aired by ESPN, TBS, Fox or Fox Sports 1.) Under Griffin Communications ownership, KSBI refocused its sports content around local and state teams. On July 24, 2015, Griffin announced an agreement with the OSSAA that would return high school football coverage to KSBI after a five-year sabbatical; the deal encompasses weekly games during the regular season on Friday and select Thursday evenings (branded as the Oklahoma Ford High School Football Game of the Week) as well as over-the-air rights to the Class 5A and 6A football championships; the 2015 season saw an initial slate of 11 games—all but two of which aired on Friday nights—beginning with a September 3 game between the Norman North Timberwolves and the Norman Tigers at Oklahoma Memorial Stadium (which aired on tape delay due to a scheduled NFL preseason game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the St. Louis Rams that was deferred to KSBI from KWTV, which held local rights to Rams preseason games at the time, due to CBS programming commitments). All games are simulcast on KWTV's website (although select games, particularly during the playoffs, are alternately broadcast on News 9 Now); for the 2015 season, KSBI aired a rebroadcast of the week's game on Sunday afternoons. KSBI aired the weekly regular season games until the 2018 high school football season. The agreement with the OSSAA would eventually expand to include coverage of the Class 5A and 6A boys' and girls' high school basketball championship games beginning in 2017. On March 8, 2016, the station reached an agreement with OKC Energy FC to become the exclusive broadcast home of the United Soccer League club's home matches at Taft Stadium, starting with the March 26 regular season opener against Colorado Springs Switchbacks FC; all games were produced by event streaming provider VISTA Worldlink. The contract ended after the Energy's 2018 season, with the team's matches being relegated mainly to the ESPN+ streaming service thereafter. On November 8 of that year, Griffin reached an agreement to carry games from the Oklahoma City Blue (the Thunder's NBA Development League affiliate) starting with the 2016–17 season, with an initial slate of 23 of the team's home games (which are held at the Cox Convention Center with former KWTV sports/news anchor Ed Murray doing play-by-play); the first Blue game to be telecast on the station was the November 11 home opener against the Maine Red Claws. Newscasts Immediately