KACY (channel 14) was a television station licensed to Festus, Missouri, United States, which served the St. Louis area.

[2] After finding the original site proposal infeasible due to poor access, the station amended its construction permit before launch to specify a site on Rock Creek Road in rural Jefferson County,[1] as well as a directional antenna pattern; it also specified the use of beam tilt, with a high maximum effective radiated power for the time of 324,000 watts and 491,000 watts with beam tilt.

[7] Carriage of CBS programming, and its availability to KACY in the St. Louis market, quickly became a question of economic survival for the fledgling station.

[9] A week later, it filed for bankruptcy, desperate for new capital but hopeful that it could return to the air because of a substantial base of 200,000 converted UHF sets.

[11] As a result of the bankruptcy hearing, KACY's assets were sold at auction in May 1955, where they fetched a combined $79,000 in high bids; one of the purchases was made by the United Broadcasting Company, holder of a channel 14 construction permit in Washington, D.C., who bought the transmitter for $20,000.