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| Branding | NewsChannel 8 |
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| History | |
First air date | September 18, 1954 (in Muskogee, Oklahoma, license moved to Tulsa in 1957) |
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Call sign meaning | Taken from KTUL radio, now KTBZ |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 35685 |
| ERP | 1,000 kW |
| HAAT | 578 m (1,896 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 35°58′8″N 95°36′56″W / 35.96889°N 95.61556°W |
| Translator(s) | 24 (UHF) McAlester |
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| Website | ktul |
KTUL (channel 8) is a television station in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States, affiliated with ABC and owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group. The station's studios are located at Lookout Mountain (near South 29th West Avenue, west of Interstate 244) in southwestern Tulsa, and its primary transmitter is located on South 321st Avenue East, adjacent to the Muskogee Turnpike, in unincorporated southeastern Tulsa County (near Coweta).
Channel 8 was originally allocated to Muskogee, Oklahoma, where several groups sought the permit, including Muskogee-based and out-of-town interests. The permit was won by J. T. Griffin and Marjory Griffin Leake, who owned radio station KTUL in Tulsa, and went on the air as KTVX on September 18, 1954. It affiliated with ABC, giving the Tulsa market primary affiliates of each of the Big Three networks. Despite several complaints from stations in Tulsa, the Federal Communications Commission granted KTVX permission to move to Tulsa in 1957, whereupon it became KTUL-TV. The station began broadcasting from Coweta in 1964; it continued to produce several notable non-news local programs into the 1970s.
KTUL was acquired in 1983 by Allbritton Communications. The station's newscasts generally fought for first and second place in the market, while the news department continued to expand its news offerings and resources. Sinclair Broadcast Group acquired the station in 2014 as part of its purchase of Allbritton. The news department was wound down in December 2023 in a cost-cutting measure, with the station's news programs originating from Sinclair-owned KOKH-TV in Oklahoma City.
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for KTUL". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.