In July 1952, Frank Hurt & Son, Inc., owner of KFXD, filed with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to build a new commercial television station on channel 6 in Nampa, proposing a full facility to broadcast at 19,720 watts.
[2] After a remarkably low $25,000 investment,[3] the first television test pattern in Idaho made it onto screens as far away as Weiser and Ontario, Oregon, on June 18, with lieutenant governor Edson Deal helping put the station on the air.
Further, technical necessities prevented the television station from making use of the employees of KFXD radio, whose studios were in downtown Nampa, 20 miles (32 km) from the Deer Point transmitter site.
[3] The next month, a far more organized station brought network television to Idaho when KIDO-TV channel 7, an affiliate of CBS, NBC and DuMont, began telecasting on July 12.
[3] On August 11, with KIDO-TV on air and after less than two months of trying, Hurt gave up, possibly because he did not want to lose money and was used to the financial success of KFXD radio.
[9] In an interview with Broadcasting magazine, Hurt explained that the limited manpower available to him meant that the 500-watt temporary facility that KFXD-TV had utilized had to be dismantled to allow for construction of the station's eventual full technical setup.