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Channel 67 was originally assigned to Patchogue, New York, where television producer Theodore Granik obtained the construction permit for a new TV station in September 1968 . Granik envisioned a group of ultra high frequency (UHF) stations carrying public affairs programming, but he died in 1970 with channel 67 unbuilt . The station struggled to build a viewer and advertiser base owing to reception difficulties . It left the air on June 20, 1975, and filed for bankruptcy the next year . The stations were put on the market in December 1985 because KKR executed a second leveraged buyout, this time of Storer Communications, and chose to retain WHT over WWHT and WSNL-TV . WHT served more than 111,000 subscribers and was the fourth-largest STV system in the nation .