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Sale Of UHF Station WVW UnconfirmedBy JOEL KIRKPATRICKSEWS STAFV WUTEftJAttempts to tune in on reports that WYVY-TV is in process ot being sold for a reported fttQ,OQO during the weekend produced only an interference pattern.it has been reported in Houston that Fred Hoffceinz, son of Judge Roy Hofbemz, and the attorney who presided z\ the Ralph Yarborough dinner last week, was negotiating for purchase of ihe station.Kolheinz couldn’t be reached by telephone during the weekend,The station, called Channel !$, and operating on ultra high frequency, with a maximum of 3.39 million watts, went off the air last Aug. 31, after operating for 18 months.At that time, fl. 0, Beach, prciMcnt of TVue Associates, lie,, owners of the station, said U was hoped the station could complete “financial reorganization la M days.By late Friday, no application for approval of sale of Ihe station had been filed with the Federal Communications Commission.Beach couldn't be reached in Houston at his office listing.A listing for his home drew a recorded: “Sony but that number has been disconnected. * *The television station, which had a Galveston allocation from the FCC, had offices in Houston and Galveston and its studios in a two - story modem 13,000 square feet building in Alvin. The studios are said to have cost in the neighborhood of *350,000.Charles F. Macy, vice pftsideat of the comptay which oww (or owned) the statioe told the Gaivcftot Rotary Dab on Ju. 31, \m that the station represented total iivtstraenU of aboil *3 million.The Alvin telephone book has no listing for the station, and attempts to contact someone at the building failed Sunday night.G. D. (Sonny) Look, owner of Sonny Look’s Sirloin House and Soony Look's Sirloin Inn in Houston, was not available. for comment Sunday night. Look is secretary « treasurer of the company, or was fit last report.Hofhelnz was not available for comment.Harris L. Kempner Jr. of Galveston, one of a number of stockholders. In top company, confirmed late last week that negotiations for sate of .KVVV-TV were under way, but declined toelaborate in any way while negotiations are going on.The nation had had jHrafraozMiag praUem which prompted Beach to nay hack la Aagiit that aaless I£»,«* co«M be. pamped bit the operatic* dirlag the It layc aceded for “financial reorgaaiutJoa” that the slalinn a mild be unplugged for good.The station had one entire day devoted to Spanish programming, had feature * length movies, bullfights, a live program with local children and a clown performing in front of thecameras, and the mosl extensive stock market reports and business news in the area.News programming on thestation white it operated, was not extensive. Officials onceapproached the Galveston Dally News asking permission to use any or all of the news stories in Ihe paper on the station's late • evening newscast, In exchange for which the station would have given the Galveston Daily News credit for Ihe stories used. The request wai denied.And now, there is at least one other UHF channel available for the Houston Area, and this, one Informed source In Houston said, could be the thing that may put the station on a permanent test pattern.
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Galveston Daily News
Galveston, Texas, US
Mon, Mar 23, 1970
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