News Operation
KOTV broadcasts a total of 30 hours of local news per week (with 5½ hours on weekdays, 1½ hours on Saturdays and one hour on Sundays).
KOTV also airs its morning newscast from 5 to 8 a.m. and broadcasts CBS's The Early Show from 8 to 10 a.m. In the fall of 2008, KOTV expanded its late newscast on Saturday nights to a full hour. The first half-hour is branded as News on 6 at 10:00, while the second half-hour is called News on 6 Late Edition (this is the same with sister station KWTV-DT in Oklahoma City, which also airs an hour-long 10 p.m. newscast on Saturdays).
On October 24, 2010 beginning with the KQCW 9 p.m. newscast, KOTV introduced new on-air graphics, a new news music package, a new station logo (a rounded red square with a "6" in Goudy type), and a new station slogan ("Oklahoma's Own"). Oklahoma City sister station KWTV adopted a similar logo and identical graphics and slogan, as well as adopting The CBS Enforcer News Music Collection by Gari Communications (which KOTV has used as its news theme since 2006) as its news theme on that same date. However, KOTV has yet to begin airing its local newscasts in high definition, unlike its Oklahoma City sister station KWTV which made the switch to high definition on October 24, 2010, though its newscasts and some syndicated programming are now broadcast in 16:9 widescreen standard definition.
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