KGEB (channel 53) is a religious television station in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States, owned by Oral Roberts University. Its studios are contained within the Mabee Center arena on the ORU campus in south Tulsa, and its transmitter is atop the central tower of the CityPlex Towers complex directly south of the campus. Despite its ownership by a non-profit university, the station holds a commercial license, allowing it to carry several advertising-supported subchannel networks.
KGEB's programming is distributed throughout the United States as GEB Network on satellite provider DirecTV, select cable systems, several other American television stations in major markets, and an online live stream.
History
The station first signed on the air on January 24, 1996, as KWMJ; when it began operations, the station maintained a 24-hour family-oriented programming format, consisting mostly of religious programs along with a few classic and public domain television programs.
In June 1999, during the broadcast of two children's programs that aired on the station, it inadvertently ran an advertisement for a videocassette of the episode being aired, followed by a commercial for a toy resembling a character from the same episode. Under the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)'s Children's Television Act, the usage of character tie-ins in advertising during children's programs is treated as a program-length commercial