television authority statewide oklahoma united states city keta tv oklahoma city oklahoma koed tv tulsa oklahoma koet tv eufaula oklahoma kwet tv cheyenne oklahoma branding oeta slogan the oklahoma network also the name of oeta s production syndication unit channels digital see table below subchannels see table below affiliations pbs owner oklahoma educational television authority first air date april 13 1956 call letters meaning see table below former affiliations net 1956 1970 transmitter power see table below height see table below facility id see table below transmitter coordinates see table below licensing authority fcc public license information educational television authority profile educational television authority cdbs website www.oeta.tv the oklahoma educational television authority oeta is a state network of pbs member stations covering the state of oklahoma . it is operated by an independent board of gubernatorial appointees and university and education officials ; the board is linked to the executive branch through the secretary of education of the government of oklahoma . the oeta network s main offices and production facilities are located on north kelley avenue in oklahoma city adjacent to the studios of kwtv dt and ksbi with a satellite studio in tulsa that is located on the campus of oklahoma state university tulsa . contents 1 history 1.1 purchase of kaut 2 stations 2.1 full power stations 2.2 translators 2.3 cable and satellite availability 2.4 digital television 2.4.1 digital channels 3 programming 3.1 newscasts 3.2 local program hosts 4 references 5 external links history edit oeta traces its history to 1953 when the oklahoma legislature created it via statute . it was charged with providing educational television programming to oklahomans on a coordinated statewide basis made possible with cooperation from the state s educational government and cultural agencies . after securing a license from the federal communications commission and funding from various special interest groups oklahoma city s keta was finally able to sign on the air as the nation s 11th educational television station and the first non commercial station in oklahoma on april 13 1956 . it was originally a member station of national educational television until net was replaced by the public broadcasting service in 1970 taking over many of the functions of its predecessor . three more stations signed on the course of 19 years with a statewide network of translators also being built during this timeframe extending oeta s programming to portions of kansas missouri arkansas and texas . a satellite station of keta in tulsa koed tv channel 11 went on the air on january 12 1959 . when koed began operations oeta became the second operational educational television state network in the united states after alabama educational television now alabama public television . on december 1 1977 koet channel 3 in eufaula joined the state network as a satellite of koed tv in order to serve areas of east central oklahoma in some areas of that portion of the state the northern fringes of koet s over the air signal coverage overlap with that of koed and in other areas on the western fringe of its coverage area with keta s signal . finally on august 6 1978 kwet channel 12 in cheyenne signed on to serve west central and southwestern oklahoma and a small portion of the eastern texas panhandle . oeta s full power stations cover roughly 80 % of oklahoma s geographic population . the only parts of the state that are not served by a full power oeta member station are the panhandle and the northwestern south central and southeastern parts of the state low power translators that relay the individual feeds of each of the four full power member stations service these areas of oklahoma instead . in 2003 the four oeta member stations began operating digital signals ; in 2005 oeta began broadcasting select pbs programs in high definition . in 2006 the organization launched a full time digital channel oeta okla devoted to local and regional programs along with select pbs content . in december 2008 oeta began producing most of its locally produced productions in high definition . as part of the digital television transition on february 17 2009 the original date for all u.s. full power television stations to switch to digital only broadcasts keta and koed shut down their analog signals . this was followed six weeks later on march 31 2009 by the discontinuance of kwet and koet s analog signals . all the low power translator stations then switched to digital only broadcast on june 12 2009 the rescheduled date for the switch to digital broadcasts on full power stations . in march 2011 oeta moved its tulsa operations into a new facility on the campus of oklahoma state university tulsa . purchase of kaut edit main article kaut tv in 1991 oeta acquired fox affiliate kaut tv channel 43 in oklahoma city from heritage media ; heritage in turn purchased kokh tv channel 25 and migrated kaut s fox affiliation syndicated programming inventory and other intellectual property to that station in addition to acquiring the channel 25 license . 1 on august 15 1991 channel 43 flipped to a non commercial educational programming format as a pbs member station the second in the area after oeta flagship keta tv ; 2 the deal was similar to a 1988 sale attempt by pappas telecasting companies which proposed that kgmc channel 34 now kocb and kaut s programming inventories along with kaut s fox affiliation would be moved to independent station kokh with fellow independent kocb becoming a home shopping network affiliate while kaut became an educational station . the pappas deal fell through in 1989 and the three stations continued on as rival commercial stations until 1991 when heritage traded kaut to oeta . in 1992 the station s callsign was changed to ktlc to reflect its on air branding as the literacy channel a relatively oxymoronic branding as the station s emphasis while educational in form was not entirely focused on literacy . as a pbs station ktlc ran fitness programs on weekday mornings and instructional programs and select pbs series during the late evening hours with children s programs filling much of the schedule from mid morning to early evening this in particular was atypical as most other pbs stations air children s programs only during the daytime hours on their main signals . much of the pbs programs seen on the station during this time frame were rebroadcast from oeta . ktlc reduced its broadcasting hours under oeta ownership signing off nightly at 12 00 a.m. following oeta s own scheduled sign off on weeknights at the time ; the station s weekend schedule which maintained the same broadcast hours as on weekdays was pared back significantly in 1995 as it began broadcasting from 4 00 p.m. to 12 00 a.m. cable providers in the market carried other channels during channel 43 s off hours on the station s designated channel slot ; in oklahoma city proper ktlc shared a channel slot with qvc on cox cable channel 13 that slot suffered from significant interference as keta s analog signal had broadcast on vhf channel 13 . the difficulties in running two stations in the oklahoma city market resulted in oeta s decision to sell channel 43 ; 3 4 paramount stations group purchased ktlc for 23.5 million on january 8 1998 with oeta using the proceeds from the sale to fund the construction of a digital broadcast transmitter for keta . 4 5 paramount s purchase of the station resulted from upn s displacement from kocb which left oklahoma city without a upn affiliate for six months due to a 1997 affiliation agreement between its owner sinclair broadcast group and the wb involving sinclair s five upn affiliates and several independent stations ; kocb joined the wb on january 25 1998 . 6 paramount reverted the station back into a general entertainment format as the market s new upn affiliate kpsg on june 19 of that year the station was originally slated to join upn on june 1 technical difficulties postponed the rescheduled june 13 switch by one more week . 7 8 as a condition of the sale channel 43 was required to run eight hour simulcast blocks of oeta s annual pledge drives each weekend during march and august for five years and pbs educational shows from 7 00 a.m. to 12 00 p.m. after joining upn the station however dropped all pbs programming by 2001 kaut tv is now an independent station owned by tribune broadcasting . stations edit full power stations edit station city of license channels digital first air date call letters meaning erp digital haat digital facility id transmitter coordinates keta tv oklahoma city 13 vhf virtual 13 april 13 1956 oklahoma educational television authority 50 kw 465.2 m 50205 35 35 52 n 97 29 23 w 35.59778 n 97.48972 w 35.59778 ; 97.48972 keta tv koed tv tulsa 11 vhf virtual 11 january 12 1959 oklahoma educational 50 kw 395.8 m 66195 36 1 15 n 95 40 32 w 36.02083 n 95.67556 w 36.02083 ; 95.67556 koed tv koet eufaula 31 uhf virtual 3 december 1 1977 oklahoma educational television 1000 kw 364.1 m 50198 35 11 1 n 95 20 21 w 35.18361 n 95.33917 w 35.18361 ; 95.33917 koet kwet cheyenne 8 vhf virtual 12 august 6 1978 western oklahoma educational television 60 kw 303.2 m 50194 35 35 37 n 99 40 3 w 35.59361 n 99.66750 w 35.59361 ; 99.66750 kwet translators edit direct repeaters of koet k15aa d in hugo k23hy d in idabel direct repeaters of keta k38ak d in ponca city k30ae d in alva k36ke d in ardmore k47ki d in duncan k46ai d in durant k36ab d in lawton k18iz d in grandfield direct repeaters of kwet k19aa d in altus k20it d in boise city k34in d in beaver k48ke d in buffalo k34im d in frederick k16ab d in guymon oeta does not operate any translators in northeastern oklahoma as that region receives adequate over the air signal coverage from koed and koet coupled with the fact that the signals of fellow pbs member stations kozj in joplin missouri and kaft in fayetteville arkansas reach into portions of northeastern oklahoma overlapping the signals of koed and koet in some areas . oeta s translator network also reaches into portions of kansas and texas while koet s over the air signal reaches parts of western arkansas . some of the donations for oeta s festival and augustfest pledge drives come from those states . cable and satellite availability edit oeta is available on all cable television providers within the state of oklahoma . additionally eufaula s koet is carried on cable in fort smith arkansas on cox communications channel 9 ; eufaula is part of the fort smith market . on satellite keta koed and koet are carried on the local directv and dish network feeds for oklahoma city tulsa and fort smith respectively . digital television edit digital channels edit the digital channels of oeta s main full power and low power translator stations are multiplexed with each station carrying three specialized digital subchannels with their own distinct programming channel programming service psip short name video aspect programming description 9 10 11 12 .1 oeta hd oeta hd 1080i 16 9 the member network s main programming schedule ; downcoverted to a 4 3 analog signal for standard definition cable and satellite viewers with high definition content letterboxed to maintain their original aspect ratio . unlike its digital subchannels the main oeta feed does not provide a second audio program sap channel to transmit descriptive video service or alternate language audio feeds of certain pbs and american public television syndicated programs due to technical limitations with dolby digital audio channels . .2 oeta okla okla 480i 4 3 carries recent and archived oeta produced