WSZE-TV was a television station broadcasting on channel 10 on Saipan, the largest of the Northern Mariana Islands.
"[4] Killgore asked in 1973 to move the station from the hotel to a studio owned by the Marianas District Department of Education, which was being underutilized due to Trust Territory budget cuts.
[5] Negotiations to occupy the facility were lengthy, stretching late into 1974, after the money-losing television station announced that it would close by October 31 if the impasse, centered around the construction of a tower on military land, was not broken.
Islanders sometimes buy an hour to use it as they please.The station went off air for a time in late 1979 to allow an antenna to be installed to receive programming direct from KUAM-TV on Guam.
[13] Weeks later, however, the station left the air for good after its tower was blown down by Typhoon Dinah; it would have cost $20,000 to $25,000 to reconstruct.