Oklahoma Educational Television Authority
Encyclopedia
OETA is a state network
of Public Broadcasting Service
(PBS) member Non-commercial educational
Public television stations covering the entire state of Oklahoma
.
The state network is primarily broadcast from facilities located on North Kelley Avenue in Oklahoma City (adjacent to the studios of Oklahoma City's CBS affiliate KWTV), and operates a satellite studio in Tulsa.
programming to Oklahomans on a coordinated statewide basis; made possible with cooperation from the state's educational, government and cultural agencies. After securing a Broadcast license
from the Federal Communications Commission
(FCC) and funding from various groups, KETA was finally able to sign on the air as the flagship on April 13, 1956, as the nation's 11th educational television station, and the first Non-commercial
station in the state. It was originally associated with National Educational Television
until it became the Public Broadcasting Service in 1970, taking over many of the functions of its predecessor.
From 1959 to 1978, three more stations signed on, extending OETA's signal to portions of Kansas
, Missouri
, Arkansas
and Texas
. A satellite station, KOED, channel 11 in Tulsa, went on the air January 12, 1959. When KOED came online, OETA became the second operational educational television
state network in the United States (after the present-day Alabama Public Television
).
On December 1, 1977 KOET, Channel 3 in Eufala joined the state network, as a satellite of KOED to serve areas of east-central Oklahoma (in some areas of east-central Oklahoma, KOET's signal runs into the signal of its Tulsa satellite KOED, and in other areas, runs into the signal of Oklahoma City's KETA). Finally, on August 6, 1978 KWET, channel 12, in Cheyenne signed on to serve west-central and southwestern Oklahoma and a small portion of the eastern Texas panhandle.
OETA's full-power stations cover roughly 80 percent of Oklahoma's population. The only portions of Oklahoma not served by a full-power over-the-air OETA member station are the panhandle, and northwest, south-central and southeast parts of the state; however these areas are served by low-power translators
of the state network.
OETA's flagship news program is the weeknightly Oklahoma News Report, which has aired since 1976. In 2003, the stations began their first digital television broadcasts, in 2005 they began broadcasting select PBS programs in high definition
, and in 2006 the organization launched a full-time digital
channel, OETA OKLA, devoted to local and regional programs.
In December 2008, OETA began producing most of its local productions in High Definition, including the Oklahoma News Report, OKC Metro, Stateline and Tulsa Times.
On February 17, 2009 at 1PM, KETA-TV's (Oklahoma City) and KOED-TV's (Tulsa) analog transmitter was shut down for the DTV conversion. On March 31, 2009 at 9:00AM, KWET-TV (Cheyenne) and KOET-TV (Eufala) shut down their analog signal. All the state translators went digital-only on June 12, 2009.
) and KAUT (channel 43)'s programming inventories (along with KAUT's Fox affiliation) would move to KOKH. As part of the deal, KOCB would become a Home Shopping Network
affiliate, while KAUT would become an educational station. The original sale fell through in 1989, and the three stations continued on as rival independents
until 1991, when Heritage traded KAUT to OETA.
In the summer of 1991, KAUT changed its callsign to KTLC, meaning "The Literacy Channel", which the station used as its branding. Despite the name, however, its emphasis wasn't entirely on literacy. After the switch to a secondary PBS member station, KTLC's schedule included fitness programs weekday mornings from 7 to 8:30 a.m., instructional programming and select PBS series (including The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
) in the late evenings, and children's programming from mid-morning to early evening (PBS member stations typically air children's programming from sunrise until late afternoon). Most of the programs were rebroadcasts from KETA.
KTLC scaled back its broadcast schedule, ending its broadcast day at midnight, as OETA did at the time. The weekend lineup initially retained the same broadcast day period as it did on weekdays, but KTLC reduced its program hours on weekends from 4:00 p.m. to midnight in 1995. The city's cable operator, Cox Communications
filled non-programming hours with QVC
programming on cable Channel 13 (the station now airs on Cox channel 16). OETA eventually found it hard to run two stations in Oklahoma City, so it decided to sell KTLC. In January 1998, KOCB announced that it would switch its affiliation from UPN to The WB, as a result of a deal by Sinclair Broadcast Group
(which operated the station under a Local Marketing Agreement
at the time) in which its UPN
affiliates and independent stations would affiliate with The WB, Paramount Stations Group (now CBS Television Stations Group
) then later agreed to buy KTLC.
Channel 43 returned to a general entertainment format on June 20, 1998 at 5 a.m. as KPSG, named after its new owner. KPSG still aired educational shows from 7 a.m. to noon, followed by a general entertainment format consisting of classic sitcoms, cartoons, UPN primetime shows, and movies. That fall, the station became a full-time general entertainment station, removing PBS educational shows (though the station would continue to simulcast OETA pledge drive
s until 2003). The station changed its callsign back to the original KAUT in November 1998, following the death of station founder Gene Autry
. KAUT today is now a MyNetworkTV
affiliate, owned by Local TV
, in a duopoly with NBC affiliate KFOR-TV
.
Direct repeaters of KOET:
Direct repeaters of KWET:
KOED in Tulsa has no translators relaying its over-the-air signal, as KOED's signal adequately covers northeastern Oklahoma, coupled along with the overlapping signals of fellow PBS member stations KOZJ
in Joplin, Missouri and KAFT
in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
OETA's translators reach into portions of Kansas and Texas, while KOET's over-the-air signal reaches parts of Western Arkansas and is carried by Cox Cable in Fort Smith on channel 9. Some of the donations for OETA's Festival and AugustFest pledge drives come from those states.
OETA Kids and OETA Create were also carried as the third and fourth digital subchannels of all four full-power OETA digital stations until 2008. Since then, they are currently operating as cable-only channels and are available on Cox Digital Cable in these areas.
and Dish Network
feeds, respectively.
OETA is one of several PBS member stations to produce programming for syndication to other PBS stations around the country as well as to the OETA state network itself. OETA produces series under the banner, OETA: The Oklahoma Network. It distributes The Kalb Report, hosted by Marvin Kalb
.
In September 1986, OETA began syndication of episodes of The Lawrence Welk Show
, after that series left commercial syndication. The Lawrence Welk Show is OETA's most-watched series. OETA has also produced Lawrence Welk specials.
OETA also is known for the OETA Movie Club hosted by B.J. Wexler, for more than two decades. OETA Movie Club features classic movies from the 1930s to the 1980s.
OETA also produces Stateline which deals with issues important to Oklahoma and also the United States and Gallery, focusing on Oklahoma's art community.
During the early 2000s, on cable outlets around the state, OETA aired programming from PBS' national feed to fill the time from sign-off at night to sign-on in the morning. The national feed began broadcasting over the air in April 2006 making OETA one of the few broadcast stations in the last decade to switch to a 24-hour format.
The newscast features the traditional news and also the following:
On July 1, 2011, the Oklahoma News Report signed off for the last time as a weeknightly news program, citing a 9% cut in OETA's budget by the Oklahoma state legislature as the reason, the newscast's timeslot was replaced with the PBS NewsHour as part of a shuffling of OETA's early evening news block as a result of the removal of ONR as a weekdaily newscast; ONR relaunched as a once-a-week newsmagazine on July 15, 2011, airing on Friday nights only.
Reporters
Photojournalists
OETA has a Tulsa office and is located at 811 North Sheridan Road in Tulsa. The phone number is 918-838-7611. In March 2011, they will be moving into their new facility built on the OSU-Tulsa campus.
State network
A State Network in the United States broadcasting industry is a term which refers to a miniature television network serving an entire state or multiple states...
of Public Broadcasting Service
Public Broadcasting Service
The Public Broadcasting Service is an American non-profit public broadcasting television network with 354 member TV stations in the United States which hold collective ownership. Its headquarters is in Arlington, Virginia....
(PBS) member Non-commercial educational
Non-commercial educational
The term non-commercial educational applies to a radio station or TV station that does not accept on air advertisements , as defined in the United States by the Federal Communications Commission . NCE stations do not pay broadcast license fees for their non-profit uses of the radio spectrum...
Public television stations covering the entire state of 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...
.
The state network is primarily broadcast from facilities located on North Kelley Avenue in Oklahoma City (adjacent to the studios of Oklahoma City's CBS affiliate KWTV), and operates a satellite studio in Tulsa.
History
OETA traces its history to 1953, when the Oklahoma state legislature created a statute forming the Oklahoma Educational Television Authority, to provide Educational televisionEducational television
Educational television is the use of television programs in the field of distance education. It may be in the form of individual television programs or dedicated specialty channels that is often associated with cable television in the United States as Public, educational, and government access ...
programming to Oklahomans on a coordinated statewide basis; made possible with cooperation from the state's educational, government and cultural agencies. After securing a Broadcast license
Broadcast license
A broadcast license or broadcast license is a specific type of spectrum license that grants the licensee the privilege to use a portion of the radio frequency spectrum in a given geographical area for broadcasting purposes. The licenses are generally straddled with additional restrictions that...
from the Federal Communications Commission
Federal 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) and funding from various groups, KETA was finally able to sign on the air as the flagship on April 13, 1956, as the nation's 11th educational television station, and the first Non-commercial
Non-commercial
Non-commercial refers to an activity or entity that does not in some sense involve commerce, at least relative to similar activities that do have a commercial objective or emphasis...
station in the state. It was originally associated with National Educational Television
National Educational Television
National Educational Television was an American non-commercial educational public television network in the United States from May 16, 1954 to October 4, 1970...
until it became the Public Broadcasting Service in 1970, taking over many of the functions of its predecessor.
From 1959 to 1978, three more stations signed on, extending OETA's signal to portions of Kansas
Kansas
Kansas is a US state located in the Midwestern United States. It is named after the Kansas River which flows through it, which in turn was named after the Kansa Native American tribe, which inhabited the area. The tribe's name is often said to mean "people of the wind" or "people of the south...
, Missouri
Missouri
Missouri is a US state located in the Midwestern United States, bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska. With a 2010 population of 5,988,927, Missouri is the 18th most populous state in the nation and the fifth most populous in the Midwest. It...
, Arkansas
Arkansas
Arkansas is a state located in the southern region of the United States. Its name is an Algonquian name of the Quapaw Indians. Arkansas shares borders with six states , and its eastern border is largely defined by the Mississippi River...
and 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...
. A satellite station, KOED, channel 11 in Tulsa, went on the air January 12, 1959. When KOED came online, OETA became the second operational educational television
Educational television
Educational television is the use of television programs in the field of distance education. It may be in the form of individual television programs or dedicated specialty channels that is often associated with cable television in the United States as Public, educational, and government access ...
state network in the United States (after the present-day Alabama Public Television
Alabama Public Television
Alabama Public Television is a state network of Public Broadcasting Service member non-commercial educational Public television stations serving the US state of Alabama. The television stations are licensed by the Alabama Educational Television Commission, which was created by the Alabama state...
).
On December 1, 1977 KOET, Channel 3 in Eufala joined the state network, as a satellite of KOED to serve areas of east-central Oklahoma (in some areas of east-central Oklahoma, KOET's signal runs into the signal of its Tulsa satellite KOED, and in other areas, runs into the signal of Oklahoma City's KETA). Finally, on August 6, 1978 KWET, channel 12, in Cheyenne signed on to serve west-central and southwestern Oklahoma and a small portion of the eastern Texas panhandle.
OETA's full-power stations cover roughly 80 percent of Oklahoma's population. The only portions of Oklahoma not served by a full-power over-the-air OETA member station are the panhandle, and northwest, south-central and southeast parts of the state; however these areas are served by low-power translators
Broadcast relay station
A broadcast relay station, relay transmitter, broadcast translator , rebroadcaster , or repeater is a broadcast transmitter which relays, repeats, or reflects the signal of another radio station or television station, usually to an area not covered by the signal of the originating station...
of the state network.
OETA's flagship news program is the weeknightly Oklahoma News Report, which has aired since 1976. In 2003, the stations began their first digital television broadcasts, in 2005 they began broadcasting select PBS programs in 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...
, and in 2006 the organization launched a full-time digital
Digital television
Digital television is the transmission of audio and video by digital signals, in contrast to the analog signals used by analog TV...
channel, OETA OKLA, devoted to local and regional programs.
In December 2008, OETA began producing most of its local productions in High Definition, including the Oklahoma News Report, OKC Metro, Stateline and Tulsa Times.
On February 17, 2009 at 1PM, KETA-TV's (Oklahoma City) and KOED-TV's (Tulsa) analog transmitter was shut down for the DTV conversion. On March 31, 2009 at 9:00AM, KWET-TV (Cheyenne) and KOET-TV (Eufala) shut down their analog signal. All the state translators went digital-only on June 12, 2009.
Purchase of KAUT and conversion to "The Literacy Channel" (1991-1998)
From 1991 to 1998, OETA owned and ran KAUT channel 43 as secondary PBS member station KTLC. Then-independent station KOKH (channel 25) was sold to KAUT's former owner Heritage Broadcasting in 1991, and KAUT's programming moved to KOKH, who assumed that station's Fox affiliation. Heritage then sold KAUT to OETA in a similar deal to one Pappas Telecasting made in 1988, in which KGMC (channel 34, now KOCBKOCB
KOCB, virtual channel 34 , is the CW-affiliated television station in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group of Maryland, LLC, in a duopoly with Fox affiliate KOKH-TV...
) and KAUT (channel 43)'s programming inventories (along with KAUT's Fox affiliation) would move to KOKH. As part of the deal, KOCB would become a Home Shopping Network
Home Shopping Network
Home Shopping Network or HSN began in 1977 as a 24-hour/7 day a week home shopping television network televised via cable, satellite, and some terrestrial channels in the Philippines. HSN can also be shopped online at hsn.com...
affiliate, while KAUT would become an educational station. The original sale fell through in 1989, and the three stations continued on as rival independents
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....
until 1991, when Heritage traded KAUT to OETA.
In the summer of 1991, KAUT changed its callsign to KTLC, meaning "The Literacy Channel", which the station used as its branding. Despite the name, however, its emphasis wasn't entirely on literacy. After the switch to a secondary PBS member station, KTLC's schedule included fitness programs weekday mornings from 7 to 8:30 a.m., instructional programming and select PBS series (including The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
PBS NewsHour is an evening television news program broadcast weeknights on the Public Broadcasting Service in the United States. The show is produced by MacNeil/Lehrer Productions, a company co-owned by former anchors Jim Lehrer and Robert MacNeil, and Liberty Media, which owns a 65% stake in the...
) in the late evenings, and children's programming from mid-morning to early evening (PBS member stations typically air children's programming from sunrise until late afternoon). Most of the programs were rebroadcasts from KETA.
KTLC scaled back its broadcast schedule, ending its broadcast day at midnight, as OETA did at the time. The weekend lineup initially retained the same broadcast day period as it did on weekdays, but KTLC reduced its program hours on weekends from 4:00 p.m. to midnight in 1995. The city's cable operator, Cox Communications
Cox Communications
Cox Communications is a privately owned subsidiary of Cox Enterprises providing digital cable television, telecommunications and wireless services in the United States...
filled non-programming hours with QVC
QVC
QVC is a multinational corporation specializing in televised home shopping. Founded in 1986 by Joseph Segel in West Goshen Township, Pennsylvania, United States, QVC broadcasts in five countries as QVC US, QVC UK, QVC Germany, QVC Japan and – QVC Italy to 200 million households...
programming on cable Channel 13 (the station now airs on Cox channel 16). OETA eventually found it hard to run two stations in Oklahoma City, so it decided to sell KTLC. In January 1998, KOCB announced that it would switch its affiliation from UPN to The WB, as a result of a deal by Sinclair Broadcast Group
Sinclair Broadcast Group
The Sinclair Broadcast Group is an American telecommunications company that operates the largest number of local television stations in the United States. Headquartered in Hunt Valley, Maryland, it owns a total of 57 stations across the country in 35 primarily small and medium markets, many of...
(which operated the station under a Local Marketing Agreement
Local marketing agreement
In U.S. and Canadian broadcasting, a local marketing agreement is an agreement in which one company agrees to operate a radio or television station owned by another licensee...
at the time) in which its UPN
UPN
United Paramount Network was a television network that was broadcast in over 200 markets in the United States from 1995 to 2006. UPN was originally owned by Viacom/Paramount and Chris-Craft Industries, the former of which, through the Paramount Television Group, produced most of the network's...
affiliates and independent stations would affiliate with The WB, Paramount Stations Group (now CBS Television Stations Group
CBS Television Stations
The CBS Television Stations are a group of television stations owned by CBS Corporation. As of 2009, CBS Corporation owns 28 stations, broken down as follows: 14 are the key stations of the CBS Television Network ; nine are aligned with the CW Television Network, which is co-owned by CBS with Time...
) then later agreed to buy KTLC.
Channel 43 returned to a general entertainment format on June 20, 1998 at 5 a.m. as KPSG, named after its new owner. KPSG still aired educational shows from 7 a.m. to noon, followed by a general entertainment format consisting of classic sitcoms, cartoons, UPN primetime shows, and movies. That fall, the station became a full-time general entertainment station, removing PBS educational shows (though the station would continue to simulcast OETA pledge drive
Pledge drive
A pledge drive is an extended period of fundraising activities, generally used by public broadcasting stations to increase contributions. The term "pledge" originates from the promise a contributor makes to send in funding at regular intervals for a certain amount of time...
s until 2003). The station changed its callsign back to the original KAUT in November 1998, following the death of station founder Gene Autry
Gene Autry
Orvon Grover Autry , better known as Gene Autry, was an American performer who gained fame as The Singing Cowboy on the radio, in movies and on television for more than three decades beginning in the 1930s...
. KAUT today is now a 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, owned by Local TV
Local TV
Local TV LLC is a limited liability corporation, owned by Oak Hill Capital Partners , which operates 18 local network-affiliated television stations in the United States.-History:...
, in a duopoly with NBC affiliate KFOR-TV
KFOR-TV
KFOR-TV, virtual channel 4 , is the NBC-affiliated television station in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. KFOR-TV is owned by Local TV, a subsidiary of the private equity group Oak Hill Capital Partners, in a duopoly with MyNetworkTV affiliate KAUT-TV ; its studios are located at 444 East Britton Road in...
.
Stations
| Station | City of license City of license A city of license or community of license, in American and Canadian broadcasting, is the community that a radio station or television station is officially licensed to serve by that country's broadcast regulator.... |
Channels Channel (broadcasting) In broadcasting, a channel is a range of frequencies assigned by a government for the operation of a particular radio station, television station or television channel. In common usage, the term also may be used to refer to the station operating on a particular frequency.-See also:*Broadcast... (Digital Digital terrestrial television Digital terrestrial television is the technological evolution of broadcast television and advance from analog television, which broadcasts land-based signals... ) |
First air date | Call letters’ meaning Call sign In broadcasting and radio communications, a call sign is a unique designation for a transmitting station. In North America they are used as names for broadcasting stations... |
ERP Effective radiated power In radio telecommunications, effective radiated power or equivalent radiated power is a standardized theoretical measurement of radio frequency energy using the SI unit watts, and is determined by subtracting system losses and adding system gains... (Digital) |
HAAT Height above average terrain Height above average terrain is used extensively in FM radio and television, as it is actually much more important than effective radiated power in determining the range of broadcasts... (Digital) |
Facility ID Facility ID The facility ID number or FIN is a unique positive integer assigned by the United States Federal Communications Commission to each domestic and international broadcast station in its Common Database System . Licensees are required to provide the relevant station's FIN when filing reports and... |
Transmitter Coordinates |
| KETA-TV | 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... |
32 (UHF Ultra high frequency Ultra-High Frequency designates the ITU Radio frequency range of electromagnetic waves between 300 MHz and 3 GHz , also known as the decimetre band or decimetre wave as the wavelengths range from one to ten decimetres... ) (Virtual: 13) |
April 13, 1956 | Oklahoma Educational Television Authority |
1000 kW | 465.2 m | 50205 | 35°35′52"N 97°29′23"W |
| KOED-TV | Tulsa Tulsa, Oklahoma Tulsa is the second-largest city in the state of Oklahoma and 46th-largest city in the United States. With a population of 391,906 as of the 2010 census, it is the principal municipality of the Tulsa Metropolitan Area, a region with 937,478 residents in the MSA and 988,454 in the CSA. Tulsa's... |
38 (UHF Ultra high frequency Ultra-High Frequency designates the ITU Radio frequency range of electromagnetic waves between 300 MHz and 3 GHz , also known as the decimetre band or decimetre wave as the wavelengths range from one to ten decimetres... ) (Virtual: 11) |
January 12, 1959 | Oklahoma EDucational |
1000 kW | 395.8 m | 66195 | 36°1′15"N 95°40′32"W |
| KOET | Eufaula Eufaula, Oklahoma Eufaula is a city in McIntosh County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 2,639 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of McIntosh County.-Geography:Eufaula is located at .... |
31 (UHF Ultra high frequency Ultra-High Frequency designates the ITU Radio frequency range of electromagnetic waves between 300 MHz and 3 GHz , also known as the decimetre band or decimetre wave as the wavelengths range from one to ten decimetres... ) (Virtual: 3) |
December 1, 1977 | Oklahoma Educational Television |
1000 kW | 364.1 m | 50198 | 35°11′1"N 95°20′21"W |
| KWET | Cheyenne Cheyenne, Oklahoma Cheyenne is a town in Roger Mills County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 801 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Roger Mills County.-History:... |
8 (VHF Very high frequency Very high frequency is the radio frequency range from 30 MHz to 300 MHz. Frequencies immediately below VHF are denoted High frequency , and the next higher frequencies are known as Ultra high frequency... ) (Virtual: 12) |
August 6, 1978 | Western Oklahoma Educational Television |
30 kW | 303.2 m | 50194 | 35°35′37"N 99°40′3"W |
Translators
Direct repeaters of KETA:- K38AK-D in Ponca CityPonca City, OklahomaPonca City is a small city in Kay and Osage counties in the U.S. state of Oklahoma, which was named after the Ponca Tribe. Located in north central Oklahoma, it lies approximately south of the Kansas border, and approximately east of Interstate 35. 25,919 people called Ponca City home at the...
- K30AE-D in AlvaAlva, OklahomaAlva is a city in Woods County, Oklahoma, along the Salt Fork Arkansas River. The population was 4,945 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Woods County....
- K28AC-D in ArdmoreArdmore, OklahomaArdmore is a business, cultural and tourism city in and the county seat of Carter County, Oklahoma, United States. As of the 2010 Census, the city had a population of 24,283, while a 2007 estimate has the Ardmore micropolitan statistical area totaling 56,694 residents...
- K47KI-D in DuncanDuncan, OklahomaDuncan is a city in Stephens County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 23,431 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Stephens County.The official birthdate of the town is considered to be when the first train arrived there on June 27, 1892...
- K46AI-D in DurantDurant, OklahomaDurant 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...
- K36AB-D in LawtonLawton, OklahomaThe city of Lawton is the county seat of Comanche County, in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. Located in the southwestern region of Oklahoma approximately southwest of Oklahoma City, it is the principal city of the Lawton Oklahoma Metropolitan Statistical Area...
- K46AH-D in MedfordMedford, OklahomaMedford is a city in and the county seat of Grant County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 1,172 at the 2000 census.-History:Medford was founded by Hobart Johnstone Whitley, a land developer, banker, farmer and Rock Island Railroad executive....
Direct repeaters of KOET:
- K15AA-D in HugoHugo, OklahomaHugo is a city in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Oklahoma, bordering Texas. Hugo is the county seat for Choctaw County and has a population of 5,395 as of 2009 estimates. The city serves as winter quarters for some circus performers...
- K23HY-D in IdabelIdabel, OklahomaIdabel is a city in McCurtain County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 7,658 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of McCurtain County. The town is located in the tourist area Kiamichi Country.-History:...
Direct repeaters of KWET:
- K19AA-D in AltusAltus, OklahomaAltus is a city in Jackson County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 19,813 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Jackson County....
- K20IT-D in Boise CityBoise City, OklahomaBoise City is a city in and the county seat of Cimarron County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 1,266 at the 2010 census.'Boise' rhymes with 'voice'...
- K34IN-D in BeaverBeaver, OklahomaBeaver is a town in and the county seat of Beaver County, Oklahoma, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 1,515. The town is host to the annual World Cow Chip Throwing Championship.-History:...
- K48KE-D in BuffaloBuffalo, OklahomaBuffalo is a town in Harper County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 1,299 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Harper County.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, Buffalo has a total area of , all land.-Climate:...
- K34IM-D in FrederickFrederick, OklahomaFrederick is a city in Tillman County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 3,940 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Tillman County. This is an agriculture based community primarily with wheat, cotton, and cattle....
- K16AB-D in GuymonGuymon, OklahomaGuymon is a city in and the county seat of Texas County, Oklahoma, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 11,442, making it the largest city on the Oklahoma Panhandle. Corporate hog farms and cattle feedlots dominate its economy....
KOED in Tulsa has no translators relaying its over-the-air signal, as KOED's signal adequately covers northeastern Oklahoma, coupled along with the overlapping signals of fellow PBS member stations KOZJ
KOZK
KOZK is the PBS member station in Springfield, Missouri. Owned by Missouri State University, it broadcasts on digital channel 21. It operates a full-time satellite, KOZJ, digital channel 26 in Joplin...
in Joplin, Missouri and KAFT
Arkansas Educational Television Network
Arkansas Educational Television Network is a state network of simulcast non-commercial educational public television station covering the state of Arkansas...
in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
OETA's translators reach into portions of Kansas and Texas, while KOET's over-the-air signal reaches parts of Western Arkansas and is carried by Cox Cable in Fort Smith on channel 9. Some of the donations for OETA's Festival and AugustFest pledge drives come from those states.
Digital television
The digital channels of OETA's main stations are multiplexed:| Channel | Video | Aspect 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,... |
Name | Programming |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| xx.1 | 1080i 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 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 ... |
OETADT1 | Main OETA Programming / PBS |
| xx.2 | 480i 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... |
4:3 | OETADT2 | OETA OKLA |
OETA Kids and OETA Create were also carried as the third and fourth digital subchannels of all four full-power OETA digital stations until 2008. Since then, they are currently operating as cable-only channels and are available on Cox Digital Cable in these areas.
Cable and satellite availability
OETA is carried on all Oklahoma cable systems. On satellite, KETA, KOED and KOET are carried on the Oklahoma City, Tulsa and Fort Smith DirecTVDirecTV
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and Dish Network
Dish Network
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feeds, respectively.
Programming
OETA airs 17½ hours of instructional programming a week. Instructional programming airs weekdays from 5:00 (or 6:00am) to 7:00am and 10:00am to 12 (or 12:30pm) and weekends from 6:00 to 8:00am.OETA is one of several PBS member stations to produce programming for syndication to other PBS stations around the country as well as to the OETA state network itself. OETA produces series under the banner, OETA: The Oklahoma Network. It distributes The Kalb Report, hosted by Marvin Kalb
Marvin Kalb
Marvin L. Kalb is an American journalist. Kalb was the Shorenstein Center's Founding Director and Edward R. Murrow Professor of Press and Public Policy . The Shorenstein Center and the Kennedy School are part of Harvard University...
.
In September 1986, OETA began syndication of episodes of The Lawrence Welk Show
The Lawrence Welk Show
The Lawrence Welk Show is an American televised musical variety show hosted by big band leader Lawrence Welk. The series aired locally in Los Angeles for four years , then nationally for another 27 years via the ABC network and first-run syndication .In the years since first-run syndication...
, after that series left commercial syndication. The Lawrence Welk Show is OETA's most-watched series. OETA has also produced Lawrence Welk specials.
OETA also is known for the OETA Movie Club hosted by B.J. Wexler, for more than two decades. OETA Movie Club features classic movies from the 1930s to the 1980s.
OETA also produces Stateline which deals with issues important to Oklahoma and also the United States and Gallery, focusing on Oklahoma's art community.
During the early 2000s, on cable outlets around the state, OETA aired programming from PBS' national feed to fill the time from sign-off at night to sign-on in the morning. The national feed began broadcasting over the air in April 2006 making OETA one of the few broadcast stations in the last decade to switch to a 24-hour format.
News operation
OETA is one of only a handful of PBS stations to produce a local newscast. The Oklahoma News Report is anchored by Dick Pryor, Angela Rosecrans and Lis Exon. It originally featured clips of special reports from newscasts in the Oklahoma City and Tulsa area. The newscast airs weekdays (except on Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and the day after, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, and New Year's Eve and New Year's Day). The newscast features reports from its offices in Oklahoma City and Tulsa, OETA's Stateline and Gallery units, the State Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry, the Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education and Oklahoma's commercial television stations.The newscast features the traditional news and also the following:
- In July 2010, started a strictly news oriented show without any weather, unless it was a news story.
- The newscast has no sports coverage, but occasionally features sports related stories.
- The newscast airs a stock market segment featuring the day's closing numbers of the Dow JonesDow Jones Industrial AverageThe Dow Jones Industrial Average , also called the Industrial Average, the Dow Jones, the Dow 30, or simply the Dow, is a stock market index, and one of several indices created by Wall Street Journal editor and Dow Jones & Company co-founder Charles Dow...
and NASDAQNASDAQThe NASDAQ Stock Market, also known as the NASDAQ, is an American stock exchange. "NASDAQ" originally stood for "National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations". It is the second-largest stock exchange by market capitalization in the world, after the New York Stock Exchange. As of...
markets and stocks on businesses that do business in Oklahoma (Kerr-McGee, ConocoPhillips, etc.)
On July 1, 2011, the Oklahoma News Report signed off for the last time as a weeknightly news program, citing a 9% cut in OETA's budget by the Oklahoma state legislature as the reason, the newscast's timeslot was replaced with the PBS NewsHour as part of a shuffling of OETA's early evening news block as a result of the removal of ONR as a weekdaily newscast; ONR relaunched as a once-a-week newsmagazine on July 15, 2011, airing on Friday nights only.
Station slogans
- The Oklahoma Network (2004-present; also name for OETA's production/syndication unit)
Current on-air staff (as of July 21, 2011)
Anchors- Gerry Bonds - host of OKC Metro
- Lis Exon - general assignment reporter/Tulsa News Manager/co-anchor, "The Oklahoma News Report" (ONR)
- Dick Pryor - co-anchor, "The Oklahoma News Report" (ONR) ; also host of Oklahoma Forum
- Angela Rosecrans - general assignment reporter/co-anchor, "The Oklahoma News Report" (ONR)
Reporters
- Steve Bennett - general assignment reporter
- Robert Burch - general assignment reporter
- Susan Miller - general assignment reporter
- Bob Sands - general assignment reporter
- Cathy Tatom - general assignment reporter
Photojournalists
- Aaron Byrd
- Tim Carson
- Pius Mburu
- Edwin Wilson
Office location
OETA is located on 7403 North Kelley Ave. in Oklahoma City, next door to the studios of CBS affiliate KWTV (channel 9). The phone number is 405-848-8501.OETA has a Tulsa office and is located at 811 North Sheridan Road in Tulsa. The phone number is 918-838-7611. In March 2011, they will be moving into their new facility built on the OSU-Tulsa campus.