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In addition to ABC, KTVX was also affiliated with the DuMont Network until 1955, when struggling DuMont was dropped and KTVX became a dedicated ABC station. Also that year, KTVX continued its encroachment on the Tulsa market by establishing what it called an auxiliary studio in the city.
Although the station was broadcasting from Muskogee, plans were made to try to move to Tulsa, which required FCC approval. Although other local stations protested, the FCC granted the relocation and KTVX began broadcasting on November 1, 1955.
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Replacing Bud Blust in August of 1956 was a Dallas television executive named Michael (Mike) Shapiro. Early in 1957 Shapiro requested permission from the FCC to transfer the entire KTVX operation from Muskogee to Tulsa. This request was immediately protested by KOTV and KVOO-TV as an infrinement upon their market area. 17
Jun 4, 2021 · Fletcher and Van Ellis testified in person despite the pandemic. The three survivors and descendants of survivors filed a lawsuit last year against the city and the Tulsa Chamber of Commerce for their role in covering up the massacre and blaming the Black community for the violence.
KTVX was renamed KTUL on September 12, 1957, though the station had operated from Lookout Mountain (site of the ill-starred UHF station KCEB) since November 1, 1955. Here are the early histories of KVOO, KTUL and KCEB from Greg Corarito's 1967 TU master's thesis. KVOO became KTEW in December, 1970.
Despite several complaints from stations in Tulsa, the Federal Communications Commission granted KTVX permission to move to Tulsa in 1957, whereupon it became KTUL-TV. The station began broadcasting from Coweta in 1964; it continued to produce several notable non-news local programs into the 1970s.
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In 1954, Dwight D. Eisenhower was president, a stamp was three cents, the average house cost $22,000, and Channel 8 signed on the air on September 18. The station was then KTVX, owned by grocery magnate John Griffin. Channel 8 first broadcasted from a converted grocery store in Muskogee.
