KOKI-TV
KOKI-TV, virtual channel 23 (UHF digital channel 22), is a Fox-affiliated television station licensed to Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States. The station is owned by the Cox Media Group subsidiary of Cox Enterprises, as part of a duopoly with MyNetworkTV-affiliate KMYT-TV (channel 41); KOKI and KMYT are, in turn, co-owned with local radio stations KRMG (740 AM and 102.3 FM), KRAV-FM (96.5), KWEN (95.5 FM) and KJSR (103.3 FM), as well as local cable television provider Cox Communications.
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.