TIL Howard Hughes was a chronic insomniac who wanted to watch movies on TV when most people were asleep, but when he first arrived in Las Vegas he discovered that it had no all-night TV stations. So he purchased a local station in 1967 and turned it into a 24/7 channel.
https://lasvegassun.com/news/2008/may/15/how-vegas-went-mob-corporate/#:~:text=When%20Hughes%20first,24/…
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