large slate of sports programming was virtually the only thing keeping the station afloat. On August 11, 1987, FCC administrative law judge Edward Kuhlmann found RKO General unfit to be a broadcast licensee due to numerous cases of dishonesty on both its part and that of parent company GenCorp (the renamed General Tire), including fraudulent billing and lying about its ratings. Kuhlman ordered that all of RKO General's broadcast licenses be revoked. This ruling notably excluded WOR-TV, which had already been divested to MCA Inc. nine months prior, and was renamed WWOR-TV. GenCorp initially filed an appeal, only to withdraw it after the FCC warned that any appeal would almost certainly be denied outright. The FCC strongly advised GenCorp to divest its remaining properties in order to avoid the indignity of additional license stripping without any compensation. KCAL-TV (1989–present) Disney ownership (1989–1996) In the midst of RKO's corporate issues, the company reached terms to sell KHJ-TV to Westinghouse Broadcasting in November 1985. However, the protracted legal issues delayed FCC action on the transfer and Westinghouse ultimately withdrew its offer. A short time later, RKO General agreed to sell the station to The Walt Disney Company; however, this transfer was also held up for over a year for the same reasons. Fidelity Television, the group that originally challenged the license in 1965, also argued against the sale. In July 1988, the FCC allowed Disney to acquire channel 9 in a complicated settlement. RKO dropped its bid to renew the station's license, handing it to Fidelity Television. Disney would then buy the channel 9 license from Fidelity and KHJ-TV's non-license assets (intellectual property, studios, etc.) from RKO. The final purchase price was $324 million. As a result of the sale, KHJ-TV's entire management team, including longtime general manager Charles Velona, was dismissed. In the following months, several of the station's newscasters were pushed out as well. During the RKO/Fidelity/Disney transition, KHJ-TV's city of license was changed to the Los Angeles suburb of Norwalk, also as part of the FCC settlement. For all intents and purposes, though, it remained a Los Angeles station; the license was moved back to Los Angeles proper on October 28, 1991. On December 2, 1989, Disney changed the station's callsign to KCAL-TV, and rebranded the station as "California 9", selected from a shortlist of three possible monikers. Channel 9's longtime radio sisters had changed their calls to KRTH