KTVQ, channel 25, is a now-defunct television station

Television station

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, that served as an affiliate for the ABC

American Broadcasting Company

The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...

 television network. The station was licensed to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Oklahoma City is the capital and the largest city in the state of Oklahoma. The county seat of Oklahoma County, the city ranks 31st among United States cities in population. The city's population, from the 2010 census, was 579,999, with a metro-area population of 1,252,987 . In 2010, the Oklahoma...

, and operated in its original form from 1953 to 1956. Channel 25 currently operates as Fox

Fox Broadcasting Company

Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox Network or simply Fox , is an American commercial broadcasting television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Launched on October 9, 1986, Fox was the highest-rated broadcast network in the...

 affiliate KOKH.

History

KTVQ signed on in 1953, and operated as the original full-time ABC affiliate for the Oklahoma City television market, and was one of the then-relatively few ABC network affiliates operating on the UHF dial. The station, the first to sign on in the Oklahoma City area since the FCC-imposed freeze on station licenses was lifted in 1953, took the ABC affiliation from primary NBC affiliate WKY-TV

KFOR-TV

KFOR-TV, virtual channel 4 , is the NBC-affiliated television station in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. KFOR-TV is owned by Local TV, a subsidiary of the private equity group Oak Hill Capital Partners, in a duopoly with MyNetworkTV affiliate KAUT-TV ; its studios are located at 444 East Britton Road in...

 (channel 4, now KFOR-TV). Current ABC affiliate KOCO-TV

KOCO-TV

KOCO-TV, virtual channel 5 , is the ABC affiliate in the Oklahoma City television market. The station is owned by Hearst Television, Inc., but uses "Ohio/Oklahoma Hearst Television, Inc." as their end tag during their newscasts, the same licensing purpose corporation as sister Cincinnati, Ohio...

 (channel 5), was at the time operating out of Enid

Enid, Oklahoma

Enid is a city in Garfield County, Oklahoma, United States. In 2010, the population was 49,379, making it the ninth largest city in Oklahoma. It is the county seat of Garfield County. Enid was founded during the opening of the Cherokee Outlet in the Land Run of 1893, and is named after Enid, a...

 in Garfield County, Oklahoma

Garfield County, Oklahoma

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 and operating under the call letters KGEO-TV.

KTVQ had little success, largely in part because television manufacturers were not required to include UHF tuning capability on sets until 1964. KTVQ went dark in 1956. In the interim, WKY-TV took back ABC as a secondary affiliation. Channel 5 moved its operations to Oklahoma City in 1958, in a move similar to Tulsa's ABC affiliate, KTUL-TV (channel 8), which moved its operations from Muskogee, Oklahoma

Muskogee, Oklahoma

Muskogee is a city in Muskogee County, Oklahoma, United States. It is the county seat of Muskogee County, and home to Bacone College. The population was 38,310 at the 2000 census, making it the eleventh-largest city in Oklahoma....

 (under the call sign KTVX) to Tulsa in 1957.

The dormant channel 25 license was purchased in 1959, and it resumed operations as independent educational station KOKH that same year. On October 1, 1979, KOKH switched its format to a general entertainment independent station featuring cartoons, classic sitcoms, and movies. KOKH ceased to be an independent station in 1991, when PBS

Public Broadcasting Service

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 member station KETA (channel 13, the flagship station of the Oklahoma Educational Television Authority

Oklahoma Educational Television Authority

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), purchased then-Fox affiliate KAUT (channel 43), after which KOKH took the Fox affiliation from KAUT.