In 1946 Amon G. Carter filed permits with the Federal Communications Commission to construct a television station in Fort Worth, Texas. The NBC affiliate, WBAP-TV, would be the first local television station broadcast in Texas. Carter was already well-known in the publishing world as the owner of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and radio station WBAP. The station first broadcast on September 29, 1948 when they recorded President Harry S. Truman's campaign stop in Fort Worth. This first broadcast also included speeeches by Amon Carter and station manager Harold Hough as well as a dedication film from NBC. In the first years of local television, the station achieved a number of historic firsts including the first professional weather reportig program in the Southwest (1949) the first color broadcast for NBC (1954), and the first station in Texas to feature all color news film (1966). WBAP was sold to LIN Broadcasting on November 8, 1974 and became known as KXAS-TV. The station continued to achieve a number of historic firsts including being the first station to have live intercontinental satellite report (1977), the first commercial network to institute stereocasting (1985), and the first Texas station to debut closed-caption newscasts (1989). In 1998, KXAS became an "owned-and-operated" NBC station, from then on known as NBC-5, and continues to broadcast daily television news.

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