[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. 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). After Mr. Zing and Tuffy was cancelled in 1969 due to a reduction in the station's talent budget, Chick began hosting The John Chick Show, a live morning music program that featured local country music talent and square dancing. Thompson came to KJRH in August, 2017, after 28 years across the street KOTV in Tulsa. Oklahoma native Mike Brooks will be the co-anchor with veteran Karen Larsen of the stations three news programs at 5 6 and 10 pm. After moving to Tulsa in 1984 from Charleston, S.C., John Walls anchored the sportscast at KTUL Channel 8. News On 6 anchors LeAnne Taylor and Craig Day shared a love of reading and Dr. Lori Fullbright likes shoes. On Friday, he quietly walked out the door for the last time. 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. KTUL currently carries the entire ABC network schedule, with program preemptions only occurring on the station to accommodate extended breaking news and severe weather coverage. 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. The station's digital signal is multiplexed: KTUL shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 8, at 9:00a.m. on June 12, 2009 (with a ceremonial switchover airing on that morning's broadcast of Good Day Tulsa), the official date on which full-power television stations transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. June 30, 2015 | 7:42 am EDT by TVNewsCheck. STEPHEN PINGRY/Tulsa World STEPHEN PINGRY. Prior to joining The News On 6 news, Chinh worked as an anchor and reporter for KETV in Omaha from August 2013 to January 2020. 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. The FCC dismissed the complaint on September 2, noting that there were issues with past violations and inaccurate claims pertaining to its facilities and signal coverage; Tulsa Broadcasting admitted to failing to comply with station identification rules, but made assurances that it stopped such practices.[28][29][30]. Since she announced she is leaving KTUL, regular viewers have had a lot of questions. The weekday morning program proved to be a more popular alternative to network morning shows Today on KVOO and the CBS Morning News on KOTV that competed against it in the 7:00a.m. timeslot; Chick ended his eponymous morning show in January 1979, following his diagnosis of early stage multiple sclerosis two months prior. [24][25][26][27] The station's original studio facilities were based inside a 45-by-48-foot (14 by 15m) facility inside a converted grocery store on East Side Boulevard and Houston Street in northwestern Muskogee. Before being promoted to noon anchor Cooper was a weekend evening anchor at News On 6. Oklahoma Press Publishing had its bid dismissed by an FCC petition grant on February 19, 1954;[8][9] Robison backed out of the running by petition two weeks later on March 1. On November 3, 1982, Leake Industries sold KTUL and KATV to Washington, D.C.-based Allbritton Communications in an all-cash transaction for $80 million; the sale received FCC approval on February 14, 1983. To punish your shirking. 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. On January 18, 1955, Tulsa Broadcasting filed a request to move KTVX's city of license to Tulsa, claiming that Muskogee was not large enough to support a VHF station, that the move would put it at a better advantage with its Tulsa-based competitors, and that it would provide a third competitive station in Tulsa. Our mission is to keep Oklahomans Safe Informed and Entertained. The Most Influential News Anchors of All Time. The first program ever broadcast on KTVX on that afternoon was an ABC telecast of a college football game between the University of Oklahoma Sooners and the California Golden Bears, in which the Sooners won 2713. The station also did not carry the network's daytime talk shows: Home and, throughout their entire respective runs, its successors, Mike and Maty and Caryl & Marilyn: Real Friends were not carried between September 1992 and August 1997, while The View was preempted from its debut in August 1997 until September 2000, when KTUL began clearing the program in its regular timeslot. At that same time, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, there were billboards, commercials, and media announcements about a new broadcaster coming to town named Beth Rengel. | Published February 22, 2012. 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 . KTUL (channel 8) is a television station in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States, affiliated with ABC and owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group. Gone in Tulsa May 28, 2019 / Scott Jones KJRH Morning Anchor Scott Thompson has left the Scripps station after less than two years on the job. TULSA Oklahoma AP A police captain says multiple people have been shot at a Tulsa medical building on a hospital campus and some. [76][77][78][79] The sale's regulatory process was held up for nearly a year, however, as Sinclair attempted to address ownership issues involving stations it already operated in three markets (WTTO/WDBB and WABM in Birmingham, Alabama, WMMP in Charleston, South Carolina, and WHP-TV and WLYH-TV in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) and Albritton-owned stations that placed Sinclair in conflict with FCC regulations on local station ownership (WBMA/WCFT/WJSU, WCIV and WHTM, respectively), specifically with regard to LMAs that were grandfathered following a 1999 ruling by the Commission that such agreements made after November 5, 1996, covering the programming of more than 15% of a station's broadcast day would count toward the ownership limits for the brokering station's parent licensee. Of course, we need not forget the ones who just changed stations or had some legal problems. Klein's imminent exit was first reported by FTVLive' - NY Times"; During that time, Walls was also freelancing for. The first time I was put to the test was as a senior in high school in Wichita Falls, Texas. (from Guestbook 113) Mike Garner said: Tulsa news 6 anchors. Cover of Magazine section for Dallas Morning Newspaper 1972, Burt Parks last year as Emcee at the Miss America Pageant, Honeymoon in Jamaica with Mike Rengel of New Orleans Saints Football 1974, First Magazine Show I hosted called "Take 2", 5:30pm news anchor on 11 Alive in Atlanta. Quotation[10] = "'The statement from New York-based NBC was in response to a report on the FTVLive' - Bloomberg"; January 27, 2022. 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. Static.COOKIE_BANNER_CAPABLE = true; KJRH Morning Anchor Scott Thompson has left the Scripps station after less than two years on the job. KTUL-DT2 is the Comet-affiliated second digital subchannel of KTUL, broadcasting in standard definition on channel 8.2. She was 65. The third (and last) VHF frequency allocated to the Tulsa market channel 11 had been reserved by the FCC for a non-commercial educational licensee (that allocation is now occupied by PBS member station and OETA satellite KOED, which launched on January 12, 1959), while the UHF band was considered unviable at the time as most television sets on the retail market then were not equipped with UHF tuners (this situation would not change until after the All-Channel Receiver Act took effect in 1961). Jim Giles, Bob Losure and me at the MDA telethon. It is owned by The E.W. 5422. As a true entertainer, Beth can make you laugh and cry with her stories of success and failure. By: News 9. Eric Burns is the host of Fox News Watch, which airs Saturdays at 6:30 p.m. ET/3:30 p.m. PT and Sundays at 1:30 a.m. ET/10:30 p.m. PT . Reinventing is what she has done her whole life. The station's first broadcast was a college football game between Oklahoma and California, which Oklahoma won. It was over a decade ago when I received a call at my office requesting an appointment for a meeting with Beth Rengel. In April 1969, Griffin-Leake TV announced that it would break up its holdings into two separate companies. The subchannel is not currently available on Cox Communications in the Tulsa market. Remember Turner and Dulaney would then sell the equipment, valued at $2.3 million, to First National Bank of Oklahoma City executives C.A. Michelle Linn is proud to be part of the longest-tenured morning anchor team in Tulsa. In a looooooooong Facebook post, Thompson said he wanted to walk away from the station with no fanfare and not interrupt the others that were covering the flooding. Preston Phillips was targeted in the Tulsa Oklahoma mass shooting this week. The program was anchored by Jack Morris, one of the first two personalities at KTVX, alongside meteorologist Don Woods (Hal O'Halloran would join the station in 1964 as its sports director). News Channel 8 shuffled its anchor lineup this week, promoting morning anchors Darren Kramer and Sonia Baghdady to the higher-profile 5 p.m. news hour and 11 p.m. shows, and downsizing Ted. Those three clichs have driven many of my life choices in family and in several careers. #9 of 100. [116][117][118][119][120][121], The station's morning newscast, Good Morning Oklahoma (GMO), debuted on June 11, 1990, as a 60-minute broadcast from 6:00 to 7:00a.m. (The program would expand to 1 hours in September 1999, then to two hours in September 2003, and finally to 2 hours, with the September 7, 2010 premiere of 4:30a.m. extension "Good Morning Oklahoma - Rise & Shine".) The segment which started as a weekly feature on the Wednesday edition of channel 8's 10:00p.m. newscast, and currently appears on the 4:00p.m. newscast each Wednesday and on Saturdays during the 10:00p.m. newscast was initially conducted by Bob Hower; after Hower's retirement from television broadcasting following his diagnosis of spasmodic dysphonia in 1986, the segment was hosted by Rea Blakey (19861988, during her final years as weeknight co-anchor), and later, by John Walls (19861989, while serving as the station's sports director). On cable, KTUL-DT3 is available on Cox Communications channel 73. As of November 2017[update], KTUL presently broadcasts 30 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 5 hours each weekday, one hour on Saturdays and 1 hours on Sundays). [110] During its early years, the station maintained a fleet of 15 vehicles and two airplanes for aerial and ground-level newsgathering. In September 2012, channel 8 became the first station in Tulsa to employ a female chief meteorologist, when it hired Jennifer Zeppelin in that position on the weekday evening newscasts; Zeppelin who had joined KTUL as a fill-in meteorologist in December 2011, after having served as a meteorologist at CBS owned-and-operated station KCNC-TV in Denver left the station in August 2015. Beth Rengel is a well known personality because of her history in public life. It never aired the program as recommended at 10:30/10:35 for the 32 years that ABC aired the newsmagazine in that timeslot; the hour following the late newscast would eventually be ceded to syndicated sitcom reruns, which have continued to fill that allocated time even after many Big Three affiliates in large and mid-sized markets began relegating carriage of off-network content to drama series aired in weekend timeslots. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition VHF channel 10. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. [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. Loving also aired mid-mornings on a one-day delay until September 1990, when the station replaced it with the hour-long version of The Home Show; KTUL preempted ABC's half-hour soap operas (Loving, The City and finally, Port Charles) until the network ceded the 12:30p.m. Central Time slot to its affiliates in October 2003. 65 Years in TV. [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. After James Leake sold the station to Allbritton in 1982, KTUL remained #1 in the Tulsa market throughout the 1980s and 1990s with its local newscasts and syndicated programming. Amy Avery Ashley Izbicki Brian Dorman Chinh Doan Craig Day Dave Davis Jonathan Cooper LeAnne Taylor Lori Fullbright Shannon Rousseau Tess Maune She has many stories to uplift you with her messages of taking risks, not getting caught up in the Illusions of Life, Listen to your Gut And Never Give Up. Leaders from around the state are commenting on the mass shooting that left 5 people dead including the suspected shooter at. [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. 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. 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. Beth started her love for writing as a teenager and didnt realize that she would someday use her life experiences to become an author and speaker. Megan Billingsley:CFOs have had to step up and play a critical strategic role in transforming their organizations away from traditional operating models to one that gives access to insights in real time. James C. "Jimmy" Leake who had moved from being a 3.5% minority partner in KTUL to half-owner as a result of the earlier investor divestitures retained ownership of KATV, KTUL, Ponca City-based cable television operator Cable TV Co. and a controlling 80% interest in the construction permit for Fajardo, Puerto Rico television station WSTE (now WORO-DT), while Griffin retained ownership of KWTV under the licensee Century Communications Co. (Griffin's company, which eventually became Griffin Communications, would re-enter the Tulsa market when it purchased KOTV in October 2000. Ford Sports Xtra was discontinued on April 2, 2017, and was replaced on April 9 with a half-hour extension of the Sunday 10:00p.m. newscast under the title Tulsas Channel 8 Extra. August 8, 2014 | 3:19 pm EDT by TVNewsCheck, KJRH | Industry . "Rich has strong ties to Oklahoma," said Bill Perry, vice president of local content, OETA. Scripps Company. // KTUL, Oklahoma City Station Create Statewide Storm Network", "Meteorologist Meyer confirms move from 8 to 6", "Travis Meyer goes on the air at KOTV June 1", "KTUL to Provide Local News Inserts to CNN Headline News", "KTUL Tulsa's Channel 8 Names Jennifer Zeppelin as Chief Meteorologist", "Zeppelin Says Good-bye to Green Country", "Bill Haisten: New shows challenge Ch. Quotation[5] = "'FTVLive was the first site to break the Jay Leno story' - KNX Radio"; As a teenager who still had my sight at that time, the photos and video images of Beth Rengel immediately informed me and everyone else in town that this was not going to be your typical, gray-haired, middle-aged guy. On Friday, he quietly walked out the door for the last time. On May 30, 1992, KTUL launched the market's first weekend morning newscast when it debuted a Saturday edition of GMO from 8:00 to 10:00a.m., taking over part of the timeslot that the station had previously allotted to ABC's children's cartoon lineup (the newscast would be reduced to one hour starting at 7:00a.m. by September 1995, where the Saturday broadcast would remain until it was discontinued in September 2000; as a result, KTUL is currently the Tulsa market's only Big Four affiliate without a newscast on weekend mornings, since KOTV launched weekend editions of its Six in the Morning broadcast in March 2015). We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. They want to know why he is leaving or if he was let go. In June 1998, ABC parent The Walt Disney Company entered into negotiations to purchase the eight Allbritton stations and its local marketing agreements involving fellow ABC affiliates WJSU-TV (now WGWW) in Anniston, Alabama and WJXX in Jacksonville, Florida, for a reported offer totaling more than $1 billion; the latter two stations had been involved in an affiliation deal between Allbritton and ABC that was reached in response to the May 1994 affiliation deal between New World Communications and Fox that affected WBRC in Birmingham, Alabama. (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). We are Oklahomas Own News On 6. Throughout his 35-year tenure at the station, Woods drew Gusty live during his weather forecasts in a way that viewers could tell what the expected weather was by what Gusty was doing or wearing: as examples, he could be drawn waving flags and smiling for fair weather, holding an umbrella if rain was forecast or jumping in his "fraidy hole" for thunderstorms. 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. The talk show that replaced it, Jimmy Kimmel Live! Photo courtesy KJRH Channel 2. Local News. [10][11][12][13], Because its city of license precluded applying the calls used by KTUL radio to the new television station, Tulsa Broadcasting per advice given to company attorneys to seek a callsign that contained the letters "TV" decided to assign KTVX as the station's call letters, after Griffin discovered that the calls had been dormant since the S.S. William S. Clark turned in the signal code to the Customs Bureau of the United States Department of the Treasury upon the ocean vessel's January 1947 retirement. Meagan O'Halloran is leaving Fox 31 for. 45-year-old Michael Louis went to the Natalie Building around 450 pm. Deadline | Rich has strong ties to Oklahoma said Bill Perry vice president of local content OETA. Viewers even sent in requests for their own Gusty drawings, with Woods holding on-air drawings selecting a viewer who would win one. [138][139][140] KTUL premiered an hour-long newscast at 11:00a.m. on September 11, 2017, which marked the first time that the station has offered a local newscast during the weekday midday timeslot and made it the last news-producing station in Tulsa to offer one; until August 2018, it competed against an hour-long midday newscast that aired in that timeslot on KJRH.[141]. Had the ABC offer been successfully brokered, KTUL would have become the first commercial television station in the Tulsa market (and the state of Oklahoma, in general) to have served as an owned-and-operated station of a major broadcast television network.[74]. Some KOTV news anchors went on to. 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). Quotation[0] = "'Mr. Tracking the Tropics. Jimmy Kimmel Live! I had no idea what I was going to do until an opportunity presented itself to me. She had a successful television career as a reporter and evening news anchor in Baton Rouge, Atlanta and Tulsa for more than two decades. Bob Hower launched KOTV's first newscast in 1949, followed by long-time favorite Cy Tuma. The program would later evolve into Mr. Zing and Tuffy, after station director Wayne Johnson (who was promoted by KTUL management to serve as its production chief in 1970) conceived the idea for the costumed tiger character Tuffy; he was also joined by another costumed animal character, Shaggy Dog (played by Tom Ledbetter and later, Mike Denney). 07-31-2004, 09:24 AM A lot of the former anchors move stations or go into the private sector. Trying to visualize myself as a blind person fitting in anywhere just didnt seem to work. [122][123][104][105] The program made national news in 1995, when meteorologist Frank Mitchell (who would eventually serve as KTUL's chief meteorologist from 2005 to 2012) surprised his co-anchor and girlfriend, Teri Bowers (who joined KTUL alongside Mitchell in 1990 and remained with the station until 2006, serving most of her tenure alongside Mitchell on Good Morning Oklahoma, originally as the co-hosts of the Saturday edition and later on the weekday broadcasts), with a live, on-air wedding proposal. - Greta Van Susteren" Facebook var Q = Quotation.length; Network management backed off its pressure after owner Jimmy Leake informed Rule about The John Chick Show's high ratings locally. #1 of 65. KTUL launched a digital subchannel on virtual channel 8.4 on February 13, 2017, serving as a charter affiliate of the Sinclair-owned digital content network TBD, which soft-launched on KTUL and five other Sinclair stations on that date. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it. [72][73] Negotiations between Disney and Allbritton broke down when the former dropped out of discussions to buy the stations the following month. Im leaving my News On 6 family and viewers whom Ive always. A clip of the segment was featured on several national news programs including Good Morning America and Anderson Cooper 360, the latter of which had its titular host refer to Kozak's segment as the "Best Forecast Ever". Life has proven to me that you always have to walk through your fears, take risks and persevere. News On 6 anchors LeAnne Taylor and Craig Day shared a love of reading and Dr. Lori Fullbright likes shoes. ), Syndicated programs broadcast by KTUL (as of September 2020[update]) include Jeopardy!, Rachael Ray, The Drew Barrymore Show, Two and a Half Men, and Wheel of Fortune. 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]. Bob Hower wrote 1921 Tulsa Race Riot: The American Red Cross-Angels of Mercy Jack Morris and Don Woods from 1959 TV Guide, courtesy of Ed Colton Jack was elected to the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame in 1974. (Incidentally, in 1949, Tulsa Broadcasting had assigned Helen Alvarez who would become founding part-owner of KOTV (channel 6) to study whether a television station venture in Tulsa could be successful. 0:57. 1970. Weather. Both KTUL and KGCT restored over-the-air service later that week after the stations rented a portable temporary tower brought in from Florida. You can edit the text in this area, and change where the contact form on the right submits to, by entering edit mode using the modes on the bottom right. 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August 12, 2014 | 6:08 am EDT by TVNewsCheck, Tulsa World | Meteorologist Jason Frazer came to FOX Weather from WKYC in Cleveland. Tuesday, August 21st 2012, 9:51 am. [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 tower which, at 1,909-foot (582m), became the second-tallest broadcast tower in the United States at that time was activated on July 24 of that year.[49][50][51]. Neile Jones a veteran journalist of over two decades announced she is stepping back from broadcast journalism at the. August 21, 2019 | 6:38 am EDT by Mark Miller, July 28, 2017 | 8:32 am EDT by Mark K. Miller, Scripps-owned NBC affiliate KJRH Tulsa, Okla. 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