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The VHF channel 12 allocation was disputed by three organizations competing for FCC clearance to be the holder of the construction permit to build and license to operate a new television station on what was formerly Shreveport's second commercial VHF allocation. Two Shreveport-based entities filed applications for the permit on June 27, 1952, one week before the FCC issued a Report and Order reallocation memorandum lifting a four-year prohibition on new television broadcast license applications: T. B. Lanford (who controlled radio stations in Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi) and the Shreveport Television Co. (owned by movie theater operator Don George, Ben Beckham and William Carter Henderson, the latter being the son of KWKH founder William Kennon Henderson, Jr.). On July 10, 1952, the Southland Television Co., led by Houston-based Lester Kamin (owner of the Kamin Advertising Agency), John H. Pace (general manager of Southland-owned radio station KCIJ [980 AM, now KOKA], and Dallas-based attorneys Pat Coon and Billy B. Goldberg, became the third applicant for the license.