 As this complicated Boler's negotiations to sell his majority shareholding in KXJB to the Central Minnesota Television Co., the application was withdrawn that June.A second application, filed in November 1979, resulted in Boler and fellow investors Jack Wood and Robert Alphson being awarded a licence in 1981 to start a new channel 12 station at Pembina.In issuing the licence, the FCC dismissed objections filed by Canwest and by KTHI-TV Fargo owner Spokane Television, Inc., both opposing the establishment of a new Pembina station on competitive grounds.