with reporters from both stations, including WHK's John O'Day and Tim Taylor, exchanging stories and reports. Herrington began anchoring three news bulletins over WHK on weekday afternoons, while WHK news director Ken Hildebrand anchored WKBF-TV's weekend newscasts. Future Cleveland sportscaster Nev Chandler joined WKBF-TV in 1968 as an assignment editor after graduating from Northwestern University. Two other veteran broadcasters soon emerged at WKBF-TV during its first year. Bill Gordon, best known for co-hosting The One O'Clock Club at WEWS-TV with Dorothy Fuldheim, joined WKBF-TV in July 1968 to host the weekly variety show Dear Bill, which—like Douglas's show—had a studio audience, unique to Cleveland television. Linn Sheldon, who found fame as children's television host "Barnaby" for 13 years at KYW-TV/WKYC-TV, became an early-afternoon movie host at WKBF-TV the following month, dropping the characterization and used his real name. Sheldon also hosted local segments for the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon, which WKBF-TV began carrying in 1969. Neither program lasted long: Gordon's program ended in April 1969, and Sheldon left that November to join WUAB, reprising the "Barnaby" persona. Despite such lofty efforts, Kaiser Broadcasting faced mounting financial losses—compounded by a weak national economy and a marketplace slow to UHF acceptance—which threatened the company at large. From 1968 through 1970, a total of $6 million (equivalent to $ in ) was spent on the chain's news services, with WKBF-TV, WKBS-TV and WKBD-TV receiving the bulk of this investment, but WKBD-TV was the only Kaiser station to turn a profit. With declines in both advertisers and viewership in Cleveland and elsewhere, Kaiser eliminated news operations across the board on November 12, 1970. Defining this as "a period of hiatus" for newscast production, one staffer was retained at every station to be "...the nucleus for a larger staff when the hiatus has come to an end". Accordingly, WKBF-TV cancelled their 10 p.m. newscast and several public affairs programs that same day, saving $400,000 in expenses. Kaiser's cutbacks promptly raised doubts in the industry over UHF's profitability, as Kaiser had been regarded as one of the better-equipped UHF station operators. WKBF-TV never reinstated its news department, with reporter Alan DePetro reassigned as public affairs manager, a role he held for the rest of the station's existence. John Herrington joined WKYC-TV the following January as a reporter and anchor, remaining at that station until retiring in 1993. Newsroom, an attempt at a replacement local newscast, began