KTEN

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KTEN
Ada, Oklahoma / Ardmore, Oklahoma / Sherman, Texas / Denison, Texas
Branding	K-TEN / KTEN News
Channels	10 (VHF) analog, 26 (UHF) digital
Affiliations	NBC (secondary 1954-1990, primary 1990-1998, exclusive since 1998) The CW on DT2
Owner	Lockwood Broadcasting
Founded	June 1, 1954
Call letters meaning	Channel TEN
Former callsigns	none
Former affiliations	ABC (1954-1998), FOX (1994-1998)
Website	kten.com

KTEN (also referred to as K-TEN or KTEN News) is the NBC affiliate located in Ada, Oklahoma. The station also carries the CW on its digital subchannel DT2. The station also serves Ardmore, Oklahoma, Sherman, Texas and Denison, Texas.

KTEN's main studio is in Denison, Texas. The station also has a bureau in Ardmore, Oklahoma. The station's television tower is located near the town of Bromide in Johnston County, Oklahoma.

Contents 1 History 2 Personalities 2.1 Current On-Air Talent 3 Former personalities 4 Newscast titles 5 Logos 6 External links

[edit] History

KTEN signed on the air in 1954 as the first local television station to serve Texomaland. Channel 10, which in recent years has been the area's exclusive NBC affiliate, served as the area's ABC affiliate and also carried secondary affiliations with NBC and FOX through much of its 50-year-plus history.

During the 1950s and 1960s, Channel 10 was a primary ABC affiliate and had a secondary affiliation with NBC. By the mid-1970s as arch-rival KXII Channel 12 from Ardmore, OK & Sherman-Denison, TX was switching its primary network affiliation from NBC to CBS, KTEN began adding a larger proportion of NBC programming to its schedule, even to the point of broadcasting both network's evening newscasts (ABC's at 5 p.m. and NBC's at 5:30 p.m.) in the hour preceeding the local newscast at 6 p.m. for a time during the mid to late 1970s. KTEN even got national attention in 1983 when on NBC's Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, Doc Severinsen (sitting in for Carson's sidekick Ed McMahon) welcomed KTEN in Ada, Oklahoma as the newest station to broadcast the Tonight Show. This move was made after KXII Channel 12, 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 in 1985.

By that time, KTEN was on its way to becoming a primary NBC affiliate but still carried a large proportion of ABC's schedule. 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 the Fox network as another secondary affiliation just after that network had won the rights to broadcast NFL football previously seen on CBS 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. The downside was that KTEN was becoming even more of a hybrid station 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 Channel 10 Texomaland's exclusive NBC affiliate.

KTEN was originally based in Ada Oklahoma, and is still licenced to that city though the main studio has been located in Denison, Texas since 1986. Although KTEN and arch-rival KXII had theoretically been direct competitors for many years, the 75-mile difference in location between the two stations' transmitters (KTEN's at Ada and KXII's at Madill) created unequal over-the-air reception conditions with Channel 10's picture fair to poor in locations close to Channel 12's transmitter such as Ardmore, Madill and Durant and non-existent in adjoining areas of Texas, while KXII-TV's over-the-air reception in Ada and surrounding areas was poor due to the northern fringe location of KXII's coverage. To become more equally competitive receptionwise, KTEN moved its transmitter from Ada to Bromide, Oklahoma 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 Gainesvile, Bonham and Paris.

At some point in the mid-80s, KTEN took advantage of new FCC rules about translators providing localized content. KTEN 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 10pm news. This was discontinued after a few years due to a lack of advertiser support.

In 1985, KTEN added a second studio facility 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 Highway 75 in Denison. The station's operations also include the secondary studio in Ardmore and a sales office in the station's former home city of Ada.

In the Fall of 2006, its DT2 subcarrier began airing programming from the CW. The subchannel is known as Texoma CW. KTEN began producing a half-hour 9pm newscast for its CW channel on October 25, 2006.

Although KTEN broadcasts The CW on its digital subchannel and KXII broadcasts FOX and MyNetworkTV on both of its digital subchannels, the Ada-Sherman television market is the only market in the country with affiliates of NBC, CBS, FOX, The CW and MyNetworkTV, with the setback of not having a local ABC affiliate. ABC programming for various locations within the Sherman-Ada market depending on city and cable or satellite operator is sourced from stations in surrounding markets such as KOCO-TV, Oklahoma City; KTUL-TV, Tulsa; or WFAA-TV, Dallas-Fort Worth.

[edit] Personalities

[edit] Current On-Air Talent

KTEN NEWS ANCHORS

• Jocelyn Lockwood, Evening Anchor/Reporter
• Alyssa Moreno, Weekday Morning, Midday Anchor/Reporter
• Margaret Stokes, Weekday Morning, Midday Anchor/Health Reporter
• Scott Sams, Weekday Evening Anchor/Reporter

KTEN NEWS REPORTERS

• Katy Blakey, General Assignment Reporter/News Producer
• Kristi Branam, General Assignment Reporter/News Producer
• Hailee Holliday, General Assignment Reporter
• Andrea Kurys, General Assignment Reporter
• Jhen Kordela, General Assignment Reporter/News Producer
• Shannon Murphy, General Assignment Reporter/News Producer
• Scott Sager, General Assignment Reporter/News Producer

SKYALERT 10 WEATHER TEAM

• Alan Mitchell (AMS Certified), Weekday Evening Anchor/Reporter
• Tera Blake, Midday Meteorologist (KTEN)/9PM Meteorologist (Texoma CW)
• Collin Daly, Weekend Meteorologist
• Michael Seger, Morning Meteorologist

SPORTS ANCHORS/REPORTERS

• Brandon Dunn, Sports Director/Weekday Sports Anchor
• Jamie Baldwin, Weekend Sports Anchor/Reporter

[edit] Former personalities

• George Miller, news director/anchor (also Oklahoma state senator)
• Ray Vaughn, news reporter
• Curt Autry, news anchor
• Andy Austin, news anchor
• Darrell Reed, meteorologist
• Mike Dudich, weathercaster
• Meri Beth Moore, news anchor/reporter
• Rudy Dockray, farm reporter
• Steve Myers, news anchor
• Rich Segal, meteorologist/news anchor/news director
• John Basham, meteorologist
• Stacy Landers, sports director

[edit] Newscast titles

• The News on 10 (1979-84)
• News 10 (1984-85)
• Newscenter 10 (1985-1990)
• KTEN News (1990-present)

[edit] Logos

KTEN's old studios in Ada, Oklahoma, as it appered in the 1970s when the station was a primary ABC and secondary NBC affiliate.	KTEN logo used from 1972 until 1979.	KTEN logo used from 1979 until 1985.	KTEN's logo from 1985 into the 1990s. Note the "0" filled by the image of the two-state area the station now served and the large number of cities the station now served through three studio facilities - Ada, Denison and Ardmore.
KTEN test pattern from its ABC-NBC era.	KTEN ad of news from 1986. At that time, news on KTEN would start with ABC World News Tonight at 5:30 p.m., followed at 6 p.m. by KTEN's local newscast, then known as NEWSCENTER 10. At that time, NEWSCENTER 10 was broadcast from both the Ada and Denison studios.	The current KTEN set, launched in 2002, following the move of its Denison studio to a new location on Highway 75.	KTEN's current logo including the NBC Peacock, representing its exclusive network affiliation since 1998.
KTEN 50 years 1954-2004	Texoma CW logo.

[edit] External links

• KTEN Homepage
• Texoma CW Website
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KTEN