KTVQ-TV Channel 25 -- Oklahoma City, OK USA
N 35° 28.121 W 097° 30.973
14S E 634625 N 3926031
The long-disused TV antenna for the former KTVQ Channel 25 still stands on a landmark building in downtown Oklahoma City, even though the station only operated from 1953-1955
Waymark Code: WM15N7T
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 01/25/2022
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The former transmitter for KTVQ-TV, Channel 25 is located on the roof of the elegant Art Deco First National Building in downtown Oklahoma City OK.
The TV station only operated for 2 years, but the transmitter may have operated for a few years afterwards, for the successor TV Station KOKH-TV. It's not clear when this transmitter site was shut down, but what is clear is that it has not been used for TV transmissions for at least 50 years.
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"KTVQ, UHF analog channel 25, was an ABC-affiliated television station licensed to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States, which operated from November 1, 1953, to December 15, 1955. The station was owned by the Republic Television and Radio Company. KTVQ's studios were located on Northwest 19th Street and North Classen Boulevard in northwest Oklahoma City's Mesta Park neighborhood (in a building that presently houses a commercial retail complex), and its transmitter was located atop the First National Bank Building on North Robinson and Park Avenues in downtown Oklahoma City.
Two years after the station ceased operations due to financial difficulties that led to KTVQ's bankruptcy, Republic Television and Radio sold the UHF channel 25 license and construction permit to Independent School District No. 89 of Oklahoma County (now Oklahoma City Public Schools) in July 1958; the school district launched a new station on that channel, KOKH-TV, in February 1959."