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KJRH
KJRH-TV (channel 2) is a television station in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States, affiliated with NBC. It is owned by the E. W. Scripps Company alongside Okmulgee, Oklahoma, Okmulgee-licensed Ion Television outlet KTPX-TV (channel 44). KJRH-TV's studios are located on South Peoria Avenue and East 37th Street in Neighborhoods of Tulsa, Oklahoma#Midtown, midtown Tulsa, and its transmitter is located near South 273rd East Avenue near Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, Broken Arrow. History Early history under Central Plains Enterprises The VHF channel 2 allocation was contested between two groups, both led by prominent Oklahoma oilmen, that competed for approval by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to be the holder of the Planning permission#Broadcasting, construction permit to build and broadcast license, license to operate a new television station on the third commercial VHF allocation to be assigned to Tulsa. The Southwestern Sales Corporation – owned by William G. Skelly, found ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KTPX-TV
KTPX-TV (channel 44) is a television station licensed to Okmulgee, Oklahoma, United States, serving as the Ion Television outlet for the Tulsa area. It is owned and operated by the Ion Media subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company, E.W. Scripps Company alongside NBC affiliate KJRH-TV (channel 2). KTPX-TV's offices are located on East Skelly Drive in Tulsa, and its transmitter is located near Mounds, Oklahoma. History The station first signed on the air on July 3, 1997, as KGLB-TV; it originally carried programming from Paxson Communications' infomercial service, the Infomall Television Network (inTV). The station became a charter owned-and-operated station of Pax TV (now Ion Television) when the network launched on August 31, 1998; on January 13 of that year, the station changed its call letters to KTPX-TV (the KTPX calls were previously used by NBC affiliate KWES-TV in Midland, Texas, from 1981 to 1993). Sale to Scripps On September 24, 2020, the Cincinnati-based E. W. Scripps ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KOKI-TV
KOKI-TV (channel 23) is a television station in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States, affiliated with the Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox network. It is owned by Imagicomm Communications alongside MyNetworkTV affiliate KMYT-TV (channel 41). The two stations share studios on East 27th Street and South Memorial Drive (near William Skelly, W. G. Skelly Park) in the Audubon neighborhood of southeast Tulsa; KOKI-TV's transmitter is located on South 273rd East Avenue (between 91st Street South and 101st Street South, next to the Muskogee Turnpike) in the western city limits of Coweta. History As an independent station The UHF channel 23 allocation—which had been dormant since a short-lived attempt to revive its original occupant, KCEB, by original licensee Elfred Beck foundered in September 1967—was contested between two groups that vied to hold the Planning permission#Broadcasting, construction permit to build a new television station on the frequency. The first prospective permittee w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Tulsa ( ) is the List of municipalities in Oklahoma, second-most-populous city in the U.S. state, state of Oklahoma, after Oklahoma City, and the List of United States cities by population, 48th-most-populous city in the United States. The population was 413,066 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. It is the principal municipality of the Tulsa Metropolitan Area, Tulsa metropolitan area, a region with 1,034,123 residents. The city serves as the county seat of Tulsa County, Oklahoma, Tulsa County, the most densely populated county in Oklahoma, with Urban Development, urban development extending into Osage County, Oklahoma, Osage, Rogers County, Oklahoma, Rogers and Wagoner County, Oklahoma, Wagoner counties. Tulsa was settled between 1828 and 1836 by the Lochapoka band of Creek people, Creek Native Americans, and was formally incorporated in 1898. Most of Tulsa is still part of the territory of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. Northwest Tulsa lies in the Osage Nation wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KOTV (AM)
KOTV (1170 Hertz, kHz) is a commercial radio, commercial AM radio, AM radio station in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It is owned by Griffin Communications and airs an All-news radio, all-news radio format. Studios and offices are located across from Guthrie Green in Neighborhoods of Tulsa, Oklahoma, Downtown Tulsa. The transmitter is on East 11th Street (U.S. Route 66, Route 66) in an undeveloped area of East Tulsa. KOTV is a clear-channel station, clear channel List of North American broadcast station classes, Class A station broadcasting at 50,000 watts, the maximum power for American AM stations. The station uses a omni-directional antenna, non-directional antenna by day, heard over much of Eastern Oklahoma and parts of Kansas, Arkansas and Missouri. It provides secondary coverage as far north as Wichita, Kansas, Wichita, as far east as Fayetteville, Arkansas, Fayetteville and Fort Smith, Arkansas. At night, it uses a directional antenna with a three-tower array to protect the other Cla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KCEB (Tulsa)
KCEB (channel 23) was a television station in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States, which was affiliated with NBC, ABC and the DuMont Television Network. Owned by Elfred Beck, the station operated for almost nine months from March 13 to December 10, 1954. History The station was founded by Tulsa oilman Elfred Beck. KCEB (which Beck named after himself as a reversal of his last name) began construction of its studio facilities atop Lookout Mountain in west Tulsa on August 21, 1953. The station signed on the air on March 13, 1954 as the second television station to sign on in the Tulsa market. It originally operated as an affiliate of NBC and the DuMont Television Network; it also shared ABC programming with primary CBS affiliate KOTV (channel 6), which signed on years earlier in October 1949. The station was outfitted with the latest equipment. As electronics manufacturers were not required to include UHF tuners on television sets at the time, early commercial UHF TV pioneers struggle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broadcast Band
A broadcast band is a segment of the radio spectrum used for broadcasting. See also * North American broadcast television frequencies * AM broadcasting * FM broadcasting * Dead air * Internet radio * Radio network * Music radio * Old-time radio * Radio astronomy * Radio programming * Types of radio emissions References {{DEFAULTSORT:Broadcast Band Bandplans ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KRMG (AM)
KRMG (740 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The station is owned by Cox Media Group and airs a news/talk radio format, simulcast with co-owned 102.3 KRMG-FM. The studios and offices are located on South Memorial Drive near Interstate 44 in Tulsa. KRMG's transmitter is located at a six-tower array on Tower Road in Sand Springs, Oklahoma. KRMG broadcasts at 50,000 watts by day, the maximum power permitted for American AM stations. But it drops its power to 25,000 watts at night and uses a directional antenna at all times to protect other stations on AM 740. Three towers are used during the day, providing at least secondary coverage to almost all of Oklahoma, as well as portions of Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas and Texas. At night, power is fed to all six towers to protect Class A CFZM Toronto, concentrating the signal in the Tulsa and Oklahoma City areas. KRMG-AM-FM are also heard on Channel 1980 through Cox's digital cable service. The AM station is the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kerr-McGee
The Kerr-McGee Corporation, founded in 1929, was an American energy company involved in oil exploration, production of crude oil, natural gas, perchlorate and uranium mining and milling in various countries. On June 23, 2006, Anadarko Petroleum acquired Kerr-McGee in an all-cash transaction totalling $16.5 billion plus $2.6 billion in debt and all operations moved from their base in Oklahoma, United States. As a result of further acquisitions, most of the former Kerr-McGee is now part of Occidental Petroleum. History The company later known as Kerr-McGee was founded in 1929 as Anderson & Kerr Drilling Company by Oklahoma businessman-politician Robert S. Kerr (1896-1963) and oil driller James L. Anderson. When Dean A. McGee (1904-1989), a former chief geologist for Phillips Petroleum, joined the firm in 1946, it changed its name to Kerr-McGee Oil Industries, Incorporated. The company initially focused mostly on off-shore oil exploration and production, being one of the first com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert S
The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' () "fame, glory, honour, praise, renown, godlike" and ''berht'' "bright, light, shining"). It is the second most frequently used given name of ancient Germanic origin.Reaney & Wilson, 1997. ''Dictionary of English Surnames''. Oxford University Press. It is also in use as a surname. Another commonly used form of the name is Rupert. After becoming widely used in Continental Europe, the name entered England in its Old French form ''Robert'', where an Old English cognate form (''Hrēodbēorht'', ''Hrodberht'', ''Hrēodbēorð'', ''Hrœdbœrð'', ''Hrœdberð'', ''Hrōðberχtŕ'') had existed before the Norman Conquest. The feminine version is Roberta. The Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish form is Roberto. Robert is also a common name in many Germanic languages, including En ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Okmulgee, Oklahoma
Okmulgee is a city in the Tulsa metropolitan area and the county seat of Okmulgee County, Oklahoma, Okmulgee County in Oklahoma, United States. The name is from the Muskogee language, Muskogee word ''okimulgi,'' which means "boiling waters".Bamburg, Maxine"Okmulgee,"''Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture''. Accessed June 16, 2015. The site was chosen because of the nearby rivers and springs. Okmulgee is 38 miles south of Tulsa, Oklahoma, Tulsa and 13 miles north of Henryetta, Oklahoma, Henryetta via U.S. Route 75 in Oklahoma, US-75. History Okmulgee has been the capital of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation since 1868, when it was founded following the American Civil War, Civil War. The Muscogee (Creek) Nation, Creek Nation began restoring order after that conflict. They had allied with the Confederate States of America, Confederacy during the war and needed to make a new peace treaty with the United States afterward as a result. They passed a new constitution and elected Samuel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KWHW (AM)
KWHW (1450 AM) is an American radio station licensed to serve Altus, the seat of Jackson County in southwestern Oklahoma, United States. Established in 1947, KWHW is owned by James G Boles, Jr. It airs a full service mix of music, news, sports, and local programming. The station is simulcast on sister station KPRO (93.5 FM). Programming KWHW broadcasts a full-service country music format along with farm reports on weekdays. Sunday programming is primarily church broadcasts and Gospel music programming. KWHW airs a tradio program called "Swap Shop" on weekday and Saturday mornings. The station broadcasts the meetings of the Altus City Council on the first and third Tuesdays of each month. KWHW station also airs select sporting events involving Altus High School and the Oklahoma State Cowboys. Some of the station's news and music programming comes from Citadel Media, Dial Global. KWHW's morning show is hosted by Eddie Wilcoxen. He is a published poet, recognized landscape desi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Altus, Oklahoma
Altus () is a city in and the county seat of Jackson County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 18,729 at the 2020 census. Altus is home to Altus Air Force Base, the United States Air Force training base for C-17, KC-46 and KC-135 aircrews. It is also home to Western Oklahoma State College and Southwest Technology Center. History The town that would later be named Altus was founded in 1886.Altus Oklahoma State University County Extension Service (accessed May 10, 2010) The community was originally called "Frazer", a settlement of about 50 people on Bitter Creek that served as a trading post on the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
