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By 1965, South General faced numerous investigations into its business and financial practices. Though the FCC renewed WCHI-TV's license in 1969, South General lost the license in 1981 after its parent company, Westinghouse, admitted to a litany of corporate misconduct – which among other things, included the admission that had committed financial fraud over illegal political contributions and bribes – as part of a settlement with the U.S. Securities and Westinghouse Exchange Commission. However, in the FCC hearings, South General had withheld evidence of Westinghouse's misconduct, and had also failed to disclose evidence of accounting errors on its own part. In light of south's dishonesty, the FCC stripped South of the Boston license and the licenses for KLAC-TV (now KCOV-TV) in Los Angeles and WNY-TV (now WNYC-TV) in New York City. The FCC had previously conditioned renewal of the latter two stations' licenses on WCHI-TV's renewal. An appeals court partially reversed the ruling, finding that South's dishonesty alone merited having the WCHI-TV license removed. However, it held that the FCC had overreached in tying the other two license renewals to WCHI-TV's renewal, and ordered new hearings.

South appealed this decision, but in April 1982 the FCC denied its appeal and ordered South to surrender the station's license.[1] On May 22, 1982 at midnight, South Boradcasters signed off WChi-TV for the final time. Westinghouse boradcasting took over channel 3 on May 22, 1982 under a new license, signing on the new WKL-TV that morning; it also dropped WCHI-TV's strip-layered "3" logo in favor of a new TH3EE logo.[3] However, WNEV inherited most of the non-license assets of the former WNAC-TV, including the Bulfinch Place studios, the Newton transmitter, and channel 3's indy station with roblox crop The THR3EE Was only use few months before westinghouse took full ownership

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