KUOK

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KUOK
Woodward / Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Branding	Univisión Oklahoma Univisión 36
Channels	35 (UHF) analog
Affiliations	Univisión
Owner	Equity Broadcasting
Founded	2004
Call letters meaning	Univision OKlahoma
Former affiliations	MTV2/LeSEA/Daystar/Shepherd's Chapel
Transmitter Power	320 kW
Website	www.univision.com

KUOK also known as Univisión 36 (after the Oklahoma City repeater) or Univisión Oklahoma is a series of television stations airing programming from Spanish-language television network Univisión based in Oklahoma City. All of Univisión Oklahoma's stations are owned by Equity Broadcasting Corporation, and is programmed via satellite from Equity's home office in Little Rock, Arkansas. Because of this satelllite connection, KUOK and its translators occasionally lose their programming signal.

KUOK (channel 35), covering the city of Woodward and northwest and central Oklahoma, is the flagship of the Univisión Oklahoma stations.

• KCHM-LP 36 and KWDW-LP 48, cover the city of Oklahoma City.
• KOKT-LP 20, covers the city of Sulphur and nearby Ardmore.
• KUTU-LP (K Univisión TUlsa) 25, covers the Tulsa metro area.
• KUOK-CA 11, covers the city of Norman.

Contents 1 History of Univisión Oklahoma 1.1 KUOK 35 1.2 KCHM-LP 36 1.3 KOKT-LP 20 1.4 KUTU-LP 25 1.5 KUOK-CA 11 1.6 KWDW-LP 48 2 News 3 Newscasts 3.1 Weeknights 4 See also 5 External links

[edit] History of Univisión Oklahoma

Univisión Oklahoma launched on May 8, 2004 as a six station statewide network of channels relaying Univisión programming across Oklahoma via a simulcast from KLRA-LP 58, the Univisión affiliate out of Little Rock, Arkansas, also owned by Equity, and became Univisión Arkansas-Oklahoma. In the first months of operation, Univisión Oklahoma's stations featured a complete and direct simulcast from KLRA including the broadcast of commercials of Little Rock area businesses and station IDs with the only reference to being an Oklahoma City station was a fine print-style ID at the bottom of the screen during the top and bottom of each hour.

In March 2005, Univisión Oklahoma separated from Univisión Arkansas. Originally in these areas, Univisión would only be received via cable television. Cable systems which carried the national feed of Univisión now carry the local affiliates on a much clearer signal that of what would be seen over-the-air in most areas.

The following are histories of each Univisión Oklahoma station:

[edit] KUOK 35

KUOK 35 is the only full-power station in the network. The station originally started in 1998 as an affiliate of i: Independent Television (then known as PAX) before switching affiliations.

[edit] KCHM-LP 36

KCHM-LP signed on as part of Univisión Oklahoma on May 8, 2004. In January 2007, in order to make up for the loss of KUOK-CA and K69EK, KCHM-LP boosted its transmitter signal slightly resulting in fair reception to areas of northern Oklahoma City that could barely receive or not receive at all KCHM-LP. This was somewhat of a measure to better compete with Telemundo affiliate KTUZ-TV.

[edit] KOKT-LP 20

KOKT-LP signed on in 1994 as an independent station. It is the only Univisión Oklahoma station to retain its call letters despite the affiliation switch. Soon after in 1995, KOKT affiliated with the United Paramount Network (UPN) and served as south-central Oklahoma's affiliate of the network, although many TV Guides from 1995 to 2002 state that some UPN programming also aired on NBC affiliate KTEN.

[edit] KUTU-LP 25

KUTU-LP signed on as part of Univisión Oklahoma on May 8, 2004.

[edit] KUOK-CA 11

KUOK-CA signed on in 1997 as KDSA-LP, carrying programming from Worship Network, which had already broadcast on KMNZ (now KOPX) before and after that station affiliated with PAX (now i: Independent Television). In 2000, KDSA affiliated with religious broadcaster Daystar. After the affiliation switch to Univisión was announced, the Daystar affiliation was passed on to newly signed on KOCM-TV 46 in December 2003. In the summer of 2004, the station requested to the FCC to have its call letters changed from KDSA-LP to KUOK-CA officially changing the calls to KUOK-CA that fall. As of December 2006, it can no longer be seen in the Oklahoma City area itself.

[edit] KWDW-LP 48

KWDW-LP, which covered the city of Oklahoma City and central Oklahoma signed on in 1989 as K69EK. The station had been affiliate of LeSea-owned World Harvest Television for much of KWDW's existence. In 2000, K69EK signed off the air briefly while it switch its affiliation to The Shepherd's Chapel, a 24-hour religious network spawned from the weekdaily religious show of the same name. In 2002, K69EK became the Oklahoma City affiliate of MTV2. In 2004, K69EK affiliated with Univisión as a semi-satellite of KCHM-LP and translator of KUOK. In the summer of 2004, the station requested to the FCC to have its call letters changed from K69EK to KCHM-LP officially changing the calls to KWDW-LP that fall. It abruptly signed off the air on January 28, 2006. It signed back on the air on channel 48 in March 2007.

[edit] News

Univisión Oklahoma airs a daily half-hour newscast "Noticias Univisión Oklahoma" (Univisión Oklahoma News) airing Monday through Fridays at 5:00pm and 10:00pm. Previously, Univisión Oklahoma aired newscasts of "Noticias Univisión Arkansas" (Univisión Arkansas News) later "Noticias Univisión Arkansas-Oklahoma" (Univisión Arkansas-Oklahoma News) before Univisión Oklahoma and Univisión Arkansas separated.

Noticias Univisión Oklahoma is produced and broadcast out of Equity Broadcasting's headquarters in Little Rock.

[edit] Newscasts

[edit] Weeknights

• Noticias Univisión Oklahoma @ 5:00 - 5-5:30PM
• Noticias Univisión Oklahoma @ 10:00 - 10-10:30PM

[edit] See also

• WJMF-LP (Univisión Oklahoma station in Jackson, Mississippi)

[edit] External links

• Query the FCC's TV station database for KUOK
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KUOK-CA
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KOKT-LP
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KUTU-LP
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KCHM-LP

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)
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