Monday, May 21, 2007

KAAY Editorial Comment on the Channel 7 for 2 trade

A recent comment said:

This was a few years before my time. They were wanting to trade channel 2 for 7? What was that about and why? Did KATV want to transmit on channel 2?


Yes, KATV wanted channel 2 because it could cover so much more area than channel 7.
I think there offer would give the channel 7 transmitter site and transmitter to the state. It was a short stick at the time. The legislature was about to make the deal.
KAAY editorialized against it. Claiming that channel 2 was a valuable state asset that shouldn't be bargained away. Len Carl, General Manager at the time did the editorial. I believe he reads this blog and can give us more detail.

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