| Oklahoma City, Oklahoma | |
|---|---|
| Branding | OK 52 |
| Slogan | OK 52 and You! |
| Channels | Digital: 51 (UHF) Virtual: 52 (PSIP) |
| Subchannels | (see article) |
| Translators | (see article) |
| Affiliations | Independent Tuff TV (DT2, secondary on DT1) |
| Owner | Family Broadcasting Group, Inc. |
| First air date | September 19, 1988 |
| Former channel number(s) | Analog: 52 (UHF, 1988-2009) |
| Transmitter power | 1000 kW |
| Height | 457.9 m |
| Facility ID | 38214 |
| Website | www.ksbitv.com |
KSBI, virtual channel 52, is an independent television station in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. It is locally owned and operated by Family Broadcasting Group of Oklahoma, an Oklahoma-based company, in a duopoly with Tuff TV affiliate KXOC-LP (channel 41). The station's studios and transmitter are located at 9802 North Morgan Road in Yukon, Oklahoma, making it the only station licensed to Oklahoma City that does not have studios located in the immediate Oklahoma City metropolitan area.
The station broadcasts its digital signal on UHF channel 51, using its former analog channel assignment of 52 as its virtual channel via PSIP. On cable, KSBI-TV can be seen on digital cable channel 7, and cable channel 7 in standard definition and digital channel 707 in high definition on Cox in the Oklahoma City metro area and can be seen on several cable systems across the state; subscribers of Cox's analog basic service may not receive a clear picture of KSBI, due to issues with the channel 7 signal. The station is available to Dish Network customers within the Oklahoma City market and to DirecTV customers in both the Oklahoma City and Tulsa markets. The station operates 2 translators in Stillwater and Enid, respectively, covering northern Oklahoma.
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KSBI broadcasts on digital channel 51.
This station's digital signal is multiplexed:
| Virtual channel |
Physical channel |
Video | Aspect | Name | Programming |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 52.1 | 51.1 | 1080i | 16:9 | KSBI | main KSBI programming |
| 52.2 | 51.2 | 480i | 4:3 | Tuff TV | Sports and entertainment programming aimed at men 18-49 |
On February 28, 2011 It was announced that Tuff TV, a digital multicast network owned by Luken Communications, had signed an affiliation agreement with KSBI for its digital subchannel 52.2. KSBI 52.2 switched its affiliation from America One to Tuff TV on March 7, 2011; in addition, KSBI also cherry-picks select Tuff TV programming for its Saturday afternoon schedule on the primary 52.1 signal.[1]
KSBI made the decision to continue to broadcast both its analog and digital signal past February 17, 2009, enabling viewers who were not prepared for the transition during the 2009 spring severe weather season to continue to receive emergency weather information. KSBI's broadcasts became digital-only effective June 1, 2009[2], with the station's digital signal remaining on its pre-transition digital channel 51, using PSIP to display KSBI's virtual channel as 52.
KSBI-TV began operations on October 3, 1988 under the direction of founder Don J. Locke, owner of Locke Supply Co. For its first 16 years on the air, it was run largely as a ministry, running religious programming and a limited amount of secular sitcoms, westerns and movies. It had cherry-picked programming from INSP (now The Inspiration Network) and FamilyNet from the mid-1990s to early 2000s. Starting in the 1990s, it began building translators around the state, and now claims the largest coverage area of any commercial station in Oklahoma. The station's studios were originally located at 1350 SE 82nd Street in southeast Oklahoma City, before moving to its current studios in 2010.
Locke died in February 2000, and in April 2001 the Board of Directors of Locke Supply Co. was approached by various Oklahoma and other national broadcast entities with the desire to purchase the statewide network. The decision was ultimately made to sell the KSBI Television Network to enable Locke Supply to focus its time and resources solely on the profitable Locke Supply, Co. Locke had founded over three decades ago. With the direction left by Locke, it was the desire of the board that the future owners of KSBI-TV would work with integrity and honor in the community. Locke Supply, Co. chose to sell the KSBI television network to Family Broadcasting Group, Inc.[3][4] The sale of the network was finalized in March 2004.
KSBI-TV reaches nearly the entire state of Oklahoma. In addition to over-the-air digital broadcast, it is carried on cable providers across the state. KSBI also has twelve translator sites across Oklahoma, which enables viewers to tune in all the way from Tulsa to Elk City and from Ponca City to Lake Texoma.
Family Broadcasting Group, Inc. took over operations in March 2004.[5] Since that time, FBG had repositioned KSBI-TV in the marketplace as "Oklahoma’s Family Television Station". With the implementation of new family-friendly syndicated programming, local and national sporting events, local and national news and information programs, 24-hour-a-day weather coverage, and various other locally produced programs, FBG has seen a tremendous response from the viewers and advertisers. Among many firsts, KSBI-TV is the first station in the market to have remote cameras positioned across the state of Oklahoma.
In addition to broadcasting high school sports over the years, utilizing the station’s 40-foot production truck, during the summer of 2008, Family Broadcasting Group, Inc. signed a two-year deal with the Oklahoma City Thunder NBA franchise. KSBI was rebranded as "Thunder TV", with exclusive preseason and regular-season game coverage, special Thunder programming, and an exclusive marketing relationship with the NBA team. On August 3, 2010, the Thunder signed a new exclusive multi-year agreement with Fox Sports Oklahoma beginning with the 2010–11 season, ending the team's broadcasts on KSBI.[6]
The station has also completed a state-of-the-art facility, located in north Oklahoma City. The new facility was occupied by September 2009, with a new state-of-the-art set, a control room, and even a workout room for the staff.
In 2009, during retransmission negotiations, KSBI was added to tens of thousands of additional households in the Tulsa area on DirecTV's channel lineup. Until shortly after Vince Orza was appointed as Family Broadcasting Group president and CEO, KSBI was the only Oklahoma City station reaching five designated market areas (Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Wichita, Wichita Falls and Ada–Sherman), and was the only Oklahoma City station with translators, cable coverage, and satellite carriage in the Tulsa market.
After FBG, Inc. restructured equity to retire all long-term debt and accelerate growth, on September 10, 2009, the FCC approved transferring a portion of FBG's stock to Aubrey McClendon and Tom L. Ward.[7][8]
In November 2010, Vince Orza was named president and CEO of Oklahoma City of Family Broadcasting Group, Inc. Orza stepped down as dean of the Meinders School of Business at Oklahoma City University. The company also named Jerry Hart as vice president and operations manager.[9] A promotional campaign featuring Vince Orza began airing, asking viewers what they would like to see on KSBI-DT. Since November 2010, the station has slowly begun to re-brand itself as "OK52" (MyNetworkTV affiliate KAUT-TV (channel 43) already brands itself as "OK43", and current Telemundo affiliate KTUZ-TV (channel 30) had branded as "OK30" prior to its Telemundo affiliation), however that branding and the "KSBI 52" branding were both used by the station until May 23, 2011, when the station began using the "OK52" branding full-time. As a result of the changes, KSBI also divested itself of all but two of its low-power translators; it retained translators in Enid and Stillwater.
KSBI-TV broadcasts across the north-northwest part of Oklahoma through the following translators:
KSBI's programming philosophy for much of its history has been family-oriented and contains little overt sexual content, overt violence, or very strong language; though the station has slowly gravitated towards a more traditional independent station lineup, with mostly recent off-network and first-run syndicated programming, and some classic off-network shows. Most of KSBI's secular programming consists of series from the 1970s to the 1990s, though this has changed in the last couple of years as the station has begun gravitating toward more first-run syndicated programs. 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.
The 2008-2009 season saw an increase in the amount of first-run syndicated programs with the additions of the reality program NurseTV, in addition to its other first-run offerings. KSBI also obtained local syndication rights to the ABC drama Lost, and the Discovery Channel reality series American Chopper, and for the fall 2009 television season obtained local syndication rights for the Discovery Channel series Deadliest Catch and Cold Case Files, Martha Stewart, Judge Hatchett and the sitcom My Wife and Kids with The King of Queens added to the schedule in March 2010. January 2011 saw an expansion of programming with shows such as the syndicated morning show The Daily Buzz, Judge Karen's Court, and reruns of Emergency! and Cash Cab added to the schedule, as such KSBI has begun to feature far fewer infomercials on its weekday schedule than in years past.
Unlike most independent stations, KSBI-TV does not air movies in weekend timeslots and the station's weekend lineup is fairly limited in programming selections as the only general entertainment programming on weekends are Saturday morning children's programs and reality series and scripted programs on weekend evenings and select programming from Tuff TV on Saturday afternoons; infomercials and religious programming make up the rest of the weekend schedule. KSBI-TV airs 5½ hours of E/I programming on the main channel with a half-hour of children's programs on weekday afternoons at 3 p.m. KSBI-TV airs Saved By The Bell for childrens programming during the week. After Saved by the bell the Cosby show comes on for one full hour during the week.(the only remaining general entertainment station in the Oklahoma City market to do so) and a two-hour block on Saturday mornings, in addition to an extra 2½ hours on digital subchannel 52.2.
KSBI-TV produces and broadcasts local non-professional sports including high school basketball and football games. KSBI-TV held the contractual exclusive rights to air post-season high school sports in Oklahoma, through a contract deal with the Oklahoma Secondary Schools Activity Association, first signed in October 2005.[10]
In April 2008, KSBI televised select games from Oklahoma City Yard Dawgz arena football team during the team's Spring 2008 season.[11]
On October 2, 2008, it was announced that KSBI would become the official over-the-air broadcaster of Oklahoma City Thunder NBA basketball team (which relocated from Seattle that year). As a part of the long term relationship, KSBI also rebranded as Thunder TV for its Thunder broadcasts in late October 2008.[12][13] On August 3, 2010, The Thunder signed a new exclusive multi-year agreement with Fox Sports Oklahoma beginning with the 2010-11 Season, ending the team's broadcasts on KSBI. [14]
Immediately following the sale, KSBI began airing occasional local breaking news stories. In 2004, KSBI launched a morning news show called Hello Oklahoma. After KSBI chose to cease production of Hello Oklahoma a couple of years later, KSBI announced plans for a new early evening newscast (later named Oklahoma News Tonight, and now known as KSBI-TV News since 2009). The hour-long newscast is anchored by Kealey McIntire and Jake Charles. In addition to carrying local news, KSBI also airs primetime Presidential press conferences, State of the Union addresses, and local and national breaking news. KSBI receives national and international news video from CNN NewsSource.
In late September 2009, KSBI temporarily suspended its regular evening newscast while the station moves to its new studios in North Oklahoma City, broadcasting only five-minute news, weather and sports updates at 5, 5:30 and 6 p.m. until the move is completed. As of October 2010, all of the station's operations have moved to the Yukon studios, though the station continues to run five-minute long updates during the late afternoon time slots; it is unclear when the station will resume a regular newscast, though KSBI did plan to begin carrying a late evening newscast at some point in the near future.[15]
On November 12th, the decision was made to no longer produce news and weather and the entire news staff (with the exception of Brian Birchell and Kealey McIntire) were laid off, as well as some employees of production and sales. News programming returned to KSBI in January 2011 in the form of the syndicated morning news and entertainment show The Daily Buzz (which previously aired on KAUT-TV from 2004 to 2010).
The Daily Buzz
(weekday mornings 5:30-6:30 and 9-12 p.m.)
All About You
(weekday nights 10 p.m.)
Oklahoma Live!
(weekdays afternoons 1-2 p.m.)
Hollywood Spotlight
(Saturdays 6-6:30 p.m.)
OK Sports Wrap
(Mondays & Fridays 6:30-7:00 p.m.)
Dog Talk
(Saturdays 10:00-10:30 a.m.)
Mind Games
(Wednesdays 8:00-8:30 p.m.)
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