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Do not fill this in! ==Media== {{See also|Media of Tulsa, Oklahoma}} [[File:Tulsa World Office.jpg|thumb|''[[The Tulsa World]]'' operates primarily from its headquarters in downtown Tulsa.]] ===Print=== Tulsa's leading newspaper is the daily ''[[Tulsa World]]'', the second-most widely circulated newspaper in Oklahoma with a Sunday circulation of 189,789.<ref>{{cite web | title=2006 Top 100 Daily Newspapers in the U.S. by Circulation | author=Burrelles''Luce'' | url=http://www.burrellesluce.com/top100/2006_Top_100List.pdf | access-date=March 2, 2007 | year=2006 | archive-date=July 22, 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150722124337/http://www.burrellesluce.com/top100/2006_Top_100List.pdf | url-status=dead }}</ref> ''The Tulsa Voice'' is an [[Alternative newspaper|Alt-Weekly]] newspaper covering entertainment and cultural events. Covering primarily economic events and stocks, the ''Tulsa Business Journal'' caters to Tulsa's business sector. Other publications include the ''Oklahoma Indian Times'', the ''Tulsa Daily Commerce and Legal News'', the ''[[Tulsa Beacon]]'', ''[[This Land Press]]'', and the ''Tulsa Free Press''. The first black-owned newspaper was the ''Tulsa Star'', which ceased publication when its office burned during the Tulsa race massacre. It was succeeded by the ''[[Oklahoma Eagle]]'', which began publishing using the press salvaged from the ''Star''{{'s}} office.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Lee |first1=Kurtis |title=This newspaper has never forgotten the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre - and its fight continues |url=https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-05-22/one-newspaper-never-forgot-the-tulsa-race-massacre |website=The Los Angeles Times |date=May 22, 2020 |access-date=23 May 2020}}</ref> Until 1992, the ''[[Tulsa Tribune]]'' served as a daily afternoon newspaper competing with the ''Tulsa World''. The paper was acquired by the ''Tulsa World'' that year. ''[[Urban Tulsa Weekly]]'' served as the city's alt-weekly paper from 1991 until its closure in 2013.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.kjrh.com/news/local-news/urban-tulsa-weekly-alternative-publication-reportedly-closes-its-doors-after-more-than-20-years|title=Urban Tulsa Weekly, alternative publication, reportedly closes its doors after more than 20 years|date=November 5, 2013|work=KJRH|access-date=April 26, 2018|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180427045133/https://www.kjrh.com/news/local-news/urban-tulsa-weekly-alternative-publication-reportedly-closes-its-doors-after-more-than-20-years|archive-date=April 27, 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref> ===Television and radio=== Tulsa is also served by television and radio broadcasting networks. All major U.S. television networks are represented in Tulsa through local [[network affiliate|affiliates]] in the [[media market|designated market area]] (a region covering a 22-county area serving the northeastern and east-central portions of Oklahoma, and far southeastern Kansas); these include [[NBC]] affiliate [[KJRH-TV]] (channel 2), [[CBS]] affiliate [[KOTV-DT]] (channel 6), [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] affiliate [[KTUL]] (channel 8), [[PBS]] station KOED-TV (channel 11, a [[Broadcast relay station#Satellite stations|satellite]] of the state-run [[Oklahoma Educational Television Authority|OETA]] member network), [[The CW|CW]] affiliate [[KQCW-DT]] (channel 19), [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]] affiliate [[KOKI-TV]] (channel 23), [[MyNetworkTV]] affiliate [[KMYT-TV]] (channel 41), [[Ion Television]] [[owned-and-operated station]] [[KTPX-TV]] (channel 44). The market is also home to several religious stations including [[Trinity Broadcasting Network|TBN]] owned-and-operated station [[KDOR-TV]] (channel 17), religious/secular [[Independent station (North America)|independent station]] [[KWHB]] (channel 47), and Oral Roberts University-owned [[KGEB]] (channel 53, which is distributed nationwide via satellite as [[GEB America]]). [[Cable television]] service in the area is provided by [[Cox Communications]], which acquired [[Tele-Communications Inc.]] (TCI)'s franchise rights to the area in a $2.85 billion deal (which also included the purchase of [[AT&T Broadband]]'s Louisiana cable systems, minority ownership of TCA Cable TV systems in Texas, Louisiana and New Mexico, and TCI's Peak Cablevision systems in four other Oklahoma cities, and select markets in Arkansas, Utah and Nevada) in July 1999; Cox assumed control of TCI's Tulsa-area systems on March 15, 2000.<ref>{{cite news|title=TCI cable traded|url=http://www.tulsaworld.com/archives/tci-cable-traded/article_daf3721e-d704-5979-831e-0ccab1d8816e.html|author=D.R. Stewart|newspaper=[[Tulsa World]]|publisher=World Publishing Company|date=July 8, 1999|access-date=July 10, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Cox takes over TCI|url=http://www.tulsaworld.com/archives/cox-takes-over-tci/article_36697dac-704a-5648-b52c-7636e19b4584.html|author=D.R. Stewart|newspaper=Tulsa World|publisher=World Publishing Company|date=March 22, 2000|access-date=July 10, 2017}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page