As of 2016, the Oklahoma City metropolitan area is the 41st-largest media market in the United States, as ranked by Nielsen Media Research, with 722,140 television households (0.6% of all U.S. homes) and 1.2 million people aged 12+. The following is a summary of broadcast and print media in Oklahoma City:
Newspapers and magazines
The major daily newspaper published in Oklahoma City is '' The Oklahoman'', which has the largest circulation of the state's newspapers. There are also a number of regional and special-interest newspapers such as the ''
Black Chronicle
The ''Black Chronicle'' is an African-American weekly newspaper in the state of Oklahoma
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Black Chronicle
The ''Black Chronicle'' is an African-American weekly newspaper in the state of Oklahoma
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Sooner Catholic
''The Sooner Catholic'' is a bi-monthly newspaper (except in July and December) published by the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City. (''The Sooner Catholic Online'' is the web-based version of the newspaper.) There is no subscription charge for Catholic ...
Midwest City Beacon
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Moore Monthly
Moore may refer to:
People
* Moore (surname)
** List of people with surname Moore
* Moore Crosthwaite (1907–1989), a British diplomat and ambassador
* Moore Disney (1765–1846), a senior officer in the British Army
* Moore Powell (died c. 15 ...
Spencer Sun
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People
* Spencer (surname)
** Spencer family, British aristocratic family
**List of people with surname Spencer
*Spencer (given name), a given name (including a list of people with the name)
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The Vista
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Business, legal, entertainment and other local periodicals
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Apartment Locator
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Moore Monthly
Moore may refer to:
People
* Moore (surname)
** List of people with surname Moore
* Moore Crosthwaite (1907–1989), a British diplomat and ambassador
* Moore Disney (1765–1846), a senior officer in the British Army
* Moore Powell (died c. 15 ...
Oklahoma City News
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Oklahoma Constitution
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Oklahoma News
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The Vista
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Oklahoma City Times
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capital
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* Capital city, a municipality of primary status
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* Capital letter, an upper-case letter Economics and social sciences
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Oklahoma
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, is the 44th largest designated market area for television in the United States (as ranked by Nielsen Media Research); the DMA serves 34 counties in the northern, west-central and central portions of the state. The Oklahoma City area has 19 television stations, including 12 full-power and six low-power (analog or digital) stations:
KOCO-TV
KOCO-TV (channel 5) is a television station in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States, affiliated with ABC and owned by Hearst Television. Its studios and transmitter are located on East Britton Road (Historic Route 66)—between North Kelley a ...
Fox
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Woodward
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* Woodward, Iowa
* Woodward, Oklahoma
* Woodward, Pennsylvania, a census-designated place
* Woodward Avenue, a street in Tallahassee, Florida, which bisects the ca ...
KOCM
KOCM (channel 46) is a religious television station licensed to Norman, Oklahoma, United States, serving the Oklahoma City area as an owned-and-operated station of the Daystar Television Network. The station's offices and master control facilitie ...
3ABN
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Woodward
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* Woodward, Iowa
* Woodward, Oklahoma
* Woodward, Pennsylvania, a census-designated place
* Woodward Avenue, a street in Tallahassee, Florida, which bisects the ca ...
Infomercial
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The Oklahoma City Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) is primarily served by
Cox Communications
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Internet Protocol television
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. Cox Communications parent Cox Enterprises was awarded the cable franchise rights to Oklahoma City proper by the Oklahoma City Council in February 1979, and commenced service in the city in April 1980. Until the latter system's dissolution in December 1983, cable service in the immediate Oklahoma City area was split between the main Cox Cable system and Pan Oklahoma Communications, a joint venture that was 80% owned by Cox Enterprises (the same equity stake it initially held with the western Oklahoma City Cox franchise) with the remaining 20% owned by seven majority stockholders and four minority stockholders based in the city. In 1984, Cox Communications acquired 10% of the remnant shares owned by the six local shareholders in Cox Cable of Oklahoma City, which expanded its service area into areas of northeastern Oklahoma City (located east of Western Avenue, the service delineation point for both systems) as well as the bordering unincorporated community of Forest Park that had previously been served by Pan Oklahoma.
Multimedia Cablevision served as the cable provider for the city's suburbs and adjacent areas (including among others, Bethany,
Edmond
Edmond is a given name related to Edmund. Persons named Edmond include:
* Edmond Canaple (1797–1876), French politician
* Edmond Chehade (born 1993), Lebanese footballer
* Edmond Conn (1914–1998), American farmer, businessman, and politician
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Midwest City
Midwest City is a city in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, United States, and a part of the Oklahoma City metropolitan area. As of the 2010 census, the population was 54,371, making it the eighth largest city in the state.
The city was developed in ...
Choctaw
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Moore
Moore may refer to:
People
* Moore (surname)
** List of people with surname Moore
* Moore Crosthwaite (1907–1989), a British diplomat and ambassador
* Moore Disney (1765–1846), a senior officer in the British Army
* Moore Powell (died c. 1573 ...
, Nichols Hills, Norman and Yukon). Multimedia first incorporated in the metropolitan area when it established a system in Moore and Del City in 1979; the company expanded its service area in 1983, when it acquired the American Cablevision systems in Norman (which launched in 1976 as the first cable provider in the Oklahoma City metropolitan area), Midwest City/ Spencer (incorporated in July 1979), Stillwater and Cushing from American Television and Communications Corporation (AT&C) in a trade deal involving two AT&C-owned systems in North Carolina. Cox Communications would purchase Multimedia's suburban Oklahoma City systems from the
Gannett Company
Gannett Co., Inc. () is an American mass media holding company headquartered in McLean, Virginia, in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area.Kansas and North Carolina) in July 1999, with those systems formally being taken over by Cox on February 1, 2000. AT&T U-verse rolled out its Internet Protocol television service to portions of Oklahoma City, Edmond, Moore and Norman in August 2007; U-verse would expand its service into additional suburban communities (including Midwest City, Mustang, Nichols Hills, The Village, Wheatland and Yukon) by the summer of 2008.
From 1978 until 1984, Oklahoma City was also served by TV-Q Movie Systems, a Multichannel Multipoint Distribution Service which was the first provider to offer pay television service in Oklahoma City proper; TVQ – which transmitted its signal via antenna to Oklahoma City and adjacent suburbs within a radius – exclusively carried programming from
HBO
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and SuperStation WTBS (now TBS) as well as, upon converting into a multichannel service in 1981, Nickelodeon. Antenna Vision was launched in 1990 as a 21-channel MMDS offering featuring broadcast stations, and a limited lineup of basic and premium channels from a transmitter atop the Liberty Bank Tower in downtown Oklahoma City (which had previously housed TV-Q and VEU's respective transmission facilities). Launched by Multimedia Cablevision, it made use of additional frequencies licensed to the service by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and reached a radius covering most of
Oklahoma
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, northern Cleveland and eastern Canadian Counties; American Telecasting purchased Antenna Vision in 1994, folding the latter provider into its WanTV wireless cable service (which remained in operation until 2001).
Oklahoma City also served as the pilot market for Video Entertainment Unlimited (VEU), a subscription service launched in October 1980 by
Golden West Broadcasters
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over its then-fledgling independent station KAUT-TV, which transmitted the service during the nighttime hours seven days a week as well as on weekend afternoons. VEU – which was formatted similarly to premium cable networks (such as HBO and
Showtime
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* ''Showtime'' (film), a 2002 American action/comedy film
* ''Showtime'' (video), a 1995 live concert video by Blur
Television Networks and channels
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) as well as other over-the-air subscription television services of the time period (such as ONTV and SelecTV), offering a mix of unedited movies, music specials and sporting events – expanded to include affiliates in Dallas-Fort Worth and Atlanta; VEU – which was dropped by KAUT in September 1982, in favor of offering a full-time schedule of syndicated and local entertainment programs available for free to the entire media market – ceased operations on its two other affiliates in September 1984, as cable television service expanded its reach throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth and Atlanta markets.
Radio
As of September 2011, Oklahoma City is the 48th largest radio market in the United States, according to
Arbitron
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Christian
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KTLV
KTLV (1220 AM broadcasting, AM) is a radio station broadcasting an Urban Gospel and Christian talk and teaching radio format. City of license, Licensed to Midwest City, Oklahoma, the station serves the Oklahoma City Metroplex. The station is cur ...
Midwest City
Midwest City is a city in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, United States, and a part of the Oklahoma City metropolitan area. As of the 2010 census, the population was 54,371, making it the eighth largest city in the state.
The city was developed in ...
KMSI
KMSI (88.1 FM, "The Oasis") is an Inspirational radio station serving the Oklahoma City
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Moore
Moore may refer to:
People
* Moore (surname)
** List of people with surname Moore
* Moore Crosthwaite (1907–1989), a British diplomat and ambassador
* Moore Disney (1765–1846), a senior officer in the British Army
* Moore Powell (died c. 1573 ...
Edmond
Edmond is a given name related to Edmund. Persons named Edmond include:
* Edmond Canaple (1797–1876), French politician
* Edmond Chehade (born 1993), Lebanese footballer
* Edmond Conn (1914–1998), American farmer, businessman, and politician
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Air1
Air1 is an American Christian radio network. Owned by the Educational Media Foundation (EMF), it primarily broadcasts contemporary worship music, and is a sister to the EMF's K-Love network.
History
In 1986, KLRD began broadcasting Christia ...
KSPI-FM
KSPI-FM is a radio station airing a Hot AC format licensed to Stillwater, Oklahoma
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KOKQ
KOKQ (94.7 FM) is a commercial radio station located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. KOKQ airs a classic rock format branded as "Q94.7". Owned by iHeartMedia, its transmitter is located in Northeast Oklahoma City, and studios are located 6525 North ...
KQCV-FM
KQCV-FM, known as the Bott Radio Network, is a Christian Teaching radio station serving the Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, area and is licensed to Community Broadcasting, Inc.
History
The station began broadcasting in 1998 with the call letters KQ ...
KQOB
KQOB (96.9 FM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Enid, Oklahoma, and serving the Oklahoma City metropolitan area. It is owned by Champlin Broadcasting and calls itself ''Freedom 96.9''. KQOB airs a talk radio format. Most of the sched ...
Blanchard
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Geographical distribution
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Contemporary hit radio
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KROU
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LPFM
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KRGU-LP
KRGU-LP (97.7 FM) is a low-power FM radio station
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KHDD-LP
KHDD-LP (99.3 FM) is a low-power FM radio station licensed to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
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List of newspapers in Oklahoma
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List of radio stations in Oklahoma
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List of television stations in Oklahoma
This is a list of broadcast television stations that are licensed in the U.S. state of Oklahoma.
Full-power stations
VC refers to the station's PSIP virtual channel. RF refers to the station's physical RF channel.
Defunct full-power stations
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Oklahoma
Oklahoma (; Choctaw language, Choctaw: ; chr, ᎣᎧᎳᎰᎹ, ''Okalahoma'' ) is a U.S. state, state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States, bordered by Texas on the south and west, Kansas on the nor ...