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KFOY-TV, channel 9, Hot Springs

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Does anyone know anything about this station? It was a low power (2.63 kw visual, 1.32 kw aural) licensed to Southwestern Operating Company (Don W. Reynolds). Supposedly an NBC affiliate, signing on February 1st, 1961. Its coverage area completely covered up by NBC affiliate KARK. Couldn't make it, even as an indy?
 
Time to head to the virtual backstacks of Broadcasting yearbooks at AmericanRadioHistory.com. Here's this much: By 1963, KFOY had upgraded to 60 kW ERP visual. KFOY showed up in the 1964 and 1965 editions as "suspended operation". By the 1966 edition, the station was gone.
 
Now to search the weekly issues of Broadcasting....here's an entry from 1963 where a Fort Smith concern was trying to move the channel 9 authorization from Hot Springs to Fort Smith:
http://www.americanradiohistory.com...1963-06-03-BC-OCR-Page-0056.pdf#search="kfoy"

More on that story: http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Magazines/Archive-BC-IDX/64-OCR/1964-11-09-BC-OCR-Page-0061.pdf#search=%22kfoy%22

The end result: channel 9 became a reserved channel, moved to Arkadelphia where it is today part of Arkansas'PBS network as KETG.
 
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Great detective work! Thanks for the info. Now that it's been pointed out that Reynolds was involved, it makes sense that he wouldn't want more competition in Ft. Smith. And, at the time all of this was going on (mid 60s) being an independent (even a VHF) in a market like Little Rock probably didn't make much sense. One other thing-moving channel 9 to Ft. Smith would have involved the potential for being short spaced to KWTV Oklahoma City, also on 9.
 
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