The local NBC station is celebrating their 75th anniversary today. When I was a kid, channel 4 and 11 had great cartoon shows, but we usually watched channel 5 for area news, with newscasters like Chris Condon, Max Roby, Bob Chase, John Auble, Julius Hunter, Jay Randolph for sports, and others. Charlotte Peters had a very popular daytime show. Diane White was the first African American weathercaster at any station. Clif St James was a weathercaster and also "Corky the Clown" for the station's children's show.
According to a post on Facebook ("Vintage Route 66 and St Louis), "KSD was one of only seven television stations in the US at the time and the second west of the Mississippi. The call letters KSD stand for the initials of Joseph Pulitzer Junior’s grandmother, Kate Star Davis."
According to Wikipedia, the station was KSD-TV in 1947-1979, and KSDK-TV thereafter. It had earlier affiliations with DuMont, CBS, and ABC. It was the first station in St. Louis to broadcast in color.
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