KOKH-TV
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KOKH-TV (known as FOX25 or FOX Oklahoma City) is the FOX broadcasting affiliate for Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group of Maryland.
History
Prior to 1959, channel 25 operated as the ABC affiliate in the Oklahoma City market as KTVQ. Current ABC affiliate KOCO was operating out of Enid, Oklahoma using the call letters KGEO-TV.KOKH began operation as an independent educational station in 1959. In the fall 1979, KOKH was bought by Blair Broadcasting. At that point became a general entertainment independent station featuring cartoons, classic sitcoms, and alot of movies. Shortly after KGMC Channel 34 (Now KOCB) signed on with a similar format.
By 1983 Oklahoma City had three commercial independent stations and they all struggled for the best programming. Blair Broadcasting would restructure into Gillett Broadcasting by 1985. In 1987, Pappas Broadcasting made a proposal to purchase KOKH. At the same time they would buy programming inventories of KGMC and KAUT 43 and combine assets on KOKH making one strong station. Fox Affiliation would also move from KAUT to KOKH. Channel 34 would switch to Home Shopping programming while KAUT would become an educational station. In 1988 this sale was canceled. The three stations then continued on until 1991. In 1989 KOKH was sold to Busse Broadcasting.
In 1991, KAUT 43's owner, Heritage Broadcasting would buy KOKH. Channel 43 would be sold to Oklahoma Educational Television and become KTLC The Literacy Channel. Heritage would merge KAUT's programming onto KOKH as well as Fox Affiliation. A few years later though KTLC would become a commercial station and owned by Paramount and known as KPSG. They reverted to the KAUT calls a few years later. Today that station is owned by New York Times.
In 1996, Fox 25 KOKH was sold to its current owner, Sinclair. In the late 1990's KOKH evolved and moved away from cartoons and classic sitcoms while still running some more recent sitcoms. The station moved twopard more talk and reality shows as well as court shows. In 1996 KOKH also began a local marketing agreement with KOCB 34.
News
In the 1980s, KOKH aired brief news capsules under the title "Newstouch 25". Ronnie Kaye anchored the updates.In May 1997, KOKH launched a nightly newscast titled The Nine O'Clock News. Jack Bowen and Kirsten McIntyre were the first anchors for the newscast. The Nine O'Clock News expanded to an hour-long newscast in August 1998. The newscast ran only on weeknights until September 1999, when it began airing seven nights a week.
The "FOX Primetime News at 9:00", as the newscast was rebranded in 2002, became part of Sinclair's News Central in March 2003, adding News Central's national news updates and weather forecasts in the newscasts. In early 2004, KOKH launched a companion newscast, "FOX25 Late Edition" airing weeknights at 10:00.
KOKH airs lottery drawings from the Oklahoma Lottery nightly during their 9PM newscast. KOKH's sister station KOCB 34 simulcasts the drawings.
Newscasts
Nightly
- FOX25 Primetime News @ 9 - 9 - 10 PM
Weekdays
- FOX25 Late Edition - 10 - 10:30 PM
External links
| Terrestrial television>Broadcast television in the Oklahoma City market [(Nielsen DMA #45)] |
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| KFOR 4 (NBC) - KOCO 5 (ABC) - KWTV 9 (CBS) - KETA 13 / KWET 12 (PBS / OETA) - KTBO 14 (TBN) - KLHO 17 (Relg./Spanish) - KUOT 19 (Relg./Spanish) - KGBN 20 (A1) - KTOU 22 (HSN) - KOKH 25 (Fox) - KTUZ 30 (TMD) - KWEM 31 (A1) - KXOK 32 (A1) - KOCB 34 (The WB - to be The CW in 09/06) - KUOK 35 (UNI) - KOHC 38 (Azteca America) - KXOC 41 (A1) - KAUT 43 (UPN) - KOCM 46 (Daystar) - KSBI 52 (Ind) - KOPX 62 (i) |
| Local cable television channels City Channel 20 - News Now 53 |
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Corporate Staff: David D. Smith (COB and President & CEO) | Frederick G. Smith | J. Duncan Smith | Robert E. Smith | Daniel C. Keith | Martin R. Leader | Lawrence E. McCanna | Basil A. Thomas | David B. Amy | Lucy A. Rutishauser | Barry M. Faber | David R. Bochenek | Nat S. Ostroff | Donald H. Thompson | Thomas I. Waters III | Darren Shapiro | Gregg Siegel | Jeff Sleete | M. William Butler | Steven M. Marks | Delbert R. Parks III | Joe DeFeo
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ABC Network Affiliates: KDNL | WCHS | WEAR | WGGB | WICD | WICS | WKEF | WLOS | WSYX | WXLV
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CBS Network Affiliates: KGAN | WGME
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Fox Network Affiliates: KABB | KBSI | KDSM | KOKH | WBFF | WDKY | WMSN | WPGH | WRGT | WRLH | WSMH | WSYT | WTAT | WTTE | WUHF | WUTV | WVAH | WYZZ | WZTV
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NBC Network Affiliate: WTWC
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UPN Network Affiliates: WABM¹ | WCGV¹ | WMMP¹ | WMYV¹ | WRDC¹ | WUXP¹
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WB Network Affiliates: KMYS¹ | KOCB² | KVMY¹ | WDKA¹ | WLFL² | WMYA¹ | WNAB² | WNYO¹ | WNUV² | WNYS¹ | WPMY¹ | WSTR¹ | WTTA¹ | WTTO/WDBB² | WTVZ¹ | WUCW² | WVTV²
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Independent Television Stations: KVCW² | WFGX¹
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¹ Stations that have been announced as My Network TV affiliates.
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² Stations that have been announced as CW affiliates.
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| Annual Revenue: .24 billion USD (2004) | Employees: Unknown at this time. | Stock Symbol: NASDAQ: [SBGI]| Website: [www.sbgi.net] |
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