Media in Oklahoma City

As of 2011, the Oklahoma City metropolitan area is the 44th-largest media market in the United States, as ranked by Nielsen Media Research, with 712,630 television households[1] (0.6% of all U.S. homes) and 1.2 million people aged 12+. The following is a summary of broadcast and print media in Oklahoma City:

Newspapers and magazines
See also: List of newspapers in Oklahoma

The major daily newspaper published in Oklahoma City is The Oklahoman, which has the largest circulation of the state's newspapers. There are also a number of regional and special-interest newspapers such as the Black Chronicle, the Oklahoma Gazette and The Journal Record.

Daily

Weekly

Community
  • Choctaw Sun
  • Eastern Oklahoma County News (Harrah)
  • The Edmond Sun
  • Harrah Sun
  • Jones Sun
  • Luther Sun
  • Midwest City Beacon
  • Moore Monthly
  • Nicoma Park Sun
  • Spencer Sun
  • The Vista (Edmond)

Business, legal, entertainment and other local periodicals

Defunct newspapers and publications

Digital media
  • OKC Talk
  • The Lost Ogle[4]
  • Non Doc

Television

Oklahoma City, the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Oklahoma, is the 44th largest designated market area for television in the United States (as ranked by Nielsen Media Research);[5] the DMA serves 34 counties in the northern, west-central and central portions of the state. The Oklahoma City area has 19 television stations, including 12 full-power and six low-power (analog or digital) stations:

Oklahoma City-licensed
Channel Callsign Network Subchannels Owner Website
(Virtual/RF) Channel Programming
4.1 (27)KFOR-TVNBC4.2
4.3
4.4		Antenna TV
True Crime Network
Dabl		Nexstar Media Group
5.1 (7)KOCO-TVABC5.2MeTVHearst Television
9.1 (39)KWTV-DTCBS9.2News 9 NowGriffin Communications
13.1 (32)KETA-TVPBS13.2
13.3
13.4		OETA World
OETA Create
OETA Kids		Oklahoma Educational
Television Authority
14.1 (15)KTBO-TVTBN14.2
14.3
14.4
14.5		Hillsong Channel
Smile
TBN Enlace USA
Positiv		Trinity Broadcasting Network
21.1 (21)KUOT-CD3ABN21.2
21.3
21.4
21.5		TBN
3ABN
Amazing Facts TV
Hope Channel		The Edge Spectrium
22.1 (22)KTOU-LDHome Shopping Network22.2
22.3
22.4
22.5
22.6		SonLife Television Network
HSN2
Off Air
Shop
OnTV4U		HC2 Holdings
25.1 (24)KOKH-TVFox25.2
25.3		Charge!
Stadium		Sinclair Broadcast Group
26.1 (26)KLHO-LDBlank26.2
26.3
26.4		Off Air
Off Air
Off Air		Aracelis Oritz Corporation
30.1 (29)KTUZ-TVTelemundoTyler Media Group
34.1 (33)KOCB-TVThe CW34.2
34.3
34.4		TBD
Comet
Dabl		Sinclair Broadcast Group
36.1 (36)KUOK-CDUnivisionN/AN/ATyler Media Group
43.1 (40)KAUT-TVIndependent43.2
43.3
43.4		Court TV
Court TV Mystery
Cozi TV		Nexstar Media Group
45.1 (45)KOHC-CDAzteca America45.2
45.3
45.4
45.5
45.6		LATV
Informational/MMN
Informational
Informational
Timeless TV		HC2 Holdings
46.1 (46)KOCM-TVDaystar46.2Daystar En EspanolWord of God Fellowship, Inc.
48.1 (48)KOCY-LPEstrella TVN/AN/ATyler Media Group
52.1 (23)KSBIMyNetworkTV52.2
52.3
52.4
52.5		Bounce TV
Laff
Grit
Court TV Mystery		Griffin Communications
62.1 (50)KOPX-TVIon Television62.2
62.3
62.4
62.5
62.6		Qubo
Ion Plus
ShopTV
QVC
HSN		Ion Media Networks

Outlying areas

Areas outside the immediate Oklahoma City metropolitan area are served by mostly low-power stations, with the exceptions of two full-power stations that are an affiliate of Univision and a member station of PBS, respectively.

The six network-affiliated television stations in the Oklahoma City metropolitan area do not operate any full-power satellite stations, despite the western portions of the market being underserved by any network affiliates' signal (though NBC affiliate KFOR-TV does have low-power translators serving northwestern parts of the state, and Univision affiliate KUOK is based out of Woodward with two low-power translators, one analog and one digital, serving the immediate Oklahoma City area). Therefore, cable or satellite television is required to receive Oklahoma City television stations; in order to receive KFOR-TV, KOCO-TV, KWTV-DT, KOKH-TV, KOCB or KAUT-TV in those areas, cable television is required.

The only full-power English-language major network-affiliated television stations to serve those areas of the market located outside the Oklahoma City metro were KVIJ (channel 8; originally a CBS affiliate and later a satellite of Amarillo ABC affiliate KVII) in Sayre, which ceased operations in 1992, and ABC affiliate KGEO (channel 5) which moved from Enid to Oklahoma City in 1958, and is now the present-day KOCO-TV.

Channel Callsign City of license Network Subchannels Owner Website
(Virtual/RF) Channel Programming
12.1 (8)KWET-TVCheyennePBS12.2
12.3
12.4		OETA World
OETA Create
OETA Kids		Oklahoma Educational
Television Authority
24.1 (34)KOMI-CDWoodwardYTA TVN/AN/AOmni Broadcasting Co.
35.1 (35)KUOKWoodwardUnivisionN/AN/ATyler Media Group
47.1 (35)K35MV-DConchoFNXN/AN/ACheyenne and Arapaho Tribes
48.1 (48)KUOC-LDEnidBuzzr48.2
48.3
48.4
48.5
48.6
48.7		SonLife Broadcasting Network
Decades
Movies!
Quest
CRTV
Unknown
Unknown		HC2 Holdings

Local independent cable channels

† Channel formerly carried on over-the-air as digital subchannel carried on OETA stations

Subscription television

The Oklahoma City Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) is primarily served by Cox Communications for cable television and AT&T U-verse for internet protocol television. Cox Communications parent Cox Enterprises was awarded the cable franchise rights to Oklahoma City proper by the Oklahoma City Council in February 1979, and commenced service in the city in April 1980. Until the latter's system's dissolution in December 1983, cable service in the immediate Oklahoma City area was split between the main Cox Cable system and Pan Oklahoma Communications, a joint venture that was 80% owned by Cox Enterprises (the same equity stake it initially held with the western Oklahoma City Cox franchise) with the remaining 20% owned by seven majority stockholders and four minority stockholders based in the city. In 1984, Cox Communications acquired 10% of the remnant shares owned by the six local shareholders in Cox Cable of Oklahoma City, which expanded its service area into areas of northeastern Oklahoma City (located east of Western Avenue, the service delineation point for both systems) as well as the bordering unincorporated community of Forest Park that had previously been served by Pan Oklahoma.[6][7]

Multimedia Cablevision served as the cable provider for the city's suburbs and adjacent areas (including among others, Bethany, Edmond, Guthrie, Midwest City-Del City, Choctaw, Harrah, Moore, Nichols Hills, Norman and Yukon). Multimedia first incorporated in the metropolitan area when it established a system in Moore and Del City in 1979; the company expanded its service area in 1983, when it acquired the American Cablevision systems in Norman (which launched in 1976 as the first cable provider in the Oklahoma City metropolitan area), Midwest City/Spencer (incorporated in July 1979), Stillwater and Cushing from American Television and Communications Corporation (AT&C) in a trade deal involving two AT&C-owned systems in North Carolina. Cox Communications would purchase Multimedia's suburban Oklahoma City systems from the Gannett Company (as part of a $2.7-billion acquisition of its systems in Oklahoma, Kansas and North Carolina) in July 1999, with those systems formally being taken over by Cox on February 1, 2000.[8][9] AT&T U-verse rolled out its internet protocol television service to portions of Oklahoma City, Edmond, Moore and Norman in August 2007; U-verse would expand its service into additional suburban communities (including Midwest City, Mustang, Nichols Hills, The Village, Wheatland and Yukon) by the summer of 2008.[10][11][12]

From 1978 until 1984, Oklahoma City was also served by TV-Q Movie Systems, a Multichannel Multipoint Distribution Service which was the first provider to offer pay television service in Oklahoma City proper; TVQ – which transmitted its signal via antenna to Oklahoma City and adjacent suburbs within a 30-mile (48 km) radius – exclusively carried programming from HBO and SuperStation WTBS (now TBS) as well as, upon converting into a multichannel service in 1981, Nickelodeon. Antenna Vision was launched in 1990 as a 21-channel MMDS offering featuring broadcast stations, and a limited lineup of basic and premium channels from a transmitter atop the Liberty Bank Tower in downtown Oklahoma City (which had previously housed TV-Q and VEU's respective transmission facilities). Launched by Multimedia Cablevision, it made use of additional frequencies licensed to the service by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and reached a 12-mile (19 km) radius covering most of Oklahoma, northern Cleveland and eastern Canadian Counties; American Telecasting purchased Antenna Vision in 1994, folding the latter provider into its WanTV wireless cable service (which remained in operation until 2001).[13]

Oklahoma City also served as the pilot market for Video Entertainment Unlimited (VEU), a subscription service launched in October 1980 by Golden West Broadcasters over its then-fledgling independent station KAUT-TV, which transmitted the service during the nighttime hours seven days a week as well as on weekend afternoons. VEU – which was formatted similarly to premium cable networks (such as HBO and Showtime) as well as other over-the-air subscription television services of the time period (such as ONTV and SelecTV), offering a mix of unedited movies, music specials and sporting events – expanded to include affiliates in Dallas-Fort Worth and Atlanta; VEU – which was dropped by KAUT in September 1982, in favor of offering a full-time schedule of syndicated and local entertainment programs available for free to the entire media market – ceased operations on its two other affiliates in September 1984, as cable television service expanded its reach throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth and Atlanta markets.

Radio

As of September 2011, Oklahoma City is the 48th largest radio market in the United States, according to Arbitron.[14] The following is a list of radio stations serving the Oklahoma City area:

AM
Frequency Callsign Nickname Format Owner Website
640KWPNESPN 640Sports/TalkCumulus Media
800KQCVKQCVBible TeachingBott Radio Network
890KTLRKTLRReligious TalkWPA Radio, LLC
930WKYThe Sports AnimalSports talkCumulus Media
1000KTOKNewsRadio 1000, KTOKConservative TalkiHeartMedia
1140KRMPHeart & Soul 92.1 & 1140Urban Adult ContemporaryPerry Broadcasting Company Inc.
1220KTLVKTLV 1220Urban Contemporary GospelFirst Choice Broadcasting
1340KGHMAll Sports RadioSports/TalkiHeartMedia
1400KREFThe RefSports/TalkFox Sports Radio
1460KZUELa Tremenda Radio MexicoSpanish varietyLa Tremenda Radio Mexico, Inc
1520KOKCKOKCNews/TalkTyler Media Group
1560KEBCAM 1560Sports/TalkTyler Media Group

FM
Frequency Callsign Nickname Format HD Radio Owner Website
88.1KMSIThe OasisInspirationalDavid Ingles Ministries, Inc.
88.5KZTHThe HouseContemporary ChristianThe Love Station, Inc.
88.9KYLVK-LoveContemporary ChristianEducational Media Foundation
89.3KSSOSonlife RadioGospelFamily Worship Center Church, Inc
89.5K208CGCSN RadioReligiousCSN International
90.1KUCOKUCOClassicalHD2: Gospel Music (KTGS)
HD3: Vietnamese		University of Central Oklahoma
90.5K213EMRadio UChristian rockSpirit Communications, Inc.
90.9KOKFAir1Christian Worship MusicEducational Media Foundation
91.7KOSUKOSUNPR(daytime)/
The Spy FM (nighttime)		Oklahoma State University
92.1K221FQHeart & Soul 92.1 & 1140Urban Adult Contemporary (KRMP simulcast)Perry Broadcasting Company Inc.
92.5KOMAKOMAOldiesHD2: "The Edge 92.9"
HD3: "V103"		Tyler Media Group
92.9K225BNThe Edge 92.9Alternative RockTyler Media Group
93.3KJKEJake FMClassic CountryTyler Media Group
93.7KSPI-FMHot 93.7Hot ACStillwater Broadcasting, LLC
93.9KWDW-LPRadio SalvacionSpanish ReligiousJesucristo Es Mi Fortaleza Church, Inc
94.1K231BHBott Radio NetworkChristian talk (KQCV-FM simulcast)Bott Radio
94.7KBRU94.7 The BrewActive RockHD2: "98.5 El Patrón"
HD3: "98.5 El Patrón"		iHeartMedia
95.1KQCV-FMBott Radio NetworkBible TeachingCommunity Broadcasting, Inc.
95.3K237GEKOKCNews/Talk (KOKC (AM) simulcast)Screen Door Broadcasting, Inc.
95.7K239BTBott Radio NetworkBible Teaching (KQCV-AM simulcast)Bott Broadcasting Company
96.1KXXY-FM96.1 KXYClassic CountryHD2: "KTOK"iHeartMedia
96.5K243BJExitos 96.5Spanish OldiesTyler Media Group
96.9KQOBAlice 96.9Adult HitsChamplin Broadcasting, Inc.
(LMA with Cumulus Media)
97.3KKNG-FMOklahoma Catholic RadioCatholic/
Religious		WPA Radio LLC
97.5KCYI-LPSmooth JazzEdwards Broadcasting
97.7KRGU-LPSpanish CatholicMidwest City Knights Of Columbus Building Corporation
97.7K249FGLa Tremenda Radio MexicoSpanish variety (KZUE simulcast)La Tremenda Radio Mexico, Inc.
98.1WWLS-FMThe Sports AnimalSports talkCumulus Media
98.5K253BV98.5 El PatrónRegional MexicaniHeartMedia
98.9KYISKiss-FMHot Adult ContemporaryCumulus Media
99.3KHDD-LPSpanish CatholicOklahoma Catholic Family Conference, Inc.
99.3KZUC-LPUCentral RadioAdult AlternativeUniversity of Central Oklahoma
99.7KNAH99.7 Hank FMClassic CountryHD2: The Rooster Red Dirt 24/7
HD3: Frey Miller Trucking's Big Rig Radio
HD4: KZLS-AM 1640 The Eagle		Champlin Broadcasting, Inc
100.1K261DPThe House FMContemporary ChristianThe Love Station, Inc
100.5KATT-FMRock 100.5, The KATTRockCumulus Media
100.9KSMJ-LPOklahoma Catholic RadioCatholicOklahoma Fellowship Of Catholic Men
101.1K266BGCSN RadioReligiousCSN International
101.3KPCG-LPTrumpet Radio 101.3CatholicPhiladelphia Church Of God Inc.
101.5K268BRThe Gospel StationSouthern GospelRussell Ministries, Inc.
101.9KTSTThe TwisterCountryHD2: "My Praise FM KLVV"iHeartMedia
102.3K272FDBott Radio NetworkBible Teaching (KQCV-AM simulcast)Bott Broadcasting Company
102.7KJYOKJ103Contemporary Hits/Top-40HD2: "iHeartRadio Music Festival"iHeartMedia
103.1K276EXV103Classic Hip HopTyler Media Group
103.5KVSPPower 103.5Mainstream UrbanPerry Broadcasting of Southwest Oklahoma, Inc.
103.7K279CRKTLRReligious TalkTyler Media L.L.C.
104.1KMGLMagic 104.1, KMGLAdult ContemporaryTyler Media Group
104.5K283BW104.5 KRXOClassic RockTyler Media Group
104.9KKWDWild 1049Rhythmic Contemporary HitsCumulus Media
105.3KINB105.3 The ProSportsPerry Media Group, LLC
105.7KROUKGOU, Your NPR SourceNews/Talk (daytime)/
Jazz (nighttime)		University of Oklahoma
106.3KGOUKGOU, Your NPR SourceNews/Talk (daytime)/
Jazz (nighttime)		University of Oklahoma
106.7KTUZ-FMLa Zeta, 106.7SpanishTyler Media Group
107.3K297BBThe Gospel StationSouthern GospelRussell Ministries, Inc.
107.7KRXO-FM107.7, The Franchise KRXOSportsHD2: "104.5 KRXO"
HD3: "Exitos 96.5"		Tyler Media Group

See also

References
  1. 2011-12 DMA Ranks - Nielsen
  2. "About 405 Magazine". 405 Magazine. Retrieved March 15, 2020.
  3. Sullins; Parsons (1992). "Roscoe Dunjee: Crusading Editor of Oklahoma's Black Dispatch, 1915-1955". Journalism Quarterly. 69. doi:10.1177/107769909206900119.
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  5. U.S. Local TV Market Rankings
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  7. "Cable TV changes approved". The Oklahoman. Oklahoma Publishing Company. February 22, 1983. Retrieved July 10, 2017.
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  9. Mel Bracht (February 1, 2000). "Cox viewers to see more local programs". The Oklahoman. Oklahoma Publishing Company. Retrieved July 10, 2017.
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  11. Jim Stafford (August 7, 2007). "Neighborhoods get scoop on AT&T's U-verse service". The Oklahoman. Oklahoma Publishing Company. Retrieved July 10, 2017.
  12. "AT&T's U-verse TV sees expansion". Edmond Life & Leisure. August 14, 2008. Retrieved July 10, 2017.
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  14. Arbitron Radio Market Rankings: Fall 2011
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