related to United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc., which the FCC stated would reflect on "requisite qualifications" over the studio's fitness to own a television station. During the comparative hearing, which began in late December 1963, a three-commissioner panel requested each of the three applicants demonstrate an ability to survive against established VHF competition over the first three years, in addition to providing detailed revenue estimates; this request was also made in similar hearings for competing applications in Buffalo and Boston. The FCC later enacted this as a revision to their financial qualification policy, a move to which Superior objected. United Artists removed itself from the hearing process on March 30, 1964, by amending their application to request channel 31 in Lorain, Ohio, which—like channel 65—was unused after WEOL failed to build out a prior permit for WEOL-TV. Concurrent with United Artists's request, Cleveland Telecasting withdrew their bid. Another revision to the table of UHF allocations by the FCC on June 4, 1965, had the channel 65 allocation moved to 61 (a frequency originally proposed for Akron), while channel 31 was moved to 43. With both companies being awarded permits in the spring of 1966, Superior requested the WAFT-TV call sign by early June. On April 19, 1967, Superior announced a partnership with Oakland, California–based Kaiser Broadcasting, which would operate the new station under a new jointly owned company. Paperwork filed the following month had Superior transferring WAFT-TV's permit to WKBF Inc. for up to $200,000 (equivalent to $ in ) with Kaiser holding an option to become the full owner. Kaiser also provided $1 million to Superior and pledged an additional $1.5 million in financing. While Kaiser Broadcasting had been established a decade earlier with KHVH in Honolulu, company founder and industrialist Henry J. Kaiser divested KHVH, a VHF network affiliate, in favor of multiple UHF stations in large markets that could function as independents. By 1966, the Kaiser chain consisted of WKBD-TV in Detroit, WKBG-TV in Boston, KMTW-TV in Los Angeles (later renamed KBSC-TV), and WKBS-TV in Philadelphia, with KBHK-TV in San Francisco in the planning stages. The Superior-Kaiser alliance took advantage of a loophole in FCC regulations intended to limit one company from owning more than three television stations in the top 50 markets; WKBG-TV was also a 50–50 joint venture between Kaiser and The Boston Globe. Granting a waiver to Kaiser, the FCC approved the 50