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==Media== {{Main|List of newspapers in Oklahoma|List of radio stations in Oklahoma|List of television stations in Oklahoma}} [[File:Tulsa World Office.jpg|thumb|The second-largest newspaper in Oklahoma, the ''Tulsa World'', has a circulation of 189,789.<ref name="world" />]] Oklahoma City and Tulsa are the 45th- and 61st-largest [[media market]]s in the United States as ranked by [[Nielsen Media Research]]. The state's third-largest media market, Lawton-[[Wichita Falls, Texas]], is ranked 149th nationally by the agency.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/2009-2010-dma-ranks.pdf | title=Local Television Market Universe Estimates Comparisons of 2008β09 and 2009β10 Market Ranks | publisher=Nielsen Media | access-date=October 17, 2011 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110317170600/http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/2009-2010-dma-ranks.pdf | archive-date=March 17, 2011 }}</ref> [[Terrestrial television|Broadcast television]] in Oklahoma began in 1949 when [[KFOR-TV]] (then WKY-TV) in Oklahoma City and [[KOTV-TV]] in Tulsa began broadcasting a few months apart.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.tulsatvmemories.com/tvthesi2.html|title= Historical Highlights of Television in Tulsa, Oklahoma | publisher=Tulsa TV History| access-date=August 6, 2007}}</ref> Currently, all major American [[Television network|broadcast networks]] have affiliated television stations in the state.<ref>{{cite web |year=2007 |url=http://www.globalcomputing.com/GetTV_Map1.cfm?PageNum_q_GetTV_Map=1&stateid=OK |title=U.S. Television Stations in Oklahoma |publisher=Global Computing |access-date=August 6, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927064302/http://www.globalcomputing.com/GetTV_Map1.cfm?PageNum_q_GetTV_Map=1&stateid=OK |archive-date=September 27, 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The state has two primary newspapers. ''[[The Oklahoman]]'', based in Oklahoma City, is the largest newspaper in the state and 54th-largest in the nation by circulation, with a weekday readership of 138,493 and a Sunday readership of 202,690. The ''[[Tulsa World]]'', the second-most widely circulated newspaper in Oklahoma and 79th in the nation, holds a Sunday circulation of 132,969 and a weekday readership of 93,558.<ref name="world">{{cite web | title=2011 Top Media Outlets: Newspapers, Blogs, Consumer Magazines & Social Network | publisher=BurrellesLuce | url=http://www.burrellesluce.com/sites/default/files/TopMedia2011_UpdatedFebruary2011_FINAL.pdf | access-date=October 17, 2011 | year=2011 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131023162955/http://www.burrellesluce.com/sites/default/files/TopMedia2011_UpdatedFebruary2011_FINAL.pdf | archive-date=October 23, 2013 | url-status=dead }}</ref> Oklahoma's first newspaper was established in 1844, called the ''Cherokee Advocate'', and was written in both [[Cherokee language|Cherokee]] and English.<ref name="ok newspapers" /> In 2006, there were more than 220 newspapers in the state, including 177 with weekly publications and 48 with daily publications.<ref name="ok newspapers">{{cite web | title=History of Newspapers in Oklahoma| publisher=Oklahoma Historical Society | url=http://www.okhistory.org/research/collections/news_history.html | access-date=August 6, 2007}}</ref> The state's first radio station, [[WKY]] in Oklahoma City, began broadcasting in 1920.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://tulsaworld.com/archive/radio-days-oklahomas-first-station-broadcast-pioneer-wky-began-in-garage-living-room/article_598b57f4-03e1-5a4c-85ec-6c08c7138fe3.html#:~:text=WhatsApp-,Radio%20Days%3A%20Oklahoma's%20First%20Station%3A%20Broadcast%20pioneer%20WKY,began%20in%20garage%2C%20living%20room&text=In%201922%2C%20the%20U.S.%20Department,west%20of%20the%20Mississippi%20River.|title=Radio Days: Oklahoma's First Station: Broadcast pioneer WKY began in garage, living room|work=Tulsa World|last1=Gleason|first1=Matt|date=January 28, 2007|access-date=October 28, 2020}}</ref> In 2006, there were more than 500 radio stations in Oklahoma broadcasting with various local or nationally owned networks. Five universities in Oklahoma operate non-commercial, public radio stations/networks.<ref>{{cite web | year = 2006 | title = Complete List of Radio Stations in the State of OK | url = http://www.ontheradio.net/states/oklahoma.aspx | publisher = On the Radio.net | access-date = August 6, 2007 | archive-date = August 24, 2007 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070824110916/http://www.ontheradio.net/states/oklahoma.aspx | url-status = dead }}</ref> Oklahoma has a few ethnic-oriented TV stations broadcasting in Spanish and [[Asian Americans|Asian]] languages, and there is some Native American programming. [[Trinity Broadcasting Network|TBN]], a Christian religious television network, has a studio in Tulsa, and built its first entirely TBN-owned affiliate in Oklahoma City in 1980.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/call_hist.pl?Facility_id=67999&Callsign=KTBO-TV|author=Federal Communications Commission|title=Call Sign History|access-date=May 16, 2010|archive-date=May 25, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170525205031/http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/call_hist.pl?Facility_id=67999&Callsign=KTBO-TV|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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