(The state possessive was removed from the branding in February 2006, as part of a graphical overhaul that included the introduction of the station's current logo. [110] During its early years, the station maintained a fleet of 15 vehicles and two airplanes for aerial and ground-level newsgathering. [136][137] On May 6, 2012, the station premiered Ford Sports Xtra, a sports highlight and discussion show that aired Sunday nights after the late-evening newscast, which focused primarily on college athletics and professional sports around Oklahoma; the program replaced You Make the Call, a sports call-in and discussion program that debuted on the station on September 6, 1998. In addition to his anchoring duties, Morris who had worked for KTUL radio since 1940, with the exception of a three-year period in which he served in the Army during World War II served as the station's original news director until he left to become main anchor at KVOO-TV in 1970. KJRH Channel 2 announced today that two veterans news anchors, Scott Thompson and Lisa Jones, will become co-anchors again during the 4:30 a.m. to 7 a.m. weekday newscast. She is working as a news anchor and reporter for KOTV-The News On 6 in Tulsa from January 2020. Quotation [18] = " 'FTVLive is the Most Incrediable thing in our Business' - i24News" This streak as the perennial leader in the Tulsa television market ended in 1999, when KOTV overtook KTUL as the area's most-watched television station. The gunman blamed the surgeon for his continued back pain following an operation. Bob Hower launched KOTV's first newscast in 1949, followed by long-time favorite Cy Tuma. As the station does not produce morning newscasts on Saturdays or Sundays, channel 8 does not produce weather inserts live or pre-recorded during the weekend editions of ABC's Good Morning America, choosing instead to run the program's placeholder national weather map and ancillary story segments during the time normally allocated by the program for affiliates to air local news and weather inserts. June 30, 2015 | 7:42 am EDT by TVNewsCheck. 45-year-old Michael Louis went to the Natalie Building around 450 pm. Welcome to KFOR-TV-DT the NBC Affiliate for Oklahoma City and surrounding areas. Turner and Dulaney would then sell the equipment, valued at $2.3 million, to First National Bank of Oklahoma City executives C.A. We are Oklahomas Own News On 6. In 1990, Walls moved to KOTV Channel 6. [16][17][18][19][20] All three petitioners appealed the ruling to the D.C. Court of Appeals, which would deny their request to stay the construction of KTVX.[21][22][23]. "Longtime Tulsa audiences will fondly remember when Scott and Lisa anchored together. Both KTUL and KGCT restored over-the-air service later that week after the stations rented a portable temporary tower brought in from Florida. Additionally, the station upgraded its transmission power to 316,000 watts, which allowed the station to increase its city-grade coverage deeper into the Tulsa area and extending up to 40 miles (64km) to the west of the city. Jonathan Cooper acts as a noon anchor at KOTV 6 Tulsa and airs newscasts from Monday to Friday. [85][86][87][88] As result of the Allbritton purchase, KTUL gained new sister stations in nearby markets: Fox affiliate KOKH-TV and CW affiliate KOCB in Oklahoma City (the former of which began to share news stories with KTUL for inclusion in their respective local newscasts), and Fox affiliate KSAS-TV and its MyNetworkTV-affiliated LMA partner KMTW in Wichita. The story led to donations totaling over $1,000, allowing for Peterson to be flown to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota for surgery. Max Defender 8 App. New deputy, former Tulsa officer meet decade after deadly shooting. Quotation [17] = " 'An insider newsy website' - Hoda Kotb" Let's take a look back at TV broadcasters over the years and see how they have changed. Griffin and the Leakes would own approximately all of the common voting stock and collectively own 84% of nonvoting common shares in KATV Inc. post-merger, with 10% of the remaining nonvoting interest held by Edgar Bell (who would remain executive vice president and general manager at KWTV). The channel 6 allocation had already been assigned to KOTV and channel 2 was in the midst of a competition between Central Plains Enterprises (which signed on KVOO-TV [channel 2, now KJRH-TV] on that channel on December 5, 1954), the Oil Capital Television Corporation and the Fryer Television Company for that license. As you read Beths story and experience her life, please do as I have done as I have gotten to know Beth, and use her experiences and perspective to create a context that will allow you to anchor your own priorities while stretching your potential impossibilities. Jilda collapsed at her Aventura home Friday . Scott Thompson and Lisa Jones will co-anchor 2 Works for You Today weekdays from 4:30 to 7 a.m. beginning Aug. 14. This announcement is really bittersweet for me Hood said. [111], Shortly before channel 8 (as KTVX) signed on in Muskogee, station management sought to hire a weather anchor who could draw a cartoon character. Historically, the station has preempted certain ABC network programs or aired them out of pattern to make room for other local or syndicated programs or, occasionally, because of internal concerns over a program's content. Of course, we need not forget the ones who just changed stations or had some legal problems. My daughter Ana Berry before Dance Recital. He still makes his home in Tulsa. Meet the WTNH News 8 team of reporters, anchors and meteorologists. Tracking the Tropics. The station first signed on the air as KTVX at 12:30p.m. on September 18, 1954. KTUL preempted Good Morning America for the first three years of its run from November 1975 to December 1978, in favor of airing The John Chick Show (GMA's short-lived predecessor AM America was aired on a joined-in-progress basis from January to November 1975, with KTUL choosing to preempt the first hour in favor of Chick). I had grown up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and had enjoyed a typical Midwestern upbringing until, as a teenager, I was diagnosed with a condition that would cause me to lose my sight. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition VHF channel 10. The Most Influential News Anchors of All Time. Weather Stories. The station preempted the Sunday edition of ABC World News Tonight until September 2002, in favor of airing infomercials in the half-hour between its local early evening newscast and ABC's Sunday night lineup. This move led network president Elton Rule and other ABC executives to visit the station in 1976 to discuss why KTUL did not give clearance to the then-fledgling and fast-growing ABC morning show. Meagan O'Halloran is leaving Fox 31 for. news9.com. [94][123][135], On August 22, 2011, KTUL became the third television station in the Tulsa market (after NBC affiliate KJRH and Fox affiliate KOKI) to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition. Shannon anchors the midday news every Monday through Friday at the CBS-affiliate in. On Friday, he quietly walked out the door for the last time. In April 1969, Griffin-Leake TV announced that it would break up its holdings into two separate companies. They want to know why he is leaving or if he was let go. var whichQuotation=Math.round(Math.random()*(Q-1)); [75] On September 7, 2004, channel 8 became the first Tulsa station to debut a late afternoon newscast at 4:00p.m.; the half-hour program would bounce within that hour in later years, first moving to 4:30p.m. on September 8, 2008, then being shifted back to its original timeslot on September 7, 2010. The earlier charges pertaining to KTVX's transmitter location resurfaced that April, when KOTV owner General Television and KVOO-TV parent Central Plains Enterprises filed complaints requesting that FCC force KTVX to cease representing itself as a Tulsa station at the time, channel 8 identified as such or as a Muskogee-Tulsa station in on-air and print promotions or face an agency hearing. The expanded area which began construction in May 1998, and cost $2 million to build allowed for station personnel (who previously worked throughout two floors and in various conference rooms and studios within the building) to work in the same area. You can catch me anchoring the 4,5,6 and 10 pm newscasts Monday through Friday alongside Mark Bradshaw. August 8, 2014 | 3:19 pm EDT by TVNewsCheck, KJRH | "Longtime Tulsa audiences will fondly remember [] Since we really don't know a lot about the media babes of our state's second city, let's take a look at her bio from KJRH.com: Liz Bryant joined KJRH in August 2011 as a multi-media journalist.Liz is excited to be back home! Quotation [16] = " 'FTVLive.com a website I go too often for the latest news about the TV business (you should, too!)' The book you are reading now has been in the making for a decade, and the stories and experiences that make up this book are the product of a rich and full lifetime. After Morris left KTUL for KVOO in 1970, KOTV anchor Bob Hower joined channel 8 and took over as main anchor of its evening newscasts. As a true entertainer, Beth can make you laugh and cry with her stories of success and failure. KTUL launched a digital subchannel on virtual channel 8.3 in 2004, which originally served as a standard definition simulcast of the station's primary channel. I joined the KTUL team in April 2022. Fox 5 Las Vegas morning weekday anchor and reporter Feven Kiflegiorgis was busted nude and . Channel 8's news department began operations when the station signed on the air on September 18, 1954, when it debuted a half-hour newscast at 10:00p.m. Tulsa, OK, 74136 Tulsa Channel 6 News Team. A former Tulsa TV news anchor was arrested on a drug complaint late Sunday night after officers searched his pickup truck following a traffic stop. Staff. KTUL launched a digital subchannel on virtual channel 8.2 in 2004, which originally operated as an in-house-produced local weather service, under the brand "First Alert Weather 24/7"; the subchannel was subsequently added by Cox Communications on digital cable channel 247 on June 2, 2005. // ====================================== As an author of 27 books and as someone who has had six of his novels turned into movies, I am always looking for a great story. Rich has strong ties to Oklahoma said Bill Perry vice president of local content OETA. The Oklahoma Press Publishing Company a group majority owned by Tams Bixby Jr. and son Tams Bixby III, which The published the Muskogee Phoenix and Times-Democrat and owned Muskogee radio station KBIX (1490 AM) filed a separate application for the channel 8 license on October 9, 1952;[6] then on November 20, 1953, Southern California Telephone Company co-owner Ashley L. Robison (who would later acquire KOCO-TV in Oklahoma City in 1957) submitted the third permit application to build a television station on channel 8. #1 of 65. Meteorologist Jason Frazer came to FOX Weather from WKYC in Cleveland. [14][15] KOTV owner Wrather-Alvarez Inc. and Arthur R. Olson, permitee for the license of the then-unlaunched KSPG (channel 17, now defunct; allocation now occupied by Bartlesville-based TBN owned-and-operated station KDOR-TV) submitted their own petitions that made very similar allegations against Tulsa Broadcasting two weeks later. December 6, 2013 | 2:55 pm EST by TVNewsCheck, Tulsa News Today | In April 2005, the Oklahoma Legislature passed and then-Governor Brad Henry signed a state resolution designating Gusty as the state's official cartoon character.[112][113][114][115]. [33] KTUL began auxiliary operations at the Lookout Mountain building on November 1, 1955, with that evening's airing of the local book review program Lewis Meyer Bookshelf. United States, Beth Rengel is a speaker and author of Anchored in Illusion. [7] Over time, Tulsa Broadcasting's competitors for the permit withdrew their respective applications. News On 6 anchors LeAnne Taylor and Craig Day shared a love of reading and Dr. Lori Fullbright likes shoes. Channel 8 subsequently restored service to cable television subscribers via a direct studio feed that it relayed to Tulsa Cable Television (which would eventually have its franchise rights transferred to United Artists Cable, Tele-Communications, Inc., and finally, to Cox Communications, which has owned the Tulsa cable franchise since April 2000). Woods one of the few professional meteorologists on Tulsa television at the time and the first television weather anchor in Oklahoma to hold a meteorology degree was chosen, and his cartoon character became Gusty, a boy caricature based on one which Woods created in 1953 as a meteorologist at KTVH (now Wichita-licensed KWCH-DT) in Hutchinson, Kansas, who was named through a contest held beginning the day of channel 8's sign-on. newscast). The station's studios are located at Lookout Mountain (near South 29th West Avenue, west of Interstate 244) in southwestern Tulsa, and its transmitter is located on South 321st Avenue East, adjacent to the Muskogee Turnpike, in unincorporated southeastern Tulsa County (near Coweta). 07-31-2004, 09:24 AM A lot of the former anchors move stations or go into the private sector. Jim Giles, Bob Losure and me at the MDA telethon. Marine Forecast. Chung came into the limelight as the first woman to co-anchor "CBS. Central Plains and General Television opposed the move and asked that KTVX remain licensed to Muskogee and relegated to a UHF channel if the channel 8 allocation were reassigned to Tulsa, citing that Tulsa Broadcasting had "engaged in a pattern of inconsistent, misleading and incorrect representations to the [FCC]" and that it had been operating as a de facto Tulsa station with limited equipment and personnel based in Muskogee. 3 hours agoThe physician targeted in Oklahoma mass shooting was a former WNBA team doctor. showQuotation(); The current studio facility on Lookout Mountain in west Tulsa (which originally spanned 24,000 square feet [2,200m2]) originally served as an auxiliary studio for the station, which Tulsa Broadcasting had purchased from KCEB for whom the facility was originally built shortly before the station's sign-on as channel 23 was preparing to cease operations. A Las Vegas news anchor was arrested after being found naked and passed out in her car, police said. My plans of being a professional athlete were shattered along with any other ideas I had ever had about what I might do with my life. Kellie Burns. Kitchen Design by Beth Rengel front cover of Better Homes and Gardens Country Kitchen Magazine. Bluejay on the station's iteration of The Bozo the Clown Show in the late 1950s) and "Cousin Zack" (played by Kent Doll) and featured various in-studio games in which a select member of the audience of around a dozen local children participated in between the three cartoon shorts. Quotation [11] = "'Scott Jones, whose FTVLive.com Web site broke the story' - LA Daily News" Concurrent with the unveiling of the newsroom-studio combination, the station changed its on-air branding to Oklahoma's NewsChannel 8; at that time, KTUL became the second Tulsa-area television station to have used the "NewsChannel" moniker, which had previously been used by KJRH-TV for its news branding as NewsChannel 2 from August 1992 until November 1994, when that station adopted a short-lived watered-down version of WSVN's newscast format. window._taboola = window._taboola || []; Tuesday, August 21st 2012, 9:51 am. April 14, 2011 | 3:13 pm EDT by TVNewsCheck, Copyright 2023 NewsCheckMedia LLC, 238 Crosshill Road, Wynnewood, PA 19096 | 610-649-7989. Tampa Weather Radar. She interviewed famous Supermodels, First Ladies, and then her favorite Oprah Winfrey. Scripps Spelling Bee. Following by an initial decision issued by FCC Hearing Examiner Millard French that recommended approval of its application, the FCC granted the permit to Tulsa Broadcasting on April 8, 1954. It is owned by The E.W. ;) ;) Patrick 08-03-2004, 12:57 AM I retired about 10 years too late he said. She covered stories like the Oklahoma City bombing, a major oil spill off the coast of Mississippi and went behind the scenes of the only facility in the country where people live who were afflicted with leprosy. Replacing O'Halloran on KDVR's morning show will be Ashley Ryan, who is moving here from Tulsa.. O'Halloran's new show will debut Sept. 27 . (which has preceded Nightline since the network switched the scheduling order of the two programs in January 2013), was originally preempted by KTUL when it debuted in January 2003, after the station refused to comply with carrying the show in its recommended slot (making it one of a handful of ABC stations that included WSB-TV in Atlanta, WFTV in Orlando, WSOC-TV in Charlotte and WEAR-TV in Pensacola, Florida, not to carry Kimmel). On December 15, 2008, KTUL-DT3 became an affiliate of the Retro Television Network, through a groupwide agreement between Allbritton Communications and the then-owner of the classic television network, Equity Media Holdings. KOTV - News On 6 Tulsa OK. Monday through Friday while. Beth Rengel, through sometrials and tribulations, proved to her colleagues and everyone at home watching her on television that she was much more than a pretty face. KTUL ABC 8 provides local and national news, sports, weather and notice of community events in Tulsa, Oklahoma and surrounding towns including Broken Arrow, Owasso . However, since the early 2010s, the station places a strong third among the local television news outlets in the Tulsa market, behind KOTV and Fox affiliate KOKI-TV, with which it trades places for that position; channel 8's 10:00p.m. newscast usually places second in the market behind KOTV, and ahead of KJRH and KOKI-TV. [124][125][126] Subsequently, during a January 2013 GMO broadcast, weekday morning meteorologist Andrew Kozak (a former meteorologist at KOKI-TV, who worked at channel 8 from June 2012 to September 2014) hand-drew the weather forecast after a computer that supplied its weather graphics crashed. News 8 team of reporters, anchors and meteorologists 4,5,6 and former tulsa news anchors pm newscasts through! Original timeslot on September 8, 2008, then being shifted back to its original on! 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