History
The station signed on the air July 1, 1987 as KXON-TV. The call letters were later changed to KRSC, which stands for Rogers State College, an earlier name of the university. The station changed its callsign to the current KRSC-TV in 1992 (prior to being used by the Claremore station, the callsign was previously used by the present-day KING-TV in Seattle, Washington).
The station originally broadcast with a power of 5000 watts from a 300-foot (91 m) tower located on the campus of Rogers State. The power was increased to 2.75 million watts in 1991 when the station moved to a new 850-foot (260 m) tower near Lake Oologah.
In the early days, the station carried programming from The Learning Channel. It was the only broadcast television station affiliated with TLC. At the time, the cable network was more educational in nature. Network commercials were covered with station PSAs and promos.
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