1993. Initially available exclusively on Cox's Oklahoma City system, Multimedia began carrying News Now 53 on its suburban area systems (which, in January 2000, were sold by the Gannett Company to Cox) on January 6, 1997. The Cox/Griffin partnership launched a feed for the Tulsa area—offering newscasts from newly acquired sister station and fellow CBS affiliate KOTV—in May 2001 on Cox's northeastern Oklahoma systems (which the provider acquired from Tele-Communications Inc. eleven months prior. KWTV-DT2 first launched in October 2009 as a temporary simulcast of the primary 9.1 feed, while KWTV was in the process of moving the station's digital signal permanently to UHF channel 39, the physical digital allocation it used until the February 2009 termination of analog transmissions; the 9.2 subfeed was deleted after KWTV relocated to UHF 39 full-time on August 30, 2010. KWTV relaunched the subchannel on April 1, 2011, when Griffin Communications—which assumed ownership of Cox's ownership interest in the service—reformatted the Oklahoma City feed of News Now 53 under the standalone brand "News 9 Now". (Concurrently, the service's Tulsa feed was added onto a DT2 subchannel of KOTV under the moniker "News on 6 Now"). News 9 Now maintains the former News Now 53's format of running live and repeat airings of all KWTV newscasts, however it does not rebroadcast News 9 This Morning in its entirety—repeating only the weekday 6:00 a.m. hour and the weekend editions, despite simulcasting the two weekday and one weekend hours that it does not rebroadcast. (All news rebroadcasts on the subchannel are accompanied by a ticker that displays current conditions and weather forecasts for major cities across Oklahoma and right-third-quadrant banner advertisements for KWTV and local businesses.) To fulfill Children's Television Act guidelines, News 9 Now also airs a three-hour block of educational programming aimed at older children and teenagers on Saturday afternoons. Programming KWTV-DT currently broadcasts the majority of the CBS network schedule, although it carries the first hour of the CBS Dream Team block on a two-hour delay from the "live" network feed to accommodate CBS Saturday Morning (which it originally preempted from its September 1997 debut under its CBS News Saturday Morning iteration until September 2021) and a two-hour-long edition of News 9 This Morning, and defers the second hour of the block to Sunday mornings leading into an hour-long edition of the station's morning newscast. (The Saturday edition of CBS Mornings—in its previous Saturday