Channel 6 began broadcasting on April 9, 1954 with the call sign WMFD-TV. It aired an analog signal on VHF channel 6 from a 941-foot transmitter near Delco (later moving to a 2,000-foot (610 m) tall tower near White Lake among the tallest east of the Mississippi in 1969, where they remained until their switch to digital broadcasting in 2008). The television station was owned by Atlantic Telecasting Corporation alongside Wilmington's oldest radio station, WMFD.
WECT[]
1958–1967[]
Atlantic Telecasting sold off the radio station in 1958 and changed the television station's calls changed to the current WECT. The WMFD-TV call letters are now used by an independent television station in Mansfield, Ohio.
1967–1968[]
1968–1972[]
1968–1971[]
1971-1974[]
BETTER LOGO NEEDED
1973-1976[]
BETTER LOGO NEEDED
1976[]
1977–1984[]
1984–1995[]
The "Circle 6" logo was a similar logo to that used at the time by WRGB in Schenectady-Albany-Troy, New York.