Ron Sweed sued Kaiser for the intellectual property rights to the Ghoul character, to which Kaiser claimed it held the trademark. After prevailing in court, Sweed re-established the show at WXON in Detroit. Closure Kaiser Broadcasting, which operated WKBF-TV at a loss throughout its entire existence, announced the station's shutdown on April 8, 1975, after reaching a tentative agreement to sell WKBF's assets to United Artists in exchange for cash or a 36 percent equity stake in WUAB while turning in WKBF-TV's license to the FCC for cancellation. Kaiser accepted the WUAB equity stake offer by mid-May. Rumors of such a transaction (reported on as a "merger") circulated several days earlier, with WUAB general manager Jack Moffitt and WKBF-TV general manager Alan B. Bennett acknowledging negotiations had been ongoing for "a couple of years". WKBF's final day of operations on April 25, 1975, ended after a Perry Mason rerun with a five-minute long tribute and a brief on-air statement by Bennett. Kaiser president Don B. Curran conceded the market could not support five commercial television stations and the shutdown was necessary to stabilize Kaiser's financial position, a statement echoed by Bennett. William Hickey noted in his Plain Dealer column that WUAB had nearly immediately entered the market with better programming, further dividing the audience for non-network fare; citing market conditions, he doubted that a new channel 61 would be constructed at any time in the near future, stating, "A child born today will have the proverbial gray beard before another commercial channel begins operating here." WUAB replaced WKBF on cable systems in Zanesville and Dover/New Philadelphia, and the system in Fremont/Sandusky petitioned the FCC to replace WKBF with WKBD. One system in Circleville did not initially replace WKBF but noted the possibility of doing so at a future date. Kaiser's equity stake in WUAB was sold off in 1977, when Gaylord Broadcasting purchased WUAB from United Artists. Several of the 65 staffers at WKBF-TV were reassigned throughout the Kaiser chain. Lucie Salhany, who had been a station employee at the start and end of WKBF-TV's on-air existence, continued with Kaiser as program manager for WLVI (the former WKBG-TV). Prior to being named the chairwoman of Fox in January 1992, Salhany explained that she joined that network "because I wanted to try and build something one more time ... The most fun I ever had was putting Channel 61 on the