An ID Card for NBC Television affiliate WKY-TV (now KFOR-TV) in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Edward K. Gaylord, founder of the Oklahoma Publishing Company (now the Gaylord Broadcasting Company), became fascinated with the nascent medium upon hearing about it in the mid-1930’s; as Television was actually conceived in the late 1920’s.

Edward K. Gaylord developed ambitions of putting his own Television Station on the air. Like many an individual or business who had already owned and operated one or more Radio Stations, Mr. Gaylord’s plans for putting a Television Station on the air were set back by the onset of WWII.

In 1949, Edward Gaylord put WKY-TV on the air as a stepchild of WKY-AM. WKY-AM, in turn; had first gone on the air in January, 1920 as Amateur Station 5QP.

In the Fall of 1921, the call letters were changed to 5XT, and a year later, in 1922; the AM Radio Station was granted the recently minted ‘Commercial’ status, and was assigned the call letters WKY.

WKY-TV was one of the very first Television Stations to transmit its signal in Color, having ordered the RCA Color Equipment as early as the time it first signed on the air in 1949, and actually began transmitting its signal in Color starting in March, 1954.

Around this same time, WWJ-TV (now WDIV-TV) in Detroit also began transmitting its signal in Color. WWJ-TV/WDIV-TV actually had only transmitted NBC Television Network programming beginning in 1954, and actually didn’t begin transmitting its newscasts, and it’s locally-produced, in-house programming until it had acquired the equipment necessary to transmit its local programming in Color in 1960.

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