KOTV-DT
CBS affiliate in Tulsa, Oklahoma
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). The two stations share studios at the Griffin Media Center on North Boston Avenue and East Cameron Street in the downtown neighborhood's Tulsa Arts District; KOTV's transmitter is located on South 273rd East Avenue (just north of the Muskogee Turnpike) in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma.
History
Early history
On March 24, 1948, the Cameron Television Corporation submitted an application to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for a construction permit to build and license to operate a broadcast television station in Tulsa that would transmit on VHF channel 6. The company was owned by George E. Cameron Jr., a Texas-born independent oil producer, broadcasting executive Maria Helen Alvarez and John B. Hill, a salesman for a Tulsa oil field supplier. Both Hill, who would serve as KOTV's original sales manager, and Alvarez owned 15 percent stakes in the company.
An employee at KTUL radio, Alvarez conducted a two-year study for station owner John Toole "J. T." Griffin and sister Marjory Griffin Leake into the viability of local television in Tulsa. Alvarez, who had been interested in television since seeing the Dumont studios on a Washington, D.C., business trip, recommended to file for a license application as soon as possible, but Griffin and Leake considered television to still be too risky. In turn, Alvarez resigned from KTUL and sought investors willing to get a station built right away. Through a mutual acquaintance, Alvarez was introduced to Cameron, who was earning $50,000 on a monthly basis and was himself interested in television station ownership. The Cameron-Alvarez-Hill application was unopposed with no other competing applications, allowing the FCC to grant their request on June 2, 1948.
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