22 Facts About KOCB

KOCB is a television station in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States, affiliated with The CW.

For most intents and purposes KOCB formally remained an independent station, as PTEN never expanded its drama-centric programming schedule beyond its regular Wednesday night lineup.

Alongside UPN prime time programming and a blend of cartoons and a few live-action children's shows acquired via the syndication market and The Disney Afternoon syndication block, KOCB initially carried some recent off-network sitcoms and drama series, movies in late-night and on weekends, and some first-run syndicated shows.

PTEN programming continued to air on Wednesdays until UPN expanded its programming to that night in September 1995, when KOCB shifted the service's schedule to Saturday nights to accommodate UPN's plans to expand its prime time schedule to additional weeknights over the latter half of the 1990s.

On February 4,1998, three days after Sullivan Broadcast Holdings finalized its purchase of KOKH, a deal necessitated by Sinclair's existing ownership of KOCB, Sinclair exercised an option to purchase channel 25 from Sullivan for $60 million.

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The Glencairn transaction was dismissed by the FCC per Sinclair's request on July 23,2001; the sale of the Sullivan stations to Sinclair was approved by FCC on December 10 and was finalized on December 14, resulting in KOKH and KOCB becoming the Oklahoma City market's first legal television duopoly.

In September 2002, KOCB changed its branding to "The WB Oklahoma City, " de-emphasizing its UHF channel 34 allocation in part because many central Oklahoma residents viewed the station primarily on cable or satellite.

On May 2,2006, in a joint announcement by the network and Sinclair, KOCB was confirmed as The CW's Oklahoma City charter affiliate.

Since the network chose its charter stations based on which of them among The WB and UPN's respective affiliate bodies was the highest-rated in each market, KOCB was chosen to join The CW over KAUT-TV as it had been the higher-rated of the two stations at the time of the agreement's signing.

KOCB officially remained a WB affiliate until September 17,2006; it affiliated with The CW when that network debuted the following day on September 18, at which time the station changed its on-air branding to "The CW Oklahoma City".

KOCB-DT2 is the TBD-affiliated second digital subchannel of KOCB, broadcasting in widescreen standard definition on UHF digital channel 33.

KOCB originally launched a digital subchannel on virtual channel 34.

KOCB relaunched its DT2 subchannel on October 4,2010, as an affiliate of TheCoolTV; it would later be pulled from the station on August 31,2012, after Sinclair decided to drop the music video network from 32 of its then-approximately 70 stations nationwide.

KOCB-DT3 is the Comet-affiliated third digital subchannel of KOCB, broadcasting in widescreen standard definition on UHF digital channel 33.

On October 31,2015, KOCB launched a digital subchannel on virtual channel 34.

KOCB-DT4 is the Dabl-affiliated fourth digital subchannel of KOCB, broadcasting in widescreen standard definition on UHF digital channel 33.

On October 28,2019, KOCB launched a digital subchannel on virtual channel 34.

From 1991 to 1994 and from 1995 to 1997, KOCB carried regular season Major League Baseball games featuring the Texas Rangers.

From 1998 to 2014, the station aired college basketball games from the Big 12 Conference that were syndicated by ESPN Plus; KOCB aired between ten and twelve regular season games each year as well as games from the first three rounds of the Big 12 men's basketball tournament, with most college basketball telecasts airing on Saturday afternoons with occasional weeknight prime time games.

From 2001 to 2019, KOCB held the local broadcast rights to NFL preseason games from the Dallas Cowboys through the team's Silverstar Network syndication service.

KOCB mainly carried college football and basketball games as well as auto races carried by the service on its main channel; prior to KOCB-DT2's conversion into a TBD affiliate, that subchannel served as an alternate feed of the service, carrying college basketball games not carried on the main channel 34.

KOCB discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over UHF channel 34, on February 17,2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television.