The following video features various news and talent opens from KOKI-TV in Tulsa from 1984 to present.
KOKI has aired news programming since it signed on in October 1980, originally airing 60-second news and weather updates during commercial breaks within the station's daytime and evening programming; these were accompanied by "First Weather on Fox 23", which premiered on January 26, 1997 (on the evening that Fox aired Super Bowl XXXI, the network's first Super Bowl telecast), a nightly weather forecast segment that aired three times per night, beginning with a five-minute edition at 10:00 p.m. The news updates and "First Weather" were discontinued in January 2002, in preparation for the launch of its current larger-scale news department, which officially began operations on February 3, 2002 (the night of Fox's telecast of Super Bowl XXXVI), with the premiere of an hour-long 9:00 p.m. newscast.
Here's what you can see in this video:
(0:12) "NewsCheck 23" intro (1984-1987)
(4:22-5:11) "Fox 23 News" 9 p.m. intro (2002-2006)
(5:11-7:12) "Fox 23 News" 9 p.m. intros (2006-2009) - I wasn't aware until I saw the order on the Southern Media NMSA that the themes corresponding to the opens seen here were chronologically in the incorrect order ("Extreme" was used first, then "Global Grid")
(7:12-8:14) "Fox 23 News" morning intro and 9 p.m. talent bumper (2009-2014)
(8:14) "Fox 23 News" morning, 5 and 10 p.m. intros (2014-present)
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© 2016 KOKI-TV, owned by Cox Media Group, a subsidiary of Cox Enterprises.
Accurate captions are available for this video, activate the caption track and select "English" (the selection without the "automatic captions" tag) to view them.