KUOK-CA,

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channel 11, was a low-powered television station licensed to Norman,

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, United States. The station was owned by

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History

The station first signed on the air in 1997 as KDSA-LP, carrying programming from The Worship Network, which had already broadcast on KMNZ (channel 62, now KOPX-TV) before and after that station became the market's Pax TV (now Ion Television)

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. In 2000, KDSA affiliated with religious broadcaster Daystar. After the affiliation switch to Univision was announced, Daystar programming was moved to upstart O&O station

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(channel 46) in December 2003. In the summer of 2004, the station requested to the Federal Communications Commission to have its call letters changed to KUOK-CA, which was made official that fall. The station became a Univision affiliate on May 8, 2004, as part of a six-station bi-state network then known as "Univision Arkansas-Oklahoma" which also included

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(channel 36, to which KUOK-CA served as a translator) and the three other low-power stations that also Equity acquired to become its translators (K69EK (channel 69, later KWDW-LP, KUOK-LP, KOCY-LP, and now

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on channel 48), KCHM-LP (channel 36, now KUOK-CD), and

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-based KOKT-LP (channel 20)), originally relayed Univision programming across Oklahoma via a direct simulcast from then-

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KLRA-LP (now KKYK-CD) in Little Rock, Arkansas. In March 2005, KUOK – though still programmed via satellite from Equity's headquarters in Little Rock – discontinued the KLRA-LP simulcast, with it and its translators began carrying advertising for businesses within the Oklahoma City market and separate station promotions. KUOK-CA broke off from the Univision simulcast on May 30, 2007, when the station switched to LAT TV as part of a new affiliation deal between the network and Equity. LAT TV ceased operations in 2008, and KUOK went silent afterward. On June 18, 2010, the FCC canceled KUOK-CA's license.http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/getimportletter_exh.cgi?import_letter_id=19494

References

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