KOKC (AM)
KOKC has one local weekday show hosted by Oklahoma political commentator Chad Alexander, heard in afternoon drive time.
Some local news and weather is supplied by KWTV channel 9, the CBS Network affiliate in Oklahoma City.
The station was owned by the National Radio Manufacturing Company in Oklahoma City, using a transmitter power of 20 watts on 1190 kHz.
[4][5] In early August, station founder Dudley Shaw and partner George H. Gabus announced that KFJF had begun a regular daily schedule of news and music each afternoon at 3:00.
[10] In 1932, the station changed its call letters to KOMA,[12] and moved its studios to the Biltmore Hotel in downtown Oklahoma City.
In March 1941, KOMA shifted to its current "clear channel" frequency of 1520 kHz as a result of the North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement, with the provision that it and WKBW in Buffalo, as "Class I-B" stations, had to maintain directional antennas at night in order to mutually protect each other from interference.
It carried the CBS line up of dramas, comedies, news, sports, soap operas, game shows and big band broadcasts during the "Golden Age of Radio".
[14][15] A new transmitter site was constructed around the northeast corner of Kelly and Britton where the present-day Oklahoma Centennial High School sits.
He added it to his list of hit radio stations, including WHB in Kansas City, KXOK in St. Louis, WTIX in New Orleans, WDGY in Minneapolis and WQAM in Miami.
Prior to the sale to Storz, a preliminary agreement was reached with Gordon McLendon in February 1958 to purchase the station.
Many times WKY led the ratings in the Oklahoma City metro area, while KOMA was much better known outside the market, due to its greater nighttime skywave coverage.
Concert promoters advertised their up-and-coming acts (e.g. "Spider and the Crabs") appearing at various towns' National Guard Armories, etc., on KOMA.
Sometimes these were some of the only ads aired during nighttime hours on KOMA, as Oklahoma City advertisers got better results from local OKC stations like WKY.
On September 22, KOMA returned to its glory days by switching to an oldies format, bringing back the hits of the 1950s and 1960s to a familiar spot on the dial for those who grew up listening to the station.
It was the first agreement of its kind in the Oklahoma City area; listeners now could hear their favorite oldies on either the AM or FM station.
In an effort to distinguish the station from the oldies programming on KOMA-FM, KOMA changed its call letters to KOKC on August 27, 2004.
In January 2020, the station laid off its local morning and afternoon hosts and began airing primarily syndicated talk programming.
[22] This would last until November 2020, when prior local radio host Chad Alexander returned to the 4 PM weekday slot with a talk show.
For more than 20 years, KOKC was the flagship station of University of Oklahoma sports, covering OU football, men's and women's basketball as well as baseball.
KOKC engineers were able to utilize the remaining standing, but damaged, tower to transmit the signal at reduced power.
In February, 2022, KOKC applied to the FCC to redesign its 3-tower directional array and return to broadcasting at 50,000 watts full time.
