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AFTER 15 YEARS.KIVA-TV Will Go OffSa\ my th i! he Yuma KiCentro market cannot support three television stations, theowner of KIVA-TV has an-noum • ii t li.it the s|§tton wfll go off the air Jan. -Mst alter 15vears of operat ion.After e\eial vears of trying to convertp the operations of KIV A-1\ to a profitable basis. Brut e Merrill of Phoenix said in an open letter yesterday to his staff. I have come §o the painful decision that Ihave neither the talent nor|h|resources to accomplish thisLeavenworth lt;Bun»Wheeler Yuma general man-airt-r of KIVA. said that appro-ximateK I1' employees wouldlM. affected. He said that Mer-nll would make aiv announce-ment later concerning the dis-plt;|§ of the §jpment andphysicEl piftt* |jMerrill, who has owned the.station for 10 years, said it hadshown an almost uninterrupted series of annual lotses. He added that the marfeet could never support three television stations on a prof'table basisuntil it grows to five times itspresent size He was referringto KBLU-TV, Yuma andKECC-TV, El Centro^Merrill said he will return the license to the Federal Communications Commission andliquidate the assets of the station as rapidly as possible.
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Yuma Sun
Yuma, Arizona, US
Wed, Jan 14, 1970
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