Miller said if his teams win the money, which will be divided up three ways, he plans to use his cut of the prize to spice up his workshop. A second search for the remains of victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre will begin on Oct. 19. However, this affiliation agreement resulted in the station becoming even more of a hybrid network affiliate as it already had a primary NBC affiliation and a secondary affiliation with ABC, in addition to carrying select Fox programs. Oklahoma Secretary of State Michael Rogers is stepping down from his post. Marietta Public Schools announced Thursday the district will transition to distance learning only due to a high number of staff members currently under quarantine due to COVID-19. KXII was one of the few remaining commercial broadcast television outlets in the United States as well as the last major network affiliate station in Oklahoma and Texas to sign off the air during the overnight hours, occurring on Saturday nights/early Sunday mornings from 2:05 to 5:00 a.m. Wilson Public Schools closed its campuses starting Wednesday and moved exclusively to online learning after confirming multiple positive COVID-19 cases inside their district Tuesday. Abbott announces bars can reopen at 50% capacity next week, Amber Alert canceled: 18-month-old McIntosh Co. girl found safe, Second search for Tulsa Race Massacre victims set to begin, Marshall County woman arrested for setting motel room on fire, Wilson Public Schools moving online after multiple COVID-19 cases, Oklahoma secretary of state resigns, stays on staff, CEO says Southwest needs union pay cuts to avoid furloughs, Oklahoma universities delay spring classes due to virus, Crash shuts down southbound I-35 in Valley View, S&S, Howe moving to in-person only learning, Sherman police to upgrade system for body and dash cam footage, Ardmore Family Literacy GED program goes back to in-person classes. As the city of Denison remembers when part of Main Street was destroyed by fire one year ago, community members say in the end, there were silver linings. From 2006 until 2014, the subchannel also carried Big 12 Conference college basketball games distributed by ESPN Regional Television (through its ESPN Plus/Big 12 Network syndication service). In addition, KXII produces the community affairs program News 12 Forum, which airs on Sunday mornings at 6:00 a.m. Madill police arrested a woman Sunday morning after they say she set fire to the motel room she was staying in. On cable, KXII-DT3 is available in standard definition on Cable One channel 34 (in standard definition) and digital channel 234 (in high definition) in Ardmore and Sherman, and channel 33 (in standard definition) and digital channel 233 (in high definition) in Ada; TV Cable of Grayson East channel 11 in Denison; on satellite, it is available on DirecTV channel 13 and Dish Network channel 20 throughout the Sherman–Ada market. The Wolfe City police officer connected to the fatal shooting of 31-year-old Jonathan Price at a gas station Saturday night, has been arrested and charged with murder. On April 20, 2010, KXII became the first television station in the Ada-Sherman market (and the third station in Oklahoma, behind KFOR-TV in Oklahoma City and KJRH-TV in Tulsa) to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition; the KXII-DT3 newscast was included in the upgrade, which saw cameras and broadcast equipment at the Sherman and Ardmore studios being upgraded to allow the gathering, production and dissemination of high-definition video content. An Amber Alert has been issued for an infant, who deputies say may be in danger. Copyright 2020 KXII. Dara Downs - Ardmore Newsroom reporter and photojournalist (2009) Maddie Garrett - … The suit alleged that Bullard told Watson that the dog would only attack on command or otherwise provoked, with the ex-officer claiming that he did not witness the attack.[28]. This turned channel 12 into a hybrid station that carried almost half of NBC and CBS' respective programming inventories for the next few years. [25][26] The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 20 to VHF channel 12 for post-transition operations (using the latter channel, which corresponds to its former analog allocation, as its PSIP virtual channel on digital television receivers). Among the market's two local television news operations, KXII has maintained ratings dominance in all time slots. They’re worried about their health and their town’s future. Prior to the launch of KXII-DT2, UPN programming was available in the Sherman-Ada market via Sulphur-based low-power station KOKT-LP (channel 20, now defunct); KOKT was acquired by Equity Media Holdings in the fall of 2003, and was subsequently converted into a translator of Univision affiliate KUOK in Woodward that February 2004. Although this rule allowed a network to substitute another NFL game in place of the Cowboys broadcast, this issue was moot as tickets for the team's games have sold out, regardless of the Cowboys' season-to-season performance, since the early 1990s. WILSON, Okla. (KXII) - A lifelong Wilson resident is spicing things up with his team on the season finale on Food Network’s Halloween Wars. The Wilson Volunteer Fire Department hosts it’s largest fundraiser Saturday. The move concurrently resulted in KTEN shifting its primary affiliation to NBC, although it continued to air a reduced schedule of ABC programming and, in July 1994, added the majority of the Fox lineup (since KTEN became an exclusive NBC affiliate in September 1998, the primary feeds of the Sherman–Ada market's two commercial television stations have been represented by a single network affiliation; neither station would carry programming from any of the other major broadcast networks until KXII launched a UPN-affiliated digital subchannel in February 2006). Syndicated programs broadcast on KXII-DT3 as of September 2018[update] include Maury, Steve, Judge Mathis, Access Hollywood, and Entertainment Tonight.[17]. Construction began just outside Gunter for concrete pipe plant, but residents say they don’t have a permit yet. In order to become more competitive with KXII, in 1983, the FCC granted Eastern Oklahoma Television a permit to construct a 1,059-foot-tall (323 m) tower between Milburn and Bromide, Oklahoma—which became operational the following year—to enable better over-the-air reception to areas of far southern Oklahoma near the Red River and extend its reach into the Sherman-Denison area and adjoining areas of north-central Texas (including Gainesville, Bonham, and Paris).[7]. A Marietta Navy WWII veteran celebrates his 97th birthday during a drive-by parade. Texoma Toys for Tots organizers say the number of drop off sites for toy donations is down dramatically from years past and they need businesses and other office places in Grayson and Fannin counties to step up to make sure every child in Texoma gets something under the tree this Christmas. News Team Bios for wxii12.com - Winston-Salem, Greensboro, and High Point, NC The market's lack of any additional television stations outside of KXII and NBC-affiliated KTEN resulted in UPN programming being transmitted directly to area cable providers through KAUT-TV in Oklahoma City and KTXA in Dallas–Fort Worth (both now independent stations) for the following 23 months; UPN programming was also available on the Oklahoma side of the market prior to KAUT's July 1998 conversion to the network via KOCB, which served as the network's Oklahoma City affiliate from January 1995 to January 1998. The Ardmore Family Literacy GED program is accepting enrollment for in-person classes in the fall, with just a few changes for COVID-19. KTEN's owners had filed for bankruptcy at the time and gained additional monetary compensation from Fox, along with allowing KTEN the ability to show every single Dallas Cowboys game that was not available on cable television. The tower fell onto a pickup truck, which was shifted 75 yards (69 m), killing the male driver. Kevin Stitt on Tuesday took issue with a comment that he labeled as “editorial” in the latest report and recommendations from the White House Coronavirus Task Force, which says the state has had “many preventable deaths.”. Greg Abbott announced on Wednesday that bars can reopen at 50 percent capacity in certain regions. At that time, in addition to carrying the majority of NBC's programming lineup, CBS fare cleared to air on KVSO for most of the 1960s consisted mainly of daytime programs and sporting events (such as National Football League [NFL] game telecasts, including those involving the Dallas Cowboys). KXII-DT2, branded as "My 12", is the MyNetworkTV-affiliated second digital subchannel of KXII, broadcasting in standard definition on virtual and VHF channel 12.2. One year after the station signed on, in 1957, KVSO-TV gained a second sister station on the radio dial when the Riesen-Easleys signed on KVSO-FM (107.1, now KYNZ). By KXII Staff As of 12 p.m. Tuesday, there have been 10,759 confirmed COVID-19 cases in Texoma, resulting in 178 deaths, with 9,182 recovered patients. The Sherman Police Department is getting a new video system to record dash and body cam footage. Daniel Miller and his team, the Mummy’s Rejects are a step closer to winning $50,000. In 2006, with the installation of DiviCom MPEG-2 high definition and standard definition encoders, statistical multiplexing equipment and software from broadcast equipment manufacturer Harmonic Inc. at its master control facility, KXII became the first television station in the world to transmit two HD channels and one SD channel over a 6 MHz digital bandwidth feed; the equipment allowed the station to transmit MyNetworkTV-affiliated KXII-DT2 in 480i SD and Fox-affiliated KXII-DT3 in 720p HD, as complementary feeds to its main HD signal.[21][22][23]. KTEN became an exclusive NBC affiliate in 1998, leaving the Sherman–Ada market without any local affiliates of ABC or Fox. Their upcoming concert benefit and plans for the future. The station also produces 3½ hours of locally produced newscasts each week for KXII-DT3 (with a half-hour each on weekdays, Saturdays and Sundays), in addition to simulcasting KXII's weekday morning newscast on the Fox affiliate. People watching at home can expect to see the Mummy’s Rejects face their biggest and final challenge of the season, the jump scare. According to the latest White House Coronavirus Task Force report for Oklahoma, the city of Durant is in the red zone for COVID-19. 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Since the program's April 2014 expansion into a one-hour broadcast, the station has also aired Face the Nation in separate half-hour blocks; the first half-hour typically airs on Sunday mornings and the second half-hour airs in late night on each edition's original airdate to accommodate a ministry outreach program from the First Baptist Church of Sherman. Last week’s episode’s theme was called “Trapped with Monster.”. The artist hopes his murals will help keep the memories alive of the young lives gone too soon.