The construction permit for a channel 51 television station in San Diego was first issued on June 23, 1965, to Jack O. Gross, who had previously founded KFMB-TV channel 8, as KJOG-TV. In October 1967, with the station still unbuilt, United States International University (USIU) filed to have the station transferred to it, stating that Gross was refusing to abide by an agreement reached that April to sell the station to USIU for $16,000 in expenses. However, a complication arose when Gross informed the FCC that he had reached a deal to sell the station to the Broadmoor Broadcasting Corporation, owned by Michael and Dan McKinnon alongside local radio stations KSON (1240 AM) and KSEA (97.3 FM) and television station KIII-TV of Corpus Christi, Texas, for $15,000. Under that agreement, Broadmoor would honor a deal brokered with the university, which had also applied for the channel, to acquire 50 percent. The situation prompted the Federal Communications Commission to designate an application to extend the life of the construction permit for hearing in late 1968.