KMPT (TV)

KMPT
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
United States
Branding KLPR Channel 19 (1953–1954)
KMPT Channel 19 (1954–1955)
Channels Analog: 19 (UHF)
Owner KLPR Television, Inc.
First air date November 22, 1953 (1953-11-22)
Last air date February 4, 1955 (1955-02-04)
Sister station(s) Radio: KLPR
Former affiliations ABC (1953–1954)
DuMont (1954–1955)

KMPT, UHF analog channel 19, was a dual ABC/DuMont-affiliated television station licensed to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States, which operated from November 22, 1953 to February 4, 1955. Owned by KLPR Television, Inc., it was a sister outlet to radio station KLPR (1140 AM, now KRMP). KMPT's studios were located on Southwest 28th and West Commerce Streets in southwest Oklahoma City's Capitol Hill neighborhood, and its transmitter was located on East Britton Road and North Lincoln Boulevard in northeast Oklahoma City.

Forty years after the station ceased operations due to financial difficulties that led to KMPT's bankruptcy, the UHF channel 19 allocation was re-assigned to the Equity Broadcasting Corporation, which launched a new station on that channel, K19EA (now Cornerstone Television affiliate KUOT-CD), in March 1995.

History

On December 5, 1952, KLPR Television Inc. – an Oklahoma City-based company co-owned by Byrne Ross (owner of radio station KLPR [1140 AM, now KRMP]), Barton Theatres owner R. Lewis Barton, Oklahoma National Bank vice president Lester E. Johnson, plumbing contractor M. E. Nesbitt, dry cleaning businessman R. N. Salmon, Baptist minister Hugh Bumpas (5/2570), attorney Herman Merson, KLPR radio commercial manager Fred M. Farha, and KLPR account executive Monty Wells – submitted an application to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for a construction permit to build and license to operate a broadcast television station in the Oklahoma City market that would transmit on UHF channel 19. The FCC eventually granted the license to KLPR Television on February 11, 1953; the group subsequently requested and received approval to assign KLPR-TV as the call letters for the proposed television station, after its parent radio outlet.[1][2][3]

Following its shutdown, attempts were made to utilize KMPT's former facilities and channel allocation. The Republic Television and Radio Company proposed utilizing the KMPT transmitter facility to operate ABC affiliate KTVQ (channel 25, allocation now occupied by Fox affiliate KOKH-TV) as part of a proposal to relaunch that station on VHF channel 11, which had been assigned to Tulsa as a non-commercial allocation and was granted to the Oklahoma Educational Television Authority (OETA) for KOED-TV, a planned satellite of its Oklahoma City flagship KETA-TV (channel 13). The proposal was twice denied by the FCC: first on February 1, 1956, and again on July 5, 1956.[4][5][6][7][8]

On May 3, 1957, movie theater operator Malco Theaters Inc. applied to operate a television station on channel 19.[9]

References

  1. ↑ "Television Grants and Applications" (PDF). Broadcasting-Telecasting. Broadcasting Publications, Inc. December 8, 1952. p. 87. Retrieved June 30, 2018 – via American Radio History.
  2. ↑ "FCC Grants 17 New TV Stations Permits" (PDF). Broadcasting-Telecasting. Broadcasting Publications, Inc. February 16, 1953. p. 52. Retrieved June 30, 2018 – via American Radio History.
    "Actions of the FCC" (PDF). Broadcasting-Telecasting. Broadcasting Publications, Inc. February 16, 1953. p. 110. Retrieved June 29, 2018 – via American Radio History.
  3. ↑ "Actions of the FCC" (PDF). Broadcasting-Telecasting. Broadcasting Publications, Inc. May 4, 1953. p. 123. Retrieved June 29, 2018 – via American Radio History.
  4. ↑ "For the Record" (PDF). Broadcasting-Telecasting. Broadcasting Publications, Inc. February 6, 1956. p. 94. Retrieved June 29, 2018 – via American Radio History.
  5. ↑ "TV Station Denied Channel Use Request". Miami Daily News-Record. February 2, 1956. p. 12. Retrieved July 19, 2017 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ↑ "KTVQ (TV) Renews Request To Use Educational Channel" (PDF). Broadcasting-Telecasting. Broadcasting Publications, Inc. May 14, 1956. p. 92. Retrieved June 29, 2018 – via American Radio History.
  7. ↑ "KTVQ (TV) Bid for Ch. 11 Again Turned Down by FCC" (PDF). Broadcasting-Telecasting. Broadcasting Publications, Inc. July 9, 1956. p. 54. Retrieved June 29, 2018 – via American Radio History.
  8. ↑ "For the Record" (PDF). Broadcasting-Telecasting. Broadcasting Publications, Inc. July 16, 1956. p. 104. Retrieved June 29, 2018 – via American Radio History.
  9. ↑ "Malco Theatres Files Bid For Oklahoma City Ch. 19" (PDF). Broadcasting-Telecasting. Broadcasting Publications, Inc. August 10, 1953. p. 123. Retrieved June 30, 2018 – via American Radio History.
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