As of 2011, the Oklahoma City metropolitan area is the 44th-largest media market in the United States, as ranked by Nielsen Media Research, with 712,630 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:
Video 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 Oklahoma Gazette and The Journal Record.
Daily
- The Journal Record
- The Oklahoman
Weekly
- Baptist Messenger
- Bethany Tribune
- Black Chronicle
- The Capitol Hill Beacon
- El Latino American (Spanish)
- El Nacional (Spanish)
- OK VIETIMES (Vietnamese)
- Oklahoma Chinese Times (Chinese)
- The Oklahoma City Herald
- Oklahoma Gazette
- Sooner Catholic
Community
Business, legal, entertainment and other local periodicals
Defunct newspapers and publications
- Bethany News
- The Black Dispatch
- Mid City Advocate
- Northwest Metro Times
- Oklahoma City Times
Maps Media in Oklahoma City
Digital Media
- OKC Talk
- The Lost Ogle
- Non Doc
Television
Oklahoma City, the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Oklahoma, 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 20 television stations, including 12 full-power and seven low-power (analog or digital) stations:
Local broadcast stations
Oklahoma City-licensed
Outlying areas
Areas outside the immediate Oklahoma City metropolitan area are served by mostly low-power stations, with the exceptions of two full-power stations that are an affiliate of Univision and a member station of PBS, respectively.
The six network-affiliated television stations in the Oklahoma City metropolitan area do not operate any full-power satellite stations, despite the western portions of the market being underserved by any network affiliates' signal (though NBC affiliate KFOR-TV does have low-power translators serving northwestern parts of the state, and Univision affiliate KUOK is based out of Woodward with two low-power translators, one analog and one digital, serving the immediate Oklahoma City area). Therefore, cable or satellite television is required to receive Oklahoma City television stations; in order to receive KFOR-TV, KOCO-TV, KWTV-DT, KOKH-TV, KOCB or KAUT-TV in those areas, cable television is required.
The only full-power English-language major network-affiliated television stations to serve those areas of the market located outside the Oklahoma City metro were KVIJ (channel 8; originally a CBS affiliate and later a satellite of Amarillo ABC affiliate KVII) in Sayre, which ceased operations in 1992, and ABC affiliate KGEO (channel 5) which moved from Enid to Oklahoma City in 1958, and is now the present-day KOCO-TV.
Local independent cable channels
+ Channel formerly carried on over-the-air as digital subchannel carried on OETA stations
- City Channel 20 (public, educational, and government access (PEG) channel)
- Fox Sports Oklahoma (regional sports network)
- OKC-ETC (public, educational, and government access (PEG) channel)
- YurView Oklahoma (sports and public access programming)
Subscription television
The Oklahoma City Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) is primarily served by Cox Communications for cable television and AT&T U-verse for internet protocol television. 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's 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, Guthrie, Midwest City-Del City, Choctaw, Harrah, Moore, Nichols Hills, Norman and Yukon); Cox Communications would purchase Multimedia's suburban Oklahoma City systems from the Gannett Company (as part of a $2.7-billion acquisition of its systems in Oklahoma, 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.
During the early 1980s, Oklahoma City was also served by two Multichannel Multipoint Distribution Services: TV-Q Movie Systems, which exclusively carried HBO, and VEU, a subscription service operated by Golden West Broadcasters that transmitted over KAUT-TV during the nighttime hours; both services were discontinued within a few years of their incorporation due to channel capacity restrictions. Another MMDS service that covered Oklahoma City proper, Antenna Vision, was launched in 1990 as a 21-channel 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 12-mile (19 km) radius covering most of Oklahoma, northern Cleveland and eastern Canadian Counties; American Telecasting purchased Antenna Vision in 1994, folding the latter provider into its WanTV wireless cable service.
Radio
As of September 2011, Oklahoma City is the 48th largest radio market in the United States, according to Arbitron. The following is a list of radio stations serving the Oklahoma City area:
AM
FM
See also
- Oklahoma media
- List of newspapers in Oklahoma
- List of radio stations in Oklahoma
- List of television stations in Oklahoma
- Media of locales in Oklahoma: Broken Arrow, Lawton, Norman, Tulsa
References
External links
- Oklahoma City Media List
- Oklahoma Newspaper List
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