KSBI

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KSBI
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Branding	KSBI 52, Family Television
Slogan	Family Television for Oklahoma
Channels	52 (UHF) analog, 51 (UHF) digital
Affiliations	Independent
Owner	Family Broadcast Group of Oklahoma
Founded	1989
Call letters meaning	Unknown
Website	www.ksbitv.com

KSBI, referred to as "KSBI: Family Television for Oklahoma", is an independent television station in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. It is locally owned and operated by Family Broadcasting Group of Oklahoma in a duopoly with America One affiliate KXOC-LP 41.

The station broadcasts its analog signal on UHF channel 52, and its digital signal on UHF channel 51. On cable, KSBI-TV can be seen on cable channel 9 on Cox Oklahoma City and can be seen on several cable systems across the state. The station is also available to DirecTV and Dish Network customers within the Oklahoma City market.

Contents 1 Translators 2 History 3 KSBI across Oklahoma 4 Programming 5 News and Weather Operations 6 KSBI StateCam Network 7 Sports 8 Newscasts 8.1 Weekdays 9 Personalities 9.1 Current On-Air Talent 10 Office location 11 See also 12 External links

[edit] Translators

KSBI-TV broadcasts across the state of Oklahoma through the following translators:

• K13XU in Tulsa, Oklahoma
• K15DA in Tulsa, Oklahoma
• K35CU in Ada, Oklahoma
• K17FB in Ardmore, Oklahoma
• K45EJ in Enid, Oklahoma
• K20HO in Lawton, Oklahoma
• K14LD in Muskogee, Oklahoma
• K54FZ in Ponca City, Oklahoma
• K21DF in Stillwater, Oklahoma
• KFVT-LP 40 in Wichita, Kansas
• K48HU in Wichita Falls, Texas
• K51EK in McAlester, Oklahoma

KSBI is Oklahoma's only commercial, locally-owned statewide television network.

[edit] History

KSBI signed on the air in 1989 and was originally a religious/independent station owned by Locke Supply Corporation. KSBI-TV is the seventh television station in Oklahoma City after WKY-TV (then KTVY, now KFOR), short-lived KTVQ, KWTV, KETA, KOCO (Enid's KGEO moved to Oklahoma City to become KOCO), KOKH, KGMC (now KOCB) and KAUT. Due to its ownership with the company, Locke Supply continually showed commercials for its business on the station. The station aired mostly religious shows with some classic sitcoms and dramas.

For much of KSBI's existence, even though it was technically an independent, KSBI had secondary affiliations with FamilyNet (which now can only be seen on Cox Communications digital cable package), INSP: The Inspirational Network, LeSea Broadcasting (which once aired on now Univision affiliated KWDW-LP) and Gospel Music Television. The station also broadcast public-domain movies late at night. To this day, the station continues ties with FamilyNet airing only two self-help/health programs.

In 2003, Locke Supply put KSBI up for sale and it was sold to the newly-formed Family Broadcasting Group, a Oklahoma City-based company headed by former KWTV meteorologist Brady Brus. At this point, KSBI became a family-friendly general entertainment station for most of the broadcast day. With the station's new ownership, the station had a makeover of its programming lineup adding running low-budget off-network sitcoms, mostly those that existed prior to 1995, such as Saved by the Bell and Happy Days; cartoons and other children's programming; and drama series such as In the Heat of the Night, Matlock and The Rockford Files).

Following the sale, the religious programming was cut back on Sundays to 6-11am and off-and-on from 3:30-7pm, and about two and a half hours a day during the week. In a sense, since KSBI no longer airs movies, it is considered an atypical independent station (in markets where there are over-the-air stations affiliated with Fox, The CW and/or MyNetworkTV as well as at least two independent stations, movie packages are spread among stations with at least one independent airing fewer movies than their competitors). Instead, KSBI airs various special interest programs, religious shows and infomercials weekend afternoons.

In recent years, the station places great emphasis on weather. As part of the sale, KSBI began airing weather updates similar in format to The Weather Channel's Local on the 8s, but only airing once an hour (except during severe weather). Having previously been a weekend meteorologist at CBS affiliate KWTV, Brady Brus took on two roles at the station: the president of the station's ownership company and it's chief meteorologist. While the hourly weather updates were an unconventional, but convienent format for a station which at the time didn't have a real news operation, due to the fact the station's on-staff meteorologists rarely work weekends (except during severe weather), some of its forecast graphics become outdated by 48 hours.

The station began a news presence in 2004 airing various local breaking news stories as well as broadcasting select Presidential press conferences and adresses. This culminated with the premiere of a morning news show called Hello Oklahoma, hosted by Brenda Bennett (sister of Brady Brus) and initially Scott Coppenbarger (now weekend anchor at KWTV). It was cancelled in late 2005, and was supposed to be replaced with a evening newscast in January 2006. However, the newscast (later named Oklahoma News Tonight) didn't premiere until eight months past its initially slated premiere date. Around the time, Hello Oklahoma launched, KSBI aired weeknightly broadcasts from CNN Headline News, which were pulled after a few months (KSBI still uses Headline News' parent network CNN as a national news source for its newscasts, as do rivals KOCO and KOKH).

During 2006 and 2007, KSBI began a slight trend toward airing more contemporary programming gaining rights to shows like Mad About You, The Nanny and The Tyra Banks Show, an unusual move for television station that airs family-friendly programming.

The station's on-air staff is small compared to other television news operations with currently only six on-air personalities (two anchors, two reporters and two meteorologists).

[edit] KSBI across Oklahoma

KSBI, unlike most other television stations in the Oklahoma City area, airs its programming statewide. KSBI has transmitters across Oklahoma including two in the Tulsa area. KSBI can be seen as far south as Wichita Falls, Texas, and as far north as Wichita, Kansas.

[edit] Programming

KSBI's programming philosiphy is family-oriented and contains little or no overt sexual content, overt violence, or strong language. Programming also excluded mild language, however, the station has deviated from that somewhat. KSBI's programming consists of both secular and religious programming. Most of KSBI's secular programming consists of series from the 1970s to the 1990s. 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.

[edit] News and Weather Operations

KSBI-TV began live weather updates at the end of each hour in December of 2003 with station president Brady Brus as the chief meteorologist. KSBI has a "StateCam Network" which is a series of cameras across the state showing weather conditions which has proven to be very useful during severe weather. The KSBI storm team was covering severe weather and caught a tornado in the El Reno area in April 2006. KSBI's Genesis Live weather system allows the station's meteorologists to telestrate weather info so viewers can understand weather information better and also allows weather information such as temperatures to update automatically when new information is available. KSBI uses its First Warning system to broadcast severe weather watches and warnings in both English and Spanish.

While KSBI has aired some local breaking news stories and aired a local morning program Hello Oklahoma which ran from May 2004 to December 2005. In 2006, KSBI launched a local newscast called Oklahoma News Tonight anchored by Kealey McIntire and Monica Price, making it the only newscast in Oklahoma to feature an all-female anchor and reporting teams. The newscast airs for an hour starting at 5:30pm weeknights.

[edit] KSBI StateCam Network

Since the early 1990s, television stations that emphasize on news and weather have used stationary cameras located primarily on outdoor antenna towers to show the current weather, monitor traffic flow or sometimes for use in breaking news. However, since the coverage areas of most television stations reach only as much as 70 miles and the fact these stations focus primarily focuses on the market it serves and its/their surrounding areas, these cameras are usually placed inside the metropolitan statistical area. KSBI's StateCam Network is a camera network placed across the state of Oklahoma showing weather conditions. Since its inception in December 2003, there are now 16 StateCams in Oklahoma including three in Oklahoma City (including the camera at the station's studios) and two in both Moore and Tulsa. The camera network reaches as far west as Sayre and as far south as Ardmore. The camera network has proven to be very useful during severe weather and breaking news situations. The KSBI storm team was covering severe weather and caught a tornado in the El Reno area in April 2006, which damaged the city's municipal airport.

There are some setbacks to the system, however. Due to its hookup, most of the cameras (except the camera at the KSBI studios, although this was the case initially) provide an internet quality video stream, instead of a real-time video stream. This causes a bit of a problem during thunderstorms as lighting strikes, when they do occur, may not be caught by the camera in enough time. Steps have been taken though to increase the frames per second speed of some cameras in the network.

[edit] Sports

KSBI-TV broadcasts local non-professional sports including high school basketball and football games. KSBI replays high school sports games that air on the station on weekends and since 2006, also brands the word "LIVE" during their games, which is highly unorthodox for a terrestrial broadcast television station.

KSBI also airs football and basketball games from the Southeastern Conference (SEC) via Lincoln Financial Sports (known as Jefferson Pilot Sports until 2006). KSBI has also aired games from the Kansas City Royals via RSTN, the Royals Sports Television Network during the 2004 season. All Royals games broadcast by RSTN since the 2005 season have aired on sister station KXOC 41.

[edit] Newscasts

[edit] Weekdays

• Oklahoma News Tonight 5:30 - 6:30 PM
  • anchored by Kealey McIntire and Monica Price with Brady Brus on weather

[edit] Personalities

[edit] Current On-Air Talent

NEWS ANCHORS

• Kealey McIntire, Co-Anchor of Oklahoma News Tonight
• Monica Price, Co-Anchor of Oklahoma News Tonight

NEWS REPORTERS

• Chellie Mills, General Assignment Reporter
• Melissa Richey, Executive News Producer/Reporter

KSBI METEOROLOGISTS

• Brady Brus, Chief Meteorologist
• Brandon Chambers, Morning, Midday Meteorologist/Fill-in Evening Meteorologist

[edit] Office location

KSBI-TV's studios and transmitter are located at 1350 SE 82nd Street.

[edit] See also

• KXOC-LP
• Oklahoma Educational Television Authority

[edit] External links

• Query the FCC's TV station database for KSBI
• Query the FCC's TV station database for K13XU
• Query the FCC's TV station database for K15DA
• Query the FCC's TV station database for K35CU
• Query the FCC's TV station database for K17FB
• Query the FCC's TV station database for K45EJ
• Query the FCC's TV station database for K20HO
• Query the FCC's TV station database for K14LD
• Query the FCC's TV station database for K54FZ
• Query the FCC's TV station database for K21DF
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KFVT-LP

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