[3] Galaxy, owned by Albuquerque car dealer E. W. Richardson and his associate B. L. Turner, was one of two applicants seeking the channel, alongside Southwest Television, a group based in Tucson, Arizona, and led by Gene Adelstein and Edward Berger.
[4] It proposed to operate channel 14 with a mix of ad-supported and subscription television programming, with the latter being supplied by SelecTV.
[4] The merger of the two applicants in 1980 led to the creation of Galaxy–Southwest Television, which received the construction permit on May 29, 1980,[3] and purchased the former KOAT-TV studios at 1377 University Boulevard NE.
[6] In 1984, after being approached with an offer and four months of negotiations, Galaxy–Southwest Television sold KGSW-TV to Mountain States Broadcasting, a joint venture of the Providence Journal Company and Southland Corporation.
[10] Six years later, in 1992, ProJo announced that it would buy Santa Fe-based independent station KKTO channel 2, which at the time was losing money, for the express purpose of moving the Fox affiliation and channel 14 programming to the VHF station, which in turn would move its transmitter to Sandia Crest in a $1 million upgrade.