ChemGuy

 

Yes, that's how it's been since the morning show launched in 2007. They do five hours in the morning, and 90 minutes starting at 9:00 p.m. on weeknights, and only an hour at 9:00 on weekends. In a market like OKC where news happens quite a bit, it's a bit weird that KOKH hasn't expanded to other timeslots sooner. Especially when this market is close to two others where the Fox stations have news-intensive formats (KOKI in Tulsa to the northeast, and KDFW across the state line (and to the south of the Ada-Sherman market) in Dallas).

 

This is a news-producing Fox affiliate owned by Sinclair, let's get that out there. That company's been well behind other Fox station owners (especially Fox Television Stations and Tribune) in expanding news programming on its Fox affiliates. The only stations that Sinclair owns that are affiliated with Fox that have early evening news at present are WBFF (5:00 p.m.), KFOX (5:00 p.m.) and KXRM (6:30 p.m.). None of the Fox stations with news departments that Sinclair runs other than those three, either those owned before or after their buying spree of 2011-present, have newscasts at 5:00 or 6:00 p.m., just morning and primetime newscasts (and in the case of KOKH and WZTV, a newscast in the traditional late news slot).

 

Sinclair is actually adding a 30 minute newscast at 5:30pm to WZTV starting August 4, along with expanding the morning show to 4:30am to 9:00am. Jerry Springer, Steve Wilkos, and Maury are also moving over to a sister station to make room for Judge Judy, Jeopardy, The People's Court, and a time promotion for Steve Harvey.

Finally, we're getting somewhere.