KSWO-TV

KSWO-TV, virtual channel 7 (VHF digital channel 11), is an ABC-affiliated television station located in Lawton, Oklahoma, United States and also serves Wichita Falls, Texas. Owned by Raycom Media, KSWO also operates CBS affiliate KAUZ-TV (channel 6) through a shared services agreement with American Spirit Media. The station's studios are located on 60th Street in Southeast Lawton, and its transmitter is located near Grandfield, Oklahoma.

History

Early history

The station first signed on the air on March 8, 1953, and was founded by Ransom H. Drewry, who started his broadcasting company (which eventually became Drewry Communications) in 1941, when he signed on Lawton radio station KSWO-AM (1380, now KKRX); six years later in 1947, Drewry signed on his second radio station, KRHD – the call letters of which were named after his initials – in Duncan (the KRHD callsign is now used by its ABC-affiliated sister station in Bryan-College Station, Texas). Drewry co-founded KSWO-TV with a group that included J.R. Montgomery, T.R. Warkentin, Robert P. Scott and G.G. Downing.