{"id":31315,"date":"2012-12-30T06:21:05","date_gmt":"2012-12-30T11:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=31315"},"modified":"2016-10-27T19:17:23","modified_gmt":"2016-10-27T23:17:23","slug":"kotv-tulsa-oklahomakotv-signed-on-in-october-of-1949-and-became-the-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=31315","title":{"rendered":"KOTV: Tulsa, Oklahoma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KOTV: Tulsa, Oklahoma<\/p>\n<p>KOTV signed on in October of 1949 and became the nation&#8217;s 90th TV station. As the only station in the market for several years, they ran programs from ABC, CBS, NBC and Dumont. At first, network programming was aired about a week after being broadcast live on the East Coast; it would be 1952 before a microwave link with New York City made live network programming possible.<\/p>\n<p>Three hours of programming were filled in the evening by the network shows, but with a broadcast schedule that began at 12:30pm, Channel 6 had to fill the rest of its schedule with local programming that was broadcast live. I think this photo is from the  &#8216;Lookin&#8217; At Cookin&#8217; show that had a 32-year run. The station cost a total of $400,000 to build and equip. Notice the Elecrozoom lens on one of their RCA TK30s. I can&#8217;t imagine why there is a casket in the studio unless it is for a live spot from a local funeral home.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/photos\/a.197108410326716.39183.189359747768249\/467286726642215\/?type=3\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp_automatic_fb_img\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/KOTV-Tulsa-Oklahoma-KOTV-signed-on-in-October-of-1949-and-became-the-nation\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/467286739975547\">Source<\/a>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOTV: Tulsa, Oklahoma KOTV signed on in October of 1949 and became the nation&#8217;s 90th TV station. As the only station in the market for several years, they ran programs from ABC, CBS, NBC and Dumont. At first, network programming was aired about a week after being broadcast live on the East Coast; it would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":31316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_popup_image":0,"_vp_format_audio_url":"","_vp_album_images":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail":0,"_vp_custom_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail_cover":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[784,724,783,764,782],"class_list":["post-31315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-abc","tag-cast","tag-cbs","tag-microwave","tag-nbc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}