KUSI-TV
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KUSI-TV (Channel 51) is an independent television station based in San Diego, California. The station is owned and operated by McKinnon Broadcasting of Texas. Unlike most other independent television stations, KUSI focuses a significant portion of its broadcast day to news programming, although they do offer syndicated fare such as Live with Regis and Kelly, Frasier, Judge Judy, and the Montel Williams show among others.
KUSI was originally the San Diego affiliate of UPN, which lasted until 1996 when the station decided to drop the network due to low ratings. Many San Diegans without cable (Los Angeles’ KCOP-TV was piped in to the area cable systems) nor a strong antenna (facing Los Angeles) couldn’t pick up UPN programming for more than a year until XHUPN (Channel 49) went on the air in 1998.
Briefly before that, in November 1995, KUSI tried unsuccessfully to wrestle the Fox affiliation away from XETV (Channel 6), when the Fox network first picked up the broadcast rights to the National Football League in 1994, as cited in the United States Court of Appeals (Channel 51, Inc. vs. Fox Television Stations). In that case, KUSI filed an appeal against the Federal Communications Commission in granting Fox a permit to broadcast live sports on the Mexican-licensed signal of XETV. In FCC regulations, stations not licensed to the United States were not allowed to air live sporting events without licensing approval. The permit was granted to Fox on behalf of XETV, and the case was settled on March 26, 1996. However, until XETV started its news operations more than a year later, KUSI provided news-gathering resources to Fox's news and sports divisions for the San Diego market.
KUSI is available on cable channel 9 on all San Diego area cable systems.
Other uses
Kusi is also a Finnish word meaning "piss".
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