Oklahoma Educational Television Authority
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| statewide Oklahoma United States |
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| City |
KETA-TV: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma KOED-TV: Tulsa, Oklahoma KOET-TV: Eufaula, Oklahoma KWET-TV: Cheyenne, Oklahoma |
| Branding | OETA |
| Slogan |
The Oklahoma Network (also the name of OETA's production/syndication unit) |
| Channels | Digital: see table below |
| Subchannels | see table below |
| Affiliations | PBS |
| Owner | Oklahoma Educational Television Authority |
| First air date | April 13, 1956 |
| Call letters' meaning | see table below |
| Former affiliations | NET (1956–1970) |
| Transmitter power | see table below |
| Height | see table below |
| Facility ID | see table below |
| Transmitter coordinates | see table below |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Educational Television Authority Profile Educational Television Authority CDBS |
| Website | www.oeta.tv |
The Oklahoma Educational Television Authority (OETA) is a state network of PBS member stations covering the state of Oklahoma. It is operated by an independent board of gubernatorial appointees and university and education officials; the board is linked to the executive branch through the Secretary of Education of the Government of Oklahoma. The OETA network's main offices and production facilities are located on North Kelley Avenue in Oklahoma City (adjacent to the studios of KWTV-DT and KSBI), with a satellite studio in Tulsa that is located on the campus of Oklahoma State University–Tulsa.
OETA traces its history to 1953, when the Oklahoma Legislature created it via statute. It was charged with providing educational television programming to Oklahomans on a coordinated statewide basis, made possible with cooperation from the state's educational, government and cultural agencies. After securing a license from the Federal Communications Commission and funding from various special interest groups, Oklahoma City's KETA was finally able to sign on the air as the nation's 11th educational television station (and the first non-commercial station in Oklahoma) on April 13, 1956. It was originally a member station of National Educational Television, until NET was replaced by the Public Broadcasting Service in 1970, taking over many of the functions of its predecessor.
Three more stations signed on the course of 19 years (with a statewide network of translators also being built during this timeframe), extending OETA's programming to portions of Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas and Texas. A satellite station of KETA in Tulsa, KOED-TV (channel 11), went on the air on January 12, 1959. When KOED began operations, OETA became the second operational educational television state network in the United States (after Alabama Educational Television, now Alabama Public Television). On December 1, 1977, KOET (channel 3) in Eufaula joined the state network as a satellite of KOED-TV, in order to serve areas of east-central Oklahoma (in some areas of that portion of the state, the northern fringes of KOET's over-the-air signal coverage overlap with that of KOED, and in other areas on the western fringe of its coverage area with KETA's signal). Finally, on August 6, 1978, KWET (channel 12) in Cheyenne signed on to serve west-central and southwestern Oklahoma, and a small portion of the eastern Texas Panhandle.
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