The station operated there from sign-on in 1968 as WBLU until 1980, when it relocated to channel 36 to address signal concerns in parts of central Kentucky.
[8] Litigation continued until June 1986, when the two groups reached a settlement in which Way of the Cross would acquire a minority stake in channel 62 and receive 15 hours of airtime a week for religious programming.
[10] The protracted license fight had cost the station before it even started broadcasting: in 1986, Danville-licensed WDKY-TV (channel 56) had signed on the air as the first independent in the Lexington market.
[11] The station secretly bid on the ABC affiliation when the network considered leaving WTVQ, but it opted to stay with its existing outlet.
Howard Trickey, an executive with Raymond James and Associates, which held a 49 percent interest in the station, took over as acting general manager and was charged with overseeing more cost-cutting measures.
[15] Nine days later, FBC filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, owing more than $1.3 million to a group of creditors headlined by program suppliers Viacom and Lorimar-Telepictures.