 Shortly after DuMont shut down in on August 6, 1956, KFEQ-TV began carrying ABC programming as a secondary affiliation.During the late 1950s, the station was also briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network.The News-Press & Gazette Company (owned by the Bradley family, and which would sign on Fox affiliate KNPN-LD (channel 26) in 2012) bought the KFEQ stations in 1957.