KFOR NEWS ANCHOR KILLED TV

The show was in its first season packaged by two Oklahoma City businessmen, brothers Bud and Don Mathis (Bud actually played a character on the show, that of the 'ranch foreman,' who joked and bantered with Owens). In 1966, WKY-TV became the originating studio for country music singer Buck Owens' half-hour syndicated program, The Buck Owens Ranch Show. Survivors sent letters of thanks following the storm to WKY-TV and Volkman for the advance warning. The station bootlegged a Tornado Forecast from Tinker Air Force Base (which was first produced in 1948), in order to warn people of a tornado in the Oklahoma City area. The station's management figured that giving advanced warning on such storms would save lives. WKY-TV station management believed that the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) ban on broadcasting tornado warnings (the FCC feared broadcasting such warnings would cause panic) was responsible for heavy loss of life, such as in the Flint-Worcester tornado outbreak sequence, a year earlier. On September 8, 1954, not long before he left for rival KWTV, meteorologist Harry Volkman delivered the first tornado warning broadcast on television. to broadcast its own color programming many years ahead of most other local stations nationwide, most of whom did not follow suit until the mid-1960s.

KFOR NEWS ANCHOR KILLED TV

In 1954, when NBC became the first television network to broadcast color programs, WKY-TV subsequently followed as one of the very first local TV stations in the U.S.

In 1958, ABC station KGEO (channel 5) was moved from Enid into Oklahoma City, becoming KOCO-TV, and that allowed WKY-TV to become an exclusive NBC affiliate. KTVQ closed its operations that year as well, and channel 4 picked up ABC once again. WKY-TV continued as a dual NBC/DuMont affiliate until the DuMont network shut down in 1956. Later that year KWTV (channel 9) debuted as a primary CBS affiliate. The station's original studios were located at the Municipal Auditorium (now the Civic Center Music Hall) in downtown Oklahoma City, with local programming broadcast from the Little Theatre.ĭue to an FCC-imposed freeze on station licenses, WKY-TV was the only Oklahoma City television station until 1953 when KTVQ (channel 25, now KOKH-TV) signed on, taking an ABC affiliation. Channel 4 took a primary affiliation with NBC due to WKY radio's association with NBC Radio. It is Oklahoma's first television station, having signed on a few months before KOTV in Tulsa. The station was affiliated with the four major networks at the time (NBC, ABC, CBS and DuMont). The station signed on Jas WKY-TV, owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company, publishers of the Daily Oklahoman, along with WKY radio.

4.5.1 Current on-air staff (as of April 6, 2011).

The station is received on cable as far away as Guymon, Oklahoma, which is technically part of the Amarillo market and Idabel, Oklahoma, which is technically part of the Shreveport-Texarkana market. On cable, KFOR-TV can be seen on channel 4 in standard definition and channel 704 in high definition on Cox Oklahoma City, making it the only station in the Oklahoma City market to have a cable channel number matching its over-the-air virtual digital channel and is also seen on channel 4 on other Cox systems in Central Oklahoma. KFOR-TV also operates four translator stations serving northwestern Oklahoma and can also be seen on several cable systems across the state. KFOR also carries the 24-hour weather channel '4Warn 24/7', an affiliate of NBC Plus, on digital subchannel 4.2 and Cox digital channel 247. The station broadcasts its digital signal on UHF digital channel 27, using its former analog VHF channel assignment of 4 as its virtual channel via PSIP. Refers to former analog channel (and current virtual channel), 4 Britton Road, across the street from the studios of ABC affiliate KOCO-TV (channel 5). 77, east of the Britton section of Oklahoma City its transmitter facility is located at 1400 E. KFOR-TV is owned by Local TV, a subsidiary of the private equity group Oak Hill Capital Partners, in a duopoly with MyNetworkTV affiliate KAUT-TV (channel 43) its studios are located at 444 East Britton Road in Oklahoma City, along U.S. KFOR-TV, virtual channel 4 (digital channel 27), is the NBC-affiliated television station in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Kfor news anchor killed