KTEN
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KTEN is the NBC
-affiliated television station
for Southeastern Oklahoma and North Texas
that is licensed to Ada, Oklahoma
. It broadcasts a high definition
digital signal on UHF channel 26 from a transmitter north of Milburn, Oklahoma
along OK 7. Owned by the Lockwood Broadcasting Group
, the station has studios on High Point Circle in Denison, Texas
. Syndicated
programming on KTEN includes: Wheel of Fortune
, Oprah
, Dr. Phil
, and Rachael Ray
. It has KTEN-DT2
which airs CW programming as "Texoma CW" in SDTV and SDTV Widescreen. KTEN-DT3
airs ABC programming as "ABC Texoma".
digital subchannel. Known on-air as Texoma CW and part of The CW Plus
, this can also be seen on CableOne channel 6 in Oklahoma
and CableOne channel 9 in Texas
. On May 9, 2010, the station converted its third digital subchannel from a doppler radar image to a channel that operates as the area's ABC
affiliate which is known on-air as ABC Texoma.
affiliate with a secondary NBC affiliation. This was very unusual for a two-station market, especially one as small as Sherman/Ada. During the late 1950s, it was also briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network
. By 1977, as arch-rival KXII
was switching its primary network affiliation from NBC to CBS, KTEN began adding a larger proportion of NBC programming to its schedule. Gradually, it aired most of both networks' daytime and primetime schedules. At one point, it aired both networks' evening newscasts (ABC's at 5 p.m. and NBC's
at 5:30) in the hour preceding the local newscast at 6 p.m. from 1977 to 1980. The station even got national attention in 1983 when on NBC's Tonight Show, Doc Severinsen
(sitting in for Johnny Carson
's sidekick Ed McMahon
) welcomed KTEN as the newest station to broadcast The Tonight Show. This move was made after KXII, by this time down to just two NBC programs in its schedule, had switched to CBS's late night schedule in a move that eventually led that station toward an exclusive CBS affiliation starting with the 1985-86 season.
By that time, KTEN was on its way to becoming a primary NBC affiliate, but still carried a large proportion of ABC's schedule, incorporating both networks' promotional campaigns. Although KTEN's program schedule appeared to be headed toward an exclusive NBC affiliation by the early-to-mid 1990s, another network move was made along the way. In 1994, KTEN added Fox
as another secondary affiliation just after that network had won the rights to broadcast NFL football previously seen on CBS (KXII-TV) for many years. The station was in bankruptcy at the time and gained additional network compensation (cash payments) from Fox. It also allowed KTEN the unique ability to show every single Dallas Cowboys
game that was not on cable. However, the downside was that the station was becoming even more of a hybrid with three network affiliations (NBC, ABC, and Fox) and even more confusing to viewers.
By 1998, KTEN was out of bankruptcy and the new owners dropped the secondary affiliations with ABC and Fox to make it the area's exclusive NBC affiliate. KTEN was originally based in Ada and is still licensed to that city though the main studios have been located in Denison since 1986. Although this station and arch-rival KXII had theoretically been direct competitors for many years, the 75 mile difference in location between the two stations' transmitters created unequal over-the-air reception conditions with KTEN's picture fair to poor in locations close to KXII's transmitter such as Ardmore, Madill
, and Durant
as well as almost non-existent in some adjoining areas of Texas. Meanwhile, KXII's over-the-air reception in Ada and surrounding areas was poor due to the northern fringe location of that station's coverage. To become more equally competitive reception-wise, KTEN moved its transmitter from Ada to Milburn in 1984 to provide better over-the-air reception to far Southern Oklahoma near the Red River and to reach across the river to the Sherman/Denison area and adjoining areas of North Texas including Gainesville
, Bonham
, and Paris
.
In Fall 2006, its second
digital subchannel began airing programming from The CW. KTEN also carries a third
digital subchannel which has been broadcasting audio from the National Weather Service
while displaying various weather maps of parts of Oklahoma and Texas using four of the nearest weather radar
s. These radars overlap the Sherman/Ada/Lake Texoma
area which KTEN meteorologists use in their forecast presentations. The station does not have access to any radars that are nearer to the location of its studios. Although it airs The CW on a digital subchannel and KXII broadcasts Fox and MyNetworkTV
on both of its digital subchannels, the Ada/Sherman television market lacked a local ABC affiliate until May 9, 2010, when KTEN brought local ABC programming back to Texoma on its third digital subchannel called ABC Texoma. Prior to that time, ABC programming to the area had been sourced from WFAA in Dallas-Ft. Worth and KOCO in Oklahoma City
depending on the geographic location in the DMA.
(FCC) rules about translators providing localized content. It opened a small bureau and studio for its Paris translator K08KK and began producing a brief news and weather program that would air during the 10 p.m. news. This was discontinued after a few years due to a lack of advertiser support. In 1985, KTEN added a second studio facility on Merrick Drive in Ardmore, and the following year, opened a third studio in the Katy Depot in Downtown Denison that would also become the station's main studio complex. In 2002, KTEN moved its main studio from the Katy Depot to a new location on U.S. 75
in Denison. The station's operations also include the secondary studio in Ardmore and a sales office in its former home city of Ada.
KTEN currently produces 23.5 hours of local news a week (4.5 hours on weekdays and a half-hour each on weekends). Its weekday morning show, KTEN News Today, airs from 5 to 7 with an hour-long midday newscast airing at 11 a.m. that is streamed live on its website and is simulcast on KTEN-DT3. Nightly news broadcasts air at 5, 6, and 10 (the latter of the three is the only newscast airing on weekends, and the 5 and 10 p.m. newscasts are simulcast on KTEN-DT3). KTEN began producing a half-hour prime time broadcasts at 9 for its CW subchannel
on October 25, 2006 known as Texoma CW News At 9. Like all CW Plus
affiliates in the Central Time Zone
, that channel also airs the nationally syndicated morning show The Daily Buzz
on weekdays from 5 to 8 a.m. KTEN-DT3 airs live newscasts in the event a sporting event or other special programming delays the broadcast of the main channel's newscasts. The news will then also be taped and rebroadcast on KTEN after the event. With the addition of ABC on KTEN-DT3, there will be at least two more local newscasts branded as ABC Texoma News which will require adding additional personnel.
Sky Alert 10 Weather Team
Reporters
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
-affiliated television station
Television station
A television station is a business, organisation or other such as an amateur television operator that transmits content over terrestrial television. A television transmission can be by analog television signals or, more recently, by digital television. Broadcast television systems standards are...
for Southeastern Oklahoma and North Texas
North Texas
North Texas is a distinct cultural and geographic area forming the central-northeastern section of the U.S. state of Texas. North Texas is generally considered to include the area south of Oklahoma, east of Abilene, and north of Waco...
that is licensed to Ada, Oklahoma
Ada, Oklahoma
Ada is a city in and the county seat of Pontotoc County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 16,008 at the 2000 census. As of 2009, the city population was estimated at 17,019....
. It broadcasts a high definition
High-definition television
High-definition television is video that has resolution substantially higher than that of traditional television systems . HDTV has one or two million pixels per frame, roughly five times that of SD...
digital signal on UHF channel 26 from a transmitter north of Milburn, Oklahoma
Milburn, Oklahoma
Milburn is a town in Johnston County, Oklahoma, United States, along the Blue River. The population was 312 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Milburn is located at ....
along OK 7. Owned by the Lockwood Broadcasting Group
Lockwood Broadcasting Group
Lockwood Broadcasting Group is a television broadcasting company that owns four television stations. Three stations are CW affiliates. The third is a NBC affiliate which carries The CW and ABC on digital subchannels....
, the station has studios on High Point Circle in Denison, Texas
Denison, Texas
Denison is a city in Grayson County, Texas, United States. The population was 22,773 at the 2000 census; it is estimated to have grown to 24,127 in 2009. Denison is one of two principal cities in the Sherman-Denison Metropolitan Statistical Area.-History:...
. Syndicated
Television syndication
In broadcasting, syndication is the sale of the right to broadcast radio shows and television shows by multiple radio stations and television stations, without going through a broadcast network, though the process of syndication may conjure up structures like those of a network itself, by its very...
programming on KTEN includes: Wheel of Fortune
Wheel of Fortune (U.S. game show)
Wheel of Fortune is an American television game show created by Merv Griffin, which premiered in 1975. Contestants compete to solve word puzzles, similar to those used in Hangman, to win cash and prizes determined by spinning a large wheel. The title refers to the show's giant carnival wheel that...
, Oprah
The Oprah Winfrey Show
The Oprah Winfrey Show is an American syndicated talk show hosted and produced by its namesake Oprah Winfrey. It ran nationally for 25 seasons beginning in 1986, before concluding in 2011. It is the highest-rated talk show in American television history....
, Dr. Phil
Dr. Phil (TV series)
Dr. Phil is a reality/talk television show hosted by Phil McGraw. After McGraw's success with his segments on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Dr. Phil debuted on September 16, 2002...
, and Rachael Ray
Rachael Ray (TV series)
Rachael Ray, also known as The Rachael Ray Show, is a talk show starring Rachael Ray that debuted in syndication in the United States and Canada on September 18, 2006....
. It has KTEN-DT2
KTEN-DT2
KTEN-DT2 is the CW-affiliated television station for North Texas and Southeastern Oklahoma. The station is part of The CW Plus, a special CW feed that broadcasts on cable and / or over-the-air on a digital signal. It is a second digital subchannel of NBC affiliate KTEN that is owned by the...
which airs CW programming as "Texoma CW" in SDTV and SDTV Widescreen. KTEN-DT3
KTEN-DT3
KTEN-DT3 is the ABC-affiliated television station serving North Texas, Southcentral and Southeastern Oklahoma. It is a third digital subchannel of NBC affiliate KTEN , which is owned by the Lockwood Broadcasting Group....
airs ABC programming as "ABC Texoma".
Digital programming
KTEN's signal is multiplexed. It operates the area's CW affiliate on a secondKTEN-DT2
KTEN-DT2 is the CW-affiliated television station for North Texas and Southeastern Oklahoma. The station is part of The CW Plus, a special CW feed that broadcasts on cable and / or over-the-air on a digital signal. It is a second digital subchannel of NBC affiliate KTEN that is owned by the...
digital subchannel. Known on-air as Texoma CW and part of The CW Plus
The CW Plus
The CW Plus is a group of primarily digital sub-channels, analog, and non-broadcast cable television outlets for the CW Television Network, for markets below the top 99 television media markets in the United States....
, this can also be seen on CableOne channel 6 in Oklahoma
Oklahoma
Oklahoma is a state located in the South Central region of the United States of America. With an estimated 3,751,351 residents as of the 2010 census and a land area of 68,667 square miles , Oklahoma is the 28th most populous and 20th-largest state...
and CableOne channel 9 in Texas
Texas
Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...
. On May 9, 2010, the station converted its third digital subchannel from a doppler radar image to a channel that operates as the area's ABC
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
affiliate which is known on-air as ABC Texoma.
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4:3 | KTEN-DT2 KTEN-DT2 KTEN-DT2 is the CW-affiliated television station for North Texas and Southeastern Oklahoma. The station is part of The CW Plus, a special CW feed that broadcasts on cable and / or over-the-air on a digital signal. It is a second digital subchannel of NBC affiliate KTEN that is owned by the... "Texoma Texoma Texoma, a portmanteau of the words Texas and Oklahoma, is used to describe the area on either side of the border between these two states along the Red River valley, in particular the area around Lake Texoma, a popular recreation area... CW" |
| 10.3 | 720p | 4:3 | KTEN-DT3 KTEN-DT3 KTEN-DT3 is the ABC-affiliated television station serving North Texas, Southcentral and Southeastern Oklahoma. It is a third digital subchannel of NBC affiliate KTEN , which is owned by the Lockwood Broadcasting Group.... "ABC Texoma" |
History
KTEN signed on-the-air in 1954 as the first local television station to serve Texoma. Originally, it was a primary ABCAmerican Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
affiliate with a secondary NBC affiliation. This was very unusual for a two-station market, especially one as small as Sherman/Ada. During the late 1950s, it was also briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network
NTA Film Network
The NTA Film Network was an early American television network founded by Ely Landau in 1956. The network was not a full-time television network like CBS, NBC, or ABC. Rather, it operated on a part-time basis, broadcasting films and several first-run television programs from major Hollywood studios...
. By 1977, as arch-rival KXII
KXII
KXII, channel 12, is the CBS-affiliated television station for the Texoma region of Texas and Oklahoma. It is licensed to Sherman, Texas. Its transmitter is located southwest of Madill, Oklahoma...
was switching its primary network affiliation from NBC to CBS, KTEN began adding a larger proportion of NBC programming to its schedule. Gradually, it aired most of both networks' daytime and primetime schedules. At one point, it aired both networks' evening newscasts (ABC's at 5 p.m. and NBC's
NBC Nightly News
NBC Nightly News is the flagship daily evening television news program for NBC News and broadcasts. NBC Nightly News has aired from Studio 3B, located on floors 3 of the NBC Studios is the headquarters of the GE Building forms the centerpiece of 30th Rockefeller Center it is located in the center...
at 5:30) in the hour preceding the local newscast at 6 p.m. from 1977 to 1980. The station even got national attention in 1983 when on NBC's Tonight Show, Doc Severinsen
Doc Severinsen
Carl Hilding "Doc" Severinsen is an American pop and jazz trumpeter. He is best known for leading the NBC Orchestra on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.-Early life:...
(sitting in for Johnny Carson
Johnny Carson
John William "Johnny" Carson was an American television host and comedian, known as host of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson for 30 years . Carson received six Emmy Awards including the Governor Award and a 1985 Peabody Award; he was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame in 1987...
's sidekick Ed McMahon
Ed McMahon
Edward Peter "Ed" McMahon, Jr. was an American comedian, game show host and announcer. He is most famous for his work on television as Johnny Carson's sidekick and announcer on The Tonight Show from 1962 to 1992. He also hosted the original version of the talent show Star Search from 1983 to 1995...
) welcomed KTEN as the newest station to broadcast The Tonight Show. This move was made after KXII, by this time down to just two NBC programs in its schedule, had switched to CBS's late night schedule in a move that eventually led that station toward an exclusive CBS affiliation starting with the 1985-86 season.
By that time, KTEN was on its way to becoming a primary NBC affiliate, but still carried a large proportion of ABC's schedule, incorporating both networks' promotional campaigns. Although KTEN's program schedule appeared to be headed toward an exclusive NBC affiliation by the early-to-mid 1990s, another network move was made along the way. In 1994, KTEN added Fox
Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox Network or simply Fox , is an American commercial broadcasting television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Launched on October 9, 1986, Fox was the highest-rated broadcast network in the...
as another secondary affiliation just after that network had won the rights to broadcast NFL football previously seen on CBS (KXII-TV) for many years. The station was in bankruptcy at the time and gained additional network compensation (cash payments) from Fox. It also allowed KTEN the unique ability to show every single Dallas Cowboys
Dallas Cowboys
The Dallas Cowboys are a professional American football franchise which plays in the Eastern Division of the National Football Conference of the National Football League . They are headquartered in Valley Ranch in Irving, Texas, a suburb of Dallas...
game that was not on cable. However, the downside was that the station was becoming even more of a hybrid with three network affiliations (NBC, ABC, and Fox) and even more confusing to viewers.
By 1998, KTEN was out of bankruptcy and the new owners dropped the secondary affiliations with ABC and Fox to make it the area's exclusive NBC affiliate. KTEN was originally based in Ada and is still licensed to that city though the main studios have been located in Denison since 1986. Although this station and arch-rival KXII had theoretically been direct competitors for many years, the 75 mile difference in location between the two stations' transmitters created unequal over-the-air reception conditions with KTEN's picture fair to poor in locations close to KXII's transmitter such as Ardmore, Madill
Madill, Oklahoma
Madill is a city in Marshall County, Oklahoma, United States. The city was founded in 1901 and is named for George Alexander Madill, an attorney for the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway, popularly known as the Frisco. The 2009 population estimate was 3,781...
, and Durant
Durant, Oklahoma
Durant is a city in Bryan County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 15,877 at the 2010 census. Durant is the principal city of the Durant Micropolitan Statistical Area, which had a population of 42,416 in 2010...
as well as almost non-existent in some adjoining areas of Texas. Meanwhile, KXII's over-the-air reception in Ada and surrounding areas was poor due to the northern fringe location of that station's coverage. To become more equally competitive reception-wise, KTEN moved its transmitter from Ada to Milburn in 1984 to provide better over-the-air reception to far Southern Oklahoma near the Red River and to reach across the river to the Sherman/Denison area and adjoining areas of North Texas including Gainesville
Gainesville, Texas
Gainesville is a city in and the county seat of Cooke County, Texas, United States. The population was 15,538 at the 2000 census.-History:...
, Bonham
Bonham, Texas
Bonham is a city in Fannin County, Texas, United States. The population was 10,127 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Fannin County. James Bonham sought the aid of James Fannin at the Battle of the Alamo....
, and Paris
Paris, Texas
Paris, Texas is a city located northeast of the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex in Lamar County, Texas, in the United States. It is situated in Northeast Texas at the western edge of the Piney Woods. Physiographically, these regions are part of the West Gulf Coastal Plain. In 1900, 9,358 people lived...
.
In Fall 2006, its second
Digital subchannel
In broadcasting, digital subchannels are a means to transmit more than one independent program at the same time from the same digital radio or digital television station on the same radio frequency channel. This is done by using data compression techniques to reduce the size of each individual...
digital subchannel began airing programming from The CW. KTEN also carries a third
Digital subchannel
In broadcasting, digital subchannels are a means to transmit more than one independent program at the same time from the same digital radio or digital television station on the same radio frequency channel. This is done by using data compression techniques to reduce the size of each individual...
digital subchannel which has been broadcasting audio from the National Weather Service
National Weather Service
The National Weather Service , once known as the Weather Bureau, is one of the six scientific agencies that make up the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the United States government...
while displaying various weather maps of parts of Oklahoma and Texas using four of the nearest weather radar
Weather radar
Weather radar, also called weather surveillance radar and Doppler weather radar, is a type of radar used to locate precipitation, calculate its motion, estimate its type . Modern weather radars are mostly pulse-Doppler radars, capable of detecting the motion of rain droplets in addition to the...
s. These radars overlap the Sherman/Ada/Lake Texoma
Lake Texoma
Lake Texoma is one of the largest reservoirs in the United States, the 12th largest Corps of Engineers lake, and the largest in USACE Tulsa District....
area which KTEN meteorologists use in their forecast presentations. The station does not have access to any radars that are nearer to the location of its studios. Although it airs The CW on a digital subchannel and KXII broadcasts Fox and MyNetworkTV
MyNetworkTV
MyNetworkTV is a television broadcast syndication service in the United States, owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, a division of News Corporation...
on both of its digital subchannels, the Ada/Sherman television market lacked a local ABC affiliate until May 9, 2010, when KTEN brought local ABC programming back to Texoma on its third digital subchannel called ABC Texoma. Prior to that time, ABC programming to the area had been sourced from WFAA in Dallas-Ft. Worth and KOCO in Oklahoma City
Oklahoma city
Oklahoma City is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Oklahoma.Oklahoma City may also refer to:*Oklahoma City metropolitan area*Downtown Oklahoma City*Uptown Oklahoma City*Oklahoma City bombing*Oklahoma City National Memorial...
depending on the geographic location in the DMA.
News operation
In the mid-1980s, KTEN took advantage of new Federal Communications CommissionFederal Communications Commission
The Federal Communications Commission is an independent agency of the United States government, created, Congressional statute , and with the majority of its commissioners appointed by the current President. The FCC works towards six goals in the areas of broadband, competition, the spectrum, the...
(FCC) rules about translators providing localized content. It opened a small bureau and studio for its Paris translator K08KK and began producing a brief news and weather program that would air during the 10 p.m. news. This was discontinued after a few years due to a lack of advertiser support. In 1985, KTEN added a second studio facility on Merrick Drive in Ardmore, and the following year, opened a third studio in the Katy Depot in Downtown Denison that would also become the station's main studio complex. In 2002, KTEN moved its main studio from the Katy Depot to a new location on U.S. 75
U.S. Route 75 in Texas
In the U.S. state of Texas, U.S. Highway 75 is a U.S. Highway that begins in Dallas and heads north to the Oklahoma border.-History:In the initial assignment of state highways in 1917, Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston were connected by a branch of State Highway 2 , which ran via Waco and Bryan and...
in Denison. The station's operations also include the secondary studio in Ardmore and a sales office in its former home city of Ada.
KTEN currently produces 23.5 hours of local news a week (4.5 hours on weekdays and a half-hour each on weekends). Its weekday morning show, KTEN News Today, airs from 5 to 7 with an hour-long midday newscast airing at 11 a.m. that is streamed live on its website and is simulcast on KTEN-DT3. Nightly news broadcasts air at 5, 6, and 10 (the latter of the three is the only newscast airing on weekends, and the 5 and 10 p.m. newscasts are simulcast on KTEN-DT3). KTEN began producing a half-hour prime time broadcasts at 9 for its CW subchannel
KTEN-DT2
KTEN-DT2 is the CW-affiliated television station for North Texas and Southeastern Oklahoma. The station is part of The CW Plus, a special CW feed that broadcasts on cable and / or over-the-air on a digital signal. It is a second digital subchannel of NBC affiliate KTEN that is owned by the...
on October 25, 2006 known as Texoma CW News At 9. Like all CW Plus
The CW Plus
The CW Plus is a group of primarily digital sub-channels, analog, and non-broadcast cable television outlets for the CW Television Network, for markets below the top 99 television media markets in the United States....
affiliates in the Central Time Zone
Central Time zone
In North America, the Central Time Zone refers to national time zones which observe standard time by subtracting six hours from UTC , and daylight saving, or summer time by subtracting five hours...
, that channel also airs the nationally 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...
on weekdays from 5 to 8 a.m. KTEN-DT3 airs live newscasts in the event a sporting event or other special programming delays the broadcast of the main channel's newscasts. The news will then also be taped and rebroadcast on KTEN after the event. With the addition of ABC on KTEN-DT3, there will be at least two more local newscasts branded as ABC Texoma News which will require adding additional personnel.
Newscast titles
- TV-10 News (1963-1974)
- Area 10 News (1974-1979)
- The News on 10 (1979-1984)
- News 10 (1984-1985)
- NewsCenter 10 (1985-1990)
- KTEN News (1990-present)
Station slogans
- KTEN is Your Station in Texoma (early 1970s)
- Texoma Turns to Area 10 (mid 1970s)
- KTEN Again! (mid-late 1970s)
- We're Still the One, on Channel 10 (1977-1980; localized version of ABC ad campaign)
- You and Me and Channel 10 (1980-1981; localized version of ABC ad campaign)
- Now is the Time, Channel 10 is the Place (1981-1982; localized version of ABC ad campaign)
- Come on Along with Channel 10 (1982-1984; localized version of ABC ad campaign)
- We're With You on Channel 10 (1984-1985; localized version of ABC ad campaign)
- Channel 10, Let's All Be There (1984-1985; localized version of NBC ad campaign)
- You'll Love It on Channel 10 (1985-1986; localized version of ABC ad campaign)
- Together on Channel 10 (1986-1987; localized version of ABC ad campaign)
- Come Home to Channel 10 (1986-1987; localized version of NBC ad campaign)
- Something's Happening on Channel 10 (1987-1990; localized version of ABC ad campaign)
- Come on Home to Channel 10 (1987-1988); local version of NBC ad campaign)
- Come Home To the Best, Only On Channel 10 (1988-89; local version of NBC campaign)
- Texoma's Watching Channel 10 (1990-1992; localized version of ABC ad campaign)
- K-T-E-N, The Place to Be (1990-1991); localized version of NBC ad campaign)
- If It's Channel 10, It Must Be ABC (1992-1993; localized version of ABC ad campaign)
- On Your Side (1999-2003)
News team
Anchors- Lisanne Anderson - weeknights at 5, 6 and 10 p.m.; also managing editor and executive producer
- Sterling Riggs - weekdays at 4 (on KTEN-DT3), weeknights at 5, 9 (on KTEN-DT2) and 10 p.m.
- Meredith Saldana - weekday mornings and midday.
- Mason "Moose" Christensen - weekends at 6 and 10 p.m.
Sky Alert 10 Weather Team
- Alan Mitchell (AMSAmerican Meteorological SocietyThe American Meteorological Society promotes the development and dissemination of information and education on the atmospheric and related oceanic and hydrologic sciences and the advancement of their professional applications. Founded in 1919, the American Meteorological Society has a membership...
Seal of Approval) - Chief Meteorologist; weeknights at 5, 6, and 10 p.m. - Stephen Nehrenz - weekdays at 4 p.m., weekends
- Cathy Evans - weekday mornings and midday.
Reporters
- Kris Betts - general assignment reporter; also ABC Texoma producer
- Jen French - Denison Newsroom reporter
- Deeda Payton - Denison Newsroom reporter