10 Facts About Griffin Communications

Griffin Communications Media is an American media company based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Griffin Communications owned two other television stations in partnership with Leake.

Post-split from Leake, Griffin Communications expanded its television holdings again in the 1980s; it first bought KPOM-TV in Fort Smith from Ozark Broadcasting Co.

Company eventually announced intentions to re-enter the Tulsa market, on December 3,1996, when Griffin Television launched News Now 53, a local cable news channel originally developed in partnership with Cox Communications and Multimedia Cablevision that primarily aired simulcasts of KWTV's morning, midday and evening newscasts as well as rolling repeats of the station's most recently aired newscast.

Since then, Griffin Communications has expanded and invested in its Tulsa holdings, eventually constructing a new a 50,000-square-foot media center on North Boston Avenue and East Cameron Street in downtown Tulsa's Brady Arts District to house KOTV and its sister properties, which opened on January 19,2013.

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In 2005, Griffin Communications acquired the Radio 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 Communications's Oklahoma City facilities in 2007 and 2008.

On October 8,2005, Griffin Communications purchased Muskogee-licensed WB affiliate KWBT from Spokane, Washington-based Cascade Broadcasting Group for $33.

Under the terms of the deal, Griffin Communications assumed responsibility for KWBT's advertising sales and administrative operations under a local marketing agreement that continued until the sale's closure.

On September 29,2014, Griffin Communications announced that it would acquire MyNetworkTV affiliate KSBI from Oklahoma City-based Family Broadcasting Group.

Griffin Communications owns or operates four television stations located in two markets – both of which are duopolies – consisting of two stations affiliated with CBS, one affiliated with The CW, and one affiliated with MyNetworkTV; it owns five radio stations in the Tulsa market, as well as the Radio Oklahoma Network, a syndicated radio news service.