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
Channel 23 has carried local news programming in various formats since its launch in October 1980. From its sign-on until December 2001, news programming on KOKI consisted mainly of 90-second newsbriefs (originally titled "Newscheck 23", renamed in 1990 as "Fox 23 Newsbreak") – consisting of Associated Press wire reports and a short weather forecast read by the anchor on-call – that aired during select commercial breaks within daytime and evening programs. As Fox was urging many of its stations to begin producing their own newscasts around this time, in a May 1994 "Tulsa World" interview, then-general manager Hal Capron responded when asked whether KOKI might develop a news department that the enormous cost was an issue but it would format the newscast as a cutting-edge broadcast to differentiate itself from competitors KJRH, KOTV and KTUL if it went forward with such plans. In December 1995, Capron announced plans to establish a news department for KOKI (even though the space that it occupied at the Fox Plaza building was not quite large enough to house a full news department); Capron estimated that a half-hour prime time newscast at 9:00 p.m. would premiere by August 1997; in January 1997, Capron would later reveal that the newscast's launch would be delayed to an undetermined later date. Instead, on January 26, 1997 (immediately following Fox's telecast of Super Bowl XXXI), KOKI premiered "First Weather on Fox 23", a nightly weather program consisting of a five-minute-long lead forecast segment at 10:00, and two weeknight-only 60-second updates at 10:35 and 11:05 p.m., all of which served as lead-ins to the station's late access syndicated and network program offerings. The news updates and "First Weather" were discontinued in December 2001.