In June 1956 , ABC elected to use KETA to telecast the network 's coverage of the 1956 Republican and Democratic National Conventions , and Presidential election results . In seeking a waiver of FCC rules requiring advertisements to be deleted when an educational outlet carries a sponsored program , ABC noted that it was denied " effective competitive access " in Oklahoma City , due to the fact that KWTV and NBC affiliate WKY-TV ( channel 4 , later KTVY and now KFOR-TV ) were the only stations operating in the market at that time and already had primary network allegiances . ( ABC 's original full-time Oklahoma City affiliate , KTVQ channel 25 , allocation now occupied by Fox affiliate KOKH-TV , had ceased operations during bankruptcy proceedings in December 1955 ; its Enid affiliate , KGEO-TV channel 5 , now KOCO-TV , had begun a transition into an Oklahoma City-based outlet that would take eight years to complete . ) The OETA later withdrew KETA from the waiver petition , leading to the FCC unanimously refusing to " entertain " an ABC-only request to waive the rules
Democratic National Conventions
1956 Democratic National Convention
Oklahoma Educational Television Authority