Editing KSCI (section)

=== 1980s ===
In 1980, KSCI switched to a for-profit operation and earned $1 million on revenues of $8 million in 1985.<ref name="Tribune">{{cite news|title=Few languages are foreign at San Bernardino's KSCI|first=Gus|last= Stevens|work= The Tribune|location= San Diego, Calif.|date=July 11, 1986|page= C.21}}</ref> In November 1985, the station loaned $350,000 to [[Maharishi International University]] in [[Iowa]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Maharishi U. Nets $6.3 Million In Gifts in '84|work=Omaha World–Herald. |location=Omaha, Neb.|date=November 4, 1985|page=1}}"Private support also came in the form of a $350,000 loan from independent UHF station KSCI in San Bernardino, Calif., which is owned by a TM organization."</ref> By June 1986, the station's content began to consist of "a hodgepodge of programming" in 14 languages.<ref name="LA Times">{{cite news|title=Eclectic TV KSCI's Programming in 14 Languages Offers News, Entertainment, Comfort to Ethnic Communities|first=David  |last=Holley |work=Los Angeles Times|date=June 15, 1986|page= 1}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-06-15-me-11321-story.html |title=Eclectic TV : KSCI's Programming in 14 Languages Offers News, Entertainment, Comfort to Ethnic Communities |work= Los Angeles Times  |date=June 15, 1986 |access-date=October 27, 2012}}</ref> They had dubbed themselves the "international station" and claimed to offer the most diverse ethnic television programming in the early 1980s.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last=Naficy|first=Hamid|date=1993|title=From Broadcasting to Narrowcasting: Middle Eastern Diaspora in Los Angeles|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3013230|journal=Middle East Report|issue=180|pages=31–34|doi=10.2307/3013230|jstor=3013230 |issn=0899-2851|url-access=subscription}}</ref> Almost all [[Iranian American]] television programs in the early 1980s were on KSCI.<ref name=":0" />

In October 1986, the station was purchased by its general manager and an investor for $40.5 million.<ref>{{cite news|title=KSCI to Cancel Its Spanish Programming|first=Victor|last=Valle|newspaper= Los Angeles Times |date= October 29, 1986 |page= 1}}</ref>