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C.A. Voss and James Kite for $ 3 million. Griffin-Leake's
Oklahoma stations would then be folded into KATV parent licensee KATV Inc. (subsequently rechristened as Griffin-Leake TV), which would enter into a ten-year, $ 4.5 million (or $ 37,500 per month) agreement with Voss and Kite to lease the equipment. Griffin and the Leakes would own approximately all of the common voting stock and collectively own 84% of nonvoting common shares in KATV Inc. post-merger, with 10% of the remaining nonvoting interest held by Edgar Bell (who would remain KWTV's executive vice president and general manager).
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days before to merge their bids, in exchange for KOMA purchasing 50% of the shares in the former that were owned by
Oklahoma Television's original principal investors. (Under FCC procedure, the Commission's Broadcast Bureau board decided on license proposals filed by "survivor" applicants at the next scheduled meeting following the withdrawal of a competing bid.) Instead of using the KOMA calls assigned to the radio station, the Griffin group chose instead to request KWTV (for "World's Tallest Video") as the television station's call letters, in reference to the
522:(channel 52) from Oklahoma City-based Family Broadcasting Group. (Griffin had previously submitted a bid to acquire KSBI in 2001, only to be beaten by a competing offer by Family Broadcasting predecessor Christian Media Group.) In addition to maintaining some separate programming as well as syndicated programs shared with KWTV, KSBI also serves as an alternate carrier of CBS network programming in the event that extended breaking news or severe weather coverage requires KWTV to pre-empt it (taking over this responsibility from News 9 Now).
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368:.) Ownership of KWTV would transfer to the familial heirs of John Griffin – widow Martha Watson Griffin (who also assumed her husband's post as KWTV board chairman), and sons John W. and David Griffin (both of whom would become KWTV executives in 1990, with David taking over as Griffin Communications's president in 2001) – after he died on July 26, 1985, at the age of 62.
557:(99.5) – for $ 12.5 million. The purchase marks Griffin's entry into radio station ownership, even though the company has owned the Radio Oklahoma Network syndicated news service since 2005; the sale would also put the stations under the ownership of KOTV-DT/KQCW-DT, both competitors to Scripps-owned NBC affiliate
266:), the first television station ever to sign on in Oklahoma, which began operation on June 6, 1949. John decided to extend the family business deeper into broadcasting, gathering together several additional backers – including his brother-in-law, James C. "Jimmy" Leake – to finance the development of and apply for
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November 1963, the Griffin-Leake interests purchased Turner and Dulaney's 25% interests in KWTV for $ 200,000 and title rights to the equipment used by KWTV, KTUL and KATV. Turner and Dulaney would then sell the equipment, valued at $ 2.3 million, to First National Bank of Oklahoma City executives
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systems that Cox acquired eleven months prior. Since then, Griffin has expanded and invested in its Tulsa holdings, eventually constructing a new a 50,000-square-foot (4,645 m) media center on North Boston Avenue and East
Cameron Street in downtown Tulsa's Brady Arts District (renamed the Tulsa
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being constructed behind its studio facility (which was also under construction at the time) on a plot of land on
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channel 9. On June 27, 1952, KOMA Inc., a licensee corporation of KOMA radio that was largely owned by
Griffin and the Leakes, filed a separate application. The Oklahoma Television Corporation was eventually granted the license on July 22, 1953, after the company struck an agreement with KOMA Inc.
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Oklahoma Network, a statewide radio syndication service that distributes news, KOTV and KWTV-provided weather content, sports, and commodities reports to radio stations across the state; the network was moved into Griffin's Oklahoma City facilities in 2007 and
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District in September 2017) to house KOTV and its sister properties, which opened on January 19, 2013. (Some archival material in the former building on South Frankfort Avenue – including news footage, specials and still photographs dating to the 1950s – was donated to the
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Griffin Television Inc. (which was renamed Griffin Communications in 2000), while Leake retained ownership of KATV, KTUL,
488:-based Cascade Broadcasting Group for $ 33.5 million ($ 26.8 million for the non-license assets and $ 6.7 million for the license itself). Under the terms of the deal, Griffin assumed responsibility for KWBT's advertising sales and administrative operations under a
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agreements it reached with Cox and Multimedia in August 1993. Initially available exclusively on Cox's Oklahoma City system, Multimedia began carrying News Now 53 on its suburban area systems (which, in January 2000, were sold to Cox by the
327:, which came to air the day before KWTV in 1953. the group would later On September 18, 1954, the company signed on its third television station, ABC affiliate KTVX in Muskogee. Within five years of its sign-on, KTVX began to relocate its
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and baking products that he inherited from his father, John Taylor Griffin, after the elder company co-founder died in 1944 – entered the communications industry in October 1938, when he purchased local radio station KOMA (1520 AM, now
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1126:"At Deadline: 65 TV Applications Filed with FCC"
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1474:"KWTV Owner-Founder John Griffin Dead at 62"
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1552:"KWTV Owner To Purchase NBC Affiliate"
1271:"Second TV Outlet Begins in Nashville"
1155:"Television Applications Filed at FCC"
1039:"Television Applications Filed at FCC"
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189:is an American media company based in
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1936:. September 29, 2014. Archived from
1904:"Griffin Communications to buy KSBI"
1851:Jason Collington (October 8, 2005).
1387:"Terms of KWTV(TV) sale spelled out"
339:Sole ownership by the Griffin family
1613:. September 8, 2003. Archived from
1068:"Griffin Contracts To Acquire KOMA"
212:in Oklahoma City and The CW outlet
1806:Frank Beacham (October 25, 2012).
1213:"KOMA Buys; Laying TV Color Plans"
1075:Broadcasting-Broadcast Advertising
525:On June 25, 2018, Griffin and the
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1678:"Channel 9, Cable Find Agreement"
990:. September 10, 1951. p. 107
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258:to receive the signal of primary
2451:Companies based in Oklahoma City
2010:Radio-Television Business Report
1877:Jim Stafford (October 8, 2005).
1676:Jim Stafford (August 18, 1993).
1300:"TV-On-Air Total Nears 350 Mark"
476:affiliate KWBT (channel 19, now
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2255:Oklahoma City metropolitan area
2023:Jon Lafayette (June 25, 2018).
2004:Adam Jacobson (June 25, 2018).
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1396:. December 16, 1963. p. 70
1309:. December 28, 1953. p. 50
1222:. November 27, 1950. p. 82
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2387:Skulls Unlimited International
1780:Rita Sherrow (April 7, 2001).
1702:Mel Bracht (August 29, 1999).
1500:"KWTV to Stay in Griffin Hold"
1280:. December 7, 1953. p. 68
1077:. November 1, 1938. p. 26
967:, Griffin Communications, 2003
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1106:. August 3, 1953. p. 101
356:television station WSTE (now
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2337:American Fidelity Assurance
2282:Oklahoma Gas & Electric
1729:"Cox Cable Shuffles Lineup"
1651:"Cox Provides Nonstop News"
1338:. June 22, 1953. p. 31
1193:. July 27, 1953. p. 52
1135:. June 30, 1952. p. 86
462:Oklahoma Historical Society
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1910:. September 30, 2014
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1966:. December 14, 2014
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1733:The Daily Oklahoman
1708:The Daily Oklahoman
1682:The Daily Oklahoman
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1242:"Television Digest"
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486:Spokane, Washington
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964:50 Years of News 9
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