[1] KLPR-TV, Inc., filed with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for a new television station on channel 19 at Oklahoma City—the same allocation used by the former KLPR-TV/KMPT—in 1962.

The company, owned by KLPR radio owners Jack Beasley and Leon C. Nance and automobile dealer W.T.

[2] The FCC granted the application February 24, 1965,[3] and the station planned to go on air from facilities on the 23rd floor of the Sheraton Oklahoma City hotel downtown.

[citation needed] In July 1968, the radio station applied to remove the TV antenna from its tower.

Not long after KGTO hit the air in February 1969, it complained about the quality of the equipment and stopped making lease payments.

In March 1971, a federal judge found that Visual knew the equipment was defective, a judgment reaffirmed the next year in appeals court in KLPR-TV, Inc., vs.