KDYW

The station began in 1978, when Central Texas College's KNCT set up a low-powered translator on channel 34 in Waco, as a way to bring PBS programming to the city.

In 1994, Central Texas College transferred control of KCTF to the Brazos Valley Broadcasting Foundation, a community group formed a year earlier.

The move came after KWBU-TV and KWBU-FM were unable to secure more funding from Baylor after exhausting a $1 million line of credit.

Although Baylor, then as now, had controlling interest in the Brazos Valley Broadcasting Foundation, the KWBU stations were still technically community licensees.

KWBU TV and FM's membership group only had 1,600 members, a very low number even as Waco went through a boom, and far lower than what station officials needed to keep channel 34 on the air.

[7] On March 13, 2012, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) raised questions as to whether Daystar, through associated nonprofit companies, was qualified to purchase KDYW and another former PBS outlet, WMFE-TV in Orlando, Florida.

[8][9] The WMFE deal was canceled two days later (it has since been resold and has returned to PBS as WUCF-TV); on September 7, 2012, the Brazos Valley Broadcasting Foundation informed the FCC that it would request the dismissal of the license assignment application and return the KDYW license to the FCC.