The woman pictured above is KJRH news anchor Liz Bryant. CLAYTON Vaughns distinguished 35-year career as a Tulsa TV news anchor ended in 1998 when he retired from KOTV-6. Kotv Names New Anchor For Six In The Morning Archive Tulsaworld Com. 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. 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. Staff. Quotation [14] = " 'FTVLive's Scott Jones one of the Most Important Media Reporters in America'- Mediaite" Facebook KTUL also operates a digital fill-in translator on UHF channel 24, which serves the southern part of the viewing area, including McAlester. 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. 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 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. Quotation [13] = " '(FTVLive) is a Mad Blogger'- Piers Morgan" 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). She had a successful television career as a reporter and evening news anchor in Baton Rouge, Atlanta and Tulsa for more than two decades. Former Tulsa TV news anchor Beth Rengel, whose autobiography is titled "Anchored in Illusion," plays with her dogs on the patio of her home. Shannon anchors the midday news every Monday through Friday at the CBS-affiliate in. August 12, 2014 | 6:08 am EDT by TVNewsCheck, Tulsa World | 07-31-2004, 09:24 AM A lot of the former anchors move stations or go into the private sector. Connie Chung turns 70 on August 20th. 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Read more. #1 of 65. // 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. Our mission is to keep Oklahomans Safe Informed. [43][44][45][46][47][48], In 1963, the station applied to construct a new transmitter tower at a site two miles (3.2km) east of Coweta (approximately 10 miles [16km] northeast of the original transmitter site); approval of the application was delayed due to issues regarding issues concerning the sister station KATV's own later-dismissed application to relocate its transmitter from Pine Bluff to Little Rock, breaching an earlier promise to Pine Bluff civic officials not to move the transmitter outside of Jefferson County, Arkansas. 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. (DMA 58), is reuniting two news anchors who each have deep roots covering the biggest news stories in Tulsa and throughout Oklahoma. Quotation[8] = "'CNBC wanted a reaction to a story someone had seen on FTVLive' - Vanity Fair "; Photo courtesy KJRH Channel 2. FOX 6 Now Milwaukee. Jimmy Kimmel Live! Shortly afterward, KTUL upgraded its transmission equipment to allow carriage of ABC programming in color; the station would later begin producing its local programming in color on February 21, 1967. 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. Reinventing is what she has done her whole life. 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". 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. Within days, the stations leased a tower shared by KJRH, KOTV and PBS member and OETA satellite station KOED-TV (channel 11), where their transmitters resided until a new 1,907-foot (581m) tower was constructed near the existing Coweta tower site in the summer of 1988. He still makes his home in Tulsa. Viewers even sent in requests for their own Gusty drawings, with Woods holding on-air drawings selecting a viewer who would win one. [31][32] Station manager L. A. Preston Phillips second from left served as team doctor for the WNBAs Tulsa Shock. FOX Weather meteorologists are an eclectic group from all across the nation. By default, Griffin decided to seek the channel 8 allocation in Muskogee (located 50.1 miles [80.6km] southeast of the city), the first channel allocation appropriated to northeastern Oklahoma for television use that was not assigned to the larger city of Tulsa and the nearest city within the market that had a channel allocation assigned to the VHF band. As a bestselling author of fiction, I pride myself on creating fascinating characters and putting them in the middle of compelling stories, but on my best day, I could not have created a fictitious character as powerful, fascinating, and diverse as the real-life Beth Rengel you are preparing to meet. TULSA Oklahoma AP A police captain says multiple people have been shot at a Tulsa medical building on a hospital campus and some. Once again, she decided to try something else, residential real estate and was named Rookie of the Year. [70][71] In November 1992, the station began identifying as "Oklahoma's Channel 8" for general purposes and Oklahoma's News 8 for its local newscasts (adding the possessive "Oklahoma's" to the station's existing branding), introducing a logo featuring the station branding and gold serif "8" over an image of the state of Oklahoma. Suess with elementary school kids. Rich has strong ties to Oklahoma said Bill Perry vice president of local content OETA. 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. They want to know why he is leaving or if he was let go. After moving to Tulsa in 1984 from Charleston, S.C., John Walls anchored the sportscast at KTUL Channel 8. They were friends then and have remained close . For a spy may be lurking. 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. 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). In 1990, Walls moved to KOTV Channel 6. 0:57. Tracking the Tropics. AVENTURA, Fla. - Local 10 News is saddened to report that Jilda Unruh, a former Local 10 News anchor and reporter, has died. Voss and James Kite for $3 million. 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. That first meeting with Beth Rengel in my office created a bond between Beth and me that has made us colleagues and friends. January 27, 2022. [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".) In September 2014, KTUL pushed both Kimmel and Nightline (which had their broadcast order on ABC's late-night schedule switched by the network in January 2013) ahead a half-hour, starting at 11:07p.m., per a request by the network that the station air both programs at earlier times; KTUL would start carrying Kimmel and Nightline in their recommended timeslots in January 2019. Leaders from around the state are commenting on the mass shooting that left 5 people dead including the suspected shooter at. On Friday, he quietly walked out the door for the last time. 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). He along with former anchors Glenda Silvey Beth Rengel Scott Thompson and Lisa Jones joined Terry Hood to reflect on their glory years at News On 6. Our mission is to keep Oklahomans Safe Informed and Entertained. Quotation[2] = "'The story first broke on FTVLive.com' - AP"; [89] In addition, KTUL-DT2 simulcast live weather cut-ins and long-form coverage carried on the station's main channel in the event that severe weather affected the channel 8 viewing area and, to comply with FCC educational programming guidelines, carried a half-hour block of syndicated children's programs on Monday through Saturday afternoons. To punish your shirking. During that time, Walls was also freelancing for. Lori Fullbright, Tess Maune, Brain Dorman, Chinh Doan, Amy Kauffman, Jonathan Cooper, Ashley Izbicki, Dave Davis, Shannon Rousseau are among the popular names in News On 6. 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. [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. Taylor has been with the ABC affiliate for two decades, and his departure comes as a shock to them. During the 1960s, the station's local newscasts became the highest-rated in the Tulsa market, aided by the popularity of main anchor Jack Morris. Station management replied in a counter-filing that it saw nothing wrong in promoting itself as a Tulsa market station, and suggested that these and other issues raised in the complaint considered to be unfair trade practices should be appealed to the Federal Trade Commission instead. Lambert's tenure as segment host saw her be honored, through nomination by now-former U.S. Representative Brad Carson, with a 2004 "Angels in Adoption" award by the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute. During the heyday of CBS .more. Developed by promotions manager and former local program host Carl Bartholomew, and lasting until the campaign was discontinued in November 1992, the spots prominently featured the "8's the Place" on various objects and people including station personalities such as John Chick, program host Sue Staggs and anchor Diane Elliott. The local daytime program featured a mix of interviews with Tulsa area newsmakers, community affairs and women's topics; the program which ran until Boyd left channel 8 in 1980 to serve as the director of information for Tulsa Vo-Tech (now Tulsa Technology Center) helped KTUL reach first place among female viewers at a time when ABC had remained lagged in third place among the three national networks in the Nielsen ratings.[100]. June 30, 2015 | 7:42 am EDT by TVNewsCheck. On cable, KTUL-DT3 is available on Cox Communications channel 73. 3655 East 67th Street 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. The purchase marked the second time in which Allbritton acquired a television station in Oklahoma; as Washington Star Communications, in March 1977, the company attempted to purchase fellow ABC affiliate KOCO-TV in Oklahoma City in a trade deal with the Combined Communications Corporation for the Star's Washington D.C. flagship station WMAL-TV (now WJLA-TV) and approximately $65 million in Combined nonvoting stock to offset monetary losses of the company's then-namesake newspaper The Washington Star; that deal was terminated weeks after Star Communications' February 1978 sale of the Star newspaper to Time Inc.[54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63][64], On December 26, 1987, the Coweta transmitter facility (which was used by independent station KGCT-TV [channel 41, now MyNetworkTV affiliate KMYT-TV] and several local radio stations to house their transmitters at the time) collapsed due to heavy freezing rain, caused by a major ice storm over the Christmas weekend that affected much of northeastern Oklahoma; at least 500,000 pounds (226,796kg) of ice had accumulated on the tower. 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