Programming
OETA airs 17½ hours of instructional programming a week. Instructional programming airs weekdays from 5:00 (or 6:00am) to 7:00am and 10:00am to 12 (or 12:30pm) and weekends from 6:00 to 8:00am.
OETA is one of several PBS member stations to produce programming for syndication to other PBS stations around the country as well as to the OETA state network itself. OETA produces series under the banner, OETA: The Oklahoma Network. It distributes The Kalb Report, hosted by Marvin Kalb.
In September 1986, OETA began syndication of episodes of The Lawrence Welk Show, after that series left commercial syndication. The Lawrence Welk Show is OETA's most-watched series. OETA has also produced Lawrence Welk specials.
OETA also is known for the OETA Movie Club hosted by B.J. Wexler, for more than two decades. OETA Movie Club features classic movies from the 1930s to the 1980s.
OETA also produces Stateline which deals with issues important to Oklahoma and also the United States and Gallery, focusing on Oklahoma's art community.
During the early 2000s, on cable outlets around the state, OETA aired programming from PBS' national feed to fill the time from sign-off at night to sign-on in the morning. The national feed began broadcasting over the air in April 2006 making OETA one of the few broadcast stations in the last decade to switch to a 24-hour format.
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