the call letters. This was a deliberate play on the station being located on "unlucky" channel 13. The show remained on the air until 1970. Capital Cities ownership In late 1966, Houston Consolidated Television announced it was selling KTRK-TV to the Capital Cities Broadcasting Company. The nearly $21.3 million purchase fell just behind the acquisition of WIIC-TV in Pittsburgh, making it the second-highest price paid at a time for a single TV station. Cap Cities already owned five VHF television stations and had to sell one of them to acquire the Houston outlet, which resulted in the company disposing itself of WPRO-TV in Providence, Rhode Island, in a deal that closed simultaneously with its purchase of KTRK-TV in July 1967. Capital Cities made major investments in news and other programming, and by 1978, KTRK-TV was rumored to be the most profitable station in the entire company. In February 1985, it captured an unprecedented 47 percent of the network audience in Houston. An ABC-owned station Capital Cities bought ABC in 1985, making KTRK an ABC owned-and-operated station; it was the first television O&O in Houston, but not the first broadcast property in the market for ABC, as they previously owned KXYZ and KXYZ-FM (now KHMX) from 1968 to 1980. Investment continued; the studio facility was expanded in 1993 with a new, addition that changed the appearance of the street frontage. Capital Cities/ABC was sold to The Walt Disney Company in early 1996. Programming Syndicated programming Syndicated programming on KTRK-TV (as of December 2021) includes Live with Kelly and Ryan (produced by sister station WABC-TV), Tamron Hall, Inside Edition, and Jeopardy!. KTRK is the only ABC owned-and-operated station to not air Wheel of Fortune, making Houston one of the few markets to air Jeopardy! and Wheel on different stations. Wheel currently airs on CBS affiliate KHOU. News operation Under Capital Cities, KTRK increased its focus on local news programming. After channel 13 expanded its local newscasts to 30 minutes in January 1967, in the final months under Houston Consolidated, in 1969, the station adopted the Eyewitness News name for its newscasts; at the time, it was a distant third place behind KPRC and KHOU. At the same time that the newscasts were expanded in 1967, Dave Ward, who had joined the station a year earlier as a reporter, became anchor of the station's 7 a.m. newscast. He was promoted to anchor the