The station broadcasts its analog signal on UHF channel 43, and its digital signal on UHF channel 40. KAUT-TV affiliated with Fox when the fledgling network inaugurated programming on October 9, 1986.
Even though KOKH-TV was the leading independent in the market, Reliance Capital Group – which assumed ownership of KOKH's parent company at the time, Blair Broadcasting, to stave off a hostile takeover by minority stockholders – had turned down Fox's offer to affiliate with channel 25, due to disagreements over scheduling of the network's inaugural program, late-night talk show The Late Show Starring Joan Rivers, in concern of potential disruption to its movie lineup. KAUT commenced entertainment programming on November 3, 1980, three weeks after the VEU launch; at that time, it became the third independent station to sign on in the Oklahoma City market (after KOKH-TV [channel 25, now a Fox affiliate], which converted from a non-commercial educational independent into a commercial independent on October 1, 1979, and KGMC [channel 34, now CW affiliate KOCB], which signed on four weeks later on October 28). The UHF channel 43 allocation in Oklahoma City was originally assigned to Christian Broadcasting of Oklahoma Inc. – a religious nonprofit corporation headed by George G. Teague, a local evangelist and co-founder of the Capitol Hill Assembly of God – which filed an application with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for a license and construction permit on April 4, 1977, proposing to sign on a non-commercial religious television station on the frequency. Because Sinclair and Tribune each owned two television stations in the Oklahoma City market, with KFOR and KOKH both ranking among the market's four highest-rated stations in total day viewership, the companies were required to sell either KFOR or KOKH (and optionally, KAUT and KOCB) to another station owner in order to comply with FCC local ownership rules. Around that time, the station acquired more cartoons for its weekday afternoon lineup, and launched Midnight Shopper, a home shopping program produced by locally based production company Snyder & Co. that aired weekend late nights. (The service continued to operate until September 30, 1984, when WVEU and its replacement Dallas outlet, KTWS-TV [now MyNetworkTV owned-and-operated station KDFI] ceased carrying the service due to subscriber declines associated to the widespread presence of cable television in the Atlanta and Dallas–Fort Worth markets.) On July 3, 1993, KTLC cut its weekday and weekend morning schedules (from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.), which had largely been ceded to instructional programs and, on weekday mornings, also included some children's programming; the move was originally intended to last until the end of August 1993, in a cost-saving effort intended to save about $4,000 per month during that summer amid a 17.9% reduction in the OETA's state funding for FY1993, but continued past its intended timespan. The sale, along with that of KOKH (which Standard Media Group – a broadcast holding company being formed by private equity firm Standard General to assume ownership of and absolve ownership conflicts involving Sinclair- and Tribune-owned stations in nine property conflict markets – purchased on that date in a $441.1-million group deal), would have put Sinclair in compliance with FCC rules that prohibit common ownership of more than two full-power stations in a single market. The station is owned by the Nexstar Media Group subsidiary of the Nexstar Broadcasting Inc, as part of a duopoly with NBC affiliate KFOR-TV (channel 4). As a PBS station, much of KAUT/KTLC's programming consisted of same-day rebroadcasts of programs featured on the OETA network, alongside some programs from American Public Television and other syndicators that OETA had granted the exclusive local broadcast rights to channel 43. In the fall of 1997, the authority announced it would put channel 43 up for sale, finding its eventual buyer as a result of the displacement of a network affiliation by a prior rival of KTLC during its initial run as a commercial station.
The day prior, KAUT became one of a handful of UPN-affiliated stations not owned by Fox Television Stations to remove on-air brand references to UPN—rebranding as simply "43"—and cease promotion of the network's programs.
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