The first TV station in Missouri, and the ninth in the U.S. commenced the transmission as KSD-TV on February 8, 1947, originally owned by the Pulitzer Publishing Company, publishers of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and owners of KSD radio (550 AM, now KTRS).
Station ID (1948)
1950–1956
1956–1960
1960–1965
SVG NEEDED
1965–1975
SVG NEEDED
1976–1979
SVG NEEDED
Alternate logo
Alternate circular logo
Station ID (1976–1979)
KSDK
1979–1982
Logo with 1979–1986 network logo
1979
KSD AM radio was sold in 1979, and KSD-TV modified its callsign to the current KSDK on July 10, 1979, due to an FCC regulation in place at the time that stated that TV and radio stations in the same market, but different ownership had to use different call signs. The station took on a new logo to go with the callsign change.
Logo with callsign and city of license
Logo with callsign
Monochrome version #1
Monochrome version #2
Monochrome version #3
1982–1984
Simplified version of the previous logo; it now is bi-sected; previously, it had five stripes going through it. Pulitzer traded channel 5 to Multimedia, Inc. for WYFF and WXII-TV in 1983, though the takeover of WYFF would not be completed until January 1985 as they had to sell off WLNE-TV in Providence in order to comply with FCC ownership limits of the time that limited the number of stations one company can own to twelve; in the interim, Pulitzer took over the operations of WYFF through a time brokerage agreement with Multimedia.
standalone number
Station ID #1 (1982–1984)
Station ID #2 (1982–1984)
"Channel 5, just watch us now!" ID (1982–1983)
1984–2017
This Helvetica "5" remained unchanged by this station for a long time.
1Owns a 75% stake of the network, the other 12.5% stake is co-owned between Paramount Skydance Corporation and Warner Bros. Discovery. 2Joint venture with Warner Bros. Discovery, in which Nexstar owns 31% while Warner Bros. Discovery owns the remaining 69%. 3Nexstar operates these stations owned by Mission Broadcasting. 4Nexstar operates this station owned by Cunningham Broadcasting. 5Nexstar operates this station owned by White Knight Broadcasting through an SSA. 6Nexstar operates this station owned by Vaughan Media. 7Predecessor company of LIN Media. 8Nexstar operates this station owned by Londen Media Group. 9Nexstar operates this station owned by Gray Media through an SSA. 10Nexstar operates this station owned by American Spirit Media through an SSA. 11The station is yet to be sold to a third party as a condition of the Nexstar-Tegna merger. 12Co-owned by Cox Communications.
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