KTUL-TV
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Tulsa, Oklahoma United States |
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| Branding | Tulsa's Channel 8 (general and newscasts) |
| Slogan | We're Tulsa's Channel 8 |
| Channels |
Digital: 10 (VHF) Virtual: 8 () |
| Translators | 24 (UHF) McAlester |
| Affiliations |
.1: ABC .2: Comet .3: Antenna TV |
| Owner |
Sinclair Broadcast Group (KTUL Licensee, LLC) |
| First air date | September 18, 1954 |
| Call letters' meaning | TULsa (also the IATA code for Tulsa International Airport) |
| Sister station(s) |
Oklahoma City: KOKH-TV KOCB |
| Former callsigns | KTVX (1954–1960) |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 8 (VHF, 1954–2009) |
| Transmitter power | 6.9 kW |
| Height | 542.3 m |
| Facility ID | 35685 |
| Transmitter coordinates |
35°58′8″N 95°36′55″W / 35.96889°N 95.61528°W (main translator) 34°59′13″N 95°42′10″W / 34.98694°N 95.70278°W (fill-in translator) |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | KTUL.com |
KTUL, virtual channel 8 (VHF digital channel 10), is an ABC-affiliated television station located in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The station is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group. KTUL maintains studio facilities located at Lookout Mountain (near South 29th West Avenue) in southwestern Tulsa, and its transmitter is located between South 305th Street East and the Muskogee Turnpike in southeastern Tulsa County (near Coweta). On cable, the station is available on Cox Communications and AT&T U-verse channel 8.
The station first signed on the air on September 18, 1954 as KTVX. It was founded by the Tulsa Broadcasting Company, which was majority owned by Oklahoma grocery magnate and broadcast pioneer John Toole Griffin, who also owned radio station KTUL (1430 AM, now KTBZ). The first program to be broadcast on channel 8 was a college football game in which the University of Oklahoma defeated the University of California. The station was originally licensed to Muskogee, roughly 25 miles (40 km) due south of Tulsa; this was because the third VHF frequency originally allocated to the Tulsa market, channel 11, had been reserved for use by a non-commercial educational license (the VHF channel 11 frequency is now occupied by PBS member station KOED, part of the Oklahoma Educational Television Authority state network). Griffin therefore decided to seek the channel 8 allocation in Muskogee, the nearest city in the Tulsa market with an assigned VHF channel allocation; the UHF band was not considered viable at the time as most television sets on the retail market then were not equipped with UHF tuners, this would not change until after the Federal Communications Commission passed the All-Channel Receiver Act in 1961. The KTVX call letters were assigned to the station after Griffin discovered that the U.S. Treasury Department's Customs Bureau had assigned them as the signal code to a retired ocean vessel, the William S. Clark, until January 1947.
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