Starting in the mid Twentieth Century, a number of rulers in the Gulf were determined to instigate modernity and a unique national identity for their newly found Nation State. The advent of oil allowed for this 'character' crafting to take shape and for the State to farm out resources, generating an array of national narratives. Different venues were activated including architecture, urban planning, art, theatre, photography, international expositions, and biennales to solidify an image in place. Scholarship on the Gulf tends to recount State building from a political and economic perspective disregarding how actual State sponsored visual displays, that were physical, pictorial, or staged, supported and at times even prompted this national narrative. The paper thus examines the national image as crafted through television in the state of Kuwait in a particular since Kuwait at the time was at the fore front of image making in the region. Television production in this period thus became one of the means by which much of this narrative was disseminated to the viewing public. The paper will also explore the ways in which television influenced in the process urban and domestic development and articulation that in the process became a factor in its national image.