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The UPN network, which left the Oklahoma City market in January, will return to the airwaves at 5 a.m. Saturday as KPSG on Channel 43.
UPN -- owned by Paramount Stations Group, a Viacom unit -- was dropped when Sinclair Brodcast Group's KOCB-34 switched its affiliation to Time-Warner's WB network.
Through an Oklahoma Educational Television Authority sealed-bid process, Paramount gained the right to buy KTLC-43 for $23.5 million. KTLC, known as "The Literacy Channel," has operated as a secondary channel for the OETA since August 1991, when it bought the station from Heritage Media of Dallas for $1.5 million.
OETA plans to use its earnings from the sale to help fund its transition to digital television by December 2003, as mandated...