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More sales followed in the 1980s, including when Ronald E. Curtis, who owned the station in the early 1980s, died. The station was sold to the Capitol Cities Broadcasting Corporation, headed by Dick Oppenheimer; Oppenheimer then sold KOKY and KZOU 98.5 FM in late 1986 to George Duncan's Encore Broadcasting as part of a $38 million multi-city acquisition. GHB of Little Rock bought KITA in 1990

Sinclair's lack of interest in the available CBS affiliation left one other viable partner—WDJT-TV—but CBS first made a longshot attempt to purchase another local station. It offered to buy Christian television station WVCY-TV, owned by Wisconsin Voice of Christian Youth, for $10 million to convert it into its new Milwaukee affiliate. The deal was rebuffed; station owner Vic Eliason told CBS that the offer was "unreasonably low", "would be an act of consummate irresponsibility and a betrayal of trust for all our faithful supporters who believe in Christian family values", and would be hypocritical given that the station came into being to provide "an alternative to the swill that passes as network television". Even if Eliason had been willing to consider CBS' offer, WVCY-TV's antenna was mounted on WCGV-TV's tower under an agreement only permitting it for noncommercial use.