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Summary
In 1965, Len Stevens co-founded WPHL-TV, Channel 17, Philadelphia. He merged that Company with the AVC Corporation of Wilmington, Delaware in 1967. This enabled him to build KEMO-TV, Channel 20, San Francisco (where he was involved with the Mt. Sutro multi-station tower project); WXIX-TV, Channel 19, Cincinnati; WPGH-TV, Channel 53, Pittsburgh; and WATL-TV, Channel 36, Atlanta. Most are Fox Affiliates today. Stevens became Executive Vice President for Operations for this five-station group known as U. S. Communications. 1,000 foot towers were built for these stations, all of which became much-needed collateral profit centers for what were then fledgling UHF operations.KEMO-TV, owned by U.S. Communications, signed on the air April 1, 1968. It went dark literally three years later, on March 31, 1971 and was sold to Leon Crosby in early 1972, who put it back on the air February 4 of that year.