KJRH-TV
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Tulsa, Oklahoma United States |
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| Branding | 2 Works For You (general) 2 News HD (newscasts) |
| Slogan | 2NEWS Works for You |
| Channels |
Digital: 8 (VHF) Virtual: 2 () |
| Affiliations |
.1: NBC .2: Bounce TV .3: Laff |
| Owner |
E. W. Scripps Company (Scripps Broadcasting Holdings, LLC) |
| First air date | December 5, 1954 |
| Call letters' meaning |
Jack R. Howard (longtime chairman of Scripps Broadcasting) |
| Sister station(s) | KFAQ, KHTT, KVOO-FM, KXBL-FM, KBEZ |
| Former callsigns | KVOO-TV (1954–1971) KTEW (1971–1980) KJRH (1980–2010) |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 2 (VHF, 1954–2009) Digital: 56 (UHF, 2000–2009) |
| Former affiliations | Live Well Network |
| Transmitter power | 15.9 kW |
| Height | 572.3 m |
| Facility ID | 59439 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 36°1′15″N 95°40′32″W / 36.02083°N 95.67556°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www.kjrh.com |
KJRH-TV, virtual channel 2 (VHF digital channel 8), is an NBC-affiliated television station located in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The station is owned by the E. W. Scripps Company. KJRH maintains studio facilities located on South Peoria Avenue in the Brookside district of midtown Tulsa, and its transmitter is located near South 273rd Avenue East and the Muskogee Turnpike (near Broken Arrow) in southeastern Tulsa County.
On cable, the station is available on Cox Communications channel 2 and AT&T U-verse channel 2.
Several prospective applicants vied for the VHF channel 2 allocation in Tulsa in May 1954 – among them were Central Plains Enterprises (whose majority interest was held by Southwestern Sales, Inc., owned by oilman William G. Skelly, owner of local radio station KVOO (1170 AM, now KFAQ), with partners including Robert S. Kerr and Dean A. McGee), a group led by oilman John Mabee and a group led by several Tulsa businessmen including Fred Jones, Tom P. McDermott, oilman Charles McMahon, insurance executive Dan P. Holmes and Manhattan Construction Company president L. Francis Rooney. The Mabee group later relinquished its bid, which was followed by the McDermott-Jones group through an agreement between them and Central Plains, in which that company would provide shares to McDermott, Jones and the others (which were sold back to Central Plains Enterprises in 1963) in return for the retraction.
The station signed on the air on December 5, 1954 as KVOO-TV. Channel 2 has been an NBC affiliate since its debut, owing to KVOO radio's longtime affiliation with the NBC Red Network. The first program broadcast on the station was a 39-minute station dedication program from its original studio facilities in the Akdar Building at Fourth Street and Denver Avenue in downtown Tulsa; this was followed by the first NBC network program aired by the station, Meet the Press. KVOO-TV was the second VHF television station to sign on in the Tulsa market, behind KOTV (channel 6), which debuted in October 1949; KTVX (channel 8, now KTUL) did not change its city of license to Tulsa from Muskogee until the following year, although that station operated from studio facilities located in west Tulsa.
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