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KUOK, virtual channel 36 (UHF digital channel 35), is a Univision-affiliated television station located in Woodward, Oklahoma, United States. The station maintains transmitter facilities located near State Highway 34 in rural southwestern Woodward County. KUOK-CD, virtual channel and UHF digital channel 36, is a low-power television station located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma that rebroadcasts KUOK's signal across the central portion of the state. Its transmitter facility is located between Southeast 50th Street and Santa Fe Avenue (adjacent to the studios of KUOK) in southern Oklahoma City. Even though KUOK-CD maintains a digital signal of its own, the low-powered broadcasting radius does not reach the entire Oklahoma City metropolitan area. Therefore, the station is simulcast over Telemundo affiliate KTUZ-TV (channel 30)'s second digital subchannel in order to reach the entire market. This signal can be seen on virtual channel 36.1 (UHF digital channel 29.2) and operates from a transmitter facility near 86th Street and Ridgeway Road (south of Britton Road) in northeast Oklahoma City. The two stations are owned by the Oklahoma City-based Tyler Media Group, and are sister stations to KTUZ-TV and Estrella TV affiliate KOCY-LP (channel 48). All four stations share studio facilities located near Southeast 51st Street and Shields Boulevard in south Oklahoma City. The Oklahoma City feed of KUOK can also be seen on Cox Communications channel 21 and AT&T U-verse channel 36. ==History== The station first signed on the air in 2002 as an affiliate of Pax TV (now Ion Television); the following year, Equity Broadcasting Corporation purchased the station (Equity subsequently sold KQOK – channel 30, now KTUZ-TV – to Tyler Media Group as a result). The station became a Univision affiliate on May 8, 2004, serving as the full-power flagship of a six-station bi-state network known as "Univision Arkansas-Oklahoma"; Univision had previously been only receivable via local cable providers such as Cox Communications, which carried the Spanish language network's programming from its national feed; that feed was eventually replaced by a direct fiber optic feed of KUOK (whose schedule now mirrors the national feed outside of local advertising, news inserts and occasional paid programming substitutions, and provided improved reception of the station throughout the market than that receivable over-the-air prior to the digital transition) from the station's studios. KUOK and the three low-power stations that also Equity acquired to become its translators (K69EK – channel 69, later KWDW-LP, KUOK-LP and now KOCY-LP on channel 48; KCHM-LP – channel 36, now KUOK-CD; KUOK-CA – channel 11 – in Norman; and Sulphur-based KOKT-LP – channel 20), originally relayed Univision programming across Oklahoma via a direct simulcast from then-sister station KLRA-LP (now KKYK-CD) in Little Rock, Arkansas (from late 2004 to 2005, the regional network was even branded as "Univision Arkansas-Oklahoma"), including local commercials from the Little Rock area that were inserted by that station during national commercial breaks and KLRA-LP's station identification bumpers (the Oklahoma City repeaters were identified only through text-only IDs placed at the bottom of the screen each half-hour). In March 2005, KUOK – though still programmed via satellite from Equity's headquarters in Little Rock – discontinued the KLRA-LP simulcast, and began carrying advertising for businesses within the Oklahoma City market and separate station promotions. On June 25, 2008, Equity announced that it would sell KUOK and its low-power repeaters to Luken Communications (owned by former Equity executive Henry Luken). That December, Equity Media Holdings filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection; offers by Luken Communications to acquire Equity-owned stations in six markets were later withdrawn.〔(Equity's Management Cause of Downfall, Former CEO Asserts ), Mark Hengel, Arkansas Business, February 2, 2009〕 KUOK and its repeaters were sold at auction to the Oklahoma City-based Tyler Media Group on April 16, 2009, which created a duopoly with KTUZ-TV (which became an affiliate of Univision competitor Telemundo in 2005); this placed KUOK in the unique position of being the junior partner in a duopoly with a Telemundo affiliate, a rarity given that Univision is the longer established and higher rated nationally of the two networks. 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「KUOK」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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