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
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.