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The station first signed on the air on November 7, 1982, becoming the third independent station in Houston, after KRIV (then owned by Metromedia), and Gaylord Broadcasting's KHTV (channel 39, now Tribune Broadcasting-owned KIAH).
After acquiring Tribune Company in a leveraged buyout in April 2007, Sam Zell hired Wilson as president of Tribune Broadcasting in February 2008 as part of a new management team led by Randy Michaels.
Tribune Broadcasting has agreed to sell three stations WTKR and WGNT, and Scranton, Pennsylvania station WNEP-TV from the pending Local TV acquisition, to Dreamcatcher Broadcasting, owned by former Tribune executive Ed Wilson, but will be operated by Tribune under shared service agreements.