KENS 5 San Antonio is celebrating 75 years on the air in 2025.
The station signed on the air on February 15, 1950 as KEYL. The call letters then changed to KGBS.
In 1954, the San Antonio Express-News bought channel 5 and changed the call letters to KENS, which stands for "K-Express-News-Station."
Harte-Hanks Communications bought both media properties in 1962.
In 1997, Belo Corp. bought KENS, which was then spun off to Gannett Corp. in 2013, followed by TEGNA in 2015.
