Kaiser Broadcasting
| private subsidiary | |
| Industry | Television |
| Fate | sold |
| Successor | Field Communications |
| Founded | 1957 |
| Founder | Henry J. Kaiser |
| Defunct | 1977 |
| Headquarters | Oakland, CA San Francisco |
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Key people
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Richard Block, VP, GM Don B. Curran, President |
| Parent | Kaiser Industries |
| Divisions | Kaiser Broadcasting Company |
| Subsidiaries | Kaiser-Globe Broadcasting Corp. |
Kaiser Broadcasting Corp. was the name of a company that owned and operated broadcast television and radio stations in the United States from 1958 to 1977.
Kaiser's involvement in television broadcasting began when the Henry J. Kaiser Company Ltd., a multi-industrial conglomerate, signed on KHVH-TV in Honolulu, Hawaii (operating on channel 13 at the time), in 1957. In 1958 Kaiser purchased Honolulu's KULA-TV and merged it with KHVH, resulting in KULA becoming the new KHVH-TV, which is now KITV.
Later in the 1960s, Kaiser explored new opportunities to expand its broadcast holdings on the U.S. mainland. Kaiser secured permits to construct new UHF stations, all of which were in large markets. The first two of these new stations signed-on during 1965: WKBD-TV in Detroit went on the air in January, followed nine months later by WKBS-TV in Burlington, New Jersey, a suburb of Philadelphia. Also that year Kaiser sold KHVH-TV, partially to help fund its mainland expansion.
In December 1966, Kaiser teamed up with the Boston Globe forming WKBG Inc. (later Kaiser-Globe Broadcasting) to purchase WXHR (AM-FM-TV) from Harvey Radio Laboratories. WKBG, WCAS and WJIB were all placed into Kaiser-Globe Broadcasting Corp., 90% ownership by Kaiser Broadcasting and 10% Boston Globe. Kaiser started up two more stations, KBHK-TV in San Francisco and WKBF-TV in Cleveland, within three weeks of each other in January 1968.
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