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CBS- affiliatedtelevision station located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States. It is the flagship television station of locally based Griffin Communications as part of a duopoly with My. Network. TV affiliate KSBI- TV (channel 5.
The two stations share studio facilities located on Kelley Avenue (adjacent to the studios and main offices of the Oklahoma Educational Television Authority. PBSmember network), and its transmitter is located near the John Kilpatrick Turnpike/Interstate 4. History[edit]John Toole Griffin, a local grocery magnate and founder of Griffin Foods, decided to apply for a broadcast license with the Federal Communications Commission after noticing while driving around Oklahoma City that many homes in the area had outdoor television antennas installed to receive WKY- TV (channel 4, now KFOR- TV), which debuted in June 1. Oklahoma.[1] KWTV first signed on the air on December 2. Griffin and his brother- in- law James C. Leake, co- owners of radio station KOMA (1. AM, now KOKC). Channel 9 initially transmitted its signal from a shorter temporary tower near its Kelley Avenue studios as its permanent transmitter tower, for which the Griffins chose the KWTV callsign (standing for "World's Tallest Video") for the station over using the KOMA calls, was still under construction; when it was activated in 1.
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As of October 2. 01. KWTV's first broadcast was a roll call of station employees introducing themselves and the departments they were employed with.[2]KWTV has been a CBS affiliate since its sign- on (having taken the affiliation from WKY- TV, which relegated the network to secondary clearances), owing to KOMA's longtime affiliation with the CBS Radio Network; it is one of the few American television stations that has had the same callsign, ownership, primary network affiliation and over- the- air channel allocation throughout its history. Todd Storz, creator of the Top 4. KOMA in 1. 95. 8. Griffin and Leake bought out the partners that held minority interest in KWTV in 1. Leake then sold his interest to Griffin in 1.
Griffin's share of two other television stations, KTUL in Tulsa and KATV in Little Rock. By the 1. 97. 0s, KWTV became the first station in Oklahoma City to record news footage on videotape instead of film. In the late 1. 97. John Griffin retired in 1.
David. KWTV logo used from March 1. October 2. 4, 2. 01. KUSA/Denver and WSOC- TV/Charlotte, was first used (without the box framing) in 1. On August 1. 8, 1. KWTV partnered with Cox Cable and Multimedia Cablevision to create a 2.
Griffin Television and the two cable providers.[3] This channel, News Now 5. December 3, 1. 99. Cox channel 5. 3, featuring rebroadcasts and live simulcasts of KWTV's news programs (News Now 5. Oklahoma City proper, expanding to its outlying suburbs after Cox acquired Multimedia Cablevision from the Gannett Company in January 2. Tulsa area feed of News Now 5. Griffin purchased that market's CBS affiliate, KOTV.
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On January 2. 6, 2. Beechcraft Super King Air 2. Oklahoma State Universitybasketball team (including two players and six members of the coaching staff) and KWTV sports director Bill Teegins (who was also the university's football and basketball radio announcer) crashed in a field near Strasburg, Colorado.[4] The plane departed from Jefferson County Airport following a game against the University of Colorado Buffaloes, when the pilot became disoriented while flying through heavy snow on the way to Stillwater Regional Airport; all ten men on board were killed (two memorials have since been erected in remembrance of the tragedy: one at the crash site, and another outside of Gallagher- Iba Arena at OSU's Stillwater campus featuring a statue of a kneeling cowboy).[5]Also in 2.
KWTV entered into a content partnership with The Oklahoman, resulting in the merger of both the station and newspaper's websites under the "News. OK" banner; this collaboration ended in early 2. News. OK website continues to exist as the standalone website for The Oklahoman). Ironically the Gaylord family, who ran the newspaper from 1. OPUBCO Communications Group, was sold to The Anschutz Corporation), built and signed on competitor KFOR- TV in 1. On October 2. 5, 2. KWTV became the first television station in the Oklahoma City market to carry syndicated programming and advertisements inserted during local commercial breaks (including station and network promos) in high definition.
Digital television[edit]Digital channels[edit]The station's digital channel is multiplexed: News 9 Now is a news simulcast/rebroadcast channel that previously operated as cable- only News Now 5. December 3, 1. 99. March 3. 0, 2. 01. Owned by Griffin Communications in cooperation with Cox Communications, it also runs a three- hour block of E/I- compliant children's programs on Saturday afternoons. KWTV also uses the subchannel to carry CBS programs in place of the main channel during extended breaking news or severe weather coverage and to run select network programs that are not cleared to air on the station's main channel.[7]Analog- to- digital conversion[edit]KWTV discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over VHF channel 9, on February 1.
Congress had moved the previous month to June 1. The station's digital signal relocated from its pre- transition UHF channel 3. VHF channel 9.[9][1. Due to reception issues in parts of central Oklahoma, KWTV was granted permission by the FCC to operate a secondary signal on its former UHF digital channel 3. October 2. 00. 9, mapped to virtual channel 9. On March 9, 2. 01.
FCC issued a Report & Order, approving the station's request to move its digital signal from channel 9 to channel 3. On April 2. 0, 2. KWTV filed a minor change application on its new channel 3. June 1. 0.[1. 3] Short- lived service interruptions began on July 2. UHF channel 3. 9 signal. On August 1. 6, 2. UHF channel 3. 9 added a virtual channel on 9.
PSIP channel. KWTV terminated its digital signal on channel 9 and began to operate only on channel 3. August 3. 0, 2. 01. Programming[edit]Outside of the CBS network schedule, Syndicated programs broadcast by KWTV include Live! Kelly and Michael, Dr.
Phil, Entertainment Tonight, Extra and The Insider. KWTV currently does not air CBS This Morning Saturday on its main channel and delays the second half- hour of Face the Nation to early Monday mornings (both shows air on the News 9 Now subchannel, with the former being shown after the Saturday morning newscast, and the entire broadcast of the latter airing in simulcast with digital channel 9.
For a brief period in the early 1. KWTV preempted CBS News Sunday Morning; it also ran The Price Is Right (at 1. The Young and the Restless (at 3: 0. CBS' Saturday morning children's program block (now branded as the CBS Dream Team) also aired in a split pattern until September 2. Until March 2. 8, 2.
KWTV ran The Late Late Show on a half- hour delay at 1. Seinfeld (which is now seen on KOKH- TV and KOCB). Sports programming[edit]From 2. KWTV served as the broadcast home for Oklahoma State Cowboysbasketball games produced through the Cowboys Sports Network, broadcasting three games each season (usually airing on a Wednesday or Saturday during primetime hours). In 2. 01. 3, the station obtained the local television rights to St. Louis Rams preseason NFL games from the team's Rams Television Network syndication service (ironically, most Rams regular season games air on KOKH- TV through Fox's contract with the National Football Conference, while KWTV only carries the team's matchups against an opponent in the American Football Conference, CBS' NFL broadcast partner). News operation[edit].
News 9 current nightly newscast open. KWTV- DT presently broadcasts 3. ВЅ hours each on Saturdays and Sundays). Since 2. 00. 6, the station has operated a Bell 4. Sky. News. 9 HD", which was the first in the market to be equipped with a high- definition camera (though helicopter images were not broadcast in HD until October 2. Ranger 9", which had a camera installed below the nose (dubbed "Eagle. Vision") in 2. 00.
KOCO- TV (channel 5)'s "Sky 5" came into use in 1. KWTV also provides local weather updates for the Clear Channel- owned Oklahoma News Network and Tyler Media Group- owned radio stations KOKC, KOMA (9. FM), KMGL (1. 04. FM) KJKE (9. 3. 3 FM) and KRXO- FM (1. FM). KWTV also features select stories filed by Tulsa sister station KOTV- DT during its newscasts, and partners with that station to cover news events within the Tulsa market; both stations co- produce the Sunday sports analysis program, Oklahoma Sports Blitz.
KWTV, which has long been one of CBS' strongest affiliates, has long had a rivalry with KFOR- TV for the most- watched newscast in the market. It had the highest- rated late evening newscast in the United States during the May 2.
May 2. 00. 7, and in the market during the February 2. KWTV's newscasts vie for first place with KFOR in most news timeslots. Although the Ogle family has long been associated with KFOR- TV dating back to Jack Ogle's arrival as anchor in the 1. Kent and Kevin Ogle now with that station today (although Kevin's daughter, Abigail Ogle, serves as a sports anchor at KOCO), Kelly Ogle serves as KWTV's weeknight co- anchor and provides an op- ed segment weeknights on the 1. My Two Cents. After the FCC imposed the Prime Time Access Rule that cut 3. ½ hours to three – in 1. KWTV launched Oklahoma City's first hour- long 6: 0.
KFOR- TV's 6: 0. 0 p. It was split into two half- hour newscasts at 5: 0. CBS Evening News.
From 1. 96. 6 to 1. KWTV used the Eyewitness News format later used by ABC affiliate KOCO. KWTV places a significant emphasis on weather, and is known for its severe weather coverage and for having the top weather technology in the U. S. Oklahoma native Gary England is the state's longest- serving television meteorologist, having served as chief meteorologist at KWTV from October 1. August 2. 8, 2. 01.