 At the time, a May 1985 start-up date was projected, though KEDV—which soon would take on its present KMBH call letters after receiving a request from KEDT—got off to a slow start in fundraising.Channel 60 returned to the air, this time as KMBH, on October 8, 1985.In November 2007, the management of KMBH demanded that Bruce Lee Smith, a reporter for Harlingen's "Valley Morning Star" and a former volunteer for KMBH in the 1990s, reveal his confidential sources, in exchange for the station's financial records that he requested.