[8] The inaugural telecast featured Carol Doda dressed as Father Time; she would have been Santa Claus if rain had not delayed channel 38's sign-on a week.
[3] In May 1973, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved the sale of KUDO to Faith Center, the organization of pastor W. Eugene Scott, for $10,200.
[3][21] KVOF-TV would primarily broadcast recorded programs from Faith Center in Glendale; in Southern California, the organization owned KHOF-TV in San Bernardino and KHOF (99.5 FM) in Los Angeles, in addition to WHCT-TV in Hartford, Connecticut.
[21] Through the use of a microwave link from Faith Center to Oat Mountain and the use of a cable television relay that ended next to the channel 38 transmitter site,[21] KHOF-TV was interconnected with KVOF-TV.
[26] The ruling called into question Faith Center's character qualifications to be a licensee and put the other broadcast outlets at risk, especially the California stations that also had pending license renewals.
[30] Administrative law judge Edward Kuhlmann dismissed KVOF-TV's renewal application in 1983 for failure to answer questions and produce documents that were necessary for the hearing.
[32] Faith Center appealed, but the FCC denied this in 1984 and gave the church 90 days to continue running KVOF-TV in order to wind up its affairs.
[36] The airtime sale, which at the very outset was for 24-hour-a-day programming, was part of a deal that granted West Coast United use of the previous KVOF-TV studio facilities.