In late 1966, the South Kane-Kendall Broadcasting Corporation was one of two applicants for channel 60 at Aurora; it won the station in 1968, initially proposing an educational-commercial hybrid schedule featuring credit courses from Waubonsee Community College.
[2] Investors in South Kane-Kendall included Roy Raymond, owner of a plastics company, and Ray Sherwood, general manager of Aurora radio station WMRO-FM.
[5] The cost of building the station was less than expected because South Kane-Kendall was able to get deals on used equipment, including a transmitter from WCET in Cincinnati.
[8] Briefly in December and January, WLXT cut back its programming to a bare minimum of live news and a movie while work was carried out to add new color equipment at a cost of over $150,000; by this time, South Kane-Kendall had hired Simpson Productions to manage channel 60.
After the station closed, news director Christine Lund, who had taken the position two years out of college,[14] went to work for KGO-TV in San Francisco[15] on her way to becoming a well-known anchor for KABC-TV in Los Angeles.