If any broadcasting station, at any time, broadcasts, publishes, or circulates any false statement, allegation or rumor pertaining or relating to any individual or association of individuals, or to any trade, labor business, social, economic or religious organization or to any firm, corporation or business or to any public official or candidate for a public office, the said broadcasting station upon demand of any person or persons affected or their representatives, shall broadcast, without charge, any statement setting forth in proper language the truth pertaining to such statement, allegation, or rumor, which said person or persons or their representatives shall offer to said broadcasting station for broadcast. Provided, that the truth statement shall be broadcast as many times as the untrue statement was broadcast. Provided further, that the truth statement shall be broadcast at a like or comparable time in the daily routine as was the untrue statement.
§ 1447.5.Broadcast of Truth Statement Following Broadcast of Untrue Statement
Chapter 25: Slander and Libel · Last amended June 6, 1957 · Last verified August 3, 2026
In one sentenceRequires a broadcasting station that airs a false statement, allegation, or rumor about a person, organization, or business to broadcast -- free of charge and on demand -- a truth statement the affected party supplies, repeated as many times and at as comparable a time as the false statement.
Full Text of § 1447.5
Amendment History
Laws 1957, HB 609, p. 83, § 5, emerg. eff. 6/6/1957.
Plain-English Summary
Section 1447.5 gives anyone hurt by a false broadcast a right of reply. If a station broadcasts a false statement, allegation, or rumor about an individual, an association, a trade, labor, business, social, economic, or religious organization, a firm, a corporation, or a public official or candidate, the affected person or their representative can demand that the station air a truth statement setting the record straight.
The station must broadcast that statement without charge, and it has to run it as many times as the false statement aired, at a time in the daily schedule comparable to when the false statement ran.
Frequently Asked Questions
What can you do if a radio station broadcasts a false rumor about you?
You, or your representative, can demand that the station broadcast a truth statement setting out the truth of the matter, and the station must air it without charge.
Does the station get to charge for airing the correction?
No. The statute requires the station to broadcast the truth statement without charge.
How many times does the station have to air the truth statement?
As many times as the untrue statement was broadcast, at a time comparable to when the untrue statement aired.
Does this apply only to statements about individuals?
No. It also covers false statements about associations, trade, labor, business, social, economic, or religious organizations, firms, corporations, and public officials or candidates.
Source & verification. Section text is reproduced verbatim from
Title 12 of the Oklahoma Statutes, enacted by the Oklahoma Legislature.
Last verified August 3, 2026.
· Official source
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