KESQ-TV

==KPLM-TV==
===1968–1973===
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The station signed on October 5, 1968 as KPLM-TV, the station was originally owned by Pacific Media. Channel 42 wasn't a financial success and in 1972, Cine-Prime purchased the station though no transfer of control was ever filed.
===1973-1974===
===1974–1976===
In 1975, Pacific Media Corporation filed for bankruptcy after a sale to Ralph Andrews Productions fell through.
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===1976-1978===
In late-1977, Esquire purchased the station, which marked the company's return to broadcasting after owning and selling WQXI radio
in Atlanta in the 1960s.
==KESQ-TV==
===1978–1982===
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On September 18, 1978, channel 42 changed its callsgins to KESQ-TV. Esquire planned to divest their broadcasting assets to Cimmarron Broadcasting in 1983. However, the deal fell apart by 1984, by that time Gulf+Western purchased Esquire excluding their broadcasting assets. In May of that same year, KESQ was sold to Gulf Broadcasting. In 1985, Gulf Broadcasting was purchased by the Taft Broadcasting Corporation. Due to FCC regulations at that time, KESQ was divested to E. Grant Fitts.
===1982–1986===
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===1986–1994===
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===1994–1995===
==1995–present==
====1995–2000====
In late-1995, Fitts sold KESQ to the News-Press & Gazette Company. In 1996, KESQ recieved FCC approval to move its transmitter to a spot in the San Jancinto Mountains which would have increased its coverage area to San Bernadino and Riverside. However, ABC threatened with disaffiliation were the move to cut to fruition and cut to the market of network-owned KABC-TV (channel 7). The local chapter of the Sierra Club also objected the site on enviromental grounds, these two challenges doomed the proposal.
====2000–2003====
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==2009–present==
===2009–2013===
===2013–present===
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Category:Television stations in the United States
Category:ABC network affiliates
Category:News-Press & Gazette Company
Category:Palm Springs, California
Category:1968
Category:Television channels and stations established in 1968