KOKI-TV

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KOKI-TV
FCC
Facility ID11910
ERP1,000 kW
HAAT400 m (1,312 ft)
Transmitter coordinates36°1′36″N 95°40′45″W / 36.02667°N 95.67917°W / 36.02667; -95.67917
Links
Public license information
Websitewww.fox23.com

KOKI-TV (channel 23) is a

Coweta
.

History

As an independent station

The

Bank of Oklahoma Tower and the Tulsa Performing Arts Center). The FCC granted the license to the Tulsa 23 venture on December 12, 1979.[2][3][4]

Logo used throughout KOKI's years as an independent station and for the first years of it being a Fox affiliate.

KOKI-TV signed on the air on October 26, 1980, a date chosen by Lavenstein at the suggestion of marketing and promotions manager Richard Enderwood, as it coincided with Enderwood's birthday. It was the first commercial television station to sign on in the Tulsa market since

KOTV (channel 6) and ABC affiliate KTUL (channel 8). KOKI was opportunistic with its programming acquisitions on occasion, and picked up broadcast rights to college and major league sporting events.[5]

KOKI heavily emphasized

Ogilvy & Mather examining Tulsa's commercial television stations, which showed that KOKI was the only station to increase viewership shares over the two-year period from May 1981 to May 1983, rising from a 6 to a 19 share in early evenings, from a 5 to a 9 in prime time and from a 4 to a 10 share against late newscasts on the three network affiliates, whereas KJRH, KOTV, and KTUL saw steady declines in those same dayparts, which were linked to KOKI's overall growth.[6]

The slogan used to promote its film offerings from the station's sign-on until 1984—"Oklahoma's Movie Star," based on the title of the station's Movie Star film presentations—would be the center of a federal

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, granted an injunction against Home Box Office in November 1983, on grounds that the Cinemax campaign had infringed upon KOKI's trademark. HBO appealed the ruling in the Denver-based Tenth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, which upheld Ellison's injunction order in a ruling handed down on December 9, forcing Cinemax to discontinue the campaign and begin developing a replacement marketing initiative ("We're Taking You to the Stars," which Cinemax used as its image campaign slogan until 1986).[7][8]

As a Fox affiliate

Partly because of its status as the strongest of the market's two independent stations, in early August 1986, in advance of the network's launch, News Corporation announced that it had reached an agreement with Tulsa 23 Ltd., in which KOKI-TV was named the Tulsa charter affiliate of the Fox Broadcasting Company.[9][10]

KOKI-TV affiliated with Fox when the fledgling network began programming on October 9, 1986, with the premiere of

The Late Show Starring Joan Rivers
. Though it was technically a network affiliate, Channel 23 continued to be programmed as a de facto independent station as Fox offered a limited schedule of programming during the network's early years of operation. Even after the network's programming expanded with the launch of a three-hour Sunday night lineup in April 1987, Fox offered prime time programs exclusively on weekend evenings until September 1989, when it began a five-year expansion towards a nightly prime time schedule. (It would take seven years for Fox to offer prime time programs on all seven nights of the week, completing the expansion with the rollout of its Monday night lineup in January 1993.) Until the network's expansion was completed, KOKI continued to air a movie at 7 p.m. on nights when the network did not offer any programming. In 1988, the station moved its operations into a low-rise office building on East 54th Street and South Yale Avenue (near LaFortune Park) in southeast Tulsa, which was named Fox Plaza.

Clear Channel ownership

After trying for several years to offload KOKI-TV, the Tulsa 23 partnership secured a willing buyer on March 6, 1989, when it reached an agreement to sell the station to

San Antonio, Texas–based Clear Channel Television for $6.075 million. Citing that KOKI had not generated a profit for some time as a result of an economic downturn spurred by an oil exploration slump in the region during the 1980s, division parent Clear Channel Communications (now iHeartMedia)—which had owned KMOD-FM and KAKC (1300 AM) since the company, as San Antonio Broadcasting Corp., acquired the two radio stations from Unicorn Inc. in 1973—applied for a "failing station" waiver of FCC ownership rules that then prohibited common ownership of television and radio stations in the same market on the basis that the combined ownership would provide KOKI with needed financial support to remain operational and expand its public affairs programming. The sale and cross-ownership waiver received FCC approval on November 17, 1989; the transaction was finalized in late February 1990.[11][12][13][14][15][16] (KOKI would gain additional radio sisters when Clear Channel purchased KQLL-AM-FM [1430, now KTBZ, and 106.1, now KTGX] and KOAS [92.1 FM, now KTBT] from Federated Media for $15.4 million in April 1996; as the Telecommunications Act eliminated the radio-television cross-ownership restrictions, the company acquired the two stations without amending the earlier waiver.)[17]

Under Clear Channel's stewardship, the station – which, in compliance with Fox's stricter branding requirements, phased out the "Tulsa 23" branding in favor of identifying as "KOKI Fox 23" in September 1990 – significantly upgraded its programming, acquiring the rights to more recent sitcoms, higher-quality feature film titles and some first-run

Big Three networks during the early part of that decade, KOKI was generating respectable profits by the middle of the decade.[18]

Former KOKI logo, used from February 3, 2002, to January 15, 2011.

On November 3, 1993, Clear Channel Television entered into a

FoxBox in September 2002, and was later branded as 4Kids TV from September 2005 until December 2008, when Fox stopped providing children's programming after declining to renew its agreement with time-lease partner 4Kids Entertainment
).

On December 15, 1999, four months after the FCC began permitting any commercial broadcasting firm the ability to legally own

Burlington Coat Factory location—was purchased to allow the operations of the two television stations and Clear Channel's five Tulsa radio properties (which had previously operated from the Mid-Oklahoma Building on 41st Street and Skelly Drive in southwest Tulsa) to be housed under a single facility as well as to allow KOKI/KTFO to commence digital television transmissions and news operations. (An additional 40,000 square feet (3,700 m2) of building space was reserved for the Clear Channel Event Center exhibition complex.)[25][26]

Newport Television ownership

On April 20, 2007, following the completion of the company's $18.7-billion purchase by

Providence Equity Partners for $1.2 billion.[27][28][29][30] The sale was approved by the FCC on December 1, 2007; after settling a lawsuit by Clear Channel ownership to force the equity firm to complete the sale, the Providence acquisition was finalized on March 14, 2008, at which time it formed Newport Television as a holding company to own and manage 27 of Clear Channel's 35 television stations (including KOKI and KMYT), and began transferring the remaining nine stations (all in markets where conflicts with FCC ownership rules precluded a legal duopoly from continuing under Newport) to High Plains Broadcasting, a licensee corporation formed to allow those stations to remain operationally tied to their associated Newport-owned outlets through local marketing agreements.[31][32][33][34][35]

Original version of current KOKI logo, used from January 16, 2011, to January 2014.

On August 11, 2011, William Sturdivant II—a then-25-year-old with a history of

Hillcrest Medical Center to be treated for severe dehydration, heat exhaustion and burns sustained to his uncovered feet from navigating the tower beams in temperatures exceeding 90 °F (32 °C)—down from the tower.[39][40][41][42][43]

Cox Media Group ownership

As part of a series of piecemeal sales announced on July 19, 2012, that also involved the larger

Cox Radio's Tulsa cluster of KRMG (740 AM and 102.3 FM), KRAV-FM (96.5), KWEN (95.5 FM) and KJSR (103.3 FM), and, in the first instance since the 2003 repeal of an FCC cross-ownership ban in which the owner of a local cable provider acquired a television station in the same market, also made the two stations sister properties to Cox Communications, which has been the dominant cable operator in northeastern Oklahoma since it acquired Tele-Communications Inc. (TCI)'s Tulsa-area franchise in April 2000.[44][45][46][47][48] The FCC approved the transaction on October 23, 2012; the sale was finalized on December 3.[49][50][51][52] Although the sale separated KOKI/KMYT from its former radio sisters under Clear Channel ownership, iHeartMedia's Tulsa cluster continued to operate out of the Memorial Drive facility until the summer of 2017, when Cox moved its Tulsa-area radio stations into the building and iHeart moved its local stations into a new facility on Yale Avenue and 71st Street (northeast of Oral Roberts University
) in southeast Tulsa's Richmond Hills section.

On February 15, 2019, private equity firm

Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Dayton Daily News, and the company's respective radio clusters in those two markets) in a deal valued at $3.1 billion that would result in Cox Enterprises maintaining a minority interest in the acquired properties.[53][54] Although the group originally planned to operate under the name Terrier Media, it was later announced on June 26 that Apollo would retain the Cox Media Group name post-acquisition, along with acquiring Cox's advertising business and the remainder of its Cox Radio unit (including its five Tulsa-area radio stations).[55] The sale was completed on December 17, 2019.[56]

Sale to Imagicomm

On March 29, 2022, Cox Media Group announced it would sell KOKI-TV, KMYT-TV and 16 other stations to Imagicomm Communications, an affiliate of the parent company of the

INSP cable channel, for $488 million;[57] the sale was completed on August 1.[58]

Programming

KOKI-TV currently broadcasts the majority of the Fox network schedule, with the sole exception being the

video-on-demand
service the day after their initial airing.

In addition to airing programming supplied by the network directly, channel 23 carries

federal educational programming obligations
.

Channel 23 formerly served as the

annual telethon on Labor Day and the preceding Sunday night each September from 2000 to 2010. For most of its run on the station, KOKI – which became among a handful of stations not affiliated with NBC, CBS or ABC to have ever carried the telethon upon assuming the local broadcast rights from KOTV – usually aired the telethon on a two-hour tape delay (airing after its 9 p.m. newscast from the 2002 edition onward) on the Sunday preceding Labor Day because of Fox entertainment and sports programming commitments.[59] For this reason, in order to accommodate the six-hour prime time format (substantially downscaled from its longtime 21+12-hour broadcast format) implemented with its September 2011 edition, KOKI/KMYT management elected to shift the MDA Telethon rights to sister station KMYT-TV for what would be its final two years as a syndicated telecast. (The event—by then reduced to a two-hour special—moved to ABC, airing thereafter by association on KTUL until the final telecast of the retitled MDA Show of Strength in August 2014.)[60]
)

Sports programming

From

broadcasting contract
with Major League Baseball.

From

KQCW
[channel 19] through that station's agreement with the team's syndication service.)

From 1989 to 1992, KOKI carried regular season and postseason college basketball games involving teams from the Big Eight Conference (distributed by Raycom Sports) and the Missouri Valley Conference (distributed by Creative Sports Marketing), which gave the station rights to select regular season games featuring the Oklahoma Sooners, the Oklahoma State Cowboys and the Tulsa Golden Hurricane. Most college basketball telecasts aired on the station on Saturday afternoons, although it also occasionally carried prime time games on weeknights, specifically during the Big Eight and Missouri Valley men's tournaments. Under the Raycom agreement, KOKI also carried tape delayed broadcasts of Oklahoma Sooners football games in late night on the Sunday after the date the game was held.[64] From 2005 to 2010, channel 23 also served as the official local broadcaster of OSU-produced analysis and magazine programs, including the weekly shows of the respective head coaches of the Cowboys' basketball, baseball and football teams. (All of the broadcasts were hosted by then-sports director Steve Layman, and were also syndicated on fellow Fox affiliate KOKH-TV in Oklahoma City.)

News operation

As of September 2017, KOKI-TV broadcasts 55+12 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with nine hours each weekday, 5+12 hours on Saturdays and five hours on Sundays); in regards to the number of hours devoted to locally produced newscasts, it is the highest local newscast output of any television station overall in both the Tulsa market and the state of Oklahoma. In addition, the station produces the ten-minute sports highlight program Fox 23 Sports This Weekend, which airs Saturdays and Sundays at 9:50 p.m. year-round, and High School Football Tonight, a half-hour high school football highlight show that airs Fridays at 11 p.m. from August to November.[65] KOKI may shift regularly scheduled newscasts that it must preempt to accommodate Fox Sports event telecasts – such as the weekend editions of the 5 p.m. newscast – to sister station KMYT (which had also carried a full simulcast of the weekday edition of Fox 23 News This Morning from September 2014 until December 2017).

News department history

Channel 23 has carried local news programming in various formats since its launch in October 1980. Starting at its sign-on, news programming on KOKI originally consisted mainly of 90-second newsbriefs (originally titled Newscheck 23, renamed in September 1990 as Fox 23 Newsbreak) – consisting of Associated Press wire reports and a short weather forecast read by the anchor on-call – that aired during select commercial breaks within daytime and evening programs. As Fox was urging many of its stations to begin producing their own newscasts around this time, in a May 1994 Tulsa World interview, then-general manager Hal Capron responded when asked whether KOKI might develop a news department that while the enormous cost of starting such an operation was an issue, it would format the newscast as a cutting-edge broadcast to differentiate itself from competitors KJRH, KOTV and KTUL if it went forward with such plans.[66] In December 1995, Capron announced plans to establish a news department for KOKI. (Such plans would likely have necessitated the expansion of its existing studio facilities or the relocation to more sufficiently large building space, as its occupied space at the Fox Plaza building was not quite large enough to house a full news department.) Original estimates by Capron suggested that a half-hour prime time newscast at 9 p.m. would premiere on channel 23 by August 1997; however, in January 1997, Capron disclosed that the newscast's launch would be delayed to an undetermined later date.[67][68] In lieu of a full-scale newscast, on January 26, 1997—immediately following Fox's telecast of Super Bowl XXXI—KOKI instead premiered First Weather on Fox 23, a nightly weather forecast program (consisting of a five-minute-long lead segment at 10 p.m. that aired seven nights a week, and two 60-second updates at 10:35 and 11:05 p.m. exclusively seen on weeknights) that served as lead-ins to the station's late access syndicated and network program offerings. The news updates and First Weather were discontinued in December 2001.

In the fall of 2001, KOKI finally commenced development of a full-scale news department, and hired Sean McLaughlin—who oversaw the launch of the [now-defunct] news department at then-sister station

Leitch Technology Corporation). 54 full- and part-time employees were also hired to staff the new operation.[26][69][70][71][72]

Long-form newscasts began on February 3, 2002, with the launch of Fox 23 News at 9:00, the first local prime time news program ever attempted in the Tulsa market and the first attempt at a newscast produced independently from KJRH, KOTV and KTUL since channel 41 (as KGCT) shut down its news operation 20+12 years earlier in June 1981. The 9 p.m. newscast – which has aired as an hour-long program since its premiere broadcast, which itself was delayed due to an hour-long episode of

major wildfire approaching residences near Chouteau.)[80]

From the outset, the station maintained a commitment to consumer investigative reporting, with a focus on helping northeastern Oklahoma residents that have been scammed by local businesses as well as government issues. (The investigative unit—originally named the "Fox 23 Problem Solvers"—was rebranded as the "Solving Problems" unit – partly a reference to the "Breaking News, Breaking Weather, Solving Problems" slogan used by KOKI at the time – to avoid confusion with KJRH's "2NEWS Problem Solvers" unit in 2007, and later became known as "Fox 23 Investigates" in 2012.) Although legitimate competition for the newscast sprang up when KQCW became a CW charter affiliate on September 18, 2006, when it debuted the KOTV-produced News on 6 at 9:00 (which Kimiko would co-anchor for two years after joining KOTV/KQCW in June 2013, following her departure from KOKI six months earlier),[81][82] prime time news viewers largely remained loyal to KOKI, which had gradually become the ratings leader in the 9 p.m. timeslot.

News programming on KOKI expanded quickly over the next few years. Channel 23 offered news programming outside of the established 9 p.m. slot for the first time on June 17, 2002, when it premiered a 5:30 p.m. Monday-through-Friday-only newscast. Acting as a local alternative to national network newscasts aired on KJRH, KOTV and KTUL in that timeslot, it featured a mix of general and financial news in a faster-paced format targeted at viewers arriving home from their afternoon commute, along with full weather and abbreviated sports segments (with the sports segment initially consisting of a live cut-in featuring Faust sitting in with KTBZ afternoon drive radio hosts Rick Couri and Don King). The August 11, 2003, premiere of a more conventional half-hour broadcast at 5 p.m. – which would be extended to weekends on January 9, 2016 – expanded the early evening newscast to a full hour, albeit treated as two separate half-hour programs.[83][84][85][86]

The station's morning newscast, Fox 23 News This Morning (alternately titled Fox 23 News Daybreak for the first two hours until 2014), debuted on April 24, 2006, as a four-hour broadcast from 5 to 9 a.m., displacing religious programs, infomercials and syndicated children's programs that had previously aired in that time period, the latter of which were relegated to Sunday mornings. (The program would expand to 4½ hours on October 6, 2014, then to five hours, starting at 4 a.m., on June 20, 2016.) Formatted as a mix of local and national news, weather and traffic updates and lifestyle features, it was initially co-anchored by Ron Terrell (who originally joined KOKI in June 2004, after a four-year tenure at KOCO-TV in Oklahoma City, to succeed Faust as part of overhaul of the sports department that also saw the departures of Briggs and sports reporter/videographer Justin Holgate; Terrell remains anchor of the newscast as of 2019) and Ann Sterling (who served as one of the original anchors of the weekday morning newscast at KNXV-TV in Phoenix, and had previously worked as an evening anchor at fellow Fox affiliate and now-former sister station WXXA-TV in Albany). It was the second local newscast in the market to run after 7 a.m., debuting twelve years after KOTV's Six in the Morning (the 8 a.m. hour of which moved to KQCW in January 2008) had expanded into the slot.[87][88][89][90][91] The station debuted an hour-long midday newscast at noon (which was originally scheduled to launch on the same date as the morning newscast) two months later on June 5, 2006; the program was moved up one hour to 11 a.m. on June 15, 2020.[92][93]

On January 18, 2010, KOKI debuted a half-hour 10 p.m. newscast, which was formatted to feature a wrap-up of the day's headlines and a full weather segment during the first ten minutes, with national and world news, sports and feature reports filling the remainder of the broadcast. (The program, which originally aired only on Monday through Friday evenings, would add a Sunday edition on January 9, 2016.)[94][95][86] On January 16, 2011, starting with the 90 p.m. newscast, KOKI became the second television station in the Tulsa market (behind KJRH-TV) to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition, with studio segments and field video footage recorded and broadcast in true HD; with the change, the station adopted the logo, music (OSI Music's "Fox Affiliate News Theme") and graphic scheme (a modified version of the Hothaus Creative Design package originally commissioned for fellow Fox affiliate KSWB-TV in San Diego) that was based on the standardized branding of Fox's owned-and-operated stations. (This package was replaced in January 2014, with a modified version of the graphics package developed in 2009 for fellow Fox and former sister station KTVU in San Francisco [which Cox Media Group sold to Fox in 2014] as well as replacing its O&O-styled logo with a red and white variant of the secondary standard Fox affiliate logo design.)

The early evening news block would expand on September 23, 2013, when KOKI debuted a half-hour weeknight newscast at 6 p.m.[96][97] KOKI subsequently debuted weekend morning newscasts on January 4, 2014, originally running for three hours from 7 to 10 a.m. on Saturdays and 6 to 9 a.m. on Sundays, becoming the second station in the Tulsa market (after KJRH-TV) to carry a morning news program on weekends (both broadcasts were expanded to three hours with the Sunday edition being shifted one hour earlier on April 5, 2014; the Saturday edition followed suit with the addition of a fourth hour on January 9, 2016).[98][99][86] On August 29, 2015, KOKI entered into a content partnership with the Tulsa World to collaborate on investigative reports, coverage of local high school football games and some special projects as well as to provide local forecasts from the "Fox 23 Severe Weather Team" for the newspaper.[100][101] In March 2016, KOKI unveiled the "Fox 23 SkyView Drone", an unmanned quadcopter that is used to provide aerial newsgathering of news and weather events.[102][103]

Since the news department's launch and its subsequent expansion, ratings for KOKI's newscasts have statistically ranked at a strong third to, at times, second place among the Tulsa market's television news outlets; the station has seen some slow growth in viewership for its newscasts since the late 2000s, amid continuing stagnant ratings for historical last place finisher KJRH and ratings declines for once-dominant KTUL in recent years. The 2000 comedy-drama film

Wal-Mart where she was abandoned by her baby's father, Willy Jack Pickens (Dylan Bruno
). However, at the time of the film's release, the station's only news programming consisted of hourly update segments (as its current news department would not be formed until a year-and-a-half after Where the Heart Is had its theatrical release).

Notable former on-air staff

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's signal is

multiplexed
:

Subchannels of KOKI-TV[104]
Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming
23.1 720p
16:9
KOKI-TV Main KOKI-TV programming / Fox
23.2 480i
4:3
MeTV MeTV
23.3 16:9 Dabl Dabl

Analog-to-digital conversion

KOKI-TV began transmitting a digital television signal on UHF channel 22 on October 1, 2002. The station shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 23, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 22,[105][106][107][108][109][110] using virtual channel 23. Newport Television's decision to delay KOKI's switch to digital-only transmissions by five months, while electing to turn off the KMYT analog signal on the original transition date of February 17, 2009, was done in order to enable viewers who were not prepared for the transition to continue receiving news and emergency weather information through the spring 2009 severe weather season.[111]

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