KSWO-TV
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Lawton, Oklahoma/Wichita Falls, Texas United States |
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| Branding | 7 News |
| Slogan | You Can Count on Us! |
| Channels |
Digital: 11 (VHF) Virtual: 7 () |
| Subchannels | 7.1 ABC 7.2 Telemundo 7.3 This TV |
| Translators | KKTM-LP 17 Altus, OK |
| Affiliations | ABC |
| Owner |
Raycom Media (KSWO License Subsidiary, LLC) |
| First air date | March 8, 1953 |
| Call letters' meaning |
South West Oklahoma |
| Sister station(s) | KAUZ-TV |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 7 (VHF, 1953–2009) |
| Transmitter power | 138 kW |
| Height | 327.3 m |
| Facility ID | 35645 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 34°12′55″N 98°43′13″W / 34.21528°N 98.72028°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www |
KSWO-TV, virtual channel 7 (VHF digital channel 11), is an ABC-affiliated television station located in Lawton, Oklahoma, United States and also serves Wichita Falls, Texas. Owned by Raycom Media, KSWO also operates CBS affiliate KAUZ-TV (channel 6) through a shared services agreement with American Spirit Media. The station's studios are located on 60th Street in Southeast Lawton, and its transmitter is located near Grandfield, Oklahoma.
The station first signed on the air on March 8, 1953, and was founded by Ransom H. Drewry, who started his broadcasting company (which eventually became Drewry Communications) in 1941, when he signed on Lawton radio station KSWO-AM (1380, now KKRX); six years later in 1947, Drewry signed on his second radio station, KRHD – the call letters of which were named after his initials – in Duncan (the KRHD callsign is now used by its ABC-affiliated sister station in Bryan-College Station, Texas). Drewry co-founded KSWO-TV with a group that included J.R. Montgomery, T.R. Warkentin, Robert P. Scott and G.G. Downing.
The station's first transmitter was located at its studios, located east of Lawton, which was a relatively low-power unit that transmitted over a limited 55-mile radius spanning to Altus to the west, Wichita Falls to the south, Anadarko to the north and Ringling to the east. By the late 1950s, other nearby ABC affiliates (such as KOCO-TV in Oklahoma City and KTEN in Ada, Oklahoma) began encroaching the northern and eastern fringes on KSWO's viewing area, but wide gaps in signal coverage existed to the south and west of Wichita Falls – the only primary ABC stations in north and west Texas at the time were Dallas affiliate WFAA-TV, and Amarillo affiliate KVII-TV (Lubbock and Abilene did not get their own primary ABC affiliates until KAMC affiliated with the network in 1969 and KTXS-TV switched to ABC from CBS in 1979, respectively).
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