Invisible Texan

Glenn McCarthy's Shamrock Broadcasting owned KXYZ-AM-FM at the time and was seeking a TV station (he wanted to operate them all from the hotel but I don't think any of them ever had studios there). McCarthy shut down the FM to concentrate on TV but so far as I know, KXYZ-TV never made it to the air on any channel. Wow.. That's great & memorable stuff. Do you have any idea where exactly the KNUZ-39 transmitter/antenna was? The earliest recollection I have (before KHTV) of that Candelabra tower near Missouri City was with only two antennas -- CH's 2 & 11. It seems to me like KHTV's antenna went in the vacant 3rd position in 1966. I wondered if that might've been where KNUZ-TV had been before ... But that was so long ago & my memory must be half shot by now.

That would be nice to know if anyone ventures over that way. Living 300 miles away, I don't get there often anymore. I had a gut feeling the facility was on the short list for demolition after I charged in there that day taking pictures & have since read somewhere online that a subdivision was going in on that corner or the adjacent one. As for the equipment - - The story I was told years ago was that it was sold & they basically "picked up the station" & moved it to Corpus Christi. The Federal Communications Commission swapped the channel 16 allocation to Galveston with the allocation for channel 22 in Corpus Christi. Then sometime around 1971, KEDT (16) signed on in CC as the PBS affiliate with the used equipment purchased from KVVV. -- Presumably the same transmitter as well. . Again, I haven't confirmed that either. I was just told that once by a friend that lived in Corpus at the time. Regards, Jack