KEEF-TV
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KEEF-TV Channel 68 was a short-lived television station in Los Angeles, California. In 1983, the FCC authorized Black Television Workshop to construct a non-commercial TV station on Channel 68 in the Los Angeles area. KEEF-TV did not start broadcasting until early 1987 (originally as KDDE-TV), but was shut down only months later by the FCC's Mass Media Bureau. The Bureau alleged that the station had violated their permits by using a different antennas and antenna height than in their agreement. Later, other questions about the broadcaster arose, and in 1993 Black Television Workshop's permit was revoked.
According to an article appearing the the Los Angeles Times Calendar section, unsuccessful efforts were made in the early 1990's to restart Channel 68 as a Hispanic Christian TV station. Today, Channel 68 is being utlized by KRCA-DT (KRCA-TV operates on analog Channel 62) Riverside/Los Angeles. This essentially makes it impossible today for a broacaster to utiilize Channel 68 for analog transmissions. Under the new digital TV allocations for Los Angeles, no provision has been made for a new assignment for Channel 68 analog.
Channel 68 was used previously (in 1974) for another non-commercial station, KVST (Viewer Sponsored Television Foundation). KVST lasted less than two years (April 1974 to December 1975). That station, which was slanted towards creative and artistic programming, featured the first television appearance of the new wave rock group Oingo Boingo in 1975.
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