• After the North Central Educational Television Association is incorporated by Dr. Ted Donat in 1959, The North Dakota Legislature appropriates $50,000 for educational television in 1961.

1963

• Clair Tettemer is hired as general manager, the first employee.

1964

• KFME signs on as the first educational television station in North Dakota.
• Twenty-three school systems participate in the North Central Council for School Television.

1965

• KFME begins production of its first program, a 60-hour English Literature course for Concordia College in Moorhead, Minn.

1967

• KFME begins broadcasting programs in color via videotape, becoming one of a handful of educational stations to have color videotape facilities.
• The local Prairie Public Television production “Children of the Dark” wins awards from the Broadcast Industry Conference and the Institute for Education through Television and Radio.
• The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 is signed by President Johnson, creating the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

1968

• The Western North Dakota Public Television Association is formed.

1969

• The North Dakota Educational Broadcasting Council is established.