It is a big anniversary in the history of our station, KOTV. In 2024, we are celebrating 75 years on the air. October 15 is the anniversary of the first time we showed a test pattern on TV and the ...

A slide, called a test pattern, was the first-ever image broadcast on KOTV on October 15th, 1949. In the years that followed, the image changed a little, but its function remained the same.

When KOTV's first test pattern went over the air, TVs were still few and far between in Oklahoma. But starting in the fall of 1949, Green Country could turn on Channel 6. There was no reason to ...

KOTV was Tulsa's first television station, signing on in October 1949 with a test pattern. There were a few versions of the image, but the most famous of them can be seen in the movie "The Outsiders." ...