[4] KWCS-TV was inaugurated October 10, 1960, and entered service the next day, when, at 8:05 a.m., 4,800 eighth grade students in 17 junior high schools received a 20-minute science lesson.

[6] KWCS-TV, the first full-power UHF television station in the state,[7] was built with $70,000 of federal funds and benefited the next year from a $64,000 grant from the Ford Foundation to purchase video tape equipment.

[11] The FCC approved the application in March 1962;[12] by the end of the year, translator K13EF was in operation and feeding one TV set at the Valley School.

[15] The relocated translator was constructed atop Mount Ogden in 1966, though it missed the start of the school year due to equipment delays related to the Vietnam War.

The other was born in 1962 when the Ogden city schools acquired independent station KVOG-TV (channel 9) and converted it to instructional programming as KOET.

[19] Meanwhile, officials in the Weber district began considering the idea of merging into KOET, saying that the operation of two educational TV stations located six blocks apart was duplicative and expensive.

[20] In July 1971, the city and county school districts announced their intent to merge KOET and KWCS, which would allow for cost savings and a more efficient operation.