station launched as the first commercial television station based in Kansas. The call letters KTVH were selected a tract of land on Plum Street was purchased for studio facilities and a tower site selected east of town. Carey, whose family owned salt mines the publisher of The Hutchinson News-Herald and the owner of radio station KWBW. The company was composed of several shareholders from Hutchinson and other Kansas cities, including Ray Dillon of the Dillons grocery store family local car dealer J. On June 30, 1952, Wichita-Hutchinson Company, Inc., filed an application for a construction permit to build channel 12 in Hutchinson, which the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted on January 8, 1953. KTVH was the third-rated news outlet in the area until the owners of two of the other three KBS stations purchased it, changed the call letters to KWCH in 1983, and successfully led it to first place in the local ratings. The KBS network took its present form in the early 1960s. Though based in Hutchinson until 1978, when the main studio was officially moved to Wichita, it has had a presence in that city since 1954. The station was established as KTVH in Hutchinson on July 1, 1953, and was the first television station built within the state. KWCH-DT serves as the flagship of the Kansas Broadcasting System ( KBS), a network of four full-power stations that relay CBS network and other programming provided by KWCH across central and western Kansas, as well as bordering counties in Colorado, Nebraska and Oklahoma. It is owned by Gray Television alongside CW affiliate KSCW-DT (channel 33) and maintains studios on 37th Street North in northeast Wichita and a transmitter facility located east of Hutchinson in rural northeastern Reno County. KWCH-DT (channel 12) is a television station licensed to Hutchinson, Kansas, United States, serving the Wichita area as an affiliate of CBS.
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