KSBI
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HAAT | 330.7 m (1,085 ft) |
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Transmitter coordinates | 35°35′52.1″N 97°29′23.2″W / 35.597806°N 97.489778°W |
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Website | www |
KSBI (channel 52), branded as News 9 Plus, is a
History
Locke Supply ownership
The
The FCC granted the license to Satellite Broadcasting on April 15, 1982; two months later in August 1982, the group applied to use KSBI (standing for Satellite Broadcasting Co., Inc., in reference to the Locke-owned licensee) as the planned station's callsign.[4][5] After six years of delays in getting KSBI operational, the station first signed on the air on October 3, 1988. KSBI's original studio facilities were housed out of Locke Supply's corporate offices on 82nd Street and Pole Road in southeast Oklahoma City.[6] For its first 16 years on the air, channel 52 was largely run as a religious independent station; station management settled on the format after initially hedging on their original plans to institute a religious format, which had planned to lease free airtime to churches and televangelists. Atypical of most television stations on the air at that time, KSBI originally broadcast on a part-time basis, airing Monday through Fridays from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. during a six-month test broadcasting stage.[6] Programming expanded to 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. by March 1, 1989.
The station was exclusively available over-the-air in the market until June 1993, when
Beginning in the 1990s, KSBI gradually signed on a network of
In June 2000, KSBI began including more family-oriented secular programming in themed evening blocks (consisting of western series and films on Mondays; sports on Tuesdays; music programs on Wednesdays; wildlife, outdoor and automotive series on Thursdays; family-focused series on Fridays; classic comedy series on Saturdays; and religious and gospel music programs on Sundays). The inclusion of more secular programs to the schedule was partially cited because of the decline in
Sale to Family Broadcasting Group
Following Don Locke's death in February 2000,[11] Locke Supply's board of directors—led by Locke's former wife, Wanda McKenzie, who took over as the company's chief executive officer—were approached by various station owners beginning in April 2001 for offers to acquire KSBI, its regional translator network and low-power sister station KXOC-LP (channel 54, later on channel 41; now defunct). In the interim, KSBI and its sister properties were involuntarily transferred from Locke's estate to an employee stock ownership plan handled by Locke Supply, which received FCC approval on November 17 of that year. The company ultimately decided to sell off the stations to focus on operating the Locke Supply chain that Don Locke founded more than three decades earlier. On October 8, 2001, Locke Supply agreed to sell KSBI to Christian Media Group, a newly formed locally based company that was founded by former KWTV meteorologist Brady Brus; his sister and local media personality Brenda Bennett; John Benefiel, senior pastor of Church on the Rock; and media executive Jerry Mash.[12]
However, Christian Media's agreement to buy the station would fall apart, after the upstart company failed to pay its $15 million bid to purchase KSBI from Locke. The company attempted to accrue the funds to buy the cluster, but were unable to obtain the needed cash, even after it was granted several extensions to come up with the money. Station management subsequently increased the estimated purchase value to $20 million, largely because of the station's then-recent launch of its digital television signal; KSBI was the first in Oklahoma to offer two
Brus and Bennett would get a second chance to acquire KSBI, KXOC and the former's translator network on July 8, 2003, when Locke sold the stations to Family Broadcasting Group of Oklahoma, Inc., a restructuring of the former Christian Media Group that the siblings co-founded with Brady's wife,
After Family Broadcasting assumed full control of the station, KSBI was repositioned as a family-oriented general entertainment independent with syndicated secular programming that contained minimal to no sexual content, overt violence or strong profanity added to the schedule (programs that contained some degree of the aforementioned content were edited—usually through muting of profanity and occasional, abrupt commercial interruptions to omit scenes containing adult material—to fit the station's content standards). Most of the initial secular programs seen on KSBI under Brus' management consisted of sitcoms, drama series and westerns from the 1960s to the early 1990s.
The station also launched a weather department—which it heavily invested in—and aired local weather updates throughout the broadcast day (including five-minute midday, late afternoon and evening updates on weekdays presented by a two-person on-camera weather staff led by Brus, who also served as the station's chief meteorologist in addition to his duties as its owner and general manager), incorporating interactive touch screen technology for its weather presentation and installing a network of remote cameras throughout various cities across Oklahoma (branded as the "KSBI Statecam Network").[18] In February 2004, the station became the first television station in Oklahoma to provide severe weather watches and warnings in both English and Spanish.[19] Channel 52 also eventually added sporting events to its schedule, consisting mainly of basketball and football games from state high school and Southeastern Conference collegiate teams.
While its syndicated inventory was fairly limited early on, KSBI eventually expanded its programming slate; this began in the fall of 2008 with the additions of NurseTV, Lost and American Chopper, followed the next year by the acquisitions of Deadliest Catch, Cold Case Files, The Martha Stewart Show, Judge Hatchett, My Wife and Kids and then the addition of The King of Queens to the schedule in the spring of 2010.
Chesapeake Energy co-founders Aubrey McClendon and Tom L. Ward purchased a portion of Family Broadcasting stock in January 2007; this investment occurred after Family's equity was restructured to retire all long-term debt.[20][21]
After reaching a deal with the
Family Broadcasting appointed two former KOCO-TV veterans as lead executives on November 1, 2010: Vince Orza and Jerry Hart became KSBI's president/CEO and vice president/operations manager, respectively.[24] Orza and Hart worked together at KOCO during the 1980s.[25][26] The station also divested some of its translators; six were converted into repeaters of former sister station KXOC-LP, while two others based in Enid and Stillwater continued to rebroadcast KSBI's signal.[citation needed] The station updated its programming mix, shifting from classic series to newer syndicated programs while introducing a slate of new locally produced shows.[27]
KSBI affiliated with MyNetworkTV on September 17, 2012, replacing KAUT-TV (channel 43), which reverted to independent status.[28][29]
Griffin ownership
In September 2014, KSBI cancelled the majority of their local output, including talk show Oklahoma Live and game show Wild Card, and laid off most of its employees.
KSBI was rebranded as "News 9 Plus", a brand extension of KWTV, on March 1, 2017.[35]
Griffin Communications purchased the Century Center business and retail complex in downtown Oklahoma City for $26 million on July 12, 2021, for the company's new corporate headquarters, along with new facilities for KWTV and KSBI.[36] The new studios were completed on November 12, 2022.[37]
Programming
Local programming
Upon taking over the operations of Family Broadcasting Group in 2010, CEO Vince Orza and vice president Jerry Hart began developing local programming for KSBI that would serve as an alternative to the news-based local programs on other Oklahoma City area stations, featuring a mix of talk, lifestyle and entertainment programs.
Initial local programs produced under Orza and Hart's management of the station—neither of which gained much ratings momentum—included the lifestyle-oriented talk program All About You (which was cancelled in June 2012), local cooking show Oklahoma Cooks (which was cancelled in August 2012), movie review program Hollywood Spotlight (a revival of the program that originally aired on KOCO-TV until 1997, both incarnations were hosted by Dino Lalli; the revived program was cancelled in December 2012) and the sports discussion program OK Sports Wrap (which was cancelled in May 2013). Orza also provided a commentary segment that aired during certain commercial breaks titled Common Sense, in which Orza gave his opinion on a particular national or local news story; these segments were discontinued in 2014.
2011 and 2012 saw the debuts of four new programs: the daytime interview show Oklahoma Live!, country music showcase Oklahoma Centennial Rodeo Opry (a co-production with the Opry Heritage Foundation of Oklahoma, which was taped at the Oklahoma Opry in Oklahoma City's
Sports programming
Under Family Broadcasting ownership, KSBI carried high school sports, mainly
The station was the over-the-air home of
High school football coverage returned to KSBI beginning in 2015 through a new agreement with the OSSAA, with game coverage on Friday nights and select Thursday nights[48][49] in addition to Class 5A and 6A football championships.[50][51][52] This agreement was expanded to include Class 5A and 6A high school basketball championship games in 2017.[53]
KBSI carried all OKC Energy FC home games from 2016 to 2018, when the United Soccer League signed an exclusive league-wide streaming deal with ESPN+.[54][55][56] Since 2016, the station has carried games from the Thunder's NBA G League affiliate, the Oklahoma City Blue.[57]
Newscasts
After being purchased by Family Broadcasting Group in early 2004, KSBI launched Hello Oklahoma, a daily talk show with news updates and weather forecasts from Brady Bus.[58] By 2008, the station aired a daily early-evening newscast, Oklahoma News Tonight,[59] and utilitzed satellite technology for newsgathering.[60] Following a studio move in August 2010, Bus announced intentions to launch late-evening newscasts on KSBI[44] but after a managerial change that November, the station dropped all local news programming and added The Daily Buzz in early mornings; this was estimated to save the station up to $200,000 annually.[60] Former anchor Kealey McIntire was reassigned to host a lifestyle program It's About You,[27] and sports anchor Brian Birchell hosted OK Sports Wrap.[61]
Since February 3, 2015, KSBI has simulcast KWTV's noon newscast.[62]
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's signal is
Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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52.1 | 1080i | 16:9 |
KSBI-HD | Main KSBI-TV programming / MyNetworkTV |
52.2 | 480i | BOUNCE | Bounce TV | |
52.3 | LAFF | Laff | ||
52.4 | GRIT | Grit | ||
52.5 | DEFY | Defy TV |
Analog-to-digital conversion
KSBI began transmitting a digital television signal on UHF channel 51 on February 1, 2003. The station chose to continue to simultaneously operate its analog and digital signals past the original February 17, 2009 digital television transition deadline; as KSBI operated a weather department at the time, this was done in order to enable viewers that were not prepared for the transition to continue receiving emergency weather information during the Spring 2009 severe weather season. The station discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over UHF channel 52, on June 1, 2009.[64][65] The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 51,[66] using PSIP to display KSBI's virtual channel as 52 on digital television receivers, which was among the high band UHF channels (52-69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition.
On July 18, 2014, the FCC granted an application to relocate KSBI's digital signal to UHF channel 23; the station continued to operate its existing UHF 51 signal under a special temporary authority (STA), with an on-screen message directing viewers to rescan their digital tuners to receive the UHF 23 signal until KSBI ceased broadcasting on UHF channel 51 on August 1, 2014.
Translators
KSBI is additionally rebroadcast over a network of four low-power digital translator stations:[63]
- Elk City: K20NJ-D
- Sayre: K21JN-D
- Strong City: K23IZ-D
- Weatherford: K35MQ-D
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