Pat Boone is getting out of the L.A. TV business, according to Broadcasting and Cable.
Atlanta-based Ellis Communications is buying KDOC- Channel 56 for $150 million. Boone is a part-owner in the schlocky Orange County station best known as the home for reruns of the late, eccentric televangelist Dr. Gene Scott (as well as the longtime home of "Hot Seat with Wally George"). The station also airs cheap syndicated fare like "The Rockford Files," "Hawaii Five-O" and "Becker."
Even more frightening, KDOC airs three hours of "Saved by the Bell" back-to-back on Saturday nights. (Who's running this place?!)
It's unclear what Ellis plans to do with the station -- or if those old tapes of Gene Scott will remain.
Writes the publication:
Not surprising for a station with Pat Boone in the front office, KDOC, which went on the air in 1982, programs mostly "family" fare, primarily older off-net programming including Matlock, Cosby Show and Perry Mason.
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