KOCO-TV
 
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Oklahoma City, Oklahoma United States |
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| Branding | KOCO 5 (general) KOCO 5 News (newscasts) MeTV Oklahoma City (KOCO-DT2 subchannel) |
| Slogan |
Live. Local. Latebreaking. (primary) We'll Give You the First Alert (weather) |
| Channels |
Digital: 7 (VHF) Virtual: 5 () |
| Translators | K18HX-D Hollis K21IT-D Weatherford K26IR-D Strong City K42IB-D Sayre K43KT-D Elk City |
| Affiliations |
.1: ABC .2: MeTV |
| Owner |
Hearst Television (Ohio/Oklahoma Hearst Television Inc.) |
| First air date | July 2, 1954 (in Enid, Oklahoma; moved to Oklahoma City in 1958) |
| Call letters' meaning |
Oklahoma City Oklahoma |
| Former callsigns | KGEO-TV (1954–1958) |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 5 (VHF, 1954–2009) |
| Former affiliations |
DT2: Local AccuWX (2008–2011) This TV (2011–2012) |
| Transmitter power | 65.7 kW |
| Height | 451 m |
| Facility ID | 12508 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 35°33′45.0″N 97°29′24.0″W / 35.562500°N 97.490000°WCoordinates: 35°33′45.0″N 97°29′24.0″W / 35.562500°N 97.490000°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www.koco.com |
KOCO-TV, virtual channel 5 (VHF digital channel 7), is an ABC-affiliated television station located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States. The station is owned by the Hearst Television subsidiary of the Hearst Corporation. The station maintains studio and transmitter facilities located on East Britton Road (U.S. 66) in the McCourry Heights section of northeast Oklahoma City (located within two miles of competing stations: KFOR-TV to its immediate west, KWTV to its southwest and KOKH-TV to its southeast).
The station first signed on the air on July 2, 1954 as KGEO-TV. Founded by George Streets, it was originally licensed to Enid, and was the only full-power VHF station in northern Oklahoma. Channel 5 has been an ABC affiliate since it signed on; during the late 1950s, the station also had a brief affiliation with the NTA Film Network. In 1957, the station built a new transmitter tower near Crescent, which helped increase its signal reach into Oklahoma City. Later that year, the station was sold to Cimarron Television (which included among its investors, oilmen Dean A. McGee and John E. Kirkpatrick, and state senator Robert S. Kerr).
The station moved its city of license and relocated its operations to Oklahoma City in February 1958 (similar to the transfer of the license and studio relocation of Muskogee's KTVX, now KTUL, to Tulsa in 1957), after the Federal Communications Commission absorbed the state's northern counties into the Oklahoma City television market. Channel 5's move made it the third station in Oklahoma City to affiliate with ABC: WKY-TV (channel 4, now KFOR-TV) served as a secondary affiliate from 1949 to 1953, when it began a full-time affiliation with fledgling UHF outlet KTVQ (channel 25, frequency now used by Fox affiliate KOKH-TV); ABC returned to secondary clearances on WKY-TV when KTVQ ceased operations in 1956. After moving to Oklahoma City, KOCO operated from a studio facility located on Britton Road, inside a converted former Kimberling's grocery store. In the early 1960s, its operations moved to studios near Northwest 63rd Street and Portland Avenue; however, the station maintained a news bureau in Enid, which closed in the mid-1990s.
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