It was the jingle you couldn't escape if you watched TV in Cleveland in the early '80s. Channel 43 went on the air in 1968, eight months after the debut of WKBF, Channel 61. Both were independent stations, but only one survived the '70s. In 1975, Channel 61 went dark, leaving Channel 43 as the city's only independent TV station for a few years. So popular was the station, it was carried on cable systems in neighboring metro areas like Columbus and Pittsburgh.