Tyler Media Group, also known asTyler Broadcasting Corporation or simplyTyler Media, is a family-owned Oklahoma business with Radio, TV and outdoor advertising assets in Tulsa and Oklahoma City. Tyler Media owns five television stations (consisting of twoUnivision network affiliates, oneEstrella TV affiliate and twoTelemundo affiliates) and thirteen radio stations (nine English-language and four Spanish-language). The company also operates an outdooradvertising company,Tyler Outdoor Advertising, andTyler Media Digital, Tyler Media's newest marketing extension. The company is headquartered at 5101 South Shields Boulevard in Oklahoma City.
The company was founded in 1965 by Ralph Tyler, when it purchasedKEBC radio in Oklahoma City; Tyler owned the station for 14 years until 1986. Tyler re-entered the radio business in 1994 with the purchase of a station in Ada. Tyler Media entered the television industry in 2004 after it purchased Oklahoma City television stationKQOK (channel 30). After the sale, Tyler Media converted the station into a Telemundo affiliate and recalled the station to KTUZ-TV after its new radio sister.
On April 16, 2009, Tyler purchased five affiliates of the Spanish-language networkUnivisión at an auction held byEquity Media Holdings, which was liquidating its assets that year due to bankruptcy.[1] After the sale was approved by theFCC, this created a duopoly with KTUZ-TV.[2] Equity had owned both stations at some point, KTUZ-TV was owned by Equity from sign-on until 2004 when Equity traded channel 30 to Tyler Media in exchange for KUOK.
On July 15, 2012, Tyler Media entered into an agreement withRenda Broadcasting to purchase that company's Oklahoma City radio cluster (KMGL,KOMA,KRXO andKOKC) for $40 million. In accordance to limits imposed by theFederal Communications Commission on the number of radio stations a single broadcasting entity can own in a single market, Tyler soldKTLR-AM/FM andKKNG to WPA Radio for $1.6 million.[3][4]
In early 2017, Tyler Media launched its newest marketing extension called,Tyler Media Digital.
City of license/Market | Station | Channel TV (RF) | Owned from | Affiliation |
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Shawnee, Oklahoma/Oklahoma City, Oklahoma | KTUZ-TV | 30 (29) | 2004 | Telemundo |
Woodward, Oklahoma | KUOK | 35 (35) | 2009 | Univision |
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma | KUOK-LD (repeater of KUOK) | 36 (--) | 2009 | Univision |
KOCY-LD | 48 (14) | 2009 | Estrella TV | |
Tulsa, Oklahoma | KUTU-CD | 25 (17) | 2009 | Univision |
City of license/Market | Station | Channel TV (RF) | Owned from | Affiliation |
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Sulphur, Oklahoma | KOKT-LP (repeater of KUOK) | 20 (--) | 2009–2011 | Univision |
City of license | Call sign | Frequency | Current format |
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Del City, Oklahoma | KEBC | 1560 AM | Sports |
Newcastle, Oklahoma | KJKE | 93.3 FM | Country Music |
Okarche, Oklahoma | KTUZ-FM | 106.7 FM | Regional Mexican |
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma | KMGL | 104.1 FM | Adult Contemporary |
KOKC | 1520 AM | News Talk | |
KOMA | 92.5 FM | Classic Hits | |
KRXO-FM | 107.7 FM | Sports | |
KTLR | 890 AM | News Talk | |
Tulsa, Oklahoma | KRXO | 1270 AM | SpanishCHR |
KTUZ | 1570 AM | Regional Mexican |
City of license | Frequency | Rebroadcasts | Current format |
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Norman, Oklahoma | 103.3 FM | KEBC | Sports |
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma | 92.9 FM | KOMA-HD2 | Alternative Rock |
95.3 FM | KOKC (AM) | News/Talk | |
96.5 FM | KRXO-HD3 | Spanish oldies | |
103.1 FM | KOMA-HD3 | Classic hip hop | |
103.7 FM | KTLR | News/Talk | |
104.5 FM | KRXO-HD2 | Classic rock | |
Tulsa, Oklahoma | 101.9 FM | KTUZ (AM) | Regional Mexican |
104.1 FM | KTUZ (AM) | Regional Mexican | |
107.9 FM | KRXO (AM) | SpanishCHR |
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