KSBI
Encyclopedia
KSBI, virtual channel
52, is an independent television station
in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
. It is locally owned and operated by Family Broadcasting Group of Oklahoma, an Oklahoma-based company, in a duopoly with Tuff TV
affiliate KXOC-LP
(channel 41). The station's studios and transmitter are located at 9802 North Morgan Road in Yukon, Oklahoma
, making it the only station licensed to Oklahoma City that does not have studios located in the immediate Oklahoma City metropolitan area.
The station broadcasts its digital signal on UHF channel 51, using its former analog channel assignment of 52 as its virtual channel via PSIP. On cable, KSBI-TV can be seen on digital cable channel 7, and cable channel 7 in standard definition and digital channel 707 in high definition on Cox
in the Oklahoma City metro area and can be seen on several cable systems across the state; subscribers of Cox's analog basic service may not receive a clear picture of KSBI, due to issues with the channel 7 signal. The station is available to Dish Network
customers within the Oklahoma City market and to DirecTV
customers in both the Oklahoma City and Tulsa markets. The station operates 2 translators in Stillwater and Enid, respectively, covering northern Oklahoma.
This station's digital signal is multiplexed:>
Virtual
channel
Physical
channel
Video
Aspect
Name
Programming
52.1
51.1
1080i
16:9
KSBI
main KSBI programming
52.2
51.2
480i
4:3
Tuff TV
Sports and entertainment programming aimed at men 18-49
On February 28, 2011 It was announced that Tuff TV
, a digital multicast network owned by Luken Communications, had signed an affiliation agreement with KSBI for its digital subchannel 52.2. KSBI 52.2 switched its affiliation from America One
to Tuff TV on March 7, 2011; in addition, KSBI also cherry-picks select Tuff TV programming for its Saturday afternoon schedule on the primary 52.1 signal.
from the mid-1990s to early 2000s. Starting in the 1990s, it began building translators around the state, and now claims the largest coverage area of any commercial station in Oklahoma. The station's studios were originally located at 1350 SE 82nd Street in southeast Oklahoma City, before moving to its current studios in 2010.
Locke died in February 2000, and in April 2001 the Board of Directors of Locke Supply Co. was approached by various Oklahoma and other national broadcast entities with the desire to purchase the statewide network. The decision was ultimately made to sell the KSBI Television Network to enable Locke Supply to focus its time and resources solely on the profitable Locke Supply, Co. Locke had founded over three decades ago. With the direction left by Locke, it was the desire of the board that the future owners of KSBI-TV would work with integrity and honor in the community. Locke Supply, Co. chose to sell the KSBI television network to Family Broadcasting Group, Inc. The sale of the network was finalized in March 2004.
KSBI-TV reaches nearly the entire state of Oklahoma. In addition to over-the-air digital broadcast, it is carried on cable providers across the state. KSBI also has twelve translator sites across Oklahoma, which enables viewers to tune in all the way from Tulsa to Elk City and from Ponca City to Lake Texoma.
Family Broadcasting Group, Inc. took over operations in March 2004. Since that time, FBG had repositioned KSBI-TV in the marketplace as "Oklahoma’s Family Television Station". With the implementation of new family-friendly syndicated programming, local and national sporting events, local and national news and information programs, 24-hour-a-day weather coverage, and various other locally produced programs, FBG has seen a tremendous response from the viewers and advertisers. Among many firsts, KSBI-TV is the first station in the market to have remote cameras positioned across the state of Oklahoma.
In addition to broadcasting high school sports over the years, utilizing the station’s 40-foot production truck, during the summer of 2008, Family Broadcasting Group, Inc. signed a two-year deal with the Oklahoma City Thunder
NBA franchise. KSBI was rebranded as "Thunder TV", with exclusive preseason and regular-season game coverage, special Thunder programming, and an exclusive marketing relationship with the NBA team. On August 3, 2010, the Thunder signed a new exclusive multi-year agreement with Fox Sports Oklahoma
beginning with the 2010–11 season
, ending the team's broadcasts on KSBI.
The station has also completed a state-of-the-art facility, located in north Oklahoma City. The new facility was occupied by September 2009, with a new state-of-the-art set, a control room, and even a workout room for the staff.
In 2009, during retransmission negotiations, KSBI was added to tens of thousands of additional households in the Tulsa area on DirecTV
's channel lineup. Until shortly after Vince Orza was appointed as Family Broadcasting Group president and CEO, KSBI was the only Oklahoma City station reaching five designated market areas (Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Wichita, Wichita Falls and Ada–Sherman), and was the only Oklahoma City station with translators, cable coverage, and satellite carriage in the Tulsa market.
After FBG, Inc. restructured equity to retire all long-term debt and accelerate growth, on September 10, 2009, the FCC approved transferring a portion of FBG's stock to Aubrey McClendon
and Tom L. Ward
.
In November 2010, Vince Orza was named president and CEO of Oklahoma City of Family Broadcasting Group, Inc. Orza stepped down as dean of the Meinders School of Business at Oklahoma City University. The company also named Jerry Hart as vice president and operations manager. A promotional campaign featuring Vince Orza began airing, asking viewers what they would like to see on KSBI-DT. Since November 2010, the station has slowly begun to re-brand itself as "OK52" (MyNetworkTV
affiliate KAUT-TV
(channel 43) already brands itself as "OK43", and current Telemundo
affiliate KTUZ-TV
(channel 30) had branded as "OK30" prior to its Telemundo affiliation), however that branding and the "KSBI 52" branding were both used by the station until May 23, 2011, when the station began using the "OK52" branding full-time. As a result of the changes, KSBI also divested itself of all but two of its low-power translators; it retained translators in Enid
and Stillwater
.
The 2008-2009 season saw an increase in the amount of first-run syndicated programs with the additions of the reality program NurseTV
, in addition to its other first-run offerings. KSBI also obtained local syndication rights to the ABC drama Lost
, and the Discovery Channel reality series American Chopper
, and for the fall 2009 television season obtained local syndication rights for the Discovery Channel series Deadliest Catch
and Cold Case Files
, Martha Stewart, Judge Hatchett
and the sitcom My Wife and Kids
with The King of Queens
added to the schedule in March 2010. January 2011 saw an expansion of programming with shows such as the syndicated morning show The Daily Buzz
, Judge Karen's Court, and reruns of Emergency!
and Cash Cab
added to the schedule, as such KSBI has begun to feature far fewer infomercials on its weekday schedule than in years past.
Unlike most independent stations, KSBI-TV does not air movies in weekend timeslots and the station's weekend lineup is fairly limited in programming selections as the only general entertainment programming on weekends are Saturday morning children's programs and reality series and scripted programs on weekend evenings and select programming from Tuff TV on Saturday afternoons; infomercials and religious programming make up the rest of the weekend schedule. KSBI-TV airs 5½ hours of E/I
programming on the main channel with a half-hour of children's programs on weekday afternoons at 3 p.m. (the only remaining general entertainment station in the Oklahoma City market to do so) and a two-hour block on Saturday mornings, in addition to an extra 2½ hours on digital subchannel 52.2.
In April 2008, KSBI televised select games from Oklahoma City Yard Dawgz
arena football team during the team's Spring 2008 season.
On October 2, 2008, it was announced that KSBI would become the official over-the-air broadcaster of Oklahoma City Thunder
NBA
basketball team (which relocated from Seattle that year). As a part of the long term relationship, KSBI also rebranded as Thunder TV for its Thunder broadcasts in late October 2008. On August 3, 2010, The Thunder signed a new exclusive multi-year agreement with Fox Sports Oklahoma
beginning with the 2010-11 Season
, ending the team's broadcasts on KSBI.
addresses, and local and national breaking news. KSBI receives national and international news video from CNN NewsSource
.
In late September 2009, KSBI temporarily suspended its regular evening newscast while the station moves to its new studios in North Oklahoma City, broadcasting only five-minute news, weather and sports updates at 5, 5:30 and 6 p.m. until the move is completed. As of October 2010, all of the station's operations have moved to the Yukon studios, though the station continues to run five-minute long updates during the late afternoon time slots; it is unclear when the station will resume a regular newscast, though KSBI did plan to begin carrying a late evening newscast at some point in the near future.
On November 12th, the decision was made to no longer produce news and weather and the entire news staff (with the exception of Brian Birchell and Kealey McIntire) were laid off, as well as some employees of production and sales. News programming returned to KSBI in January 2011 in the form of the syndicated morning news and entertainment show The Daily Buzz
(which previously aired on KAUT-TV from 2004 to 2010).
(weekday mornings 5:30-6:30 and 9-12 p.m.)
All About You
(weekday nights 10 p.m.)
Oklahoma Live!
(weekdays afternoons 1-2 p.m.)
Hollywood Spotlight
(Saturdays 6-6:30 p.m.)
OK Sports Wrap
(Mondays & Fridays 6:30-7:00 p.m.)
Dog Talk
(Saturdays 10:00-10:30 a.m.)
Virtual channel
In telecommunications, a logical channel number , also known as virtual channel, is a channel designation which differs from that of the actual radio channel on which the signal travels....
52, is an independent television station
Independent station
An independent station is in the category of television terminology used to describe a television station broadcasting in the United States or Canada that is not affiliated with any television network....
in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Oklahoma City is the capital and the largest city in the state of Oklahoma. The county seat of Oklahoma County, the city ranks 31st among United States cities in population. The city's population, from the 2010 census, was 579,999, with a metro-area population of 1,252,987 . In 2010, the Oklahoma...
. It is locally owned and operated by Family Broadcasting Group of Oklahoma, an Oklahoma-based company, in a duopoly with Tuff TV
Tuff TV
TUFF TV is a digital broadcast network geared to men created by Lou Seals of Seals Entertainment Company LLC in a joint venture with Henry Luken of Luken Communications, the company that owns and operates RTV. Besides broadcast and cable distribution, TUFF TV Media Group, LLC plans to distribute...
affiliate KXOC-LP
KXOC-LP
KXOC 41 is a broadcast television station. It airs various kinds of programming and broadcasts from Oklahoma City.It is owned by Family Broadcasting Group of Oklahoma. KXOC's programming lineup consists of programming from Tuff TV, some select programming from sister station KSBI and some paid...
(channel 41). The station's studios and transmitter are located at 9802 North Morgan Road in Yukon, Oklahoma
Yukon, Oklahoma
Yukon is a city in Canadian County, Oklahoma, United States and is part of the Oklahoma City Metropolitan Area. The population was 22,709 at the 2010 census....
, making it the only station licensed to Oklahoma City that does not have studios located in the immediate Oklahoma City metropolitan area.
The station broadcasts its digital signal on UHF channel 51, using its former analog channel assignment of 52 as its virtual channel via PSIP. On cable, KSBI-TV can be seen on digital cable channel 7, and cable channel 7 in standard definition and digital channel 707 in high definition on Cox
Cox Communications
Cox Communications is a privately owned subsidiary of Cox Enterprises providing digital cable television, telecommunications and wireless services in the United States...
in the Oklahoma City metro area and can be seen on several cable systems across the state; subscribers of Cox's analog basic service may not receive a clear picture of KSBI, due to issues with the channel 7 signal. The station is available to Dish Network
Dish Network
Dish Network Corporation is the second largest pay TV provider in the United States, providing direct broadcast satellite service—including satellite television, audio programming, and interactive television services—to 14.337 million commercial and residential customers in the United States. Dish...
customers within the Oklahoma City market and to DirecTV
DirecTV
DirecTV is an American direct broadcast satellite service provider and broadcaster based in El Segundo, California. Its satellite service, launched on June 17, 1994, transmits digital satellite television and audio to households in the United States, Latin America, and the Anglophone Caribbean. ...
customers in both the Oklahoma City and Tulsa markets. The station operates 2 translators in Stillwater and Enid, respectively, covering northern Oklahoma.
Digital programming
KSBI broadcasts on digital channel 51.channel
channel
Aspect ratio
The aspect ratio of a shape is the ratio of its longer dimension to its shorter dimension. It may be applied to two characteristic dimensions of a three-dimensional shape, such as the ratio of the longest and shortest axis, or for symmetrical objects that are described by just two measurements,...
1080i
1080i is the shorthand name for a high-definition television mode. The i means interlaced video; 1080i differs from 1080p, in which the p stands for progressive scan. The term 1080i assumes a widescreen aspect ratio of 16:9, implying a frame size of 1920×1080 pixels...
16:9
16:9 is an aspect ratio with a width of 16 units and height of 9. Since 2009, it has become the most common aspect ratio for sold televisions and computer monitors and is also the international standard format of HDTV, Full HD, non-HD digital television and analog widescreen television ...
480i
480i is the shorthand name for a video mode, namely the US NTSC television system or digital television systems with the same characteristics. The i, which is sometimes uppercase, stands for interlaced, the 480 for a vertical frame resolution of 480 lines containing picture information; while NTSC...
Tuff TV
TUFF TV is a digital broadcast network geared to men created by Lou Seals of Seals Entertainment Company LLC in a joint venture with Henry Luken of Luken Communications, the company that owns and operates RTV. Besides broadcast and cable distribution, TUFF TV Media Group, LLC plans to distribute...
On February 28, 2011 It was announced that Tuff TV
Tuff TV
TUFF TV is a digital broadcast network geared to men created by Lou Seals of Seals Entertainment Company LLC in a joint venture with Henry Luken of Luken Communications, the company that owns and operates RTV. Besides broadcast and cable distribution, TUFF TV Media Group, LLC plans to distribute...
, a digital multicast network owned by Luken Communications, had signed an affiliation agreement with KSBI for its digital subchannel 52.2. KSBI 52.2 switched its affiliation from America One
America One
America One is an over-the-air television network in the United States. The network serves over 170 LPTV, Class A, Full Power, Cable and Satellite affiliate stations...
to Tuff TV on March 7, 2011; in addition, KSBI also cherry-picks select Tuff TV programming for its Saturday afternoon schedule on the primary 52.1 signal.
Analog-to-digital conversion
KSBI made the decision to continue to broadcast both its analog and digital signal past February 17, 2009, enabling viewers who were not prepared for the transition during the 2009 spring severe weather season to continue to receive emergency weather information. KSBI's broadcasts became digital-only effective June 1, 2009, with the station's digital signal remaining on its pre-transition digital channel 51, using PSIP to display KSBI's virtual channel as 52.History
KSBI-TV began operations on October 3, 1988 under the direction of founder Don J. Locke, owner of Locke Supply Co. For its first 16 years on the air, it was run largely as a ministry, running religious programming and a limited amount of secular sitcoms, westerns and movies. It had cherry-picked programming from INSP (now The Inspiration Network) and FamilyNetFamilyNet
FamilyNet is a broadcast television network owned by ComStar Media Fund and based in Atlanta, Georgia. The network was founded in 1979 as the National Christian Network, and took the name FamilyNet in 1988 under the ownership of Jerry Falwell. The channel was acquired by InTouch Ministries in...
from the mid-1990s to early 2000s. Starting in the 1990s, it began building translators around the state, and now claims the largest coverage area of any commercial station in Oklahoma. The station's studios were originally located at 1350 SE 82nd Street in southeast Oklahoma City, before moving to its current studios in 2010.
Locke died in February 2000, and in April 2001 the Board of Directors of Locke Supply Co. was approached by various Oklahoma and other national broadcast entities with the desire to purchase the statewide network. The decision was ultimately made to sell the KSBI Television Network to enable Locke Supply to focus its time and resources solely on the profitable Locke Supply, Co. Locke had founded over three decades ago. With the direction left by Locke, it was the desire of the board that the future owners of KSBI-TV would work with integrity and honor in the community. Locke Supply, Co. chose to sell the KSBI television network to Family Broadcasting Group, Inc. The sale of the network was finalized in March 2004.
Family Broadcasting Group, Inc. took over operations in March 2004. Since that time, FBG had repositioned KSBI-TV in the marketplace as "Oklahoma’s Family Television Station". With the implementation of new family-friendly syndicated programming, local and national sporting events, local and national news and information programs, 24-hour-a-day weather coverage, and various other locally produced programs, FBG has seen a tremendous response from the viewers and advertisers. Among many firsts, KSBI-TV is the first station in the market to have remote cameras positioned across the state of Oklahoma.
In addition to broadcasting high school sports over the years, utilizing the station’s 40-foot production truck, during the summer of 2008, Family Broadcasting Group, Inc. signed a two-year deal with the Oklahoma City Thunder
Oklahoma City Thunder
The Oklahoma City Thunder are a professional basketball franchise based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. They play in the Northwest Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association ; their home court is at Chesapeake Energy Arena....
NBA franchise. KSBI was rebranded as "Thunder TV", with exclusive preseason and regular-season game coverage, special Thunder programming, and an exclusive marketing relationship with the NBA team. On August 3, 2010, the Thunder signed a new exclusive multi-year agreement with Fox Sports Oklahoma
Fox Sports Oklahoma
Fox Sports Oklahoma is a regional sports network that airs coverage of sports teams in Oklahoma. It launched on October 29, 2008 as a spinoff of Fox Sports Southwest, with the first game of the NBA's Oklahoma City Thunder...
beginning with the 2010–11 season
2010–11 NBA season
The 2010–11 NBA season was the 65th season of the National Basketball Association . The 2011 NBA All-Star Game was played on February 20, 2011 at Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. The Dallas Mavericks defeated the Miami Heat in six games, 4 games to 2, to win their first NBA title, and...
, ending the team's broadcasts on KSBI.
The station has also completed a state-of-the-art facility, located in north Oklahoma City. The new facility was occupied by September 2009, with a new state-of-the-art set, a control room, and even a workout room for the staff.
In 2009, during retransmission negotiations, KSBI was added to tens of thousands of additional households in the Tulsa area on DirecTV
DirecTV
DirecTV is an American direct broadcast satellite service provider and broadcaster based in El Segundo, California. Its satellite service, launched on June 17, 1994, transmits digital satellite television and audio to households in the United States, Latin America, and the Anglophone Caribbean. ...
's channel lineup. Until shortly after Vince Orza was appointed as Family Broadcasting Group president and CEO, KSBI was the only Oklahoma City station reaching five designated market areas (Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Wichita, Wichita Falls and Ada–Sherman), and was the only Oklahoma City station with translators, cable coverage, and satellite carriage in the Tulsa market.
After FBG, Inc. restructured equity to retire all long-term debt and accelerate growth, on September 10, 2009, the FCC approved transferring a portion of FBG's stock to Aubrey McClendon
Aubrey McClendon
Aubrey Kerr McClendon is the chief executive officer, chairman, and co-founder of Chesapeake Energy Corporation . He is an outspoken advocate for natural gas as a cleaner and safer alternative to oil and coal fuels...
and Tom L. Ward
Tom L. Ward
Tom L. Ward is a prominent Oklahoma City businessman. He is the chairman and CEO at SandRidge Energy and is the former President, COO and co-founder of Chesapeake Energy...
.
In November 2010, Vince Orza was named president and CEO of Oklahoma City of Family Broadcasting Group, Inc. Orza stepped down as dean of the Meinders School of Business at Oklahoma City University. The company also named Jerry Hart as vice president and operations manager. A promotional campaign featuring Vince Orza began airing, asking viewers what they would like to see on KSBI-DT. Since November 2010, the station has slowly begun to re-brand itself as "OK52" (MyNetworkTV
MyNetworkTV
MyNetworkTV is a television broadcast syndication service in the United States, owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, a division of News Corporation...
affiliate KAUT-TV
KAUT-TV
KAUT-TV, virtual channel 43 , is the MyNetworkTV-affiliated television station for Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Owned by Local TV, KAUT is sister station to NBC affiliate KFOR-TV . The two stations share studios at 444 East Britton Road, along U.S...
(channel 43) already brands itself as "OK43", and current Telemundo
Telemundo
Telemundo is an American television network that broadcasts in Spanish. The network is the second-largest Spanish-language content producer in the world, and the second-largest Spanish-language network in the United States, behind Univision....
affiliate KTUZ-TV
KTUZ-TV
KTUZ-TV, virtual channel 30, is the Telemundo affiliated television station serving the Oklahoma City Metroplex and Shawnee, Oklahoma. It is owned by Tyler Media Group, in a duopoly with Univision affiliate KUOK...
(channel 30) had branded as "OK30" prior to its Telemundo affiliation), however that branding and the "KSBI 52" branding were both used by the station until May 23, 2011, when the station began using the "OK52" branding full-time. As a result of the changes, KSBI also divested itself of all but two of its low-power translators; it retained translators in Enid
Enid, Oklahoma
Enid is a city in Garfield County, Oklahoma, United States. In 2010, the population was 49,379, making it the ninth largest city in Oklahoma. It is the county seat of Garfield County. Enid was founded during the opening of the Cherokee Outlet in the Land Run of 1893, and is named after Enid, a...
and Stillwater
Stillwater, Oklahoma
Stillwater is a city in north-central Oklahoma at the intersection of U.S. 177 and State Highway 51. It is the county seat of Payne County, Oklahoma, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 45,688. Stillwater is the principal city of the Stillwater Micropolitan Statistical...
.
Translators
KSBI-TV broadcasts across the north-northwest part of Oklahoma through the following translators:- K45EJ in Enid, OklahomaEnid, OklahomaEnid is a city in Garfield County, Oklahoma, United States. In 2010, the population was 49,379, making it the ninth largest city in Oklahoma. It is the county seat of Garfield County. Enid was founded during the opening of the Cherokee Outlet in the Land Run of 1893, and is named after Enid, a...
- K21DF in Stillwater, OklahomaStillwater, OklahomaStillwater is a city in north-central Oklahoma at the intersection of U.S. 177 and State Highway 51. It is the county seat of Payne County, Oklahoma, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 45,688. Stillwater is the principal city of the Stillwater Micropolitan Statistical...
Programming
KSBI's programming philosophy for much of its history has been family-oriented and contains little overt sexual content, overt violence, or very strong language; though the station has slowly gravitated towards a more traditional independent station lineup, with mostly recent off-network and first-run syndicated programming, and some classic off-network shows. Most of KSBI's secular programming consists of series from the 1970s to the 1990s, though this has changed in the last couple of years as the station has begun gravitating toward more first-run syndicated programs. The schedule previously had select programming from the 1960s, however, all series from that decade that aired on KSBI have been purged from the schedule.The 2008-2009 season saw an increase in the amount of first-run syndicated programs with the additions of the reality program NurseTV
NurseTV
NurseTV is an Internet television network and nationally-syndicated television show devoted to nurses and the nursing profession in the United States.-External links:* * AAACN Viewpoint, Nov/Dec 2007...
, in addition to its other first-run offerings. KSBI also obtained local syndication rights to the ABC drama Lost
Lost (TV series)
Lost is an American television series that originally aired on ABC from September 22, 2004 to May 23, 2010, consisting of six seasons. Lost is a drama series that follows the survivors of the crash of a commercial passenger jet flying between Sydney and Los Angeles, on a mysterious tropical island...
, and the Discovery Channel reality series American Chopper
American Chopper
American Chopper is a reality television series that airs on Discovery Channel, produced by Pilgrim Films & Television. The series centers on Paul Teutul, Sr. and his son Paul Teutul, Jr. , who manufacture custom motorcycles. Orange County Choppers is in Newburgh, New York...
, and for the fall 2009 television season obtained local syndication rights for the Discovery Channel series Deadliest Catch
Deadliest Catch
Deadliest Catch is a documentary/reality television series produced by Original Productions for the Discovery Channel. It portrays the real life events aboard fishing vessels in the Bering Sea during the Alaskan king crab and C. opilio crab fishing seasons.The Aleutian Islands port of Dutch Harbor,...
and Cold Case Files
Cold Case Files
Cold Case Files is documentary television series on the cable channel A&E Network hosted by Bill Kurtis that documents the investigation of various long-unsolved murders through the use of modern forensic science , and criminal psychology, in addition to recent breakthroughs in the...
, Martha Stewart, Judge Hatchett
Judge Hatchett
Judge Hatchett is a nationally-syndicated American television program produced and distributed by Sony Pictures Television. It starred The Honorable Glenda Hatchett and was modeled after other "court shows" such as Judge Judy and the long running The People's Court, as well as containing elements...
and the sitcom My Wife and Kids
My Wife and Kids
My Wife and Kids is an American television family sitcom that ran on ABC from March 28, 2001 until May 17, 2005. Produced by Touchstone Television , it starred Damon Wayans and Tisha Campbell-Martin, and centers on the character of Michael Kyle, a loving husband and modern-day patriarch who rules...
with The King of Queens
The King of Queens
The King of Queens is an American sitcom that originally ran on CBS from September 21, 1998, to May 14, 2007.This show was produced by Hanley Productions and CBS Productions , CBS Paramount Television ,and CBS Television Studios in association with Columbia TriStar Television , and Sony Pictures...
added to the schedule in March 2010. January 2011 saw an expansion of programming with shows such as the syndicated morning show The Daily Buzz
The Daily Buzz
The Daily Buzz is a nationally syndicated breakfast television news and infotainment program. The show is produced by Fisher Communications and is owned and distributed by ACME Communications; it is broadcast every weekday morning from studios at Full Sail University in Winter Park, Florida...
, Judge Karen's Court, and reruns of Emergency!
Emergency!
Emergency! is an American television series that combines the medical drama and action-adventure genres. It was produced by Mark VII Limited and distributed by Universal Studios...
and Cash Cab
Cash Cab
Cash Cab is a TV game show devised by Adam Wood that originated in the United Kingdom and has been licensed to television networks in numerous other countries...
added to the schedule, as such KSBI has begun to feature far fewer infomercials on its weekday schedule than in years past.
Unlike most independent stations, KSBI-TV does not air movies in weekend timeslots and the station's weekend lineup is fairly limited in programming selections as the only general entertainment programming on weekends are Saturday morning children's programs and reality series and scripted programs on weekend evenings and select programming from Tuff TV on Saturday afternoons; infomercials and religious programming make up the rest of the weekend schedule. KSBI-TV airs 5½ hours of E/I
E/I
E/I, which stands for "educational and informative," refers to a type of children's television programming shown in the United States. The Federal Communications Commission requires that every full-service Terrestrial television station in the U.S. show at least three hours of these television...
programming on the main channel with a half-hour of children's programs on weekday afternoons at 3 p.m. (the only remaining general entertainment station in the Oklahoma City market to do so) and a two-hour block on Saturday mornings, in addition to an extra 2½ hours on digital subchannel 52.2.
Sports programming
KSBI-TV produces and broadcasts local non-professional sports including high school basketball and football games. KSBI-TV held the contractual exclusive rights to air post-season high school sports in Oklahoma, through a contract deal with the Oklahoma Secondary Schools Activity Association, first signed in October 2005.In April 2008, KSBI televised select games from Oklahoma City Yard Dawgz
Oklahoma City Yard Dawgz
The Oklahoma City Yard Dawgz was a member of the new Arena Football League. The team began play as a 2004 expansion team of the original Arena Football League's now-defunct minor league af2...
arena football team during the team's Spring 2008 season.
On October 2, 2008, it was announced that KSBI would become the official over-the-air broadcaster of Oklahoma City Thunder
Oklahoma City Thunder
The Oklahoma City Thunder are a professional basketball franchise based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. They play in the Northwest Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association ; their home court is at Chesapeake Energy Arena....
NBA
National Basketball Association
The National Basketball Association is the pre-eminent men's professional basketball league in North America. It consists of thirty franchised member clubs, of which twenty-nine are located in the United States and one in Canada...
basketball team (which relocated from Seattle that year). As a part of the long term relationship, KSBI also rebranded as Thunder TV for its Thunder broadcasts in late October 2008. On August 3, 2010, The Thunder signed a new exclusive multi-year agreement with Fox Sports Oklahoma
Fox Sports Oklahoma
Fox Sports Oklahoma is a regional sports network that airs coverage of sports teams in Oklahoma. It launched on October 29, 2008 as a spinoff of Fox Sports Southwest, with the first game of the NBA's Oklahoma City Thunder...
beginning with the 2010-11 Season
2010–11 NBA season
The 2010–11 NBA season was the 65th season of the National Basketball Association . The 2011 NBA All-Star Game was played on February 20, 2011 at Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. The Dallas Mavericks defeated the Miami Heat in six games, 4 games to 2, to win their first NBA title, and...
, ending the team's broadcasts on KSBI.
News operations
Immediately following the sale, KSBI began airing occasional local breaking news stories. In 2004, KSBI launched a morning news show called Hello Oklahoma. After KSBI chose to cease production of Hello Oklahoma a couple of years later, KSBI announced plans for a new early evening newscast (later named Oklahoma News Tonight, and now known as KSBI-TV News since 2009). The hour-long newscast is anchored by Kealey McIntire and Jake Charles. In addition to carrying local news, KSBI also airs primetime Presidential press conferences, State of the UnionState Of The Union
"State Of The Union" is the debut single from British singer-songwriter David Ford. It had previously been featured as a demo on his official website, before appearing as a track on a CD entitled "Apology Demos EP," only on sale at live shows....
addresses, and local and national breaking news. KSBI receives national and international news video from CNN NewsSource
CNN
Cable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States...
.
In late September 2009, KSBI temporarily suspended its regular evening newscast while the station moves to its new studios in North Oklahoma City, broadcasting only five-minute news, weather and sports updates at 5, 5:30 and 6 p.m. until the move is completed. As of October 2010, all of the station's operations have moved to the Yukon studios, though the station continues to run five-minute long updates during the late afternoon time slots; it is unclear when the station will resume a regular newscast, though KSBI did plan to begin carrying a late evening newscast at some point in the near future.
On November 12th, the decision was made to no longer produce news and weather and the entire news staff (with the exception of Brian Birchell and Kealey McIntire) were laid off, as well as some employees of production and sales. News programming returned to KSBI in January 2011 in the form of the syndicated morning news and entertainment show The Daily Buzz
The Daily Buzz
The Daily Buzz is a nationally syndicated breakfast television news and infotainment program. The show is produced by Fisher Communications and is owned and distributed by ACME Communications; it is broadcast every weekday morning from studios at Full Sail University in Winter Park, Florida...
(which previously aired on KAUT-TV from 2004 to 2010).
Newscast titles
- Hello Oklahoma (morning newscast; 2004-2005)
- Oklahoma News Tonight (evening newscast; 2006-2009)
- KSBI-TV News (2009-2010)
Station slogans
- Family Television for Oklahoma (2003-2010)
- OK 52 and You! (2010-present)
- Your Family's Weather Source (weather slogan; 2003-2010)
Newscasts and local programming
The Daily BuzzThe Daily Buzz
The Daily Buzz is a nationally syndicated breakfast television news and infotainment program. The show is produced by Fisher Communications and is owned and distributed by ACME Communications; it is broadcast every weekday morning from studios at Full Sail University in Winter Park, Florida...
(weekday mornings 5:30-6:30 and 9-12 p.m.)
- Anchors: Andy Campbell and Andrea Jackson
- News Updates: Kia Malone
- Weather: Mitch English
All About You
(weekday nights 10 p.m.)
- Host: Kealey McIntyre
Oklahoma Live!
(weekdays afternoons 1-2 p.m.)
- Host: Lyn Hester
Hollywood Spotlight
(Saturdays 6-6:30 p.m.)
- Host: Dino Lalli
OK Sports Wrap
(Mondays & Fridays 6:30-7:00 p.m.)
- Host: Mark Van Paasschen
Dog Talk
(Saturdays 10:00-10:30 a.m.)
- Host: Pat Becker