KOET (Utah)

Two years later, however, Weber County pulled out, and the district was hamstrung by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)'s refusal to reclassify KOET as a commercial station in finding buyers for its license and facilities.

[10] Upon acquiring KVOG-TV at a final cost of $155,500, the board changed the call letters to KOET, for "Ogden Educational Television", and converted the license to noncommercial operation.

Live productions included music and art programs for elementary school students; a series on learning Spanish for sixth-graders; and "Perspective", a weekly report to teachers on district administrative activities.

[12] The sale of an educational television station to commercial interests, described as "novel",[13] would prove to be a hurdle prompting two years of legal battles at the Federal Communications Commission.

[16] Meanwhile, officials in the Weber district began considering the idea of merging KWCS into KOET, saying that the operation of two educational TV stations located six blocks apart was duplicative and expensive.

[22] As the district opened bidding to sell the Little Mountain transmitter site that July, superintendent Garner expressed regret over converting channel 9 to noncommercial operation.

[26] An attempt to sell the facilities to a West Coast-based consortium for $110,000 also collapsed, citing the uncertainty created by the FCC's refusal to relicense KOET as a commercial television station.

[27] With the license having expired in October (in February 1975, the FCC deleted the call letters[28]), the facilities were finally sold in December to Wendell Winegar, owner of KDYL radio in Tooele, for $90,000.