KOKI-TV
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KOKI-TV Channel 23 is the Fox affiliate in Tulsa, Oklahoma. KOKI broadcasts from its studios on South Memorial Drive in Tulsa. KOKI is a relative newcomer to the field of local newscasts in Tulsa. KOKI began offering local newscasts in 2002, but does significantly well, recently beating KJRH in late news. Its transmitter is located in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma.
History
Channel 23 signed on in its current incarnation on October 26, 1980 as an Independent station. Another station, call-letters KCEB, occupied the Channel 23 slot in the 1950s, and was an affiliate of the DuMont Television Network. That station signed off shortly after the failure of the DuMont network in December, 1954.The station was owned by a local group of businessmen known as "Tulsa 23 Ltd" back in 1980. The programming was a blend of old movies, westerns, a few old sitcoms, drama shows, and cartoons. They were known as "Tulsa 23 - Oklahoma's Independent". As the only full time independent general entertainment the station had good ratings. But the programming was lower budget than most stations being the owners were local and did not have deep pockets.
KOKI-TV 23 did affiliate with the Fox network in 1987. Eventually they became known as FOX23. In the late winter/early spring of 1990, KOKI was sold to Clear Channel Communications. Under Clear Channel the programming was improved to include more recent sitcoms, better movies, and some first run talk shows. In the '90s KOKI moved toward more talk/reality/court shows and away from the classic sitcoms. They began an LMA programming crosstown KTFO 41 in 1994 making Channel 41 "UPN41" in 1995.
As the children's shows disappeared from syndication KOKI moved toward even more talk and reality syndicated shows.
News
KOKI in its Fox form aired hourly local news updates on weekdays during the 1990s and early 2000s. A five-minute weathercast was also seen on KOKI called First Weather on FOX23. In February 2002, KOKI launched FOX23 News @ 9:00, an nightly hour-long local newscast. In June 2002, KOKI expanded its news operations to include a daily early evening newscast at 5:30pm and a year later, KOKI expanded its news operations to include a daily early evening newscast at 5:00pm.KOKI launched a a four-hour morning newscast (FOX23 News Daybreak) in April 2006, airing from 5:00-9:00am. It is the only four-hour fully local morning newscast in the Tulsa market.
On Air Talent
- Chera Kimiko (Weekday PM Anchor)
- Clay Loney (Weekday PM Anchor)
- Jon Slater (Chief Meteorologist)
- Ron Terrell (Weekday AM Anchor)
- Ann Sterling (Weekday AM Anchor)
- Barak Shapiro (AM Meteorologist)
- Diane White (Weekend Anchor)
- Justin Wilfon (Weekend Anchor)
- Paul Heggen (Weekend Meteorologist)
- Rob Loeber (Sports)
- Janna Clark (Reporter)
- Mia Fleming (Reporter)
- Sarah Bennett (Reporter)
- Chad Mahoney (Reporter)
- Noelle Newton (Reporter)
- Greta Valverde (Reporter)
- Carrie Netherton (Reporter)
- Emily Sinovic (Reporter)
- J.R. Stone (Reporter)
- Jace Verhoeven (Reporter)
- Marcus Washington (Reporter)
Newscasts
Weekdays
- FOX23 News Daybreak: 5 - 9 AM
- FOX23 News @ 5: 5 - 5:30 PM
- FOX23 News @ 5:30 5:30 - 6 PM
Nightly
- FOX23 News @ 9: 9 - 10 PM
External Links
| Terrestrial television>Broadcast television in the Tulsa market [(Nielsen DMA #61)] |
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| KJRH 2 (NBC) - KOTV 6 (CBS) - KTUL 8 (ABC) - KOED 11 / KOET 3 (PBS / OETA) - K13XU / K15DA / K14LD (IND) - KDOR 17 (TBN) - KQCW 19 (The WB/The CW) - KOKI 23 (Fox) - KUTU-LP 25 (UNI) - KRSC 35 (IND/Edu.) - KTFO 41 (UPN/My Network TV) - KTPX 44 (i) - KWHB 47 (LeSEA) - KGEB 53 (GEB) |
| Local cable television channels News Now 53 |
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