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John Toole "J. T." Griffin – the owner and president of the Griffin Grocery Company, a Muskogee-based wholesaler and manufacturer of condiments and baking products that he inherited from his father, John Taylor Griffin, after the elder company co-founder died in 1944 – entered the communications industry in October 1938, when he purchased local radio station KOMA (1520 AM, now KOKC) from ...
KOTV-DT (channel 6) is a television station in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States, affiliated with CBS.It is owned by Griffin Media alongside Muskogee-licensed CW affiliate KQCW-DT (channel 19) and radio stations KOTV (1170 AM), KRQV (92.9 FM), KVOO-FM (98.5), KXBL (99.5 FM) and KHTT (106.9 FM).
KOTV is a clear channel Class A station broadcasting at 50,000 watts, the maximum power for American AM stations. The station uses a 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, as far east as Fayetteville and Fort Smith ...
The sale of KOCB from Oklahoma City Broadcasting to Pittsburgh-based Superior Communications, Inc., owned by broadcasting executives Al Holtz and Perry Sook, was announced in May 1993. [49] The $11 million transaction [ 50 ] received FCC approval in October and closed on January 28, 1994; Baze stepped down as general manager and was replaced by ...
John Toole "J. T." Griffin—the owner and president of the Griffin Grocery Company, a Muskogee-based wholesaler and manufacturer of condiments and baking products, states that he inherited from his father, John Taylor Griffin, after the elder company co-founder died in 1944—became interested in television broadcasting around 1950, after noticing during one of his commutes that many homes in ...
Sooner sold KTOW to Citizens Broadcasting Company of Oklahoma for $50,000 in 1955. [8] Citizens moved KTOW to a newly converted building at the corner of NW 5th and Robinson streets in 1956; that facility stood until it was torn down in 1974 to build the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building , [ 9 ] being the last structure demolished to make way.
Tyler Media Group, also known as Tyler Broadcasting Corporation or simply Tyler Media, is a family-owned Oklahoma business with Radio, TV and outdoor advertising assets in Tulsa and Oklahoma City. Tyler Media owns five television stations (consisting of two Univision network affiliates, one Estrella TV affiliate and two Telemundo affiliates ...
KFOR-TV began transmitting a digital television signal on UHF channel 27 on June 1, 1999, becoming the first television station in Oklahoma City and the state of Oklahoma as a whole to begin operating a digital signal; until KFOR-DT began broadcasting on a full-time basis on May 1, 2002, the digital feed only transmitted NBC prime time and ...