[2] KITE was first proposed by Louis Thurmond "Culp" Krueger and his partners, under the licensee name Victoria Broadcasting Company in 1948.
Initially authorized at 500 watts, daytime operation only, from a transmit site on Bottom Street in Victoria.
The callsign was quickly changed two months later, in March 1949, to KNAL, which was chosen to honor the creation of the Victoria Barge Canal, which linked landlocked Victoria to the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway and other various ports around the world.
KNAL received a grant to build a second tower in 1950, giving the proposed nighttime facility a directional signal to the north at dark, in order to conduct unlimited hours broadcasting by 1951.
Louis "Culp" Krueger had previously been the driving force in signing on 1390 KULP a year earlier in El Campo.