KOTV-TV
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Tulsa, Oklahoma United States |
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| City | Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States |
| Branding | KOTV 6 (general) The News on 6 (newscasts) |
| Slogan |
Oklahoma's Own (general corporate statewide) Tulsa's Own (local) Green Country's Own (local) |
| Channels |
Digital: 45 (UHF) Virtual: 6 () |
| Subchannels | See Below |
| Translators | 19 (UHF) McAlester 30 (UHF) Caney, Kansas |
| Affiliations | CBS |
| Owner |
Griffin Communications, LLC (Griffin Licensing, LLC) |
| First air date | October 22, 1949 |
| Call letters' meaning |
Oklahoma TeleVision |
| Sister station(s) |
KQCW-DT KWTV KSBI-TV |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 6 (VHF, 1949–2009) Digital: 55 (UHF, until 2009) |
| Former affiliations |
All secondary: Paramount (1949–1953) NBC (1949–1954) ABC (1949–1954) DuMont (1949–1954) NTA (1956–1961) |
| Transmitter power | 840 kW |
| Height | 556.2 m (1,825 ft) |
| Facility ID | 35434 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 36°1′14.9″N 95°40′31.7″W / 36.020806°N 95.675472°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www.newson6.com |
KOTV-DT, virtual channel 6 (UHF digital channel 45), is a CBS-affiliated television station licensed to Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States. The station is owned by Griffin Communications, as part of a duopoly with CW affiliate KQCW-DT (channel 19). The two stations share studio facilities located at the Griffin Communications Media Center on North Boston Avenue in downtown Tulsa; KOTV maintains transmitter facilities located on South 273rd East Avenue in Broken Arrow (just north of the Muskogee Turnpike).
On cable, the station is available on Cox Communications channel 6 in standard definition and digital channel 1006 in high definition.
In 1946, the Griffin family, owners of local radio station KTUL (1430 AM, now KTBZ), assigned Helen Alvarez to study television's chances of success in Tulsa. After two years of research, Alvarez suggested that the Griffins apply for a construction permit to build transmitter facilities to launch a television station as quickly as possible. The radio executives decided that television was too risky a venture, and planned to wait a year before going to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to apply for a station license. Unfortunately, due to an FCC-imposed freeze on television station license applications, the Griffins would face a much longer wait to get into television, but eventually did so when John Toole Griffin founded KTVX (channel 8 in Muskogee, now KTUL in Tulsa) in 1954.
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