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Ada/Ardmore, Oklahoma/ Sherman/Denison, Texas United States |
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| City | Ada, Oklahoma |
| Branding | KTEN (general) KTEN News (newscasts) (pronounced as "K-Ten") Texoma CW (DT2) ABC Texoma (DT3) |
| Slogan | No One Gets You Closer |
| Channels |
Digital: 26 (UHF) Virtual: 10 () |
| Subchannels | 10.1 NBC 10.2 CW 10.3 ABC |
| Affiliations | NBC (1977–present) |
| Owner |
Lockwood Broadcast Group (Channel 49 Acquisition Corporation) |
| First air date | June 1, 1954 |
| Call letters' meaning | Channel TEN (former analog channel assignment) |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 10 (VHF, 1954–2009) |
| Former affiliations | ABC (1954–1998; secondary from 1977) NTA (secondary, late 1950s) Fox (secondary, 1994–1998) |
| Transmitter power | 1,000 kW |
| Height | 426 m |
| Facility ID | 35666 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 34°21′32.8″N 96°33′32.7″W / 34.359111°N 96.559083°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | kten.com |
KTEN, virtual channel 10 (UHF digital channel 26), is an NBC-affiliated television station located in Ada, Oklahoma, United States which also serves Ardmore, Oklahoma, Sherman and Denison, Texas. The station is owned by the Lockwood Broadcast Group. KTEN maintains studios located on High Point Circle in Denison, Texas, and its transmitter is located north of Milburn, Oklahoma (along State Highway 78).
The station first signed on the air on June 1, 1954 as the first local television station to serve the Texoma region. KTEN was originally based in Ada (which continues to serve as its city of license to this day). Originally, it was a primary ABC affiliate and a secondary affiliate of NBC. This was very unusual for a two-station market, especially one as small as Sherman-Ada. During the late 1950s, it was also briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network.
By 1977, as competitor KXII (channel 12) was switching its primary network affiliation from NBC to CBS, KTEN began adding a larger proportion of NBC programming to its schedule. Gradually, it aired most of both networks' daytime and primetime schedules. At one point, it aired both networks' evening newscasts (ABC's World News Tonight at 5:00 and NBC Nightly News at 5:30 p.m.) in the hour preceding its local newscast at 6:00 p.m. from 1977 to 1980. The station even received national attention in 1983 when on NBC's The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, Doc Severinsen (sitting in for Carson's sidekick Ed McMahon) welcomed KTEN as the newest station to broadcast the late night talk show. This move was made after KXII, by this time down to just two NBC programs on its schedule, had switched to CBS's late night schedule in a move that eventually led that station toward exclusively aligning with CBS in 1985.
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