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KOTV
Image:KOTV.png
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Branding KOTV 6 (general)
The News on 6 (newscasts)
Channels Analog: 6 (VHF)

Digital: 45 (UHF)
Affiliations CBS
The CW (DT2, simulcast of KQCW)
Owner Griffin Communications, LLC
(Griffin Tulsa I Licensing, LLC)
First air date October 22, 1949
Call letters’ meaning Oklahoma
TeleVision
Sister station(s) KQCW
Former affiliations All secondary:
NBC/ABC/DuMont (1949-1954)
Paramount (1949-1953)
Transmitter Power 100 kW (analog)
970 kW (digital)
Height 573 m (analog)
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Facility ID 35434
Transmitter Coordinates 36°1′14.9″N, 95°40′31.7″W
Website www.newson6.com

KOTV, commonly referred to as "KOTV 6" or "The News On 6" is the CBS affiliate in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in the United States. The facility ID number or FIN is a unique positive integer assigned by the United States Federal Communications Commission to each domestic and international A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages CBS Broadcasting Inc ( CBS) is an American radio and Television network. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the KOTV broadcasts from studios in downtown Tulsa. KOTV's transmitter is located in Oneta. Oneta is a small unincorporated community in Wagoner County in the U KOTV has yet to say when their local news broadcasts will be available in HD.

The station broadcasts its analog signal on VHF channel 6, and its digital signal on UHF channel 45. On cable, KOTV can be seen on channel 6 on Cox Tulsa. KOTV can also be heard on 87. 7 FM in much of northeastern Oklahoma; the audio component of TV channel 6 is the same as 87. 75 MHz FM. The hertz (symbol Hz) is a measure of Frequency, informally defined as the number of events occurring per Second.

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History

In 1946, the Griffin family, owners of KTUL-AM, assigned Helen Alvarez to make a study of television's chances of success in Tulsa. After two years of research, Alvarez suggested that the Griffins apply for a TV construction permit as quickly as possible. The radio executives decided TV was too risky a venture, and planned to wait a year before going to the FCC to apply for a TV license. Unfortunately, due to a freeze on television applications, the Griffins would face a much longer wait to get into television, but eventually did so when KTVX (now KTUL) signed on in 1954. KTUL, referred to on air as NewsChannel 8, is the ABC affiliate in Tulsa Oklahoma, owned by Allbritton Communications Company. Year 1954 ( MCMLIV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1954 Gregorian calendar)

Alvarez immediately resigned and began casting about for investors willing to get a station on the air right away. At a party, she was introduced to Texas oilman George Cameron, who was looking to spend a monthly royalty checks totaling $50,000 he was banking. Along with crack salesman John Hill, who was working for a Tulsa wire maker, Cameron and Alvarez formed Cameron Television Corporation and applied to the FCC for channel 6 in Tulsa. With no other applications to consider, the FCC granted a construction permit to the Cameron Television Corporation in the spring of 1948. Year 1948 ( MCMXLVIII) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar of the Gregorian calendar.

It wasn't granted for KOTV, as Cameron had requested, but for KOVB. A typo on the application meant the request had to be re-filed, and in May 1948, the FCC approved the call sign change to KOTV. Alvarez negotiated the lease of the International Harvester dealership and repair shop at Third Street and Frankfort Avenue, and it was converted into what was then the nation's largest television studio. International Harvester Company ( IHC or IH; now Navistar International Corporation) was an agricultural machinery construction equipment The station still broadcasts from there today.

KOTV's transmitter, built in the backyard of Chief Engineer George Jacobs, was eventually hoisted to the top of the National Bank of Tulsa Building in downtown Tulsa. Alvarez had spent a year convincing bank officers that the tower would be both safe and in time, become a local landmark. While the tower was being installed, a workman's wrench fell and struck a woman passing below on the head. She died instantly.

Detractors jumped on the accident proclaiming KOTV was "jinxed" from the start. They took to calling it "Cameron's Folly," and speaking at a Tulsa Chamber of Commerce luncheon, a Tulsa radio executive said anyone investing in KOTV or buying a television set was "foolish. " However, Cameron Television continued on, and on October 22, 1949, KOTV signed on as the 90th television station in the United States and the second in Oklahoma. Events 202 BC - Hannibal Barca, leader of the Carthaginians, is defeated by the Roman legions under Scipio Africanus Year 1949 ( MCMXLIX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Alvarez was the station's first general manager, and along with Hill held a minority ownership stake in the station.

The station's first broadcast was of evangelist Billy Graham beginning his ministry with a crusade in Los Angeles. William Franklin Graham Jr KBE (born November 7 1918 better known as Billy Graham, is an evangelist and an Evangelical Christian Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West It was seen by a handful of viewers across Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri and Arkansas. Kansas ( is a Midwestern state in the central region of the United States of America, an area often referred to as the American " Missouri ( or) is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee Arkansas ( is a state located in the southern region of the United States. More than a month later, on November 23 KOTV broadcast its first local program, a live Chamber of Commerce meeting attended by many of the station's original critics. Events 800 - Charlemagne arrives at Rome to investigate the alleged crimes of

A week later, the station presented a "Special Dedication Program" featuring Oklahoma Governor Roy Turner, Tulsa Mayor Roy Lundy, singer Patti Page, Leon McAuliffe and his western swing band and Miss Oklahoma Louise O'Brien. The next day, December 1, KOTV broadcast a two-hour sampling of the top programs from all five networks. Over 3,000 television sets were placed throughout the city for public viewing, some of them set on sidewalks outside appliance stores. After several days of this sampling, the public began to buy TV sets and KOTV began having a small, but growing, viewing audience in the Four States area.

KOTV originally carried programming from all four networks of the time--CBS, ABC, NBC and DuMont. The American Broadcasting Company ( ABC) is an American Television network. The National Broadcasting Company ( NBC) is an American Television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's The DuMont Television Network was the world's first commercial Television network, beginning operation in the United States in 1946 It also briefly carried some programs produced by the "Paramount Television Network," a link between KTLA in Los Angeles and WBKB (now WBBM-TV) in Chicago. The Paramount Television Network was an ill-fated attempt by American Film corporation Paramount Pictures to launch a successful Television network KTLA, channel 5 is a television station in Los Angeles California. WBBM-TV, channel 2 is the CBS owned and operated Television station in Chicago, Illinois. Chicago (ʃɪˈkɑːgoʊ is the largest City by population in the state of Illinois and the American Midwest of the United States. At first, network programming was aired about a week after being broadcast live on the East Coast; it would be 1952 before a microwave link with New York City made live network programming possible. Year 1952 ( MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The City of New York

Three hours of programming were filled in the evening. With a broadcast schedule that began at 12:30pm, Channel 6 filled the rest of its schedule with local programming that was broadcast live. The cooking program "Lookin' At Cookin'" began a 32-year run that first year, broadcast from the nation's first "Telecast Kitchen. "

KOTV had a live wrestling program, and when the station's staff announcer Bob Hower ended his shift as host of the game show "Wishing Well," he became Tulsa's first news anchorman, reading Associated Press and United Press wire copy headlines for 15 minutes, four times a week.

In 1952, Cameron sold KOTV to another Texas oil magnate, Jack Wrather, for $2. Year 1952 ( MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. John Devereaux "Jack" Wrather Jr ( May 24, 1918 - November 12, 1984) was a Petroleum millionaire who became a Television 5 million (by comparison, it had cost only $400,000 to build the station). Wrather knew little about television, and persuaded Alvarez to stay on as general manager. He also made her a full partner in what was named the Wrather-Alvarez Television Corporation, later renamed the General Television Corporation.

KOTV got a competitor in 1954, when KCEB-TV signed on channel 23 as an NBC primary/DuMont secondary affiliate. Year 1954 ( MCMLIV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1954 Gregorian calendar) However, as television manufacturers were not required to include UHF tuning capability at the time, NBC made a secret agreement with KOTV that allowed channel 6 to continue "cherry-picking" NBC's stronger shows. A few months later, KVOO-TV (channel 2, now KJRH) signed on and took the remaining NBC programming. KJRH is the NBC affiliate in Tulsa Oklahoma, owned by The EW Scripps Company. KCEB then moved to ABC, which agreed on condition that KOTV be allowed to cherry-pick its shows as well. When KTVX signed on in 1954, it took all remaining ABC programming, leaving KOTV as a sole CBS affiliate.

Soon after KOTV became a sole CBS affiliate, General Television sold KOTV to the Whitney Corporation of Indianapolis, which was renamed Corinthian Broadcasting Corporation in 1957. Year 1957 ( MCMLVII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1957 Gregorian calendar) Corinthian merged with Dun & Bradstreet in 1971. The Dun & Bradstreet Corporation ( headquartered in Short Hills New Jersey, USA, is a provider of credit information on businesses and corporations Year 1971 ( MCMLXXI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1971 Gregorian calendar.

In December of 1983, Belo bought Dun and Bradstreet's entire television division, including KOTV. Belo Corp (pronounced /ˈbɛlo(ʊ/ is a Dallas -based media company that owns 20 Television stations and two regional Cable television news channels In late 2000, Oklahoma City-based Griffin Communications, longtime owners of CBS affiliate KWTV in Oklahoma City, purchased KOTV. KWTV, commonly referred to as "News 9" is the CBS affiliate in Oklahoma City Oklahoma. Oklahoma City is the capital and largest city of the US state of Oklahoma. Ironically, the Griffins had once owned KTUL-AM.

Griffin invested in KOTV upgrade the station's facilities and broadcast signal to accommodate high-definition and digital broadcasting, including a new transmitter, control and master control rooms and outfitting its photojournalists with the first digital cameras in the market. In recent years, KOTV also added Tulsa's most-advanced news helicopter, SkyNews 6, which teamed up with Oklahoma City's News 9's SkyNews 9HD to form the state's only newsgathering chopper team.

When Griffin bought WB affiliate KWBT (now CW affiliate KQCW), KOTV hired new staff and built a new set for a newscast called The News On Six at 9. KQCW Channel 19 is The CW 's affiliate licensed to Muskogee in the Tulsa Oklahoma DMA

Because KOTV and KJRH's digital channels are currently on a band of UHF which will be no longer in use after the February 17, 2009 cutoff date for analog television broadcasting (channels 52 to 69), it seemed likely that both stations will move their digital signals to their current analog channel assignments. However, their current analog channel assignments are in the low band of VHF (channels 2 to 6), which are more prone to interference from atmospheric conditions than are higher channel numbers. For this reason, KOTV selected channel 45 for its post-transition operations and KJRH will operate on channel 8 after KTUL ceases analog operations. KTUL, referred to on air as NewsChannel 8, is the ABC affiliate in Tulsa Oklahoma, owned by Allbritton Communications Company.

Chopper Crash

On June 20, 2007, the station's helicopter, SkyNews 6, was shooting a station promotion when the chopper's rotors struck the dish of a KOTV satellite truck, sending the helicopter spinning out of control and crashing to the ground. Two people, including the chopper's pilot, survived with minor injuries. The Bell 206B helicopter was a total loss. [1][2]

A photo of SkyNews 6 is available at http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1154584/M

KOTV debuted a new helicopter on May 5, 2008. The new chopper is also called SkyNews 6. Improvements to the new helicopter include an additional camera on the craft's tail, that shows the side of the chopper in profile on the left side of the screen, while showing the scene on the right side.

The new cameras have been rebranded as "SteadiZoom 360".

Ratings

KOTV continues to dominate the Nielsen ratings 24 hours a day, and its news broadcasts continue to win all time periods by comfortable margins. In November 2007, KOTV's 10pm newscast was the 8th highest-ranked late newscast in the United States. Channel 6 also won in the Local Access time period (6:30pm weeknights) with Entertainment Tonight. Entertainment Tonight is a daily Television entertainment news show that is syndicated by CBS Television Distribution throughout the United [3]

Programming

On Monday, September 18, 2006, KOTV's sister station KQCW in Tulsa began airing The Bold and the Beautiful in its regular network timeslot at 12:30pm. KQCW Channel 19 is The CW 's affiliate licensed to Muskogee in the Tulsa Oklahoma DMA The Bold and the Beautiful (often abbreviated to B&B) is an American Television Soap opera. KOTV previously dropped the show in the 1990s to expand its noon newscast to a full hour. On this day, KOTV also began producing a half hour newscast for KQCW. KQCW Channel 19 is The CW 's affiliate licensed to Muskogee in the Tulsa Oklahoma DMA Jennifer Loren, Ashli Sims and meteorologist Katie Green currently make up the news team.

KOTV also airs local news from 5 a. m. to 8 a. m. and shows CBS's "Early Show" from 8 a. m. to 10 a. m. The fourth hour (8 a. m. to 9 a. m. ) of KOTV's "Six in the Morning" show was moved to KQCW effective January 7, 2008, to accommodate the CBS mandate that all affiliates broadcast the full two hours of the "Early Show. KQCW Channel 19 is The CW 's affiliate licensed to Muskogee in the Tulsa Oklahoma DMA CBS Broadcasting Inc ( CBS) is an American radio and Television network. "

Personnel

Current On-Air Talent

NEWS ON 6 ANCHORS

NEWS ON 6 REPORTERS

NEWS ON 6 METEOROLOGISTS

SPORTS ANCHORS/REPORTERS

NEWSON6. COM WEB EXCLUSIVES TEAM

NEWS ON 6 PHOTOJOURNALISTS

Past Personalities

News/Station Presentation

Newscast titles

Station slogans

See also

External links

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