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KTUZ-TV

KTUZ-TV (channel 30) is a television station licensed to Shawnee, Oklahoma, United States, serving the Oklahoma City area as an affiliate of the Spanish-language network Telemundo. It is the flagship station of locally based Tyler Media Group, and is co-owned with Woodward-licensed Univision affiliate KUOK, channel 36 (and its Oklahoma City-based Class A translator KUOK-CD), and low-power Estrella TV affiliate KOCY-LD (channel 48). The stations share studios near Southeast 51st Street and Shields Boulevard in south Oklahoma City, while KTUZ-TV's transmitter is located near 86th Street and Ridgeway Road (south of Britton Road) in northeast Oklahoma City.

History
A construction permit application to build a television station on UHF channel 30 was submitted to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) by a group called OKC-30 Television, LLC on July 30, 1996, with the callsign KAQS assigned to the license on September 27. The station's callsign was later changed to KQOK on August 17, 2000. The station signed on the air three months later on November 10, branded as "OK30", under the ownership of Little Rock–based Equity Broadcasting Corporation. Under Equity ownership, the station held a primary affiliation with home shopping channel America's Collectibles Network (now Jewelry Television), and also carried some religious programs and children's television series compliant with the FCC's educational programming guidelines. For a brief period, KQOK also aired reruns of the classic western series Bonanza and national newscasts produced by the Independent News Network.

In early 2004, Equity Broadcasting acquired KUOK (channel 35) in Woodward, and low-power stations KCHM-LP (channel 36, now KUOK-CD) and K69EK (channel 69, now Estrella TV affiliate KOCY-LD on channel 48) in Oklahoma City, and KOKT-LP (channel 20, now defunct) in Sulphur. On May 27 of that year, Equity sold KQOK to Oklahoma City-based Tyler Media Group, becoming the company's first television station property. Under Tyler Media, channel 30 became a Telemundo affiliate on December 27, 2004; the station's affiliation switch had been delayed from an original target date of December 1. Equity had earlier switched the affiliations of KUOK and the low-power stations in Oklahoma City and Sulphur to Univision on May 8, converting the latter three stations into translator stations of KUOK. The station's callsign was also changed to KTUZ-TV (after its sister radio station KTUZ-FM [106.7 FM], which maintained a Regional Mexican music format). To accommodate the station's plans to launch local programming catering to Oklahoma's Latino community, Tyler Media expanded the company's existing Shields Boulevard facility, constructing two production studios for use for KTUZ's news and public affairs programming, and a third, larger studio for varied usage, including possible use for town hall events. The company also hired around ten employees to help manage KTUZ-TV's operations.

Prior to the analog television shutdown, KTUZ-TV's analog and digital signal patterns offered different coverage across Central Oklahoma; the station's analog transmitter was located near SE 179th and East Westminster Drive in northeastern Cleveland County, near Moore. It provided city-grade coverage to Norman and Moore, but only provided "rimshot" coverage to Oklahoma City proper. Its analog signal was marginal at best in central portions of the city (especially in suburbs such as Forest Park, Nichols Hills and Spencer), and could not be seen at all in many of the northern suburbs (such as Edmond). Despite this, the station did not offer a low-power repeater to give it a city-grade signal throughout the immediate Oklahoma City area. The digital signal, however, provides city-grade coverage to the entire Oklahoma City metropolitan area as that transmitter is located in the northeast side of the city, where most of the market's television stations maintain their transmitters.

On April 16, 2009, in a bankruptcy auction held by Equity Media Holdings following the withdrawal of an offer to sell the stations and Equity-owned stations in five other markets to Luken Communications, Tyler acquired KUOK and its translator stations for $800,000, which created a duopoly with KTUZ-TV and the third television duopoly in the Oklahoma City market (after the combinations of NBC affiliate KFOR-TV [channel 4] and then-MyNetworkTV affiliate KAUT-TV [channel 43, now a CW owned-and-operated station] and Fox affiliate KOKH-TV [channel 25] and then-CW affiliate KOCB [channel 34, now an independent station]). The deal, which was approved by the FCC on July 1, placed KUOK in the unique position of being the junior partner in a duopoly with a Telemundo-affiliated station, a rarity given that Univision is the longer established and, on a national level, higher rated of the two networks.

Local programming
In addition to airing Telemundo network programming and newscasts, KTUZ also airs some locally produced programs: the station produces a weekly discussion program Nuestra Oklahoma (Our Oklahoma), airing Sundays at 10 a.m. with an encore presentation at 10 p.m. It also airs a local sports show on Saturday nights (similar in format to Telemundo's Ritmo Deportivo) called Fiesta Deportiva, airing immediately following Telemundo's national sports program Titulares Telemundo at 10:30 p.m.

From the 2005 affiliation switch until September 2007, the station also aired Studio Z (produced in conjunction with KTUZ-FM), a weekly music video program hosted by KTUZ-FM personality Blanca Estela Ramirez, showcasing videos from Latin music artists. In September 2007, KTUZ-TV and KTUZ-FM became the first Spanish-language stations to simulcast college football games in Spanish, when both aired a University of Oklahoma football game.

KTUZ has tended to preempt more Telemundo programming than other affiliates; the network's weekend schedule is more susceptible to this. Until November 2011, KTUZ preempted Nitido on Saturday mornings and Fotogenicas on Sunday mornings (though the latter show aired on the station for two weeks in October 2009; the actual preemption was problematic since on Sundays when Telemundo scheduled a soccer match, the first five minutes of Ritmo Deportivo were cut off as Telemundo moved the start times of programs that aired before the games back five minutes) as well as the Sunday edition of Titulares Telemundo and the network's early late-night movie; however with the exception of the Sunday Titulares Telemundo telecast (for an encore presentation of Nuestra Oklahoma and the preemption of the Sunday evening telecast of the home video show Camara Loca, since replaced by Operacíon Repo, for Fiesta Deportiva); for the most part, KTUZ preempted these programs mainly for infomercials. The station's preemptions today are not as prevalent, and are now only done mainly to broadcast locally produced shows and religious programs, although KTUZ-TV does replace Telemundo's overnight informercial block with Spanish-dubbed infomercials that the station itself leases time to air.

News operation
KTUZ-TV presently broadcasts five hours of locally produced newscasts each week (all airing only on weekdays). KTUZ, along with KAUT-TV (whose newscasts are produced by KFOR-TV) are the only stations in the Oklahoma City market with weekday-only newscasts. After switching to Telemundo, KTUZ had no full-fledged newscasts other than two-minute daily news and weather updates that were produced out of a small studio which aired during the network's daytime and primetime programs. However, the station expressed interest in airing regular newscasts from the affiliation switch. One of the anchors seen in these updates was Flory Mata (later the host of the local entertainment/lifestyle program Estilo Latino on KUOK).

KTUZ's news operation, originally branded as T30 Noticias, began in October 2006. In its news department's beginnings, the station only ran a weeknight 10 p.m. newscast (anchored by Carlos Toledo, who also served as the station's first news director), with programming supplied by Telemundo continuing to air in the early evenings. A 5 p.m. newscast was added in early 2007. The newscasts initially used a logo that was radically different from the station's network-standardized logo, but a new graphics package was instituted in September 2007 with a logo more closely aligned with the station's regular branding.

In August 2011, the station's newscasts were rebranded as Acción Oklahoma (a variant of the Action News branding); with the change, the station introduced a new set and graphics for its newscasts. In August 2013, Tyler Media appointed Martin Bedoya as news director for the program, who intended to improve the quality of Acción Oklahoma's content as well as the station's newsroom operations. On March 26, 2016, following the expansion of the national newscast Noticiero Telemundo, to weekends, KTUZ launched half-hour editions of Acción Oklahoma on Saturdays and Sundays at 4:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. (on November 19, 2016, coinciding with Noticiero Telemundo's timeslot shift, the Saturday edition of the early evening newscast was moved to 5 p.m.; the weekend edition of the late newscast was moved to 10 p.m. in February 2017).

Subchannels
The station's signal is multiplexed: {{legend|#E6FFF7|Simulcast of subchannels of another station}}

On August 9, 2021, KTUZ-TV launched three digital subchannels—the first programmed by Channel 30 outside of simulcasts of its sister stations—affiliated with home shopping networks: QVC on virtual channel 30.2, HSN on virtual channel 30.3 and QVC2 on virtual channel 30.4, with the latter inadvertently running the same programming as KTUZ-DT2 until QVC2 was placed on the subchannel on August 12. (KTUZ assumed the full-power affiliation rights to QVC and HSN from Ion affiliate KOPX-TV [channel 62], which had displaced them in favor of Defy TV and TrueReal on their respective 62.5 and 62.6 subchannels on June 30, the day prior to the latter two Scripps-owned networks' formal launches, temporarily leaving QVC and HSN without full-market over-the-air availability in the Oklahoma City DMA—beyond low-power affiliations—until the addition of the KTUZ subchannels.)

Analog-to-digital conversion
KTUZ-TV discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over UHF channel 30, on June 12, 2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 29, using virtual channel 30.

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KXOC-LP

KXOC-LP (channel 41) was a low-power television station in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States. Owned by locally based Family Broadcasting Group of Oklahoma, Inc., it was a sister station to MyNetworkTV affiliate KSBI (channel 52). The two stations shared studios on North Morgan Road (near Britton Road and the Kilpatrick Turnpike) in Yukon; KXOC-LP's transmitter was located near the John Kilpatrick Turnpike/Interstate 44 in northeast Oklahoma City.

History
The station first signed on the air on June 21, 1995, as K54DJ, broadcasting on UHF channel 54; it was originally affiliated with Pittsburgh-based religious broadcast network Cornerstone Television. KXOC-LP became an affiliate of America One in 1999; after being acquired by Locke Supply in the late 1990s, the station also carried some select programs from then Locke-owned KSBI, along with some paid programming. After the company decided to sell KXOC, KSBI and its translators to focus on operating the Locke Supply regional hardware store chain, Locke Supply sold the stations to the Family Broadcasting Group, a locally based company that was founded by former KWTV meteorologist Brady Brus; his wife, certified public accountant and treasurer Angie Brus; his sister and local media personality Brenda Bennett and Jon Bowie of Seekfirst Media LLC; the sale was finalized in March 2004. In July 2005, KXOC-LP relocated its signal to UHF channel 41.

Due to its low-power analog status, KXOC-LP did not operate a digital signal of its own; furthermore, the station's broadcasting radius did not reach the entire Oklahoma City market or even the entire metropolitan area. Therefore, from February 20, 2009, to September 16, 2012, the station was also seen through a standard definition simulcast on KSBI digital subchannel 52.2 in order to reach the entire market. KXOC-LP also began to be carried on Cox Communications digital channel 215, via the KSBI digital simulcast.

The KXOC transmission tower was disassembled in early 2011 as it vacated its former studios at the corporate headquarters of Locke Supply in southeast Oklahoma City, and moved to new studios in the northwest Oklahoma City exurb of Yukon. On March 7, 2011, KXOC-LP became an affiliate of Luken Communications' male-oriented digital broadcast network Tuff TV. On September 17, 2012, KSBI discontinued its digital simulcast of KXOC-LP on its 52.2 subchannel after acquiring an affiliation with movie channel This TV, while KXOC retained its affiliation with Tuff TV.

On March 3, 2014, at 11 a.m., KXOC resumed its carriage of This TV as the contract with TuffTV was allowed to expire.

Drew Stone, the engineer supervisor for KSBI-TV and KXOC-LP, said "Unfortunately KXOC-LP will not be making the transition to high definition or even digital. It is going to be shut down within the next few weeks."

As of March 26, 2014, KXOC was off the air. The station's license was cancelled by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on May 20, 2015.

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Crooklyn Dodgers

The Crooklyn Dodgers were a hip-hop supergroup based in Brooklyn, New York City, consisting of rotating members.

They appeared in three separate incarnations in 1994, 1995, and 2007. The first two incarnations recorded for the soundtracks for Spike Lee films, Crooklyn and Clockers, respectively. The theme connecting The Crooklyn Dodgers songs, aside from the Spike Lee films for which they were made, is their topical concerns, which comment on the state of affairs in and around urban New York City, as well as other issues affecting everyday life.

Singles

 * "Crooklyn" (1994), MCA
 * "Return of the Crooklyn Dodgers" (1995), 40 Acres and a Mule/MCA

Crooklyn Dodgers
The first group was composed of Buckshot, Masta Ace and Special Ed. Their first and only record was "Crooklyn", produced by Q-Tip of A Tribe Called Quest, and was featured in the 1994 film Crooklyn. The music video featured appearances by Brooklyn-born athletes Michael Jordan and Mike Tyson.

Crooklyn Dodgers '95
The second group was composed of Chubb Rock, Jeru the Damaja and O.C. Their first and only record was "Return of the Crooklyn Dodgers", produced by DJ Premier, and was featured in the 1995 film Clockers.

Crooklyn Dodgers III
The third group consisted of Jean Grae, Mos Def and Memphis Bleek. North Carolina producer 9th Wonder resurrected the group concept in 2007 for a track on his album The Dream Merchant Vol. 2, titled "Brooklyn in My Mind".

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Strathfield South, New South Wales

Strathfield South is a suburb, in the Inner West of Sydney, Australia in the state of New South Wales, 13 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district, in the Strathfield local government area. The area was historically part of Druitt Town. Later it was part of Enfield, until Enfield Council was absorbed into Strathfield and Burwood councils, after which the part within Strathfield council was renamed Strathfield South.

North Strathfield and Strathfield are separate suburbs, to the north. Strathfield South is located between Liverpool Road (Hume Highway) and the Cooks River, bordered on the east by Coronation Parade and to the west by the Enfield Marshalling Yards.

History
Most of Strathfield South is located on two early land grants – the 1808 grant to James Wilshire (later known as the Redmire Estate) and the 1837 grant to Father John Joseph Therry, which became the Village of St Anne's.

Wilshhire's grant was subdivided in 1867 and marketed as the 'Redmire Estate'. Roads in Strathfield South such as Dean Street and Water Street were established in this subdivision. A few early Victorian and Federation style homes survive from this early period of development.

Father John Joseph Therry was granted 47 acre in March 1837. To finance the building of the original St. Anne's Church (foundation stone laid July 1841) Father Therry offered 4 acre blocks for £25, but insufficient money being available, a further 134 allotments were offered for sale in 1854 and the streets of the subdivision named after Saints or dignitaries of the Church. St Anne's Church is listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register.

The area around St Anne's Village and to the west of Cooks River was locally known as Bark Huts. Bark Huts was a hotel on Liverpool Road, halfway between Sydney and Liverpool, and a small settlement was established around the hotel.

The Village of St Anne's and the southern part of the Redmire Estate became known as Druitt Town. This name was given to the area by Joshua Judge Josephson, who owned large areas of land in the area, in honour of his friend Major George Druitt. Druitt Town Public School opened in 1881. In 1885, the part of Druitt Town north of Liverpool Road (including the school) became part of the newly incorporated Strathfield Council, after which addressed in that part of Druitt Town became listed under "Strathfield" in directories. This area is now the southern part of the suburb of Strathfield. Druitt Town public school was renamed Strathfield South Public School.

The remaining part of Druitt Town became part of Enfield Municipal Council in 1889, shortly after which "Druitt Town" ceased to be used: addresses in the suburb instead became listed under the suburb of Enfield. The Druitt Town post office was moved to Enfield. The area was reincorporated into Strathfield Municipality in 1949, after which Strathfield Council renamed the part of former Enfield Municipality between Liverpool Road and the Cooks River as "Strathfield South". Former Enfield Town Hall and the associated war memorial are now located in Strathfield South. Coronation Reserve forms the border between Strathfield South and the suburb of Enfield, and was formerly the site of a tram line that led north to Burwood and Abbotsford and south to Croydon Park and then to Ashfield.

In 2021, a proposal was submitted to the Geographical Names Board, to separate the northern part of Belfield which was within the Municipality of Strathfield (north of Punchbowl Road) from the southern part within the City of Canterbury-Bankstown. Under this proposal, northern Belfield would form part of Strathfield South, from which it was separated by the Cooks River. This was approved in 2023

Heritage listings
South Strathfield has a number of heritage-listed sites, including:
 * St Anne's Square: St Anne's Roman Catholic Church, South Strathfield

Population
In the 2016 Census, there were 3,546 people in Strathfield South. 50.4% of people were born in Australia. The next most common countries of birth were China 6.8%, India 5.2%, Sri Lanka 5.2% and South Korea 3.7%. 40.6% of people spoke only English at home. Other languages spoken at home included Cantonese 6.8%, Mandarin 6.0%, Arabic 5.9%, Tamil 5.4% and Korean 4.7%. The most common responses for religion were Catholic 32.2%, No Religion 18.2% and Hinduism 10.6%.

Commercial area, schools, churches and parklands
South is primarily low-rise residential with a small group of shops located around the intersection of Liverpool Road and Homebush Road. The first high-rise development has now been built on the Hume Highway. The part of the suburb west and south of the Cooks River is entirely industrial, and includes the large Enfield Intermodal Logistics Centre. The industrial part of the suburb is separated from the residential suburb by the Cooks River and parklands.

The Catholic parish of St Anne's is located in St Anne's Square. Strathfield South Uniting Church is in Liverpool Road.

St Anne's Catholic Primary School is located in Strathfield South. The suburb is also serviced by two other schools located outside the suburb: Strathfield South Public School and Strathfield South High School. Founded as Druitt Town Public School, Strathfield South Public School is the public primary (grades K-6) school which services the area formerly known as Druitt Town: now Strathfield South and the southern part of the suburb of Strathfield. With over 125 years of history, the motto of Strathfield South Public School is Think of Others. Strathfield South High School is the public secondary (grades 7–12) school, whose catchment includes Strathfield South, the southern part of Strathfield, as well as the northern part of Greenacre and Belfield. Neither school is in Strathfield South itself: both are situated on the southern edge of the suburb of Strathfield.

Leigh College was from 1915 until 1974 a Methodist Theological College located at 416-420 Liverpool Road. It was the successor to the Wesleyan Theological Institution. The site is now used by the Australian International Academy, an Islamic school.

The area is well serviced by parks such as Ford Park, Dean Reserve and St Anne's Reserve, which runs along the Cooks River. The Bay to Bay Cycle/Walking Path, which runs between Botany Bay and Homebush Bay (Sydney Olympic Park) runs through Strathfield South, along the Cooks River.

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Erwin Schulhoff

Erwin Schulhoff (Ervín Šulhov; 8 June 1894 – 18 August 1942) was an Austro-Czech composer and pianist. He was one of the figures in the generation of European musicians whose successful careers were prematurely terminated by the rise of the Nazi regime in Germany and whose works have been rarely noted or performed.

Life
Schulhoff was born in Prague into a German family of Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry. His father Gustav Schulhoff was a wool merchant from Prague and his mother Louise Wolff from Frankfurt. The pianist and composer Julius Schulhoff was his great-uncle.

Antonín Dvořák encouraged Schulhoff's earliest musical studies, which began at the Prague Conservatory when he was ten years old. He studied composition and piano there and later in Vienna, Leipzig, and Cologne; where his teachers included Claude Debussy, Max Reger, Fritz Steinbach, and Willi Thern. He won the Mendelssohn Prize twice, for piano in 1913 and for composition in 1918. He served on the Russian front in the Austro-Hungarian army during World War I. He was wounded and was in an Italian prisoner-of-war camp when the war ended. He lived in Germany after the war before returning in 1923 to Prague, where he joined the faculty of the conservatory in 1929.

He was one of the first generation of classical composers to find inspiration in the rhythms of jazz music. Schulhoff also embraced the avant-garde influence of Dadaism in his performances and compositions after World War I. When organizing concerts of avant-garde music in 1919, he included this manifesto: "Absolute art is revolution, it requires additional facets for development, leads to overthrow (coups) in order to open new paths...and is the most powerful in music.... The idea of revolution in art has evolved for decades, under whatever sun the creators live, in that for them art is the commonality of man. This is particularly true in music, because this art form is the liveliest, and as a result reflects the revolution most strongly and deeply–the complete escape from imperialistic tonality and rhythm, the climb to an ecstatic change for the better."

Schulhoff occasionally performed as a pianist in the Prague Free Theatre. He also toured Germany, France and England performing his own works, contemporary classical compositions, and jazz.

His 1921 Suite for Chamber Orchestra, in one critic's words, "is stylistically mixed, with jazz-like numbers...encompassing two slow affecting ones...as if the clown of Die Wolkenpumpe has let the mask slip as he recalled the horrors and absurdities of the trenches." He wrote his friend Alban Berg in 1921: "I am boundlessly fond of nightclub dancing, so much so that I have periods during which I spend whole nights dancing with one hostess or another...out of pure enjoyment of the rhythm and with my subconscious filled with sensual delight.... [T]hereby I acquire phenomenal inspiration for my work, as my conscious mind is incredibly earthly, even animal as it were."

Olin Downes praised a Salzburg performance of his Five Pieces for String Quartet in 1924: "These pieces attempted only to charm or entertain. They had spontaneous humor, sentiment, a fluent and admirable technic. The idiom has enough modern pepper in it to constantly stimulate the ear; but the music is not forced, any more than it is portentous. A young composer of talent disported himself in these pieces, and his audience was duly grateful. Not all composers, old or young, have the good sense not to take themselves, now and again, too seriously."

Downes reported that following the performance Schulhoff played American ragtime numbers on piano at a local inn "till the walls tottered".

In 1928, the Flonzaley Quartet played the String Quartet No. 1 at their farewell New York concert between works of Beethoven and Brahms, and it was greeted enthusiastically. A 1930 performance of Schulhoff's Partita by Walter Gieseking proved to be the audience's favorite work of the recital "to judge from the applause and laughter" wrote one reviewer, "which greeted the sections bearing such titles as 'All Art is Useless' and 'Alexander, Alexander, You Are a Salamander'."

He composed his Concerto for String Quartet and Wind Orchestra in 1930, which provides, in one critic's estimation, "a fascinating inversion of the traditional concerto grosso style, with winds providing the framework of the piece as a whole, within which the string quartet appears as contrast and solo."

In the 1930s, Schulhoff faced mounting personal and professional difficulties. Because of his Jewish descent and his radical politics, he and his works were labelled "degenerate" and blacklisted by the Nazi regime. He could no longer give recitals in Germany, nor could his works be performed publicly.

His communist sympathies, which became increasingly evident in his works, also brought him trouble in Czechoslovakia. In 1932 he composed a musical version of The Communist Manifesto (Op. 82). Taking refuge in Prague, Schulhoff found employment as a radio pianist, but earned barely enough to cover the cost of everyday essentials. When the Nazis invaded Czechoslovakia in 1939, he had to perform under a pseudonym. In 1941, the Soviet Union approved his petition for citizenship, but he was arrested and imprisoned before he could leave Czechoslovakia.

In June 1941, Schulhoff was deported to the Wülzburg prison near Weißenburg, Bavaria. He died there on 18 August 1942 from tuberculosis.

Musical style
Schulhoff went through a number of distinct stylistic periods, ranging, in Anne Midgette's words, "from the endearing self-consciousness of talented youth in the Suite for Chamber Orchestra to the fierce somber aggression of the Fifth Symphony." She found that even as his style changed there was a certain commonality, so that even the "angular, forceful, even raw style" of the late Fifth Symphony reflected "the late Romantic tradition of orchestral color".

His early works exhibit the influence of composers from the preceding generation, including Debussy, Scriabin, and Richard Strauss. Later, during his Dadaist phase, Schulhoff composed a number of pieces with absurdist elements. Anticipating John Cage's 4′33″ by more than thirty years, Schulhoff's In futurum (part of Fünf Pittoresken for piano, written in 1919) is a silent piece composed entirely of rests, with the interpretative instruction "tutto il canzone con espressione e sentimento ad libitum, sempre, sin al fine" ("the whole piece with free expression and feeling, always, until the end"). The composition is notated in great rhythmic detail, employing bizarre time signatures and intricate rhythmic patterns. A 1923 report of a Bochum performance puts Schulhoff in the context of his contemporaries: "The patience of the town of Bochum was sorely tried by four composers of the most modern tendency in one concert. Six Orchestral Pieces by A. von Webern...were received with strong distrust; the warmer blooded Bela Bartok could not restore confidence with his orchestral pieces. But when the most extreme modern Erwin Schulhoff presented his "thirty-two absurd variations upon a no less eccentric theme," opposition began to make itself felt and heard. The theme, according to the program, was played twice, and the weather began to look threatening. At the end of the helpless variations strong men who were provided with instruments for the purpose made a noise described in German as "höllenlärm", which was answered by equally noisy applause. The composer made a speedy escape."

Schulhoff's third period dates from approximately 1923 to 1932. The pieces composed during these years, his most prolific years as a composer, are the most frequently performed of his works, including the String Quartet No. 1 and Five Pieces for String Quartet, which integrate modernist vocabulary, neoclassical elements, jazz, and dance rhythms from a variety of sources and cultures. He thought of jazz as a dance idiom and in a 1924 essay expressed the view that no one, including Stravinsky and Auric, had yet successfully blended jazz and art music. Performers of his Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2 (1927) have described how it "draws liberally on the composers interests and abilities as a bona fide jazzman, acerbic wit and dance aficionado" and said its andante has "the kind of expressivity you find in the music of Berg". One critic has written that "Schulhoff's notion of what constitutes jazz are as surreal as some of the Dadaist texts he set...; some of the music is rather more indebted to de Falla and Russian Orientalism than ragtime or anything trans-Atlantic." He thought that innovations like an entire movement of the Suite for Chamber Orchestra (1921) for percussion alone and the use of the siren in another "would have seemed outlandish enough in 1921, even if it all sounds a bit tame now [1995]." A New York Times critic in 1932 called the Duo for violin and cello (1925) "long-winded and even insincere", while a performance in 2012 noted it was dedicated to Janáček, evokes Ravel's Sonata for Violin and Cello and "blends folk and contemporary elements" while employing "a range of sonorities and effects like dramatic pizzicatos" while "vivacious Hungarian fiddle playing enlivens the Zingaresca movement".

His jazz oratorio H.M.S. Royal Oak is based on the true story of a naval mutiny against a superior who prohibits jazz on board HMS Royal Oak.

The final period of his career was dedicated to socialist realism, with Communist ideology frequently in the foreground.

In general, Schulhoff's music remains connected to Western tonality, though—like Prokofiev, among others—the fundamentally triadic conception of his music is often embellished by passages of intense dissonance. Other features characteristic of Schulhoff's compositional style are use of modal and quartal harmonies, dance rhythms, and a comparatively free approach to form. Also important to Schulhoff was the work of the Second Viennese School, though Schulhoff never adopted serialism as a compositional tool.

The papers of conferences in Cologne (1992) and in Düsseldorf (1994) focused on Schulhoff's work have been published.

Selected works

 * 5 Etudes de jazz for piano (c.1910–1920)
 * Violin Sonata No. 1, Op.7 (1913)
 * Piano Concerto No. 1, Op.11 (1913)
 * Divertimento for String Quartet (1914)
 * Cello Sonata (1914)
 * String Quartet No. 0, Op.25 (1918)
 * Sonata Erotica for female voice solo (1919), "in which a soprano spends several minutes faking a carefully notated orgasm"
 * Fünf Pittoresken for piano (1919)
 * Symphonia Germanica (1919), a satire against German militarism
 * Suite for Chamber Orchestra (1921), originally called In the New Style, six dances, "this bouncy, even silly work features instruments never used in the classical repertoire before, like slide whistles and car horns"
 * Ogelala, ballet (fr) (1922)
 * Cloud-Pump (Die Wolkenpumpe) (1922), songs for baritone, four winds and percussion, to texts by "the holy ghost Hans Arp"
 * Bassnachtigall for contrabassoon (1922), "in which a solo contrabassoon does its best to make soulful liquid birdcalls"
 * Piano Concerto "alla Jazz" (1923)
 * Five Pieces for String Quartet (Fünf Stücke für Streichquartett) (1923)
 * String Sextet (1920–24)
 * String Quartet No. 1 (1924)
 * Piano Sonata No. 1 (1924)
 * String Quartet No. 2 (1925)
 * Concertino for flute, viola and double bass (1925)
 * Symphony No. 1 (1925)
 * Die Mondsüchtige ('Moonstruck'), Tanzgroteske (ballet) (1925)
 * Piano Sonata No. 2 (1926)
 * Piano Sonata No. 3 (1927)
 * Violin Sonata No. 2 (1927)
 * Sonata for Flute and Piano (1927)
 * Double Concerto for Flute, Piano and Orchestra (1927), neo-classical in flavor
 * 6 Esquisses de jazz for piano (1927)
 * Divertisement (1927), for oboe, clarinet, and bassoon
 * Flammen, opera (1927–29)
 * Hot Sonate for alto saxophone and piano (1930)
 * Concerto for String Quartet and Wind Orchestra (1930)
 * Suite dansante en jazz for piano (1931), in six dance movements: "a short fast Stomp, a languorous Strait, a parodistic Waltz, a sensuous Tango, a languid Slow, and...a fast and lascivious Fox Trot"
 * Symphony No. 2 (1932), "a mondane [sic] and brilliant work with a jazz scherzo, highly typical of the composer"
 * Das kommunistische Manifest, oratorio (1932)
 * Orinoco (1934), a fox trot
 * Symphony No. 3 (1935)
 * HMS Royal Oak (1935), jazz oratorio for narrator, soprano, tenor, mixed choir and symphonic jazz orchestra, based on text by Otto Rombach
 * Symphony No. 4 (1937)
 * Symphony No. 5 (1938–39)
 * Symphony No. 6 "Svobody" for chorus and orchestra (1940)
 * Symphony No. 7, in piano score only (1941–42)
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KAUT-TV

KAUT-TV (channel 43) is a television station in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States, serving as the local outlet for The CW. It is owned and operated by the network's majority owner, Nexstar Media Group, alongside NBC affiliate KFOR-TV (channel 4). The two stations share studios in Oklahoma City's McCourry Heights section; KAUT-TV's transmitter is located on the city's northeast side.

KAUT went on the air on October 15, 1980. It was built by Golden West Broadcasters, a company owned by station namesake Gene Autry, and aired Golden West's VEU subscription TV service at night and news programming during the day. The news programming lasted less than a year before being discontinued, while VEU was shuttered in October 1982, leaving KAUT to become one of three independent stations in the market. Rollins Broadcasting bought the station in 1985; it became Heritage Media in 1986, the year that channel 43 affiliated with the Fox network. Fox programming improved the station's ratings, which previously had run third among the three Oklahoma City independents.

After a previous proposal in 1988 and 1989 failed, Heritage Media acquired competing independent KOKH-TV (channel 25) in 1991. It moved the Fox affiliation, programming, and staff from channel 43 to channel 25. KAUT was then donated to the Oklahoma Educational Television Authority (OETA), the state's public TV broadcaster, and revamped as a secondary service known as The Literacy Channel under KTLC call letters. It aired telecourses and literacy programming during the day and reairs of PBS children's programs at night. The Literacy Channel did not receive state money; operating funds came from private donors and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

The OETA put KTLC on the market in 1997 to help defray the costs of converting its statewide network to digital broadcasting. Paramount Stations Group placed the winning bid and returned channel 43 to commercial operation as UPN affiliate KPSG on June 20, 1998. The station returned UPN programming to the market after KOCB (channel 34) switched to The WB earlier that year. After Autry died that October, the station reclaimed its original KAUT call sign in his honor. The New York Times Company, then-owner of KFOR-TV, purchased KAUT in 2005; the station affiliated with MyNetworkTV when UPN and The WB merged into The CW in 2006, and KFOR introduced prime time and morning newscasts on channel 43. In 2023, KAUT replaced KOCB as the CW affiliate in Oklahoma City.

The STV years
The Christian Broadcasting Company of Oklahoma applied to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on March 29, 1979, for a construction permit to build a new commercial television station on channel 43 in Oklahoma City. The non-profit corporation proposed a religious-oriented station, similar to KXTX-TV in Dallas. At the time, applications were open on three different Oklahoma City UHF channels—14, 34, and 43—and the Trinity Broadcasting Network also sought a religious station using channel 14. Christian Broadcasting Company placed an order for equipment in September 1978 and received the construction permit that November.

In 1979, less than a year after obtaining the permit for KFHC-TV, Christian Broadcasting Company sold the permit to Golden West Broadcasters, a joint venture of Gene Autry and his wife Ina and The Signal Companies. Golden West's intention for the station was to broadcast subscription television (STV) programming to paying subscribers. Golden West was branching into the STV business with microwave distribution systems in other cities; it chose Oklahoma City for the venture because of an initial investment climate and Autry's ties to Oklahoma. The FCC granted approval of the $60,000 transaction on January 24, 1980. The station occupied a 32500 ft2 building constructed on a 95-acre former dairy at 11901 North Eastern Avenue; excess heat from the station's transmitter heated the building, the first setup of its kind in Oklahoma. The call letters KAUT were chosen in honor of Autry.

On October 15, 1980, KAUT began broadcasting Golden West's VEU subscription TV service, featuring first-run motion pictures and other entertainment specials. Subscribers paid $22.50 per month plus a $49.95 installation fee to be connected to the service, which began airing at 7 p.m. In 1981, VEU added sports: a package of Dallas Mavericks basketball games and Oklahoma State Cowboys basketball and wrestling.

During the day, beginning on November 3, 1980, KAUT broadcast an all-news format from noon to 5 p.m. Jerry Birdwell, the first general manager, noted the high interest in news in the Oklahoma City market and stated the objective of the 24-person news operation was to serve as a "newspaper of the air". Bob Barry Jr. was among the on-air staff for KAUT's newscasts. In between, from 5 to 7 p.m., the station aired syndicated programs. For several months in late 1980, the station broadcast Trinity Broadcasting Network programs until KTBO-TV could complete construction on channel 14.

KAUT as a whole struggled to get viewers to understand its hybrid program format and avoid confusion with the all-news cable channel CNN or KGMC (channel 34), a competing independent station. The news window shifted to 2–6 p.m. in early 1981 to expose the Newswatch 43 broadcasts to more viewers; by this time, the station had daytime music videos and programming from the Christian Broadcasting Network before going live with news coverage. Viewer acceptance was never high with the notable exception of waiting rooms and places of business, where television ratings are not measured, and the news department was disbanded in August 1981, leaving 15 employees out of a job. Birdwell believed Oklahomans were not ready for "this type of live, extended, locally produced news".

VEU competed with local cable television franchises, some of which were ahead of schedule in connecting neighborhoods to their service, as well as TVQ, a microwave-delivered movie service with about 15,000 subscribers. By May 1982, the VEU service had 18,000 subscribers, surpassing TVQ.

Independent station and Fox affiliation
With VEU subscriptions in Oklahoma City peaking at 22,000, short of the 35,000 necessary to turn a profit, Golden West decided to terminate operations of the VEU service in Oklahoma City on October 17, 1982, and convert KAUT into a full-time commercial and ad-supported independent station with daytime programs from the Financial News Network. Jerry Birdwell also cited the lack of identity, noting that viewers referred to KAUT as "that cable station". Decoders used for VEU service in the Oklahoma City area were shipped to Golden West's other broadcast STV service in Dallas.

The new format, which emphasized series in prime time instead of movies to provide an alternative to independents KOKH-TV (channel 25) and KGMC, led to the cancellations of two music programs aired by the station. The final edition of TMC 43, a teen dance program, featured 250 guests as the host read letters from heartbroken teens and parents. Also axed was Oklahoma Country Live, a country music show hosted by Wade Carter and noteworthy for featuring the first TV appearance of a young Garth Brooks. KAUT's acquisitions of new syndicated programs were impacted by the station's relatively late entry into program acquisition, putting it behind the network affiliates and the other two local independents.

During the 1980s, KAUT carried a variety of local and regional sports telecasts. In 1982, channel 43 carried college basketball games involving the Oklahoma Sooners, the Oklahoma State Cowboys, and the Oklahoma City Stars as part of a contract with local advertising agency AADCO. For several years in the 1980s, the station aired packages of Oklahoma City 89ers minor league baseball games alongside syndicated telecasts of the Texas Rangers and Kansas City Royals baseball teams and Dallas Mavericks and Houston Rockets basketball.

In 1982, Golden West Broadcasters sold itself to a new firm led by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts as Autry bought out The Signal Companies' interest in other Autry ventures. Golden West was under a divestiture order stemming from the 1980 death of Ina Autry, and in 1985, the station was sold again for $5.55 million to Atlanta-based Rollins Communications, owned by pest control magnate O. Wayne Rollins. Subsequently, in 1986, Des Moines, Iowa–based Heritage Broadcasting acquired a controlling interest in Rollins Communications—with the combined company forming Heritage Media—in a two-tiered tender acquisition worth $260 million.

KAUT became Oklahoma City's affiliate of the new Fox network when it launched with late night programming in October 1986, even though channel 43 was the third-rated of Oklahoma City's three independent stations.

1988 independent consolidation attempt
In July 1988, Pappas Telecasting proposed a $30 million triple acquisition that would have resulted in major changes in independent television in Oklahoma City. It proposed to buy KOKH-TV, KGMC, and KAUT-TV; consolidate their programs onto channel 25; and then sell the latter two stations to the Oklahoma Educational Television Authority (OETA) and a religious organization, respectively, removing them as competitors to KOKH. As the OETA Foundation, the charitable fundraising arm of the educational authority, sought funds for the KGMC purchase in addition to a $1 million conditional grant from Pappas, others did not have a favorable reaction. Oklahoma governor Henry Bellmon voiced concerns with the OETA's involvement in the transaction, suggesting that the purchase of a second Oklahoma City station would result in the authority—which had limited appropriations to adequately operate its existing state network as it stood—constantly requesting additional state funding. After a minority broadcaster objected to the rule being used to justify the KGMC purchase, Pappas changed tack and announced in October that KAUT, not KGMC, would be the station sold to the OETA, a plan approved by the authority's board.

Opposition from Bellmon and others to the second channel plan continued after channel 43 was substituted. In a move that hamstrung its attempt to acquire KAUT, the Oklahoma Legislature incorporated stipulations into the bill appropriating OETA's funding for fiscal year 1990 that prohibited the use of state funds "for any operational or capital expense of the proposed second educational television channel in Oklahoma City" and from proposing any additional funding to finance the acquisition if it did not obtain sufficient funding from private sources. In late January 1989, the management of KOKH-TV owner Busse Broadcasting denied Pappas's request to extend the completion deadline for the purchase past its scheduled January 31 deadline. The entire transaction fell through on February 3, when Busse formally terminated the purchase agreement with Pappas; three days earlier, the FCC had dismissed the respective transfer applications for KGMC and KAUT. The proposed OETA sale created uncertainty over KAUT's future, resulting in the departures of 16 KAUT employees (all of whom sought work at other Heritage-owned television stations) and a reduction in advertising sales. Even though channels 34 and 43 struggled in the wake of the declined purchase, KAUT bounced back as the Fox network caught its stride with such hits as The Simpsons, pulling ahead of KGMC in total-day ratings and ahead of KGMC and KOKH in prime time.

KTLC, The Literacy Channel
On April 23, 1991, Heritage Media announced that it would acquire KOKH from Busse Broadcast Holdings, move some of KAUT's programming and Fox affiliation to channel 25, and donate the channel 43 transmitter and studio facility to the OETA. The move promised relief for the crowded commercial TV market. It also met with the approval of Governor Bellmon's office, unlike the 1988 Pappas plan.

As KAUT's staff and programming moved over to channel 25, channel 43 relaunched as "The Literacy Channel" on August 15, 1991. The Literacy Channel name had been associated with the project since 1989. The second station allowed the OETA to more than double its offerings of telecourses in an effort to reduce illiteracy in the state, with offerings of such series as Learn to Read and GED on TV. At night, The Literacy Channel offered rebroadcasts of children's shows from PBS, including Sesame Street—never before aired in the evening—and Reading Rainbow. The new programming was a demonstration initiative devised by OETA's Board of Directors, the OETA Foundation Board of Trustees, and Heritage Media; PBS senior vice president for education services Sandy Welch and management with the Children's Television Workshop collaborated with the consortium in the development of the station's new format, which the OETA and PBS intended to use as a model for instructional and educational programming on a national level. The call sign changed from KAUT to KTLC on January 17, 1992.

As the OETA's state budget appropriation shrank, KTLC began altering its program format to save money, even though most of the channel's funding initially came from private sources. In July 1993, weekday and weekend morning schedules were axed, initially temporarily, in response to a 17.9-percent budget cut that left the Literacy Channel with no state funding source. The OETA board requested the OETA Foundation's permission to conduct two on-air fundraisers to keep the Literacy Channel on the air. A nine-day fund drive took place in September. By 1995, half of the funding for the Literacy Channel came from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the remainder from private donors, with no state funding. This was the case even though governor David Walters had previously recommended expanding the service, saying, "[W]e need to sell reading and writing like we would sell soap."

UPN affiliation
In October 1997, the OETA decided to sell KTLC in order to fund costly digital television conversion mandates for the rest of its statewide network, with the sale proceeds to be placed in an endowment to cover those costs; The Literacy Channel was planned to continue as a cable service and, eventually, a digital subchannel of the OETA transmitters. The authority received ten cash offers for channel 43, among them proposals from Clear Channel Communications, Shop at Home, and Sinclair Broadcast Group. The highest bid, at $23.5 million, was made by Paramount Stations Group, the owned-and-operated stations division of UPN. UPN was about to lose its existing Oklahoma City affiliate: KOCB, the former KGMC. By 1997, it was under the ownership of Sinclair, which that summer signed a deal to flip six UPN affiliates including KOCB to its rival, The WB, in January 1998. The move put UPN on the back foot; the network contested the validity of the action in Maryland courts, where it lost twice. Without any further action, UPN would be left without an affiliate in Oklahoma City.

The OETA unanimously accepted Paramount's $23.5 million bid in January 1998. As part of the deal, for five years, Paramount agreed to air The Literacy Channel programs from 9 a.m. to noon on weekdays; provide the OETA with $100,000 in airtime for promotion; include the OETA in volume discounts for digital television equipment purchases; donate discarded equipment; and simulcast one fundraising drive a year. On June 20, 1998, after delays, UPN returned to Oklahoma City after five months as channel 43 launched a new program schedule under the new call sign KPSG. The full transaction was completed a month later.

Gene Autry died at the age of 91 on October 2, 1998. In his honor, the station re-took the call sign KAUT-TV on December 12, coinciding with a weekend-long special of Autry's films and an hour-long tribute special hosted by his longtime friend, Johnny Grant.

Under Paramount, the station added some sports programming to its lineup. In 2004, it began airing Kansas City Chiefs preseason games as well as a package of Oklahoma Sooners men's and women's basketball games.

Duopoly with KFOR-TV
In September 2005, the New York Times Company, owner of NBC affiliate KFOR-TV (channel 4), agreed to purchase KAUT from what was then the Viacom Television Stations Group for $22 million. It was one of two stations Viacom agreed to sell in 2005, along with WUPL in the New Orleans market. The deal created the first duopoly in the New York Times Company stable of TV stations.

UPN and The WB merged in September 2006 to form The CW. An Oklahoma City affiliate for the network was not confirmed until Sinclair signed an agreement for eight stations to join the network on May 2. On August 22, just two weeks before the network launched, KAUT confirmed it would be Oklahoma City's affiliate of MyNetworkTV, which was set up to serve affiliates not chosen for the new CW network. Instead of rebranding with the network as "My 43", KAUT changed its moniker to "OK 43", adopting Western-themed imaging.

On January 4, 2007, The New York Times Company sold KAUT-TV and its eight sister television stations to Local TV LLC, a holding company operated by private equity firm Oak Hill Capital Partners, for $530 million; the sale was finalized on May 7. Local TV LLC shared broadcast group management with the Tribune Company, by way of The Other Company, run by Tribune executive Randy Michaels.

Freedom 43
In 2011, the station rebranded from OK43 to "Freedom 43" in an appeal to the large military population in the Oklahoma City area. KFOR–KAUT president Jim Boyer described the new name and approach as catering to "all Oklahomans who believe in faith, freedom and patriotism". Newscasts on channel 43 were altered to include stories and profiles of interest to conservatives and the military community. KAUT discontinued MyNetworkTV in 2012, with the service's offerings moving to KSBI (channel 52).

Tribune acquired the Local TV stations in 2013 for $2.75 billion. In 2017, Sinclair Broadcast Group attempted to purchase Tribune; to meet ownership limits, Sinclair would have spun out KAUT to Howard Stirk Holdings and operated it under shared services and joint sales agreements. The Tribune purchase of Sinclair and related transactions were nullified on August 9, 2018, after Tribune Media terminated the merger and filed a breach of contract lawsuit; this came several weeks after the FCC voted to bring the deal up for a formal review and lead commissioner Ajit Pai publicly rejected it.

Nexstar ownership and CW affiliation
Following the collapse of the Sinclair merger, Nexstar Media Group announced it would acquire Tribune Media in a $6.4 billion all-cash deal on December 3, 2018, which also included all outstanding Tribune debt. Approved by the FCC on September 16, 2019, the merger was completed three days later.

KAUT replaced KOCB as the Oklahoma City affiliate of The CW on September 1, 2023, a year after Nexstar bought majority control of the network. The switch in affiliation coincided with Sinclair receiving the CW affiliations in Seattle and Pittsburgh.

Newscasts
After KAUT-TV was purchased by KFOR-TV, the KFOR news department extended to add newscasts on channel 43. A 9 p.m. newscast debuted in June 2006, originally anchored by Ernie Paulson and former KOCO-TV weekend evening anchor Cherokee Ballard. The station also airs a morning news and entertainment program, Rise and Shine.

Subchannels
The station's ATSC 1.0 channels are carried on the multiplexed signals of three other Oklahoma City TV stations:

Analog-to-digital conversion and spectrum repack
KAUT-TV launched a digital signal on UHF channel 40 on April 24, 2006. The station originally planned to transmit on UHF channel 42 by the May 1, 2002, deadline for full-power television stations to sign on a digital signal; however, the assignment was also given to KTFO in Tulsa. As a result, Viacom Television Stations Group requested channel 40 for KAUT's digital signal instead. KAUT discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over UHF channel 43, on February 17, 2009, the original date for the federally mandated digital television transition. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 40 until relocating to channel 19 on December 1, 2018, as a result of the 2016 United States wireless spectrum auction.

ATSC 3.0 deployment
KAUT-TV became the host station for ATSC 3.0 (NextGen TV) broadcasting on October 8, 2020. KAUT provides 3.0 signals of subchannels of itself and four other Oklahoma City-area stations: KFOR-TV, KOCO-TV, KOKH-TV, and KOCB.

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KSBI

KSBI (channel 52), branded as News 9 Plus, is a television station in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States, affiliated with MyNetworkTV. It is owned by locally based Griffin Media alongside CBS affiliate KWTV-DT (channel 9). The two stations share studios on West Main Street in downtown Oklahoma City; KSBI's transmitter is located on the city's northeast side.

Locke Supply ownership
The UHF channel 52 allocation was contested between two groups that vied to hold the construction permit to build a new station on the frequency. The first prospective permittee was Satellite Broadcasting Company – a religious nonprofit corporation headed by Donald J. Locke, owner of Oklahoma City-based regional hardware store chain Locke Supply Company, and his wife, Wanda McKenzie Locke – which petitioned the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) allocate a ninth television frequency in the Oklahoma City market (originally to have been assigned to Edmond) in the spring of 1979. The FCC Broadcast Bureau contended that, even though Edmond had no television channel assignments, Satellite Broadcasting failed to justify that such a need for one in the Oklahoma City suburb existed, but did allow the group to apply for use of the Oklahoma City-assigned allocation with Edmond as a designated city of license under the FCC's "15-mile" rule, which allowed licensees to assign a city of license located 15 mi from the city to which the proposed station's broadcast assignment was designated. Satellite Broadcasting filed an application with the FCC for a license and construction permit on October 17, 1980, proposing to sign on a religious television station on the frequency. The second applicant, TV 52 Broadcasting, Inc., filed its own application on January 8, 1981.

The FCC granted the license to Satellite Broadcasting on April 15, 1982; two months later in August 1982, the group applied to use KSBI (standing for Satellite Broadcasting Co., Inc., in reference to the Locke-owned licensee) as the planned station's callsign. After six years of delays in getting KSBI operational, the station first signed on the air on October 3, 1988. KSBI's original studio facilities were housed out of Locke Supply's corporate offices on 82nd Street and Pole Road in southeast Oklahoma City. For its first 16 years on the air, channel 52 was largely run as a religious independent station; station management settled on the format after initially hedging on their original plans to institute a religious format, which had planned to lease free airtime to churches and televangelists. Atypical of most television stations on the air at that time, KSBI originally broadcast on a part-time basis, airing Monday through Fridays from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. during a six-month test broadcasting stage. Programming expanded to 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. by March 1, 1989.

The station was exclusively available over-the-air in the market until June 1993, when must-carry rules passed by the FCC that allowed broadcast stations to request mandatory carriage on cable providers went into effect. Cox Cable—whose Oklahoma City system, at the time, only served the city proper and select inner-city suburbs—began offering KSBI on channel 40 (in 1995, Cox moved the station to channel 9, which suffered from co-channel interference from, ironically, the VHF analog signal of CBS affiliate and eventual sister station KWTV, which continued until Cox moved KSBI's basic cable slot to channel 15 in 2007); Multimedia Cablevision—which served outer suburbs including Edmond, Midwest City, Moore and Bethany, all of which are now served by Cox—placed KSBI on channel 33 at that time. In preparation for the addition to Cox and Multimedia, channel 52 adopted an 18-hour daily schedule from 6 a.m. to 12 a.m.; the station would begin broadcasting 24 hours a day by 1996. During most of the 1990s and early 2000s, in addition to airing local and nationally syndicated religious programs, KSBI also carried a limited amount of secular sitcoms, Westerns and movies, some of which were cherry-picked from INSP and FamilyNet. Despite its format, KSBI did not accept or solicit financial support via monetary contributions from viewers.

Beginning in the 1990s, KSBI gradually signed on a network of translator stations throughout the state. Eventually, because of this wide relay network, channel 52 claimed to have the largest broadcast coverage area of any commercial television station in Oklahoma; at its peak, its signal was relayed over fourteen translators serving areas within the Oklahoma City market and in markets adjacent to it such as Tulsa, Elk City, Ponca City and Ardmore. It also gained cable (and eventually, satellite) coverage in the Tulsa, Wichita, Amarillo, Lawton–Wichita Falls and Ada–Sherman markets. In August 1999, the station upgraded its transmitter from an effective radiated power of 1,355 kW to a total power of three million watts, after installing a new transmitter antenna atop the 1,600 ft broadcast tower on 122nd Street and Kelley Avenue in northeast Oklahoma City.

In June 2000, KSBI began including more family-oriented secular programming in themed evening blocks (consisting of western series and films on Mondays; sports on Tuesdays; music programs on Wednesdays; wildlife, outdoor and automotive series on Thursdays; family-focused series on Fridays; classic comedy series on Saturdays; and religious and gospel music programs on Sundays). The inclusion of more secular programs to the schedule was partially cited because of the decline in Southern gospel music programming available on the syndication market. At that time, KSBI placed guidelines for its advertising and program content, prohibiting certain types of advertising (such as for alcoholic beverages or psychic hotlines), infomercials, telethons or religious programs that solicited donations from viewers.

Sale to Family Broadcasting Group
Following Don Locke's death in February 2000, Locke Supply's board of directors—led by Locke's former wife, Wanda McKenzie, who took over as the company's chief executive officer—were approached by various station owners beginning in April 2001 for offers to acquire KSBI, its regional translator network and low-power sister station KXOC-LP (channel 54, later on channel 41; now defunct). In the interim, KSBI and its sister properties were involuntarily transferred from Locke's estate to an employee stock ownership plan handled by Locke Supply, which received FCC approval on November 17 of that year. The company ultimately decided to sell off the stations to focus on operating the Locke Supply chain that Don Locke founded more than three decades earlier. On October 8, 2001, Locke Supply agreed to sell KSBI to Christian Media Group, a newly formed locally based company that was founded by former KWTV meteorologist Brady Brus; his sister and local media personality Brenda Bennett; John Benefiel, senior pastor of Church on the Rock; and media executive Jerry Mash.

However, Christian Media's agreement to buy the station would fall apart, after the upstart company failed to pay its $15 million bid to purchase KSBI from Locke. The company attempted to accrue the funds to buy the cluster, but were unable to obtain the needed cash, even after it was granted several extensions to come up with the money. Station management subsequently increased the estimated purchase value to $20 million, largely because of the station's then-recent launch of its digital television signal; KSBI was the first in Oklahoma to offer two digital subchannels, including HDNet and a simulcast of its analog feed.

Brus and Bennett would get a second chance to acquire KSBI, KXOC and the former's translator network on July 8, 2003, when Locke sold the stations to Family Broadcasting Group of Oklahoma, Inc., a restructuring of the former Christian Media Group that the siblings co-founded with Brady's wife, certified public accountant and treasurer Angie Brus; and Joe Bowie, co-president/CEO of Retirement Investment Advisors Inc. and Seekfirst Media LLC. The deal included permissory rights for Family Broadcasting to take over the operations of KSBI and KXOC-LP under a time-lease agreement effective July 21, which would continue until the acquisition received regulatory approval by the FCC (officially occurring on January 12, 2004);  the sale was finalized on March 17, 2004.

After Family Broadcasting assumed full control of the station, KSBI was repositioned as a family-oriented general entertainment independent with syndicated secular programming that contained minimal to no sexual content, overt violence or strong profanity added to the schedule (programs that contained some degree of the aforementioned content were edited—usually through muting of profanity and occasional, abrupt commercial interruptions to omit scenes containing adult material—to fit the station's content standards). Most of the initial secular programs seen on KSBI under Brus' management consisted of sitcoms, drama series and westerns from the 1960s to the early 1990s.

The station also launched a weather department—which it heavily invested in—and aired local weather updates throughout the broadcast day (including five-minute midday, late afternoon and evening updates on weekdays presented by a two-person on-camera weather staff led by Brus, who also served as the station's chief meteorologist in addition to his duties as its owner and general manager), incorporating interactive touch screen technology for its weather presentation and installing a network of remote cameras throughout various cities across Oklahoma (branded as the "KSBI Statecam Network"). In February 2004, the station became the first television station in Oklahoma to provide severe weather watches and warnings in both English and Spanish. Channel 52 also eventually added sporting events to its schedule, consisting mainly of basketball and football games from state high school and Southeastern Conference collegiate teams.

While its syndicated inventory was fairly limited early on, KSBI eventually expanded its programming slate; this began in the fall of 2008 with the additions of NurseTV, Lost and American Chopper, followed the next year by the acquisitions of Deadliest Catch, Cold Case Files, The Martha Stewart Show, Judge Hatchett, My Wife and Kids and then the addition of The King of Queens to the schedule in the spring of 2010.

Chesapeake Energy co-founders Aubrey McClendon and Tom L. Ward purchased a portion of Family Broadcasting stock in January 2007; this investment occurred after Family's equity was restructured to retire all long-term debt.

After reaching a deal with the NBA's Oklahoma City Thunder to telecast select regular season game in 2008, KSBI rebranded as "Thunder TV". That year, the station also began construction on a new state-of-the-art studio facility in Yukon; completed in the spring of 2009, KSBI relocated to the new facility by that September. That year, DirecTV began carrying KSBI's programming in the Tulsa area as an out-of-market station (the station was removed from the satellite provider in January 2012 following a carriage dispute between Family Broadcasting Group and DirecTV).

Family Broadcasting appointed two former KOCO-TV veterans as lead executives on November 1, 2010: Vince Orza and Jerry Hart became KSBI's president/CEO and vice president/operations manager, respectively. Orza and Hart worked together at KOCO during the 1980s. The station also divested some of its translators; six were converted into repeaters of former sister station KXOC-LP, while two others based in Enid and Stillwater continued to rebroadcast KSBI's signal. The station updated its programming mix, shifting from classic series to newer syndicated programs while introducing a slate of new locally produced shows.

KSBI affiliated with MyNetworkTV on September 17, 2012, replacing KAUT-TV (channel 43), which reverted to independent status.

Griffin ownership
In September 2014, KSBI cancelled the majority of their local output, including talk show Oklahoma Live and game show Wild Card, and laid off most of its employees. One week later, Family Broadcasting agreed to sell KSBI to KWTV owner Griffin Communications; Griffin previously sought to purchase KSBI in 2001, and was outbid by Christian Media Group. Griffin executives touted the addition of KSBI as a new way to offer CBS network shows and syndicated programming that KWTV would preempt in the event of severe weather coverage or breaking news.

KSBI was rebranded as "News 9 Plus", a brand extension of KWTV, on March 1, 2017.

Griffin Communications purchased the Century Center business and retail complex in downtown Oklahoma City for $26 million on July 12, 2021, for the company's new corporate headquarters, along with new facilities for KWTV and KSBI. The new studios were completed on November 12, 2022.

Local programming
Upon taking over the operations of Family Broadcasting Group in 2010, CEO Vince Orza and vice president Jerry Hart began developing local programming for KSBI that would serve as an alternative to the news-based local programs on other Oklahoma City area stations, featuring a mix of talk, lifestyle and entertainment programs.

Initial local programs produced under Orza and Hart's management of the station—neither of which gained much ratings momentum—included the lifestyle-oriented talk program All About You (which was cancelled in June 2012), local cooking show Oklahoma Cooks (which was cancelled in August 2012), movie review program Hollywood Spotlight (a revival of the program that originally aired on KOCO-TV until 1997, both incarnations were hosted by Dino Lalli; the revived program was cancelled in December 2012) and the sports discussion program OK Sports Wrap (which was cancelled in May 2013). Orza also provided a commentary segment that aired during certain commercial breaks titled Common Sense, in which Orza gave his opinion on a particular national or local news story; these segments were discontinued in 2014.

2011 and 2012 saw the debuts of four new programs: the daytime interview show Oklahoma Live!, country music showcase Oklahoma Centennial Rodeo Opry (a co-production with the Opry Heritage Foundation of Oklahoma, which was taped at the Oklahoma Opry in Oklahoma City's Capitol Hill district, and hosted by local radio DJ Owen Pickard; the program was distributed nationally on Pursuit Channel from September 2012 until its cancellation), Dog Talk (a program aimed at dog owners, hosted by Pat Becker) and College Bowl-style quiz show Mind Games (the program, featuring teams from colleges and universities across Oklahoma, was retitled Mind Games: College Edition in 2012, when a spinoff called Mind Games: High School Edition featuring contestants from Oklahoma high schools debuted). In November 2013, KSBI debuted the trivia game show Wild Card (hosted by former KWTV sports/news anchor and Mind Games host Ed Murray) and Night Music, a weekly music series hosted by Allison Gappa that featured repurposed music performances from Oklahoma Live! (which was cancelled in February 2014). Oklahoma Live and Wild Card were cancelled shortly before the sale to Griffin was announced in September 2014; the remaining local shows were dropped once Griffin took over KSBI that December (of these programs, only Dog Talk continues in production, as KAUT-TV assumed the rights to the program in May 2015).

Sports programming
Under Family Broadcasting ownership, KSBI carried high school sports, mainly football and basketball post-season tournaments, via the Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Association (OSSAA) from 2005 through 2010. In April 2008, KSBI televised select Oklahoma City Yard Dawgz games from the Arena Football League.

The station was the over-the-air home of Oklahoma City Thunder games and ancillary team programming starting with the team's 2008–09 inaugural season, sharing broadcast rights with Fox Sports Oklahoma. This deal ended in 2010, when the Thunder gave Fox Sports Oklahoma broadcast exclusivity. KSBI also carried Texas Rangers games on Friday evenings via KTXA's over-the-air network during the 2012 season. In 2024, the Thunder returned to KSBI as part of an 8 game agreement for Friday night games.

High school football coverage returned to KSBI beginning in 2015 through a new agreement with the OSSAA, with game coverage on Friday nights and select Thursday nights in addition to Class 5A and 6A football championships. This agreement was expanded to include Class 5A and 6A high school basketball championship games in 2017.

KBSI carried all OKC Energy FC home games from 2016 to 2018, when the United Soccer League signed an exclusive league-wide streaming deal with ESPN+. Since 2016, the station has carried games from the Thunder's NBA G League affiliate, the Oklahoma City Blue.

Newscasts
After being purchased by Family Broadcasting Group in early 2004, KSBI launched Hello Oklahoma, a daily talk show with news updates and weather forecasts from Brady Bus. By 2008, the station aired a daily early-evening newscast, Oklahoma News Tonight, and utilitzed satellite technology for newsgathering. Following a studio move in August 2010, Bus announced intentions to launch late-evening newscasts on KSBI but after a managerial change that November, the station dropped all local news programming and added The Daily Buzz in early mornings; this was estimated to save the station up to $200,000 annually. Former anchor Kealey McIntire was reassigned to host a lifestyle program It's About You, and sports anchor Brian Birchell hosted OK Sports Wrap.

Since February 3, 2015, KSBI has simulcast KWTV's noon newscast.

Subchannels
The station's signal is multiplexed:

Analog-to-digital conversion
KSBI began transmitting a digital television signal on UHF channel 51 on February 1, 2003. The station chose to continue to simultaneously operate its analog and digital signals past the original February 17, 2009 digital television transition deadline; as KSBI operated a weather department at the time, this was done in order to enable viewers that were not prepared for the transition to continue receiving emergency weather information during the Spring 2009 severe weather season. The station discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over UHF channel 52, on June 1, 2009. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 51, using PSIP to display KSBI's virtual channel as 52 on digital television receivers, which was among the high band UHF channels (52-69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition.

On July 18, 2014, the FCC granted an application to relocate KSBI's digital signal to UHF channel 23; the station continued to operate its existing UHF 51 signal under a special temporary authority (STA), with an on-screen message directing viewers to rescan their digital tuners to receive the UHF 23 signal until KSBI ceased broadcasting on UHF channel 51 on August 1, 2014.

Translators
KSBI is additionally rebroadcast over a network of four low-power digital translator stations:
 * Elk City: K20NJ-D
 * Sayre: K21JN-D
 * Strong City: K23IZ-D
 * Weatherford: K35MQ-D

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Mandatory firearm law
Wasn't the mandatory firearm law in retort to a NJ city/county that banned firearms? -CasualSax

No. It was a town in Illinois that sparked, as we in Kennesaw like to call it, "The Law Heard 'round the World." I believe it was Oak Grove (or Park), IL.

 * Morton Grove, IL was the first, in 1981, and according to the Kennesaw Historical Society, was the trigger for Kennesaw's law. Oak Park, another Chicago suburb, passed its handgun ban in 1984 (following Evanston, in 1982). will.jennings 01:07, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

 * The rest of the country makes fun of y'all for passing such a law, the rest of North Georgia makes fun of y'all for needing it in the first place. :P
 * ~Firestorm from Pickens County.170.215.105.210 07:09, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

 * The rest of the country thinks the law is pretty cool and yes, Kennesaw is a nice place to live. Everytime I hear Pickens County in the news, I automatically think hicktown so unfounded bias can go both ways can't it?
 * ~Firehurricane from Cobb County. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 167.245.244.2 (talk) 17:56, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Isn't it rather simple to post the statistics in the article and say truthfully, whether or not the crime rate decreased after the gun law was put in effect? I don't understand why this has to be ambiguous. 208.59.130.243 19:47, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

 * I agree. The stats should be settled one way or the other. Brian Pearson 01:41, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

 * Agreed. So, if anyone can find them... Mordac 17:08, 26 April 2007 (GMT)

 * I am concerned that it may misrepresent correlation as causation; crime rates are sensitive to a number of factors and base rates are also important to consider. Since it is not typical to include this information about any municipality, I fear that including it just leads people to associate it with the gun law, and that's fallacious and a subtle form of misinformation. Unless we can find a published study that connects or disconnects the two, it should be left out.134.114.98.42 (talk) 17:30, 6 November 2015 (UTC)

Here is a link to the relevant FBI crime statistics page. http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/05cius/data/table_08_ga.html

I'm not a statistician, so I can't parse the data, but from a quick search and scroll for Kennesaw the crime rate looks low relative to towns of about the same size.

 * I agree completely. As it stands now, the article makes it seem as though no one is sure whether crime rates have fallen or not, but everything I can find indicates that they have definitely fallen. I'm going to add some links to that effect. Bigpeteb 14:48, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Pre-European history
To whom It may concern: What happen with the pre-european or pre-colombian history of Kennesaw without it this is not complete. In Spanish american regions the history is explained relating the available information of all the different Ethnical groups, tribes, nations or World powers that inhabited the area of the Article. Relating the history only giving facts of the European ocupation pictures the begining of the civilization as it started with the arrival of the europeans which is unaccurate and incomplete. Martin R. Rodriguez — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.98.136.127 (talk • contribs) 03:29, January 29, 2006

Latest edits not justified
I'm thinking of reverting the latest set of edits, which removed material citing criminologists who claim there was an increase in Kennesaw's burglary rate. Granted, I think those people are distorting the facts, and all evidence I've found shows that the crime rate is significantly lower, but that's my opinion. The facts are that qualified people haven't agreed on whether the crime rate has dropped, so I think all WP can do is present what experts say in both directions, and then provide facts for the reader to figure it out for themselves. That's the most NPOV way to handle things.

Unless someone can make a convincing counter-argument, I'm going to revert these edits soon. Bigpeteb 17:54, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

 * Oh, and the edit about Kennesaw not having a homicide since 1986 is just plain incorrect. That's coming out right now... Bigpeteb 18:35, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

Legacy Park entry unfounded.
I believe the entry under the heading of Legacy Park is a corporate plug; Legacy Park is a HOA run community, and has plugged in the Kennesaw article, not only in the wrong section, but with un-cited and opinionated information as well. I believe this section should be removed altogether. Ecstasis 04:32, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

I'm deleting this
Read this paragraph:

''Gary Kleck, a criminologist and gun-control critic attributes a drop of 89% in the residential burglary rate to the law.[1] Kennesaw is often cited by advocates of gun ownership as evidence that gun ownership deters crime. (see, for instance, this 2004 sheet of talking points from the Gun Owners Foundation). This is obviously highly biased and "cherrypicked" data. Gun Control Critics, of course, do not take into fact you are 43 times more likely to shoot a family member than a criminal, and do not include any data on family gun violence, the majority of the gun violence that occurs. All their data is based on rare violent crimes against individuals from complete strangers. Studies show that kids, even those taught not to touch a gun, cannot resist picking up a gun when they find it and emulating the play they do with toy guns. A preschooler is 17 times more likely to die from an accidental gun wound in a state like Georgia, than in a state that controls their guns. The majority, if not 100%, come from guns in their home or a friend's home.''

"obviously", "you are 43 times more likely" "studies show that kids" "a state like Georgia".

Encyclopedias are boring and factual, that's the sad truth. You can't go on the Hitler page and say "antisemetism is bad" in 10 different ways because it doesn't cite any outside work and it isn't relevant to the facts of who Hitler was.

If you're ideology is the correct one then the truth should be good enough...document the truths of your ideology with data and put it in a wikipedia article clearly meant to address the facts of gun law efficacy.--Gtg207u 05:28, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

 * I concur...very little of that paragraph have anything to do with the city, or what the city claims, but is an opinion of the editor. Gun control debates need to be posted in the appropriate areas, not on a page about a city or what a city claims. Kennesaw itself claims its crime rate is lower (as noted on its website), the statement of the claim itself is a fact, whether or not the information in the claim is factual, is not a fact to be debated on the Kennesaw page. Deltaecho5 (talk) 19:38, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

More gun law editing
An editor deleted the following for being unresearched and unreferenced:

''Noted: []'s added to denote not referenced quotes. Also, the above references(ref name="isbn0-472-03162-7")(/ref)(ref name="isbn0-415-17087-7")(/ref) do not address violent crime or crimes other than home burglaries in their long term statistical review and may therefore be inaccurate.''

I guess I didn't care much for the presentation of the material which could be improved. The "footnoting" of material just looks funny. Nevertheless, the book clearly addresses the Kennesaw situation head on. And is its own reference. So it should be restored, however removing the funny "explanation" at the top. Student7 (talk) 23:23, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

Gunlaws, crime stats and graphs
A graph might provide a clearer picture by virtue of additional context: FBI's UCR stats for Kennesaw, and select others. It seems like the narrative that has Kennesaw benefiting from an extraordinary reduction in crime due to the gunlaw is built on a series of omissions. un☯mi 10:27, 19 December 2012 (UTC)

Also - the page currently states "Crime rates declined from 2003 through 2008". And yet the page it uses for evidence has a chart which clearly shows that violent crime was higher in 2008 than they were in 2003. Plus, the source article starts by suggesting that violent crime in the city is actually on the rise and that rates for 2013 are estimated to exceed 2011. Perhaps the source article has outpaced the original statement, but the original statement certainly appears blatantly false now. I would recommend replacing the phrase with the introductory quote from the source article. Inkless (talk) 03:25, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

 * Basically, Kennesaw is too small and homogenous to tell whether "armed households" reduce crime rate or not. There is no real control group. And no one is enforcing the "requirement" that every household own a gun.
 * "Violent crime" is different from crime, generally. Violent crime often has, as a major component, domestic disputes. Hopefully not "solved" by weapons. The statements, as presented, are not at variance with one another.
 * However, one would suspect that burglaries might drop if they thought homeowners were actually home and armed. The "actually home" part is the problem. Burglars usually skip those homes anyway, not bothering to check whether some city has a gun ownership law or not, however poorly enforced. Student7 (talk) 18:37, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

The previous edit was changed in what seems like a highly erroneous way. While the last sentence might fall under WP:Crystal, the rest of the paragraph - based on past data, clearly does not. Now the text gives the opposite information from the original source article while removing any citation. Removing the final sentence makes sense, but changing the first two to contradict the source article makes no sense at all. If you want to make sure that the past data is being highlighted, the text could be made to read:

"From 1999 to 2011, Kennesaw crime statistics reported an overall upward trend in crime with violent crime increasing and property crime increasing."

And source the original article. However, the current edit is giving false information again. Inkless (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 15:09, 2 April 2013 (UTC)

Also, the wnd.com article being cited in the Gun Law section offers no references itself and the numbers don't seem to add up against anything else. Kennesaw was never higher than the national average for crime, and the numbers for 2005 were higher, not lower. In fact, by 2005 overall crime appears to have nearly doubled in Kennesaw. Inkless (talk) 15:33, 2 April 2013 (UTC)

 * Crimes rates are still lower even though they have risen. Probably similar to most suburban locales. Student7 (talk) 19:13, 7 April 2013 (UTC)

You are still saying that crime rates have risen, as do the stats. Yet a year later, the article reads as if crimes rates have been lowered due to the mandatory gun law. Stats show they have not and the article should read to reflect that. Inkless (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 14:35, 30 April 2014 (UTC)

And why was the "ironically a gun free zone" comment edited out, and then edited back in? The edit notes, correctly, that the cited source does not identify the Fed Ex a such. Plus - ironically? Seriously? That's not irony, people, and it shows the bias of the edit. Inkless (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 14:44, 30 April 2014 (UTC)

biased and not up to standards
Ths sentence, "Later research claims that there is no evidence that [the law] reduced the rate of home burglaries [in Kennesaw],[20]"

Whoever added the above line is clearly grasping at straws here. One, the cited material is not "research" about Kennesaw - it's a book. Two, opinion pieces don't qualify under wikipdias standards of cited material.". Might as well change his sentence to read "some author wrote a book that suggests the law didn't reduce crime, while there are also authors that have written books tht suggests it does reduce crime." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.194.216.173 (talk) 22:18, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

Flagged as potentially not neutral
As the talk above can show, this article has routinely either mischaracterized sources, removed sources, or accepted edits without citation to support the idea the Kennesaw's gun law supports David Kopel (a well known gun rights activist) and his opinion that "guns save lives". Despite the fact that Kennesaw may be "lower than the national average", the stats (http://www.cityrating.com/crime-statistics/georgia/kennesaw.html#.UVrxXqtASb0) still show that violent crime has been on the rise and continues to be on the rise. Now that there has been a mass shooting in Kennesaw, the discussion has increased importance and edits have already show to continue this bias by only giving the shooting a casual reference while emphasizing the importance that the FedEx building was "gun free", despite no clear citation to that fact. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Inkless (talk • contribs) 15:12, 30 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Frankly, this article appears to be nothing more than a platform for the pro-gun lobby. I don't see any reason to discuss the gun law any further than its existence.  Anything else is just begging for POV, and is frankly beyond the scope of this article.  This article is about a very historic city, yet a goodly amount of its content is discussing what is fundamentally a current event.  Applicable policy here includes WP:NOTNEWS and WP:UNDUE, plus of course WP:NPOV. John from Idegon (talk) 20:52, 2 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Today, I removed all the content that was sourced to non-WP:RS sources. John from Idegon (talk) 20:11, 8 May 2014 (UTC)
 * The paragraphy rm was
 * "Gun rights activist David Kopel stated that there is evidence that this gun law has reduced the incident rate of home burglaries citing that in the first year, home burglaries dropped from 65 before the ordinance, down to 26 in 1983, and to 11 in 1984. The overall crime rate had decreased by more than 50% between 1982 and 2005. Another report observed a noticeable reduction in burglary from 1981, the year before the ordinance was passed, to 1999. A 2001 media report stated that Kennesaw's crime rates continued to decline and were well below the national average, making citizens feel safer and more secure. The city's website says that the city has the lowest crime rate in Cobb county."
 * Removing this implies that David Kopel is WP:NN. The quote appears to be in an Amicus Curiae before the US Supreme Court, which I suppose anyone can file. I agree it is quoted off his website.
 * Is your objection to newsmax as a rs?
 * Everyone seems to be making a big deal out of this. It has made national news a number of times. I don't think anyone in his/her right mind would base a national policy that homeowners should or shouldn't own weapons based on Kennesaw's experience. It is simply a national news story for a small town.
 * Their "sister" town, Acworth, Georgia passed an ordinance (also not enforced) just afterwards suggesting that "everyone" must own a leave rake or a broom or something. The inference being that if you're going to make someone own something, it should be "useful!" This too made the news, but not quite as much publicity as Kennesaw. Student7 (talk) 21:50, 13 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks for stopping by, . Actually, I do object to newsmax and WND.  Read their user terms.  Their content is user-driven and they disavow any responsibility for it, pretty much the definition of a non-WP:RS.  Although others mileage may vary, I don't put all that much credence in the city's own reporting of crime stats either, as they have a political agenda to support the law they passed.  The FBI crime stats may be a bit more reliable, but even then, an analysis or an analytical discussion of the ramifications of a given law are really beyond the scope of this article.  If someone were to want to write an article on the law, more power to them.  The law is mentioned, although it could use to be referenced with some of those national discussions you have mentioned.  So, in summation, the info from Kopel is self-sourced--not reliable.  The amicus brief is just that: A brief and worthless as a source.  Newsmax and WND are user driven and hence not reliable.  The city is a primary source and IMHO not very reliable for potentially controversial info on themselves.  After that there are no sources.  Add to that the conflict level this one section has generated and I think we'd be better off with the implications of the law being spun off into its own article.  Let someone ho doesn't watch settlement articles worry about it.  John from Idegon (talk) 22:45, 13 May 2014 (UTC)
 * One thing that's gone missing (not sure when) is the history of the law, specifically that it was passed as a reaction to Morton Grove's law banning handguns. Any objections to adding this info back in? --Bigpeteb (talk) 14:05, 14 May 2014 (UTC)
 * My problem here would be perception. If it so stated in the ordinance, I guess okay. My objection is that it may be non-WP:TOPIC to Kennesaw. That is, the national news did not report it as a "Morton Grove reaction" but rather stand-alone (news). The flip side to this is would the Kennesaw ordinance be allowed in the Morton Grove article? Student7 (talk) 14:51, 14 May 2014 (UTC)
 * For, David Kopel is notable ("expert"). I concede that I wouldn't want everyone notable person's remarks in here, but let's just take the one by himself. Since he is notable, can his remarks (from an otherwise reliable source) be used? Student7 (talk) 14:51, 14 May 2014 (UTC)
 * I would have a problem with Kopel's statements being in the article. Why?  Simple, really.  The discussion that was there was pretty unbalanced to the so-called "Pro-gun" side of the issue.  This is a contentious issue that must be balanced to provide the required WP:NPOV.  The whole thing, IMHO, should just be avoided.  After all, we are not discussing the political issues that caused the civil war in the section here on the extensive civil war history associated with this community, right?  By the time we include enough content to balance the issue POV-wise, we are back to the section on the gun law, which in historical perspective, is rather minor, being as big or bigger than the section on the civil war, which is clearly WP:UNDUE.  It is my feeling that anything beyond the fact that the law was passed is a WP:TOPIC issue.  As people who watch this article on a city in Georgia, it is an unneeded burden and a distraction to the people who come to this article looking for info on a city in Georgia.  It is far from being anything in the way of a major part of the overall story on this community and allowing anything more than the existence of the law in is inviting a big political debate.  No-one is going to be coming to this article to get informed on gun policy issues;  they are looking for info about a community in Georgia. John from Idegon (talk) 18:01, 14 May 2014 (UTC)

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KOPX-TV

KOPX-TV (channel 62) is a television station in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States, affiliated with Ion Television. Owned by Inyo Broadcast Holdings, the station maintains offices on Railway Drive in north Oklahoma City, and its transmitter is located near 122nd Street on the city's northeast side.

History
The station first signed on the air on March 16, 1996, as KMNZ; it was originally an affiliate of the Infomall TV Network (inTV), a service operated by Paxson Communications that specialized in paid programming. On August 31, 1998, KOPX became a charter station of the family-oriented Pax TV network (later reformatted into a general entertainment service as i: Independent Television, now Ion Television), with religious programming from The Worship Network airing during the overnight hours.

Newscasts
In November 2002, in relation to agreements between Pax TV and several major network affiliates (most of which were affiliated with NBC, which held a minority interest in Pax), KOPX began airing tape delayed rebroadcasts of morning and late evening newscasts from NBC affiliate KFOR-TV (channel 4). The 6 a.m. hour of the morning newscast aired on a one-hour tape delay (at 7 a.m.), while the 10 p.m. newscast aired on a half-hour delay (at 10:30 p.m.), with the latter beginning shortly before the live 10 p.m. newscast on KFOR-TV ended. The news share agreement ended on June 30, 2005 (coinciding with Pax's rebranding as i: Independent Television), due to Paxson Communications' decision to discontinue carriage of network affiliate newscasts as a result of Pax's financial troubles.

Subchannels
The station's signal is multiplexed:

Analog-to-digital conversion
KOPX-TV began transmitting a digital television signal on UHF channel 50 on November 1, 2002. The station discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over UHF channel 62, on June 12, 2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 50, using virtual channel 62.

As a part of the repacking process following the 2016–2017 FCC incentive auction, KOPX-TV relocated to UHF channel 18 in 2019.

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