KOKH-TV

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KOKH-TV
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Branding	Fox 25 / Fox Oklahoma City
Channels	25 (UHF) analog, 24 (UHF) digital
Affiliations	Fox
Owner	Sinclair Broadcast Group
Founded	1959
Call letters meaning	K OKlaHoma
Former affiliations	Independent (until 1990)
Website	www.kokh.com

KOKH-TV (known as FOX25 or FOX Oklahoma City) is the FOX broadcasting affiliate for Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group of Maryland.

Contents 1 History 2 News 3 Newscasts 3.1 Nightly 3.2 Weeknights 3.3 Sundays 4 Personalities 4.1 Current Personalities 5 News Presentation 5.1 Newscast titles 6 Station Slogans 7 Movie Umbrella Titles 8 External links

[edit] History

Prior to 1959, channel 25 operated as the ABC affiliate in the Oklahoma City market as KTVQ. Current ABC affiliate KOCO was operating out of Enid, Oklahoma using the call letters KGEO-TV.

KOKH began operation as an independent educational station in 1959. In the fall 1979, KOKH was bought by Blair Broadcasting. At that point it became a general entertainment independent station featuring cartoons, classic sitcoms, and a lot of movies. Shortly after KGMC Channel 34 (Now KOCB) signed on with a similar format.

By 1983 Oklahoma City had three commercial independent stations and they all struggled for the best programming. Blair Broadcasting restructured into Gillett Broadcasting by 1985. In 1987, Pappas Broadcasting made a proposal to purchase KOKH. At the same time they would buy programming inventories of KGMC and KAUT 43 and combine assets on KOKH making one strong station. Fox affiliation would also move from KAUT to KOKH. Channel 34 would switch to Home Shopping programming while KAUT would become an educational station. In 1988 this sale was canceled. The three stations then continued on until 1991. In 1989 KOKH was sold to Busse Broadcasting.

In 1991, KAUT 43's owner, Heritage Broadcasting bought KOKH. Channel 43 was sold to Oklahoma Educational Television and became KTLC The Literacy Channel. Heritage merged KAUT's programming onto KOKH as well as Fox affiliation. A few years later, though, KTLC became a commercial station and owned by Paramount and known as KPSG. They reverted to the KAUT calls in 1998 after the death of founder Gene Autry. Today that station is owned by New York Times.

In 1996, Fox 25 KOKH was sold to its current owner, Sinclair. In the late 1990's KOKH evolved and moved away from cartoons and classic sitcoms while still running some more recent sitcoms. The station moved toward more talk and reality shows as well as court shows. In 1996 KOKH also began a local marketing agreement with KOCB 34.

Sinclair and Fox cut a six-year affiliation contract extension for Sinclair's 19 Fox affiliates; thus, Fox will remain on KOKH at least through March 2012.

[edit] News

In the 1980s, KOKH aired brief news capsules under the title "Newstouch 25". Ronnie Kaye anchored the updates.

In May 1997, KOKH launched a nightly newscast titled The Nine O'Clock News. Jack Bowen and Kirsten McIntyre were the first anchors for the newscast. The Nine O'Clock News expanded to an hour-long newscast in August 1998. The newscast ran only on weeknights until September 1999, when it began airing seven nights a week.

The "FOX Primetime News at 9:00", as the newscast was rebranded in 2001, became part of Sinclair's News Central in March 2003, adding News Central's national news updates and weather forecasts in the newscasts. In early 2004, KOKH launched a companion newscast, "FOX25 Late Edition" airing weeknights at 10:00.

KOKH airs lottery drawings from the Oklahoma Lottery nightly during their 9PM newscast. KOKH's sister station KOCB 34 simulcasts the drawings.

In 2006, NewsCentral was acknowledged as a failure and KOKH resumed its entirely local newscast.

[edit] Newscasts

[edit] Nightly

• FOX25 Primetime News @ 9: 9 - 10 PM
  • anchored by Andrew Speno and Jaime Cerreta with Scott Padgett on weather and Kris Roberts on sports

[edit] Weeknights

• FOX25 Late Edition: 10 - 10:30 PM
  • with Andrew Speno and Jaime Cerreta and Greg Whitworth on weather and Kris Roberts on sports

[edit] Sundays

• FOX25 Sports Sunday: 9:45 - 10 PM
  • hosted by Brent Skarky and Kris Roberts

[edit] Personalities

[edit] Current Personalities

FOX25 ANCHORS

• Jaime Cerreta, Weeknight Anchor/Reporter
• Andrew Speno, Weeknight Anchor/Reporter
• Kris Roberts, Sports Anchor/FOX25 Sports Sunday Co-Host (formerly anchor/reporter from 1996 to 2006)
• Brent Skarky, Weekend Anchor/Fill-in Anchor/FOX25 Sports Sunday Co-Host (formerly weekend sports anchor from 2000 to 2001)

FOX25 REPORTERS

• Nicole Burgin, General Assignment Reporter/Fill-in Anchor
• Courtney Coates, General Assignment Reporter/Producer
• Britten Follett, General Assignment Reporter
• Lisa Monahan, Freelance Reporter/Producer
• Sana Syed, General Assignment Reporter
• Phyllis Williams, Crime Reporter

FOX25 WEATHER/FOX FIRST FORECAST CENTER METEOROLOGISTS

• Scott Padgett (AMS Certified), Weekday Chief Meteorologist
• Greg Whitworth, Weekend Forecaster

[edit] News Presentation

[edit] Newscast titles

• The Nine O'Clock News (1996-2000)
• FOX Primetime News @ Nine (2000-present)
• FOX25 Late Edition (2005-present)

[edit] Station Slogans

• We're Your Fox in Oklahoma City (1996-1997)
• Where Local News Is First (2001-2003)
• All the News You Need, One Hour Earlier (2004-present)
• We Love TV (2005-present (also used as a slogan for ABC in the mid-1990s))

[edit] Movie Umbrella Titles

• The FOX Movie (2004-present)

[edit] External links

• KOKH Homepage
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KOKH-TV

Broadcast television in the Oklahoma City market  (Nielsen DMA #46)
KFOR 4 (NBC) - KOCO 5 (ABC) - KOHC 7 (AZA) - KWTV 9 (CBS) - KUOK-CA 11 (UNI) - KETA 13 / KWET 12 (PBS / OETA) - KTBO 14 (TBN) - KLHO 17 (LFN) - KUOT 19 (LFN) - KTOU 21 (HSN) - KOKH 25 (Fox) - KGBN 27 (A1) - KTUZ 30 (TMD) - KWEM 31 (A1) - KXOK 32 (A1) - KOCB 34 (The CW) - KUOK 35 (UNI) - KCHM-LP 36 (UNI) - KOHC 38 (AZA) - KXOC 41 (A1) - KAUT 43 (MNTV) - KOCM 46 (DS) - KSBI 52 (Ind) - KOPX 62 (i)
Local cable television channels City Channel 20 -  News Now 53