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KTEN, virtual channel 10 (UHF digital channel 26), is an NBC-affiliated television station located in Ada, Oklahoma, United States which also serves Ardmore, Oklahoma, Sherman and Denison, Texas. The station is owned by the Lockwood Broadcast Group. KTEN maintains studios located on High Point Circle in Denison, Texas, and its transmitter is located north of Milburn, Oklahoma (along State Highway 7). ==History== The station first signed on the air on June 1, 1954 as the first local television station to serve the Texoma region. KTEN was originally based in Ada (which continues to serve as its city of license to this day). Originally, it was a primary ABC affiliate and a secondary affiliate of NBC. This was very unusual for a two-station market, especially one as small as Sherman-Ada. During the late 1950s, it was also briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network. By 1977, as competitor KXII (channel 12) was switching its primary network affiliation from NBC to CBS, KTEN began adding a larger proportion of NBC programming to its schedule. Gradually, it aired most of both networks' daytime and primetime schedules. At one point, it aired both networks' evening newscasts (ABC's ''World News Tonight'' at 5:00 and ''NBC Nightly News'' at 5:30 p.m.) in the hour preceding its local newscast at 6:00 p.m. from 1977 to 1980. The station even received national attention in 1983 when on NBC's ''The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson'', Doc Severinsen (sitting in for Carson's sidekick Ed McMahon) welcomed KTEN as the newest station to broadcast the late night talk show. This move was made after KXII, by this time down to just two NBC programs on its schedule, had switched to CBS's late night schedule in a move that eventually led that station toward exclusively aligning with CBS in 1985. Although KTEN and KXII had theoretically been direct competitors for many years, the 75-mile difference between the locations of the two stations' transmitters created unequal over-the-air reception with viewers receiving a fair to poor signal of KTEN in locations close to KXII's transmitter (such as Ardmore, Madill and Durant) as well as almost non-existent coverage in some adjoining areas of Texas. Meanwhile, KXII's over-the-air reception in Ada and surrounding areas was poor due to the northern fringe location of that station's signal coverage radius. To become more equally competitive reception-wise, KTEN moved its transmitter from Ada to Milburn in 1984 to provide better over-the-air reception to far Southern Oklahoma near the Red River and to reach across the river to the Sherman-Denison area and adjoining areas of North Texas (including Gainesville, Bonham, and Paris). The station's main studios were relocated to Denison in 1986. By that time, KTEN was on its way to becoming a primary NBC affiliate, but still carried a large proportion of ABC's schedule, incorporating both networks' promotional campaigns. Although KTEN's program schedule appeared to be headed toward an exclusive NBC affiliation by the early to mid-1990s, another network move was made along the way. In 1994, KTEN added Fox as another secondary affiliation just after that network had won the rights to broadcast football games from the NFL's National Football Conference, which were previously seen on CBS (airing locally on KXII) for many years. KTEN's owners were in the middle of bankruptcy proceedings at the time and gained additional monetary compensation from Fox. It also allowed KTEN the unique ability to show every single Dallas Cowboys game that was not available on cable television. However, the downside was that channel 10 was becoming even more of a hybrid with three network affiliations (NBC, ABC, and Fox) and even more confusing to viewers. Effectively by this point, KTEN held primary affiliations with NBC and Fox, carrying the majority of NBC's (with exceptions including select daytime shows, ''NBC Nightly News'' and occasional weekend sports events) and all of Fox's schedule (clearing the entire Fox prime time lineup in place of NBC's on Fridays and Saturdays, with all but a few of the former network's other programs airing in late-night); KTEN also carried the Fox Kids block and about one hour of ABC's children's program lineup on Saturday mornings in lieu of the TNBC block. ABC programming at this time had been whittled down to daily news programs ''World News Tonight'' and ''World News This Morning'', select daytime shows (including soap operas ''General Hospital'' and ''All My Children'') and a handful of prime time shows (such as ''20/20'', ''Home Improvement'' and ''Ellen''). Like with many of the Fox programs that it aired on nights when it did not carry that network's full prime time schedule, KTEN tape delayed some ABC programs, including certain ones that the station cleared to air in prime time. By 1998, KTEN was out of bankruptcy and the new owners dropped the secondary affiliations with ABC and Fox, making it the area's exclusive NBC affiliate. 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「KTEN」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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