W. D. "Dub" Rogers, Jr. Television Collection

On November 13th, 1952 Wesley DeWilde "Dub" Rogers, Jr., brought the first television station to Lubbock and the West Texas - Panhandle area. KDUB, Channel 13, started transmitting from the top of the Lubbock National Bank building when thousands of Lubbockites showed up to switch on the power.

In 1995 Dub Rogers donated a collection of files, photographs, films and various types of memorabilia, from KDUB Television, to the South Plains College in Levelland, Texas, a progressive community about 30 miles west of Lubbock. The Southwest Collection at Texas Tech University stores documents generated when Dub Rogers served as Mayor of Lubbock from 1966 to 1970. This website is a public archive of some of the materials from the Rogers Television Collection. This is not a complete archive.

News and Website Updates

Mr. Rogers talks about starting KDUB-TV in an interview with John Sparks in 1992. Watch the interview.
New KDUB-TV's 5th Anniversary Photos - 44 photographs from the KDUB's 5th birthday party. It was a big event with food, a band, balloons, special party for the kids and the broadcast tower was lighted from top to bottom. Oh yeah, and the KDUB Kuties were giving out kisses! View photos.