Tyler Media Group, also known as Tyler Broadcasting Corporation or simply Tyler Media, headquartered in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, is a media company which owns six television stations (including five Univision network affiliates and one Telemundo affiliate) and five radio stations (four English-language and one Spanish-language). The company also operates an outdoor advertising company, Tyler Outdoor Advertising and a sign business, the Tyler Outdoor Sign Co. Ty Tyler is the president of the company and his brother Tony Tyler acts as vice president. The company is headquartered at 5101 S. Shields Blvd in Oklahoma City.
The company was founded in 1972 by Ralph Tyler, when it purchased KEBC radio in Oklahoma City; Tyler owned the station for 14 years until 1986. Tyler re-entered the radio business in 1994 with the purchase of a station in Ada. Tyler Media entered the television industry in 2004 after it purchased Oklahoma City television station KQOK (channel 30). After the sale, Tyler Media converted the station into a Telemundo affiliate and recalled the station to KTUZ-TV after its new radio sister.
On April 16, 2009 Tyler purchased five affiliates of the Spanish-language network Univisión at an auction held by Equity Media Holdings, which was liquidating its assets that year due to bankruptcy.[1] After the sale was approved by the FCC, this created a duopoly with KTUZ-TV.[2] Equity had owned both stations at some point, KTUZ-TV was owned by Equity from sign-on until 2004 when Equity traded channel 30 to Tyler Media in exchange for KUOK.
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| City of license/Market | Station | Channel TV (RF) |
Owned since | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shawnee, Oklahoma/Oklahoma City, Oklahoma | KTUZ-TV | 30 (29) | 2004 | Telemundo |
| Woodward, Oklahoma | KUOK | 35 (35) | 2009 | Univision |
| Oklahoma City, Oklahoma | KCHM-LP (repeater of KUOK) |
36 (--) | 2009 | Univision |
| KWDW-LP (repeater of KUOK) |
48 (--) | 2009 | Univision | |
| Sulphur, Oklahoma | KOKT-LP (repeater of KUOK) |
20 (--) | 2009 | Univision |
| Tulsa, Oklahoma | KUTU-CA | 25 (--) | 2009 | Univision |
| Station | City of license | Current format |
|---|---|---|
| KEBC (1560 kHz.) | Del City, Oklahoma | Radio Disney/Children's Radio |
| KTLR (890 kHz.) | Oklahoma City, Oklahoma | News/Talk |
| Station | City of License | Current Format |
|---|---|---|
| KJKE (93.3 MHz.) | Newcastle, Oklahoma | Country music |
| KTLR (94.1 MHz.) | Oklahoma City, Oklahoma | News/Talk |
| KKNG (97.3 MHz.) | Blanchard, Oklahoma | Country music |
| KTUZ-FM (106.7 MHz.) | Okarche, Oklahoma | Regional Mexican |
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