KANG-TV was a television station on ultra high frequency (UHF) channel 34 in Waco, Texas, United States.
[2] The Central Texas Television Company, owned by Hamilton car dealer and radio station owner Clyde L. Weatherby, filed for the UHF channel.
Though the FCC initially asked for additional information about the company's financial qualifications, it granted the firm a construction permit for channel 34 on November 14, 1952.
[4] In August, the FCC granted permission for the station to erect a 600-foot (180 m) tower on a site at the corner of Bosque Boulevard and Lake Air Drive, and construction would begin immediately on studio facilities there.
[13][14] In building the station, Weatherby later told Donald S. Thomas, a friend, that he believed there would be a longer fight between KWTX and WACO for channel 10—the comparative hearing phase took two weeks, a record for the time[15]—and that he had overestimated the demand for a UHF television station that required converters or special all-channel sets to be viewed.
The sale received swift FCC approval in early December; it brought KANG-TV under the ownership of Lady Bird Johnson, wife of then-senator Lyndon B.
KWTX officials attributed this to monopolistic behavior by Texas Broadcasting, whose KANG-TV continued to be the affiliate of CBS, ABC, and DuMont, and challenged a power increase proposed by KTBC-TV.