The Cox Channel
| The Cox Channel | |
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| Network | Local origination cable network |
| Owned by | Cox Television |
| Picture format |
480i (SDTV) 720p (HDTV) |
| Slogan | It's Yours! |
| Country | United States |
| Language | American English |
| Broadcast area | Oklahoma County and Tulsa County, Oklahoma |
| Headquarters | Oklahoma City |
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Availability
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| Cable | |
| Cox Oklahoma City & Cox Tulsa | Channel 3 (SD) Channel 703 (HD) |
The Cox Channel (originally known as Cox Channel 3) is a local origination cable channel based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and is owned by Cox Television and operated by Cox Communications through its Oklahoma City and Tulsa-area cable television systems. The Cox Channel is not available on DBS providers DirecTV or Dish Network, nor is it available to IPTV provider, AT&T U-verse.
The channel originated on cable channel 67 in Oklahoma City in 1995, and in its early days had only carried a bulletin board for local events and for the system itself, as well as occasional free preview weekends of premium channels and some sports programming. After acquiring TCI's cable system in Tulsa in 2000, Cox Communications added similar programming to the local origination channel on cable channel 9.
The "Cox Channel" name was adopted in 2004 on the Oklahoma City and Tulsa service areas, and was moved to channel 7 in the Oklahoma City market, swapping channel space with NBC affiliate KFOR-TV (channel 4), and channel 3 in the Tulsa market in 2006; in Oklahoma City, it returned to channel 3 in March 2010. Until 2006, the channel was also available on cable outside the Oklahoma City and Tulsa areas in portions of Oklahoma; that year, Cox sold its systems outside the Oklahoma City and Tulsa areas to Cebridge Connections (now Suddenlink Communications), and was dropped by December of that year.
On December 14, 2010 Cox Communications relegated access to TV Guide Network's programming on channel 2 in Oklahoma City to digital cable subscribers and subscribers using a CableCard on their analog cable box, at which time Cox dropped the program guide from the channel due to the presence of an interactive program guide that digital subscribers can access on their TVs; on that date, Cox separated the standard definition feeds of the Cox Channel to its customers: analog cable subscribers began seeing the TV Guide Network's former scrolling program grid (restyled to the color-coded version of the guide based on genre, used on the channel nationally until July 1, 2010) on the bottom ¼ of the screen while regular programming was carried at the top ⅔ of the screen. Digital cable subscribers continue to see The Cox Channel full-screen without the grid.
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