The fate of the channel 50 facility was placed into immediate question, and a suitor appeared: Community Service Broadcasting of Mid-America, Inc. (CSB), which was in the process of negotiating to buy KCSD-TV channel 19, the educational station owned by the Kansas City School District. The possibility of acquiring the KCIT physical plant would allow CSB to avoid needing to rent the facilities of KCSD-TV, which broadcast at lower power and was not equipped for color telecasting; however, the station would need to telecast educational programs on channel 19, because television sets in schools had been equipped with tuning strips that could not receive other UHF channels.
