KOKH-TV
Fox television affiliate in Oklahoma City
KOKH-TV (channel 25) is a television station in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States, affiliated with the Fox network. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group alongside KOCB (channel 34), an independent station. The two stations share studios and transmitter facilities on East Wilshire Boulevard and 78th Street on the city's northeast side.
History
As a non-commercial educational station
On July 25, 1958, amidst bankruptcy hearings involving its predecessor station, KTVQ's owner, the Republic Television and Radio Company, donated the license for UHF channel 25 to Independent School District No. 89 of Oklahoma County (now Oklahoma City Public Schools). Although the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) had designated the allocation for commercial use, the district proposed operating it as a non-commercial independent station. The district requested the KOKH call letters, assigned at the time to its public radio station on 88.9 FM.
KOKH-TV signed on February 2, 1959, operating from the district's Broadcasting Center at the former Classen High School on North Ellison Avenue and Northwest 17th Street. The station shared facilities with KETA-TV. Programming only aired during the academic year, weekdays from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., and consisted primarily of instructional telecourses developed with the Oklahoma State Department of Education, many offering college credit.
In the summer of 1970, KOKH became the last Oklahoma City station to broadcast in color after receiving $500,000 worth of donated RCA color transmission equipment.
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