The station broadcasts its digital signal on VHF channel 8, using its former analog channel assignment of 2 as its . Tulsa news 6 anchors. [37] KTUL radio (which, as of 2017[update] under the KTBZ calls, is now owned by iHeartMedia) was sold to the Wichita Falls, Texasbased Texoma Broadcasting Companya group co-owned by Raymond Ruff and Charles A. Sammons that, in compliance with a since-repealed FCC rule that prohibited separately owned radio and television stations based in the same city from sharing the same base call letters, changed its calls to KELI after the sale was finalizedfor $450,000 in July 1961; the Griffin-Leake interests retained ownership of KTUL-TV. 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. Tulsa Police Chief Wendall Franklin said detectives believe over the course of 13 days a man went from needing back surgery to. [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. if(window.ImageLoader) window.ImageLoader.bootstrap({}, document);Squarespace.afterBodyLoad(Y). Residents of Tulsa, Oklahoma are saddened to hear that Keith Taylor, an anchor on KTUL-TV, is leaving Good Morning Oklahoma and the station. 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. 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). [129][130] In 1993, KTUL partnered with Oklahoma City ABC affiliate KOCO-TV to pool resources for severe weather coverage; the partnership which was developed by Travis Meyer, who served as the station's chief meteorologist from 1989 until 2005, when he took over that same position at rival KOTV allowed for the utilization of the "First Pix" cellular-to-broadcast photo transmission technology developed by Cellular One to relay footage of severe weather on the stations' respective newscasts as well as their respective ground and airborne storm chasing units. Digitally. As a result she was chosen to be part of the Miss America USO Show and toured parts of Europe entertaining the troopes. 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. As other Allbritton-owned ABC stations did with the series, KTUL aired the Power Rangers series anduntil it was dropped by the network in September 2006Kim Possible on the pre-sunrise tape delay due to their lack of educational content; for similar reasons, it preempted Power Rangers outright from September 2006 until the program was dropped by ABC on August 28, 2010. 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. 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. Sep 2019 - Present2 years 8 months. News On 6 anchors LeAnne Taylor and Craig Day shared a love of reading and Dr. Lori Fullbright likes shoes. STEPHEN PINGRY/Tulsa World STEPHEN PINGRY. Looking back on 30 years at Channel 6. It was over a decade ago when I received a call at my office requesting an appointment for a meeting with Beth Rengel. [101][102][103], KTUL ran the entire Saturday morning cartoon lineup from ABC until July 1992, when it began preempting the lineup in favor of running a two-hour-long Saturday edition of Good Morning Oklahoma and informational syndicated programs. 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. var whichQuotation=Math.round(Math.random()*(Q-1)); Tulsa OK 74103 918-732-6000 Meet the Team. [7] Over time, Tulsa Broadcasting's competitors for the permit withdrew their respective applications. 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 was fired by KOTV after Clayton Vaughn told management at Channel 6 that the man who cuts his hair, Mark Bogatay, had a . The station has also filed an application with the Federal Communications Commission to operate a second fill-in translator in Caney, Kansas, which will also broadcast on UHF channel 24, to serve northern portions of the market, including Bartlesville, and portions of southeastern Kansas that receive a weaker signal or have completely lost access to KTUL's main signal following the digital transition. My parents and me right before Miss America Pageant. 3655 East 67th Street On July 29, 2013, Allbritton announced that it would sell its seven television stations, including KTUL, to the Hunt Valley, Marylandbased Sinclair Broadcast Group for $985 million, in order to concentrate the company's operations exclusively around its political news website, Politico. aired instead on WB affiliate KWBT from April 7, 2003, until April 8, 2004, after which KTUL began airing the talk show on a one-hour delay. Quotation [18] = " 'FTVLive is the Most Incrediable thing in our Business' - i24News" Beck cited that the proposed 1,020-foot (310m) transmitter tower on Concharty Mountain (in the Wagoner County town of Stone Bluff) would produce overlap of Grade A signal coverage between KTVX and KWTV, and would permit dual coverage of both Muskogee and Tulsa in violation with the agency's channel allocation table. Shannon anchors the midday news every Monday through Friday at the CBS-affiliate in. 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 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). This practice began in September 1981, when KTUL began to delay Nightline to 11:30p.m.an hour later than most ABC stations had carried it at the timein order to air syndicated reruns of Hawaii Five-O following its late newscast. Us @2023 FTVLive LLC Jonathans family lives in Owasso but he loves Oklahoma and spends quality time here. The subchannel is not currently available on Cox Communications in the Tulsa market. Scott Thompson and Lisa Jones will co-anchor 2 Works for You Today weekdays from 4:30 to 7 a.m. beginning Aug. 14. From the block's September 2002 rebranding as ABC Kids until September 2006, KTUL began timeshifting the ABC children's programs that were recommended to air during the 10a.m. hour to air on a week-delayed basis at 5a.m., with the remaining four hours airing in pattern from the ABC off-air feed. As a true entertainer, Beth can make you laugh and cry with her stories of success and failure. [Bud] Blust, Jr. had arranged for some of the station's transmission equipment to be moved to the Lookout Mountain auxiliary studio in early 1955, months before KTVX moved most of its operations into the building that November; KTUL radio had earlier moved into the facility in April 1955. This announcement is really bittersweet for me Hood said. Voss and James Kite for $3 million. 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. 45-year-old Michael Louis went to the Natalie Building around 450 pm. 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. December 6, 2013 | 2:55 pm EST by TVNewsCheck, Tulsa News Today | KOTV - News On 6 Tulsa OK. Monday through Friday while. Preston Phillips second from left served as team doctor for the WNBAs Tulsa Shock. TULSA Former television newsman Robert Joffe has filed an $11 million lawsuit against KOTV-Channel 6 and its news anchor Clayton Vaughn claiming his firing was due to false accusations he is homosexual. "Longtime Tulsa audiences will fondly remember when Scott and Lisa anchored together. [31][32] Station manager L. A. Max Defender 8 Live. They want to know why he is leaving or if he was let go. (from Guestbook 113) Mike Garner said: The subchannel is not currently available on Cox Communications in the Tulsa market. "Longtime Tulsa audiences will fondly remember [] 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). KTUL launched a community outreach initiative in October 1980 with the debut of the "Waiting Child" series of feature segments produced in conjunction with the Oklahoma Department of Human Services (OKDHS), which profile children in OKDHS custody that either have had difficulty being placed in a permanent home (either because of their age or they are a sibling group who wants to be adopted together) or have special needs that are in need of an adoptive family. KJRH broadcasts from its studios in the Brookside district in midtown Tulsa on South Peoria Avenue and its transmitter is located in Oneta, Oklahoma. United States, Beth Rengel is a speaker and author of Anchored in Illusion. On cable, KTUL-DT2 is available on Cox Communications channel 74. Weather. April 14, 2011 | 3:13 pm EDT by TVNewsCheck, Copyright 2023 NewsCheckMedia LLC, 238 Crosshill Road, Wynnewood, PA 19096 | 610-649-7989. 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 . 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. Jessica Brown from KFOR is spokes woman for the OSBI, Don Sherry (KOCO) is still with ONG, and several have moved to CNN. 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. [95][96][97], KTUL replaced Mr. Zing and Tuffy in 1969 with another children's program, Uncle Zeb's Cartoon Camp. Once again, she decided to try something else, residential real estate and was named Rookie of the Year. That first meeting with Beth Rengel in my office created a bond between Beth and me that has made us colleagues and friends. 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. She was 65. News Tips 2023 Griffin News. Jonathan Cooper acts as a noon anchor at KOTV 6 Tulsa and airs newscasts from Monday to Friday. [104][105] In September 1995, when the station cut back its Saturday morning newscast to an hour-long broadcast at 7a.m., channel 8 resumed carriage of the network's Saturday morning lineup, when it began airing four hours of the Saturday cartoon lineup from 8a.m. to noon; it began clearing the entire lineup again in 1997. 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. Quotation [17] = " 'An insider newsy website' - Hoda Kotb" Our mission is to keep Oklahomans Safe Informed and Entertained. Quotation[7] = "'FTVLive Delivers some of the TV World's Biggest Scoops' - Tonawanda News "; Tulsa Channel 6 News Team. 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. | Tata Consultancy Services. It is owned by The E.W. #9 of 100. She loves anchoring FOX23 News This Morning from 4:30 to 9am weekdays, alongside Ron Terrell. Quotation[3] = "'The TV Blogger who broke the news.' - Gawker"; 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. 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