Oklahoma Educational Television Authority

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Oklahoma Educational Television Authority
Statewide Oklahoma
Branding	OETA
Slogan	The Oklahoma Network
Channels	(see main article) analog, (see main article) digital
Affiliations	PBS
Owner	Oklahoma Educational Television Authority
Founded	1956
Former affiliations	NET (1956-1970)
Website	www.oeta.onenet.net

OETA (Oklahoma Educational Television Authority), is a statewide network of PBS stations covering the entire state of Oklahoma.

KETA (channel 13, digital 32) in Oklahoma City is the flagship station of OETA (Oklahoma Educational Television Authority). KETA launched in 1956.

In addition to KETA, OETA has three other main stations serving the state:

((xx/yy): xx=analog yy=digital)

• KOET (K Oklahoma Educational Television) (3/38) covers the city of Eufaula and east-central Oklahoma, plus nearby Fort Smith, Arkansas.
• KOED (K Oklahoma EDucational) (11/31) covers the Tulsa metro area and northeastern Oklahoma.
• KWET (K Western Oklahoma Educational Television) (12/8) covers the city of Cheyenne and southwestern Oklahoma.

OETA broadcasts across the state of Oklahoma through the following translators:

• K15AA in Hugo
• K16AB in Guymon
• K19AA in Altus
• K28AC in Ardmore
• K30AE in Alva
• K36AB in Lawton
• K38AK in Ponca City
• K46AH in Medford
• K46AI in Durant
• K54BB in Duncan
• K55AY in Boise City
• K56AY in Beaver
• K56BQ in Frederick
• K58AX in Buffalo
• K63BA in Idabel

Because of OETA's reach through its statewide network of translators, OETA can be seen in portions of Kansas, Texas, Missouri and Arkansas and some of the people who contribute donations for OETA's Festival and AugustFest pledge drives come from those states.

OETA airs 17½ hours of instructional programming a week. Insructional programming airs weekdays from 5:00 (or 6:00am) to 7:00am and 10:00am to 12 (or 12:30pm) and weekends from 6:00 to 8:00am.

OETA is one of several PBS member stations to produce programming for syndication to other PBS stations around the country as well as to the OETA network itself. OETA produces series under the banner, OETA: The Oklahoma Network. In September 1986, OETA began syndication of episodes of The Lawrence Welk Show, after that series left commercial syndication. The Lawrence Welk Show is OETA's most-watched series and currently airs on Saturday evenings at 7:00pm and Sunday evenings at 5:00pm. OETA has also produced Lawrence Welk specials.

OETA also is known for the OETA Movie Club hosted by B.J. Wexler, for more than 20 years. OETA Movie Club features classic movies from the 1930s to the 1980s. It airs Friday nights at 10:30pm with a double feature on Saturday nights at 9:00pm.

OETA also produces Stateline which deals with issues important to Oklahoma and also the United States and Gallery, focusing on Oklahoma's art community.

OETA is one of only a handful of PBS stations to produce a local newscast. The Oklahoma News Report is anchored by Gerry Bonds, Dick Pryor and meteorologist Ross Dixon and originally featured clips of special reports from newscasts in the Oklahoma City and Tulsa area. The newscast airs Monday through Friday evenings at 6:30pm (except on Thanksgiving Eve and Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, and New Year's Eve and New Year's Day).

The newscast features the traditional news and weather format but also the following:

• The newscast has no sports coverage.
• The newscast airs a stock market segment featuring the day's closing numbers of the Dow Jones and NASDAQ markets and stocks on businesses that do business in Oklahoma (Kerr-McGee, ConocoPhillips, etc.)

During the early 2000s, on cable outlets around the state, OETA aired programming from PBS' national feed to fill the time from sign-off at night to sign-on in the morning. The national feed is began broadcasting over the air in April 2006 making OETA one of the few broadcast stations in the last decade to switch to a 24-hour format.

[edit] Digital TV

The digital channels of OETA's main stations are multiplexed:

Digital channels

Channel	Programming
.1	Main OETA programming
.2	OETA OKLA (programming and information about Oklahoma)
.3	OETA YOU (college and how-to programs)
.4	OETA KIDS (children's programming (4AM to 10PM); talk (10PM to 4AM))

OETA also operates OETA HD, a 24-hour, High-Definition service available only to Cox Digital Cable subscribers.

OETA You

OETA Kids

OETA HD logo

[edit] See also

• KSBI

[edit] External links

• Query the FCC's TV station database for KETA
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KOED
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KOET
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KWET
• Query the FCC's TV station database for K15AA
• Query the FCC's TV station database for K16AB
• Query the FCC's TV station database for K19AA
• Query the FCC's TV station database for K28AC
• Query the FCC's TV station database for K30AE
• Query the FCC's TV station database for K36AB
• Query the FCC's TV station database for K38AK
• Query the FCC's TV station database for K46AH
• Query the FCC's TV station database for K46AI
• Query the FCC's TV station database for K54BB
• Query the FCC's TV station database for K55AY
• Query the FCC's TV station database for K56AY
• Query the FCC's TV station database for K56BQ
• Query the FCC's TV station database for K58AX
• Query the FCC's TV station database for K63BA

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