Kaiser Broadcasting was the name of an entity that owned and operated broadcast television stations in the United States from 1958 to 1977.
Kaiser's involvement in broadcasting began when the Henry J. Kaiser Company Ltd., a multi-industrial conglomerate, purchased KULA-TV (later KHVH and now KITV) in Honolulu, Hawaii. Later in the 1960s, Kaiser explored new opportunities to expand its broadcast holdings on the U.S. mainland. Kaiser secured licens...
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Kaiser Broadcasting was the name of an entity that owned and operated broadcast television stations in the United States from 1958 to 1977.
Kaiser's involvement in broadcasting began when the Henry J. Kaiser Company Ltd., a multi-industrial conglomerate, purchased KULA-TV (later KHVH and now KITV) in Honolulu, Hawaii. Later in the 1960s, Kaiser explored new opportunities to expand its broadcast holdings on the U.S. mainland. Kaiser secured licenses to construct new UHF stations, all of which were in large markets. The first two of these new stations signed-on during 1965: WKBD-TV in Detroit went on the air in January, followed nine months later by WKBS-TV in Burlington, New Jersey, a suburb of Philadelphia. Also that year Kaiser sold KHVH, partially to help fund its mainland expansion.
In December 1966 Kaiser teamed up with the Boston Globe to re-launch channel 56 in Cambridge, Massachusetts as WKBG-TV. The station had been dark (television terminology for being off-the-air) for much...
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