KOCB

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KOCB
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Branding	The CW Oklahoma City
Slogan	Free To Be OKC (the station does not use this slogan on-air)
Channels	34 (UHF) analog, 33 (UHF) digital
Affiliations	The CW
Owner	Sinclair Broadcast Group
Founded	1979
Call letters meaning	Oklahoma City's Best or Oklahoma City Broadcasting
Former affiliations	Independent (1979-1995), UPN (1995–1998), The WB (1998-2006)
Website	cwokc.com

KOCB, referred to on-air as The CW Oklahoma City, is the CW affiliate for Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group of Maryland, LLC, in a duopoly with KOKH Channel 25.

The station broadcasts its analog signal on UHF channel 34, and its digital signal on UHF channel 33, and is carried on channel 11 on most Central Oklahoma cable systems including Cox Communications. The station is also available to DirecTV and Dish Network customers within the Oklahoma City market. KOCB digital subchannel 34.2 is the Oklahoma City affiliate of The Tube Music Network.

Contents 1 History 1.1 From The WB to The CW 2 Sports 3 Station Presentation 3.1 Movie Umbrella Titles 4 Logos 5 External links

[edit] History

KOCB began in 1979 as KGMC, an independent station. The station featured cartoons, classic sitcoms, westerns, dramas, religious shows, and some old movies. KGMC signed on shortly before competitor KOKH 25. The station was owned by General Media.

In 1983, KGMC was sold to Seraphim Media, with the format remaining unchanged. In 1987 Pappas Telecasting Companies sought to buy both KGMC and KOKH as well as then-Fox affiliate KAUT. KOKH was to combine its own assets with KGMC and KAUT and carry the Fox affiliation. KGMC was to become a Home Shopping Network affiliate 18 hours a day along with 6 hours a day of religious shows. KAUT was to be sold to OETA and become a second public television station. In 1988, the sale was canceled, but KGMC would be sold to Maddox Broadcasting in 1989. At that point their call letters became KOCB (the KGMC call letters are now used by channel 43 in Clovis, California, an independent station).

In 1993, KOCB was sold again, this time to Superior Broadcasting. They continued with a general entertainment format while becoming a UPN affiliate in January 1995, retaining the name TV 34. Being that UPN only had a few nights of shows per week KOCB along with other UPN stations were basically independent. In 1996, KOCB began a local marketing agreement with KOKH but ran separate programming. After three years as a UPN station, KOCB became a WB affiliate on January 25, 1998. This left Oklahoma City without a UPN affiliate until KTLC, then-recently bought by Paramount Stations Group, switched from a secondary public television format to a general entertainment station in June of that year, picking up the UPN affiliation. In 2001, Sinclair Broadcasting, owners of KOKH, bought KOCB outright. The two stations continue to cross-promote at the present time.

In the fall of 2002, after four years of being known on the air as WB34, the station rebranded itself as The WB Oklahoma City (now branded The CW Oklahoma City) due to the fact that many Central Oklahomans watch KOCB via cable (channel 11 on most area cable systems). And eventually the station forwent the use of the over-the-air channel allocation in the station logo.

[edit] From The WB to The CW

It was confirmed on May 2, 2006 that KOCB would affiliate with The CW, probably because it was ranked as one of the highest-rated WB affiliates in the nation at the time. The affiliation switch took place on September 18, 2006.

Since the CW does not air programming on Saturday nights, KOCB usually airs movies between 7pm and 9pm on Saturdays. KOCB also simulcasts KOKH's official drawings for the Oklahoma Lottery nightly during the FOX Primetime News at 9:00.

Of all of the television stations in the Oklahoma City market, KOCB is the only commercial general entertainment station not to feature any local news programming.

[edit] Sports

KOCB broadcasts Dallas Cowboys preseason games airing three preseason games per year. KOCB also airs college basketball games from the Big XII Conference via ESPN Plus, airing up to ten regular season games per year as well as the Big XII Tournament.

[edit] Station Presentation

[edit] Movie Umbrella Titles

• The TV34 Movie (1980s-January 1998)
• The WB Movie (January 1998-September 2006)
• The CW Movie (September 2006-present)

[edit] Logos

KOCB logo used from 1998 to 2002.

KOCB's previous logo used September 2002 until September 2006.

KOCB's CW Oklahoma City ID used since September 11, 2006.

[edit] External links

• Station Website
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KOCB

Broadcast television in the Metropolitan Oklahoma City market  (Nielsen DMA #46)
KFOR 4 (NBC) - KOCO 5 (ABC) - KOHC 7 (AZA) - KWTV 9 (CBS) - KETA 13 / KWET 12 (PBS / OETA) - KTBO 14 (TBN) - KLHO 17 (LFN) - KUOT 19 (Almavision) - 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) - KWDW-LP 48 (UNI) - KSBI 52 (Ind) - KOPX 62 (ION)
Local cable television channels City Channel 20 -  News Now 53