At that time, channel 43 began offering a simulcast of the Financial News Network (which would merge with CNBC in 1989) each weekday from 10:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. and, after the removal of VEU programming, from 9:30 to 10:00 p.m. In addition, the station also several of Autry's feature films during the week of December 6 (including among others his debut film, Tumbling Tumbleweeds, The Phantom Empire, and Bells of Capistrano). OETA solicited private funds totaling $300,000 to pay for educational programming that would be shown on the restructured channel 43. Subsequently, in June 1986, Des Moines, Iowa-based Heritage Broadcasting acquired a controlling interest in Rollins Communications – with the combined company forming Heritage Media – in a two-tiered tender acquisition worth $260 million. Governor Henry Bellmon voiced concerns with OETA's involvement in the transaction, suggesting that the purchase of a second Oklahoma City station would result in the authority, which had limited appropriations to adequately operate its existing state network as it stood, constantly requesting additional state funding. (Sinclair would have concurrently directly acquire KFOR-TV and retain ownership of KOCB, which would have migrated its operations into KFOR/KAUT's Britton Road studios during a six-month agreement in which Sinclair's operational responsibilities for KOKH would have been transitioned over to Standard Media.). Seraphim Media would in turn donate the license and certain intellectual assets of KGMC to the Oklahoma Educational Television Authority (OETA) – with the intent of converting it into a PBS member station – for $1 million, with Pappas acquiring equipment and property assets owned by the station for an additional $1 million. The station's digital signal is multiplexed: KAUT-TV launched a digital signal on UHF channel 40 in June 2005. On May 2, 2006, KOCB was announced as Oklahoma City's CW affiliate. Heritage concurrently announced that it would buy KOKH from the Gillett-controlled Busse Broadcast Holdings, with the intent to move some of KAUT's programming to channel 25. On December 24, 2014, KAUT launched a digital subchannel on virtual channel 43.2 as an affiliate of This TV; as such, KAUT became the first Tribune-owned television station to affiliate with the network since its purchase of the Local TV group (Tribune assumed original co-owner Weigel Broadcasting's equity share of the network in November 2013, while retaining its structure as a joint venture with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). On February 2, 1981, KAUT shifted its news block two hours later (from 2:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.), which allowed for the station's news department to provide additional weather coverage during the late afternoon for that year's spring severe weather season; with that move, channel 43 carried a morning block of music videos from 8:00 to 9:00 a.m. and a mix of syndicated talk and religious programs from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. After the station discontinued the daytime local news format in September 1981, KAUT began filling daytime slots with older feature film westerns – most of which had starred Autry – on a temporary basis, and also added some drama series, sitcoms and animated series to its schedule. It was then referred to as simply "43." Please take a moment to review my edit. That fall, the station became a full-time general entertainment station. By March 1981, the all-news format was shifted by two hours (running from 2:00 to 7:00 p.m.), putting it in direct competition with early evening local and network newscasts on KTVY, KOCO and KWTV. Television channels and stations established in 1980, https://tvstations.fandom.com/wiki/KAUT?oldid=12051. Under conditions included by OETA in the sale agreement, Paramount/Viacom also was required to allow OETA to lease airtime on KPSG after the station joined UPN, under a five-year agreement which included requirements to air PBS educational shows supplied by the member network each weekday from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., along with simulcast blocks of OETA's "Festival" and "AugustFest" programming for eight hours each weekend during the duration of the March and August pledge drives. At that time, it became the third independent station to sign on in the Oklahoma City market – after KOKH-TV (channel 25, now a Fox affiliate), which converted from a non-commercial educational independent into a commercial independent on October 1, 1979, and KGMC (channel 34, now CW affiliate KOCB), which signed on four weeks later on October 28. KAUT-TV has been the Oklahoma City broadcast home of Texas Rangers major league baseball since April 6, 2007. On May 8, 2017, Sinclair Broadcast Group—owner of KOKH-TV and KOCB—entered into an agreement to acquire Tribune Media for $3.9 billion and the assumption of $2.7 billion in Tribune-held debt, pending regulatory approval by the FCC and the U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division.
Around that time, the station acquired more cartoons for its weekday afternoon lineup, and launched Midnight Shopper, a home shopping program produced by locally based production company Snyder & Co. that aired weekend late nights. Station ID animation as seen on KAUT website and on-air promotions. KAUT may also take on the responsibility of airing NBC programs when KFOR is not able to such as in a news-related emergency. Language; Watch; Edit ; Active discussions. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. As the order now allowed the affected Sinclair stations to begin switching to The WB starting on January 15, 1998, UPN began scrambling to find a new affiliate in the market. OK, Abkürzungen und Akronyme in der deutschsprachigen Presse Gebrauchtwagen. [7] [8]. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. All of the outlets share studios at the Griffin Communications Media Center on North Boston Avenue and East Cameron Street in the downtown neighborhood's Tulsa Arts District; KQCW's transmitter is located near Harreld Road and North 320 Road in rural northeastern Okmulgee County. KMYT-TV, virtual channel 41, is a MyNetworkTV-affiliated television station licensed to Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States. Post-acquisition, OETA planned to increase the authority's telecourse programming by 250%, largely through programs that would fill the KAUT lineup (at that time, Oklahoma had the highest total of students who obtained their college credit through telecourses). [56] [57] [58] [59] [60], As a PBS station, much of KAUT/KTLC's programming consisted of same-day rebroadcasts of programs featured on the OETA network, alongside some programs from American Public Television and other syndicators that channel 43 had granted the exclusive local broadcast rights via OETA. However, KAUT's website does have a generic MyNetworkTV logo. Other stations: WFXQ-CD8 KAUT-TV remained a UPN affiliate until September 4, 2006, with the network's Sunday late-night repeat block as the final UPN offering carried by the station. KAUT-DT2 is the Court TV-affiliated second digital subchannel of KAUT-TV, broadcasting in standard definition on UHF digital channel 40.2 (or virtual channel 43.2 via PSIP).
See more ». On cable, KAUT-TV is available on Cox Communications channel 16 in both standard and high definition, and AT&T U-verse channels 43 (standard definition) and 1043 (high definition) in the Oklahoma City metropolitan area. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page where you can join the discussion. An two hour-long extension of KFOR's weekday morning newscast was added to KAUT on September 15, 2008. Cartoons were also gradually phased out and gone by the fall of 2003. On May 2, in a joint announcement by the network and Sinclair Broadcast Group, KOCB was confirmed as The CW's Oklahoma City affiliate. Central Oklahoma's most powerful television transmitter, KAUT's antenna height is 1,596 feet. Even though KOKH-TV was the leading independent in the market, Reliance Capital Group–which assumed ownership of KOKH's parent company at the time, Blair Broadcasting, to stave off a hostile takeover by minority stockholders—had turned down Fox's offer to affiliate with channel 25, due to disagreements over scheduling of the network's inaugural program, late-night talk show The Late Show Starring Joan Rivers , concerned about potential disruption to the station's movie lineup. There is no separate website for KPLR-TV; instead, it is integrated with that of sister station KTVI. Its lead-out program, Oklahoma Country Live, was an hour-long country music dance show hosted by Wade Carter (then the music director at KXXY-FM [96.1]) that was broadcast from the Spurs nightclub, located on 25th Street (near South Prospect Avenue and Interstate 35) in southeast Oklahoma City.
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