KOKI-TV
KOKI-DT3 is the Escape-affiliated third digital subchannel of KOKI-TV, broadcasting in widescreen standard definition on UHF digital channel 22.3 (or virtual channel 23.3 via PSIP). On cable, KOKI-DT3 is available on Cox Communications channel 69. On July 17, 2014, Katz Broadcasting announced it had signed an agreement with Cox Media Group to carry Escape on the group's television stations in Tulsa and Charlotte (as well as sister network Grit in Orlando). KOKI-TV launched a digital subchannel on virtual channel 23.3 as an affiliate of Escape on August 18, 2014.
KOKI-TV
Partly because of its status as the strongest of the market's two independent stations, in the summer of 1986, News Corporation approached and, later, reached an agreement with Tulsa 23 Ltd. for KOKI-TV to become the Tulsa charter outlet of the Fox Broadcasting Company in advance of the network's launch. Channel 23 formally affiliated with Fox when the fledgling network commenced programming on October 9, 1986. Though it was technically a network affiliate, as was the case with other Fox stations during the network's early years of operation, KOKI continued to be programmed as a "de facto" independent station as Fox's only initial offering was late-night talk show "The Late Show Starring Joan Rivers". Until Fox completed the expansion of its prime time schedule to a seven-night-a-week lineup (a seven-year transition that began with the launch of a three-hour Sunday night lineup in April 1987 and was completed with the rollout of the network's Monday lineup in June 1993), KOKI continued to air a movie at 7:00 p.m. on nights when the network did not offer any programming. In 1988, the station moved its operations into a low-rise office building on East 54th Street and South Yale Avenue (near LaFortune Park) in southeast Tulsa, which was named Fox Plaza.