The tour included a brief history of technology at the station.

Mr. Martinez explains the differences between the field film camera, at top, and the larger studio cameras during a tour of the WIBW building. The cameras are both 50 years old and were purchased "used" from other stations at the time.

WIBW started as a small radio station around 1922 and started the television station in the 1950s. Today, weather and local news stories are distributed to half a dozen other radio stations, including areas of distribution around Manhattan and Emporia. WIBW owns one of the oldest FCC approved licenses in Kansas. Equipment to produce shows at WIBW are connected to Master Control rooms by over 17 miles of cables stored beneath the paneled floors. The technicians who work in the control rooms each delivered information to a very interested crowd of students and patiently answered all their questions, some of which were very humorous.