(Oklahoma Educational Television Authority), is a statewide network of
PBS stations covering the entire state of
Oklahoma .
(channel 13, digital 32) in Oklahoma City is the flagship station of OETA (Oklahoma '''E'''ducational '''T'''elevision '''A'''uthority). KETA launched in 1956.
In addition to KETA, OETA has three other main stations serving the state:
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- ('''K''' '''O'''klahoma '''E'''ducational '''T'''elevision) (3/38) covers the city of Eufaula and east-central Oklahoma, plus nearby Fort Smith, Arkansas .
- ('''K''' '''O'''klahoma '''ED'''ucational) (11/31) covers the Tulsa metro area and northeastern Oklahoma.
- ('''K''' '''W'''estern Oklahoma '''E'''ducational '''T'''elevision) (12/8) covers the city of Cheyenne and southwestern Oklahoma.
OETA broadcasts across the state of Oklahoma through the following
Translators :
Because of OETA's reach through its statewide network of translators, OETA can be seen in portions of Kansas, Texas, Missouri and Arkansas and some of the people who contribute donations for OETA's Festival and AugustFest pledge drives come from those states.
OETA airs 17½ hours of instructional programming a week. Instructional programming airs weekdays from 5:00 (or 6:00am) to 7:00am and 10:00am to 12 (or 12:30pm) and weekends from 6:00 to 8:00am.
OETA is one of several PBS member stations to produce programming for syndication to other PBS stations around the country as well as to the OETA network itself. OETA produces series under the banner, ''OETA: The Oklahoma Network''. In September 1986, OETA began syndication of episodes of ''
The Lawrence Welk Show '', after that series left commercial syndication. ''The Lawrence Welk Show'' is OETA's most-watched series and currently airs on Saturday evenings at 7:00pm and Sunday evenings at 5:00pm. OETA has also produced ''Lawrence Welk'' specials.
OETA also is known for the ''OETA Movie Club'' hosted by B.J. Wexler, for more than 20 years. ''OETA Movie Club'' features classic movies from the 1930s to the 1980s. It airs Friday nights at 10:30pm with a double feature on Saturday nights at 9:00pm.
OETA also produces ''Stateline'' which deals with issues important to Oklahoma and also the United States and ''Gallery'', focusing on Oklahoma's art community.
OETA is one of only a handful of PBS stations to produce a local newscast. The ''Oklahoma News Report'' is anchored by Gerry Bonds, Rotating co-anchors Angela Buckelew (Tuesdays & Thursdays) and George Tomek (Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays) and meteorologist Ross Dixon. It originally featured clips of special reports from newscasts in the Oklahoma City and Tulsa area. The newscast airs Monday through Friday evenings at 6:30pm (except on Thanksgiving Eve and Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, and New Year's Eve and New Year's Day).
The newscast features the traditional news and weather format but also the following:
- The newscast has no sports coverage.
- The newscast airs a stock market segment featuring the day's closing numbers of the Dow Jones and NASDAQ markets and stocks on businesses that do business in Oklahoma (Kerr-McGee, ConocoPhillips, etc.)
During the early 2000s, on cable outlets around the state, OETA aired programming from PBS' national feed to fill the time from sign-off at night to sign-on in the morning. The national feed is began broadcasting over the air in April 2006 making OETA one of the few broadcast stations in the last decade to switch to a 24-hour format.
The digital channels of OETA's main stations are multiplexed:
OETA also operates , a 24-hour, High-Definition service available only to Cox Digital Cable subscribers.
