 This was the beginning of Israel Asper's career as a media mogul of the Canwest empire, which culminated in his owning most of the large daily newspapers in Canada and TV stations in nearly every province.In May 1974, John Boler, the founder and then-owner of Valley City-Fargo, N.D. CBS affiliate KXJB-TV informed both the FCC and the Winnipeg newspapers that he intended to apply for a new channel 12 licence if KCND-TV went off the air, or make his own offer to purchase the station if the McLendon-Canwest agreement fell through.Boler's North American Communications Corp. initially applied for a licence in April 1978, intending to operate the new station as a KXJB satellite.