KJRH-TV

KJRH-TV, virtual channel 2 (VHF digital channel 8), is an NBC-affiliated television station located in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The station is owned by the E. W. Scripps Company. KJRH maintains studio facilities located on South Peoria Avenue in the Brookside district of midtown Tulsa, and its transmitter is located near South 273rd Avenue East and the Muskogee Turnpike (near Broken Arrow) in southeastern Tulsa County.

On cable, the station is available on Cox Communications channel 2 and AT&T U-verse channel 2. There is a high definition feed available on Cox Communications digital channel 709 and AT&T U-verse channel 1002.

History

Several prospective applicants vied for the VHF channel 2 allocation in Tulsa in May 1954 – among them were Central Plains Enterprises (whose majority interest was held by Southwestern Sales, Inc., owned by oilman William G. Skelly, owner of local radio station KVOO (1170 AM, now KFAQ), with partners including Robert S. Kerr and Dean A. McGee), a group led by oilman John Mabee and a group led by several Tulsa businessmen including Fred Jones, Tom P. McDermott, oilman Charles McMahon, insurance executive Dan P. Holmes and Manhattan Construction Company president L. Francis Rooney. The Mabee group later relinquished its bid, later followed by the McDermott-Jones group through an agreement between them and Central Plains, in which that company would provide shares to McDermott, Jones and the others (which were ultimately sold back to Central Plains Enterprises in 1963) in return for the retraction.