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KJRH-TV, virtual channel 2 (VHF digital channel 8), is an NBC-affiliated television station located in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The station is owned by the E. W. Scripps Company. KJRH maintains studio facilities located on South Peoria Avenue in the Brookside district of midtown Tulsa, and its transmitter is located near South 273rd Avenue East and the Muskogee Turnpike (near Broken Arrow) in southeastern Tulsa County. On cable, the station is available on Cox Communications channel 2 and AT&T U-verse channel 2. There is a high definition feed available on Cox Communications digital channel 709 and AT&T U-verse channel 1002. ==History== Several prospective applicants vied for the VHF channel 2 allocation in Tulsa in May 1954 – among them were Central Plains Enterprises (whose majority interest was held by Southwestern Sales, Inc., owned by oilman William G. Skelly, owner of local radio station KVOO (1170 AM, now KFAQ), with partners including Robert S. Kerr and Dean A. McGee), a group led by oilman John Mabee and a group led by several Tulsa businessmen including Fred Jones, Tom P. McDermott, oilman Charles McMahon, insurance executive Dan P. Holmes and Manhattan Construction Company president L. Francis Rooney. The Mabee group later relinquished its bid, later followed by the McDermott-Jones group through an agreement between them and Central Plains, in which that company would provide shares to McDermott, Jones and the others (which were ultimately sold back to Central Plains Enterprises in 1963) in return for the retraction. The station first signed on the air on December 5, 1954 as KVOO-TV. Channel 2 has been an NBC affiliate since its debut, owing to KVOO radio's longtime affiliation with the NBC Red Network. The first program broadcast on the station was a 39-minute station dedication program from its original studio facilities in the Akdar Building at Fourth Street and Denver Avenue in downtown Tulsa; this was later followed by the first NBC network program aired by the station, ''Meet the Press''. KVOO-TV was the second VHF television station to sign on in the Tulsa market, behind KOTV (channel 6), which debuted in October 1949; KTVX (channel 8, now KTUL) did not officially change its city of license to Tulsa from Muskogee until the following year, although that station operated from studio facilities located in west Tulsa. KVOO took the NBC affiliation from KOTV and KCEB (channel 23, channel now occupied by KOKI-TV), which signed on ten months earlier in March 1954; although KCEB became the primary NBC affiliate once it signed on, KOTV – which had been a secondary NBC affiliate since it signed on – had reached a deal with the network to continue "cherry-picking" some of NBC's stronger programs as manufacturers were not required to include UHF tuners on television sets at the time, making receiving KCEB nearly impossible in much of northeastern Oklahoma. Channel 2 was the first television station in the Tulsa market to broadcast all of its programs in color, first transmitting NBC network programming in the format; in 1955, the station installed equipment that allowed local films and slides to be telecast in color.〔 The station moved to a purpose-built art deco facility, known as Broadcast Center, on 37th Street and Peoria Avenue on December 1, 1957, which it shared with KVOO radio. In November 1964, KVOO began originating its locally produced programs in color from its Broadcast Center studios. In November 1964, KVOO-TV purchased a color camera for programming production and began producing its local programs in color. The E. W. Scripps Company's broadcasting division (then known as Scripps-Howard Broadcasting) purchased the station from Central Plains Enterprises in 1971, and changed its call letters to KTEW-TV (standing for "Tulsa E.W. Scripps", and also easily interpreted as sounding like the phoneticism for "two"). On June 8, 1974, an F3 tornado struck the Brookside district, narrowly missing the station's Peoria Avenue studios to the north. Also during the 1970s, the station became the first in the Tulsa market to provide live remote footage from the field. The station adopted its present-day callsign, KJRH (in honor of Scripps' former president, Jack R. Howard) on July 14, 1980 (the KTEW call letters are currently used by a low-power America One-affiliated station in Ponca City, Oklahoma). In 1984, it became the first Tulsa station to broadcast its programming in stereophonic sound. For many years, KJRH had operated three low-powered translator stations, which all operated on VHF channel 4: K04DW in Independence, Kansas, K04EJ in Coffeyville, Kansas and K04DY in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. On December 31, 2009, a large "crystal" ball was dropped from the large spire on top of the iconic transmitter tower from the station's studios in Tulsa's Brookside entertainment district as part of the city's New Year's Eve festivities. Streets were closed off and people were allowed to view and celebrate, much in the same vein as in the New Year's celebrations at Times Square in New York City. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「KJRH-TV」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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