city oklahoma branding cw 34 slogan dare to defy channels digital 33 uhf virtual 34 psip subchannels 34.1 the cw 34.2 gettv 34.3 comet translators k36iy d weatherford k34jk d elk city k30jp d sayre k22ic d strong city k49do d seiling affiliations the cw owner sinclair broadcast group kocb licensee llc first air date november 28 1979 1979 11 28 call letters meaning oklahoma city broadcasting former licensee or oklahoma city s best reference to former slogan sister station s kokh tv ktul tulsa former callsigns kgmc 1979 1990 former channel number s analog 34 uhf 1979 2009 former affiliations independent 1979 1993 pten 1993 1995 upn 1995 1998 the wb 1998 2006 transmitter power 1 000 kw height 457.6 m facility id 50170 transmitter coordinates 35 32 57.6 n 97 29 18.8 w 35.549333 n 97.488556 w 35.549333 ; 97.488556 licensing authority fcc public license information profile cdbs website cwokc.com kocb virtual channel 34 uhf digital channel 33 is a cw affiliated television station located in oklahoma city oklahoma united states . the station is owned by the sinclair broadcast group as part of a duopoly with fox affiliate kokh tv channel 25 . the two stations share studio and transmitter facilities located on east wilshire boulevard on the city s northeast side situated to the adjacent east of the respective studio facilities of cbs affiliate kwtv dt channel 9 and the oklahoma educational television authority pbs member network . contents 1 history 1.1 as an independent station 1.2 transitioning to network affiliation 1.3 affiliation with the cw 2 digital television 2.1 digital channels 2.2 analog to digital conversion 3 programming 3.1 sports programming 4 newscasts 5 references 6 external links history edit as an independent station edit the station first signed on the air on november 28 1979 as kgmc tv ; originally operating as an independent station it was founded by general media corporation . channel 34 was the first television station to sign on in the oklahoma city market in 25 years but missed being the first commercial station to sign on since that timeframe as kokh tv channel 25 now a fox affiliate had converted from an educational to a commercial independent seven weeks before and the second independent station in both oklahoma city and the state of oklahoma . its programming format featured a mix of cartoons classic sitcoms westerns dramas religious programs and some older movies . the station s original studio facilities were located at 1501 northeast 85th street south of oklahoma city s britton section . kgmc was purchased by seraphim media in 1983 . in 1987 pappas telecasting companies proposed a deal to buy kokh and acquire the programming inventories of kgmc and then fox affiliate kaut channel 43 now an independent station and migrate their syndicated programs and the fox affiliation to kokh . the proposal called for channel 34 to run 15 to 18 hours of programming from the home shopping network and six hours of religious programs each day along with some children s programming and barter entertainment shows . heritage media would then sell kaut to the oklahoma educational television authority which would convert it into a pbs member station . this deal eventually fell apart and the potential purchase by pappas was canceled in 1988 . 1 general media subsequently sold kgmc to maddox broadcasting in 1989 . during the late 1980s and early 1990s kgmc adopted a very sophisticated on air look for an independent station in a mid sized market using cgi graphics of near network quality . on february 9 1989 kgmc licensee oklahoma city broadcasting inc. controlled by the family of stock speculator ivan boesky who was sentenced to a three year prison term in december 1987 for his involvement in an insider trading scandal filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection . 2 3 that may kgmc co founder and then general manager ted baze attempted to gain full ownership of oklahoma city broadcasting . 4 in september 1990 the station changed its call letters to kocb named after the licensee 5 the kgmc call letters are now used by a mundofox affiliate on channel 43 in clovis california . in 1991 the u.s. bankruptcy court for the western district of oklahoma approved a reorganization plan in which oklahoma city broadcasting inc. would pay most of its creditors in full with interest within 21 months . 6 in 1993 kocb was acquired by superior broadcasting . 7 that year the station began airing programming from the prime time entertainment network syndication service remaining with pten until 1995 . transitioning to network affiliation edit kocb became a charter affiliate of the united paramount network when the network launched on january 16 1995 . 8 outside of upn primetime programming the station otherwise continued with a general entertainment programming format and continued to run films in primetime as upn initially broadcast only on monday and tuesday evenings at launch the network would later expand its primetime programming to five nights a week in 1999 ; it also retained the tv 34 branding that the station used as an independent . channel 34 was purchased by the sinclair broadcast group in 1996 . on july 21 1997 sinclair signed an affiliation agreement with the wb to switch the affiliations of kocb and its four other upn affiliates to the network . 9 prior to the agreement oklahoma city residents were only able to receive the wb s programming through cable and satellite from the national superstation feed of the network s chicago affiliate wgn tv . kocb affiliated with the wb on january 25 1998 rebranding as wb 34 . the switch left the oklahoma city market without a upn affiliate for nearly six months ; two weeks earlier on january 8 the paramount stations group owned by upn s part owner at the time viacom purchased channel 43 10 which was operating as oeta owned pbs member station ktlc as a result of a 1990 trade deal involving it and kokh by heritage broadcasting that was separate from the earlier pappas proposal ; it became a upn owned and operated station as kpsg on june 19 1998 the station reverted to its original kaut call letters that november . in 1998 sinclair began managing kokh under a local marketing agreement with that station s then owner sullivan broadcasting ; sinclair purchased channel 25 outright in late 2003 creating a duopoly with kocb . channel 34 subsequently vacated its northeast 85th street studios and relocated its operations 1 mile 1.6 km south southwest to kokh s studio facility at 1228 east wilshire boulevard . in september 2002 kocb discontinued the wb 34 branding changing it to the wb oklahoma city due in part to the fact that many central oklahoma residents view kocb on cable television available to most area cable providers on channel 11 . affiliation with the cw edit on january 24 2006 cbs corporation and time warner announced that the company would shut down the wb and upn the latter of which became owned by cbs one month earlier following the split of cbs and viacom and incorporate some of their programs on a newly created joint venture network the cw . 11 on may 2 2006 sinclair broadcast group confirmed that kocb would become the oklahoma city affiliate of the cw likely due to its status at the time as one of the wb s highest rated affiliates ranking as the network s most watched station overall during the 2004 05 season . 12 the station became a cw affiliate upon the network s september 18 2006 debut the day after the wb ended operations ; kaut ended up affiliating with mynetworktv another new network developed by the fox television stations and twentieth television subsidiaries of news corporation . 13 14 with the switch kocb rebranded as the cw oklahoma city before rebranding again as cw34 in august 2007 . on august 28 2007 a transmission line at kocb s transmitter facility failed while the station was airing a dallas cowboys preseason game leaving the station off the air for the better part of two weeks . kocb s analog and digital signals remained dark until 3 00 p.m. on august 29 only for the transmitter to fail again that night around 12 00 a.m. the station s direct fiber optic studio feed that was fed to headends operated by cox communications was only interrupted for a short time . kocb s over the air signal returned to the air about two weeks later in time for the start of the cw s fall 2007 primetime schedule . the cw extended its affiliation agreement with kocb and sinclair s 10 other cw affiliated stations at the time for five years on july 19 2011 which will keep kocb affiliated with the network until at least august 2016 . 15 on march 5 2012 kocb and kokh became the last stations in the oklahoma city market to carry syndicated programs station promos and commercials in high definition rebroadcasts of kokh s newscasts continued to be broadcast in 4 3 standard definition until august 2013 when that station upgraded its newscast production to hd . digital television edit digital channels edit the station s digital channel is multiplexed channel video aspect psip short name programming 16 34.1 720p 16 9 kocb hd main kocb tv programming the cw 34.2 480i 4 3 gettv pre 1980s sony classic films 34.3 480i 4 3 comet sci fi fantasy adventure the tube music network was carried on digital subchannel 34.2 starting in 2005 ; it was dropped in december 2006 eleven months before the network ceased operations on october 1 2007 . kocb relaunched the subchannel on october 4 2010 as an affiliate of thecooltv ; it was pulled on august 31 2012 after sinclair dropped the music video network on 32 of its then approximately 70 stations nationwide . 17 on july 1 2014 kocb restored its second digital subchannel when it began carrying the classic movie network gettv as a result of a channel lease agreement with sinclair involving 33 of the company s stations . 18 19 gettv on cox digital channel 216 and comet on cox digital channel 217 . analog to digital conversion edit kocb discontinued regular programming on its analog signal over uhf channel 34 on february 17 2009 as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television which congress had moved the previous month to june 12 . 20 the station s digital signal remained on its pre transition uhf channel 33 using psip to display kocb s virtual channel as 34 on digital television receivers . programming edit in addition to carrying the entire cw network schedule syndicated programs featured on kocb as of september 2016 update include the jerry springer show the steve wilkos show celebrity name game family feud and who wants to be a millionaire . in november 2005 kocb began simulcasting the oklahoma lottery s nightly pick 3 and cash 5 drawings which were carried by kokh through an agreement with the oklahoma lottery commission ; 21 these were discontinued when the lottery ceased the live broadcasts and switched to drawing the numbers via a random number generator in july 2009 powerball drawings continued to air on both station until 2013 although neither carried mega millions after oklahoma became a participant in that multi state lottery in 2011 ; both drawings were carried in the market on cable and satellite through chicago based superstation wgn america until february 2014 . sports programming edit kocb holds the local broadcast rights to nfl preseason games from the dallas cowboys with three to five primetime game telecasts airing annually . the station also runs college basketball games from the big 12 conference through espn plus airing between ten and twelve regular season games each year as well as games from the first