[3] Patterson had previously acquired the Eshom Point transmitter site, which had been used by another failed television station in the area, KVVG-TV (channel 27).
[4] The station initially broadcast for 4+1⁄2 hours a day, with movies as the prime attraction;[2] it would also air programs that Fresno's NBC and CBS affiliates did not clear.
KICU-TV closed on October 18, 1968, when Patterson announced that it would go off the air for six to eight months while moving to a site in the Sierra east of Fresno and conducting an upgrade to begin color telecasts.
[10] No such move ever materialized; two men attempted to burglarize the Eshom Point transmitter site six months later,[11] and Tulare County also sued Sierra Broadcasting for back taxes after channel 43 stopped telecasting.
[17] A later version contemplated the use of facilities offered by Harry Pappas and his KMPH-TV;[18] it was dropped when Fresno County agreed to involve the others more in its channel 18 bid.