WIBW-TV is a CBS-affiliated television station located in Topeka, Kansas. The station first signed on the air on November 15, 1953. WIBW-TV was the first television station to sign on in the Topeka market, and the third such station in Kansas.

KFKU, the official radio station for the University of Kansas, first aired on December 15, 1924 with a concert by the KU band and a speech by Chancellor Ernest Lindley. The station had been set up thanks to a $20,000 grant from the engineering faculty for a tower and transmitter. In 1927, it was paired with newly licensed Wren and broadcast on the same radio frequency until 1987. Shared time operation ended after more than 60 years when financial difficulties claimed WREN. When WREN returned to the air, KFKU remained silent, and in 1996 KFKU's license was canceled.

WREN came on air in 1927 named not only for the city of Lawrence, Kansas, but also for Jenny Wren flour, produced at Bowesock Mill in Lawrence. It shared radio frequency with KFKU, the radio station of the University of Kansas. WREN's transmitter was located in the storage room of the Bowersock Mills and Power Company, with the microphone sitting atop empty flour sacks.

In 1947, WREN moved to Topeka. The station also created the world's largest wren that topped the station's studios. Former Governor Alf Landon and his family bought WREN in 1952 amd maintained ownership of the station until 1982 before selling it to the Kassebaum Radio Group. WREN was forced to go silent on December 21, 1987 due to financial strain. It began broadcasting again on December 9, 1991 and is still on air today.