Did you know that Dickinson once had its own local TV station instead of satellites of Bismarck stations? How about the fact that Grand Forks had a local TV station before WDAZ?
Here’s a look at how TV developed in North Dakota in the 1950s and 1960s:
Bismarck
5 KFYR-TV (NBC/CBS/ABC) from 12/19/1953
5 KFYR-TV (NBC/ABC) from 11/19/1955
12 KBMB (CBS/ABC) from 11/19/1955
12 KXMB (CBS/ABC) from 1959
Dickinson
2 KDIX-TV (CBS/NBC/ABC) from 10/15/1956
2 KDIX-TV (CBS/ABC) from 1967
7 K07HN (NBC) from 1967
Fargo
6 WDAY-TV (NBC/CBS/ABC) from 6/1/1953
4 KXJB-TV (CBS) from 12/1954 (WDAY loses CBS)
11 KXGO-TV (ABC) from 10/11/1959 (WDAY loses ABC)
11 KEND (ABC) from 1962
11 KTHI-TV (ABC) from 1963
13 KFME (NET) from 1/19/1964
Grand Forks
10 KNOX-TV (ABC/NBC) from 12/11/1955
(no local station from 1964 when KNOX-TV went silent as part of KTHI upgrade)
8 WDAZ (NBC) from 1/29/1967
Minot
13 KCJB-TV (CBS/ABC) from 4/3/1953
10 KMOT (NBC/ABC) from 1/23/1958
Pembina
12 KCND-TV (ABC/NBC) from 11/7/1960
12 KCND-TV (ABC) from 1/29/1967
KCND-TV went silent 8/31/1975 when its programming was moved to CKND-TV Winnipeg
Williston
8 KUMV (NBC/ABC/CBS) from 2/6/1957
11 KXMD-TV (CBS/ABC) from 10/25/1969
EARLIER: Timeline of Early TV in South Dakota
LINK: World Radio History’s collection of Broadcasting Yearbooks