[2] It lost to the Los Angeles Unified School District, in large part because the group had only raised 25 percent of the $528,000 need to construct and operate the channel; hearing examiner Chester F. Naumowicz found the LAUSD bid on better financial footing.

[4]) However, in that proceeding, Viewer Sponsored Television asked for the allocation of channel 68 for noncommercial use in Los Angeles, which was approved by the Federal Communications Commission.

[6][7] It took two years to build channel 68, during which time the Los Angeles City Council almost investigated VSTV's 26 directors for their political beliefs; a vote to do so ended in a tie.

[11] There were technical problems, as well: the main antenna had been installed pointing in the wrong direction, which was not discovered until the winter and delayed the award of a permanent license in lieu of a construction permit.

[15] Another innovation of KVST-TV was that it checked out portable video recorders (the only type which existed at the time was the Sony Portapak, a 1/2" reel-to-reel machine with a separate camera) to community organizations which were "on the cutting edge of social change".