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82_206	Kirk, Nicole C. Wanamaker's Temple: The Business of Religion in an Iconic Department Store (NYU
82_207	Press, 2018).
82_208	Robert Sobel The Entrepreneurs: Explorations Within the American Business Tradition'' (Weybright &
82_209	Talley 1974), chapter 3, John Wanamaker: The Triumph of Content Over Form
82_210	External links About May - Company History Crystal Tea Room today
82_211	A history of the Christmas Light Show A history of the Wanamaker Organ Video Clip 1991
82_212	Video Clip 1995 Capano ownership of old Wanamaker bldg
82_213	The John Wanamaker Collection, 1827-1987, including an extensive collection of correspondence,
82_214	accounts, scrapbooks, legal papers, photographs and other materials which detail the history of
82_215	Wanamaker's store, is available for research use at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
82_216	American companies established in 1861 Retail companies established in 1861
82_217	Retail companies disestablished in 1996 Defunct department stores based in Philadelphia
82_218	Historic American Buildings Survey in Philadelphia History of Philadelphia
82_219	National Historic Landmarks in Pennsylvania Commercial buildings completed in 1902
82_220	Market East, Philadelphia 1861 establishments in Pennsylvania
82_221	National Register of Historic Places in Philadelphia May Department Stores Wanamaker family
83_0	KTVQ, UHF analog channel 25, was an ABC-affiliated television station licensed to Oklahoma City,
83_1	Oklahoma, United States, which operated from November 1, 1953, to December 15, 1955. The station
83_2	was owned by the Republic Television and Radio Company. KTVQ's studios were located on Northwest
83_3	19th Street and North Classen Boulevard in northwest Oklahoma City's Mesta Park neighborhood (in a
83_4	building that presently houses a commercial retail complex), and its transmitter was located atop
83_5	the First National Bank Building on North Robinson and Park Avenues in downtown Oklahoma City.
83_6	Two years after the station ceased operations due to financial difficulties that led to KTVQ's
83_7	bankruptcy, Republic Television and Radio sold the UHF channel 25 license and construction permit
83_8	to Independent School District No. 89 of Oklahoma County (now Oklahoma City Public Schools) in July
83_9	1958; the school district launched a new station on that channel, KOKH-TV, in February 1959.
83_10	History
83_11	Early history
83_12	On June 26, 1952, the Oklahoma County TV and Broadcasting Company—a Chickasha-based company
83_13	co-owned by Philip D. Jackson and Clarence E. Wilson, joint owners of Chickasha radio station KWCO
83_14	(1560 AM, now Oklahoma City-licensed KEBC; the KWCO call letters now reside on a radio station on
83_15	105.5 FM in Chickasha)—submitted an application to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for
83_16	a construction permit to build and license to operate a broadcast television station in the
83_17	Oklahoma City market that would transmit on UHF channel 25. The FCC eventually granted the license
83_18	to Oklahoma County TV and Broadcasting on February 11, 1953; the group subsequently requested and
83_19	received approval to assign KTVQ (for "Television Quality") as the call letters for his television
83_20	station. Subsequently, on April 27, the company's principals reached an agreement to transfer the
83_21	license and permit to the Republic Television and Radio Company, owned by John Esau (then the
83_22	stockholder and manager of radio stations KTUL [now KTBZ] in Tulsa and KFPW in Fort Smith,
83_23	Arkansas), oil prospectors Frank E. Brown, Frank Smith and R. P. Green, and attorney A. C.
83_24	Saunders. Jackson and Wilson received 12¼% interest in Republic in consideration for the transfer.
83_25	The FCC granted the permit transfer to Republic Television and Radio on August 5.
83_26	KTVQ first signed on the air on November 1, 1953, operating as an ABC affiliate. (Plans originally
83_27	called for the station to sign on October 1, later pushed back to October 11.) Channel 25 was ABC's
83_28	first full-time outlet in the Oklahoma City television market and at the time was one of the
83_29	relatively few ABC-affiliated stations operating on the UHF dial; it assumed the affiliation from
83_30	primary NBC affiliate WKY-TV (channel 4, now KFOR-TV)—which had continued to carry select ABC
83_31	programs under a secondary basic affiliation afterward—as it had carried programming from the
83_32	network since its sign-on in June 1949.
83_33	KTVQ was the first television station to sign on in Oklahoma City since the Federal Communications
83_34	Commission (FCC)-imposed freeze on television broadcast licenses was lifted in 1953. KTVQ was the
83_35	first of three commercial television station to sign on in the Oklahoma City market during 1953:
83_36	another UHF station, KMPT (channel 19, later used by Cornerstone Television affiliate KUOT-CD),
83_37	debuted as a DuMont Television Network affiliate on November 8; KWTV (channel 9) launched as a CBS
83_38	affiliate on December 20. As with many early UHF stations, reception of KTVQ required television
83_39	set owners to purchase a standalone UHF tuning adapter. (Set manufacturers were not required to
83_40	equip televisions with UHF tuners until the Congress passed the All-Channel Receiver Act in 1961,
83_41	with UHF tuners not included on all newer sets until 1964.) The station conducted a series of
83_42	promotions to encourage converter adoption including events intended for electronics dealers as
83_43	well as radio and television commercials directed at the general public.
83_44	Local programs on KTVQ included Moods in Music (an innovative music series that utilized projection
83_45	cards containing song lyrics that were superimposed on-screen, accompanied by a hat pin, acting
83_46	similarly to the "bouncing ball" seen in singalong versions of movie musicals, moving across the
83_47	card within the projector), Sidewalk Cafe (a half-hour, weekly variety series featuring
83_48	instrumental music, interviews and anecdotes, and conducted from a set in the style of a European
83_49	sidewalk cafe), and sporting events that included Oklahoma A&M Aggies basketball games (which, due
83_50	to limitations that prevented live broadcasts of away games, aired as pre-filmed telecasts
83_51	accompanied by separately recorded play-by-play description), local high school football games, and
83_52	Monday and Tuesday night home games from the now-defunct Oklahoma City Indians minor league
83_53	franchise. To promote programs scheduled to air on the station, as area newspapers (such as The
83_54	Daily Oklahoman and the Oklahoma City Times) were not willing to distribute free radio/TV listings
83_55	logs at the time, KTVQ announced such shows in a format mirroring local children's programs of the
83_56	period (and was used for a mid-afternoon children's program featured on the station), in which a
83_57	puppet carried on a conversation with staff announcer Dick Kirchner discussing upcoming KTVQ
83_58	programs while written program notes rolled past an opening in the back of the stage housing the
83_59	puppet.
83_60	Financial troubles and shutdown
83_61	Along with its existing struggles being a UHF outlet, KTVQ also had to deal with other local
83_62	stations. WKY-TV had a stronghold on network programming in the market, which Esau contended had
83_63	exhibited "malicious in [NBC's] monopolistic collusion" with channel 4. In December 1954, Republic
83_64	Television and Radio filed a petition for bankruptcy reorganization in the United States District
83_65	Court for the Western District of Oklahoma, citing a lack of adequate working capital and temporary
83_66	financial difficulties, with an estimated debt load totaling $400,000. Later that month, KTVQ was
83_67	placed under a trusteeship managed by Esau and attorney Duke Duvall, who were appointed by the
83_68	court as trustees. The FCC granted transfer of control of Republic Television and Radio to the
83_69	Esau-Duvall trusteeship on January 11, 1955. As part of the reorganization, National Affiliated
83_70	Television Stations (NATS)—an organization backed by General Electric and National Telefilm
83_71	Associates to assist financially struggling television stations with finances, management,
83_72	programming and advertising services—and ABC agreed to a two-year agreement to provide programming
83_73	and financial services (including the sale of common stock in the company to Republic stockholders
83_74	and a one-year equipment payment deference) while the station attempted to emerge from bankruptcy;
83_75	attorney, oilman and rancher E. A. Farris would also become controlling owner of KTVQ, planning to
83_76	cancel all debts owed in the station in exchange for the station's common voting stock. ABC's
83_77	cooperation in the reorganization also intended to substantially increase the number of network
83_78	programs shown on KTVQ's schedule. The Western District Court approved the reorganization plan in
83_79	May 1955.
83_80	In January 1955, shortly before the FCC proposed rules to limit television transmission antennas
83_81	from being located more than from the outskirts of a station's principal city of license, Streets
83_82	Electronics—owner of Enid-based ABC affiliate KGEO-TV (channel 5, now KOCO-TV)—filed a construction
83_83	permit application to build a new -tall transmission tower west-northwest of Crescent. Republic

82_206

Kirk, Nicole C. Wanamaker's Temple: The Business of Religion in an Iconic Department Store (NYU

82_207

Press, 2018).

82_208

Robert Sobel The Entrepreneurs: Explorations Within the American Business Tradition'' (Weybright &

82_209

Talley 1974), chapter 3, John Wanamaker: The Triumph of Content Over Form

82_210

External links About May - Company History Crystal Tea Room today

82_211

A history of the Christmas Light Show A history of the Wanamaker Organ Video Clip 1991

82_212

Video Clip 1995 Capano ownership of old Wanamaker bldg

82_213

The John Wanamaker Collection, 1827-1987, including an extensive collection of correspondence,

82_214

accounts, scrapbooks, legal papers, photographs and other materials which detail the history of

82_215

Wanamaker's store, is available for research use at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

82_216

American companies established in 1861 Retail companies established in 1861

82_217

Retail companies disestablished in 1996 Defunct department stores based in Philadelphia

82_218

Historic American Buildings Survey in Philadelphia History of Philadelphia

82_219

National Historic Landmarks in Pennsylvania Commercial buildings completed in 1902

82_220

Market East, Philadelphia 1861 establishments in Pennsylvania

82_221

National Register of Historic Places in Philadelphia May Department Stores Wanamaker family

83_0

KTVQ, UHF analog channel 25, was an ABC-affiliated television station licensed to Oklahoma City,

83_1

Oklahoma, United States, which operated from November 1, 1953, to December 15, 1955. The station

83_2

was owned by the Republic Television and Radio Company. KTVQ's studios were located on Northwest

83_3

19th Street and North Classen Boulevard in northwest Oklahoma City's Mesta Park neighborhood (in a

83_4

building that presently houses a commercial retail complex), and its transmitter was located atop

83_5

the First National Bank Building on North Robinson and Park Avenues in downtown Oklahoma City.

83_6

Two years after the station ceased operations due to financial difficulties that led to KTVQ's

83_7

bankruptcy, Republic Television and Radio sold the UHF channel 25 license and construction permit

83_8

to Independent School District No. 89 of Oklahoma County (now Oklahoma City Public Schools) in July

83_9

1958; the school district launched a new station on that channel, KOKH-TV, in February 1959.

83_10

History

83_11

Early history

83_12

On June 26, 1952, the Oklahoma County TV and Broadcasting Company—a Chickasha-based company

83_13

co-owned by Philip D. Jackson and Clarence E. Wilson, joint owners of Chickasha radio station KWCO

83_14

(1560 AM, now Oklahoma City-licensed KEBC; the KWCO call letters now reside on a radio station on

83_15

105.5 FM in Chickasha)—submitted an application to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for

83_16

a construction permit to build and license to operate a broadcast television station in the

83_17

Oklahoma City market that would transmit on UHF channel 25. The FCC eventually granted the license

83_18

to Oklahoma County TV and Broadcasting on February 11, 1953; the group subsequently requested and

83_19

received approval to assign KTVQ (for "Television Quality") as the call letters for his television

83_20

station. Subsequently, on April 27, the company's principals reached an agreement to transfer the

83_21

license and permit to the Republic Television and Radio Company, owned by John Esau (then the

83_22

stockholder and manager of radio stations KTUL [now KTBZ] in Tulsa and KFPW in Fort Smith,

83_23

Arkansas), oil prospectors Frank E. Brown, Frank Smith and R. P. Green, and attorney A. C.

83_24

Saunders. Jackson and Wilson received 12¼% interest in Republic in consideration for the transfer.

83_25

The FCC granted the permit transfer to Republic Television and Radio on August 5.

83_26

KTVQ first signed on the air on November 1, 1953, operating as an ABC affiliate. (Plans originally

83_27

called for the station to sign on October 1, later pushed back to October 11.) Channel 25 was ABC's

83_28

first full-time outlet in the Oklahoma City television market and at the time was one of the

83_29

relatively few ABC-affiliated stations operating on the UHF dial; it assumed the affiliation from

83_30

primary NBC affiliate WKY-TV (channel 4, now KFOR-TV)—which had continued to carry select ABC

83_31

programs under a secondary basic affiliation afterward—as it had carried programming from the

83_32

network since its sign-on in June 1949.

83_33

KTVQ was the first television station to sign on in Oklahoma City since the Federal Communications

83_34

Commission (FCC)-imposed freeze on television broadcast licenses was lifted in 1953. KTVQ was the

83_35

first of three commercial television station to sign on in the Oklahoma City market during 1953:

83_36

another UHF station, KMPT (channel 19, later used by Cornerstone Television affiliate KUOT-CD),

83_37

debuted as a DuMont Television Network affiliate on November 8; KWTV (channel 9) launched as a CBS

83_38

affiliate on December 20. As with many early UHF stations, reception of KTVQ required television

83_39

set owners to purchase a standalone UHF tuning adapter. (Set manufacturers were not required to

83_40

equip televisions with UHF tuners until the Congress passed the All-Channel Receiver Act in 1961,

83_41

with UHF tuners not included on all newer sets until 1964.) The station conducted a series of

83_42

promotions to encourage converter adoption including events intended for electronics dealers as

83_43

well as radio and television commercials directed at the general public.

83_44

Local programs on KTVQ included Moods in Music (an innovative music series that utilized projection

83_45

cards containing song lyrics that were superimposed on-screen, accompanied by a hat pin, acting

83_46

similarly to the "bouncing ball" seen in singalong versions of movie musicals, moving across the

83_47

card within the projector), Sidewalk Cafe (a half-hour, weekly variety series featuring

83_48

instrumental music, interviews and anecdotes, and conducted from a set in the style of a European

83_49

sidewalk cafe), and sporting events that included Oklahoma A&M Aggies basketball games (which, due

83_50

to limitations that prevented live broadcasts of away games, aired as pre-filmed telecasts

83_51

accompanied by separately recorded play-by-play description), local high school football games, and

83_52

Monday and Tuesday night home games from the now-defunct Oklahoma City Indians minor league

83_53

franchise. To promote programs scheduled to air on the station, as area newspapers (such as The

83_54

Daily Oklahoman and the Oklahoma City Times) were not willing to distribute free radio/TV listings

83_55

logs at the time, KTVQ announced such shows in a format mirroring local children's programs of the

83_56

period (and was used for a mid-afternoon children's program featured on the station), in which a

83_57

puppet carried on a conversation with staff announcer Dick Kirchner discussing upcoming KTVQ

83_58

programs while written program notes rolled past an opening in the back of the stage housing the

83_59

puppet.

83_60

Financial troubles and shutdown

83_61

Along with its existing struggles being a UHF outlet, KTVQ also had to deal with other local

83_62

stations. WKY-TV had a stronghold on network programming in the market, which Esau contended had

83_63

exhibited "malicious in [NBC's] monopolistic collusion" with channel 4. In December 1954, Republic

83_64

Television and Radio filed a petition for bankruptcy reorganization in the United States District

83_65

Court for the Western District of Oklahoma, citing a lack of adequate working capital and temporary

83_66

financial difficulties, with an estimated debt load totaling $400,000. Later that month, KTVQ was

83_67

placed under a trusteeship managed by Esau and attorney Duke Duvall, who were appointed by the

83_68

court as trustees. The FCC granted transfer of control of Republic Television and Radio to the

83_69

Esau-Duvall trusteeship on January 11, 1955. As part of the reorganization, National Affiliated

83_70

Television Stations (NATS)—an organization backed by General Electric and National Telefilm

83_71

Associates to assist financially struggling television stations with finances, management,

83_72

programming and advertising services—and ABC agreed to a two-year agreement to provide programming

83_73

and financial services (including the sale of common stock in the company to Republic stockholders

83_74

and a one-year equipment payment deference) while the station attempted to emerge from bankruptcy;

83_75

attorney, oilman and rancher E. A. Farris would also become controlling owner of KTVQ, planning to

83_76

cancel all debts owed in the station in exchange for the station's common voting stock. ABC's

83_77

cooperation in the reorganization also intended to substantially increase the number of network

83_78

programs shown on KTVQ's schedule. The Western District Court approved the reorganization plan in

83_79

May 1955.

83_80

In January 1955, shortly before the FCC proposed rules to limit television transmission antennas

83_81

from being located more than from the outskirts of a station's principal city of license, Streets

83_82

Electronics—owner of Enid-based ABC affiliate KGEO-TV (channel 5, now KOCO-TV)—filed a construction

83_83

permit application to build a new -tall transmission tower west-northwest of Crescent. Republic