[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. 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. Both KTUL and KGCT restored over-the-air service later that week after the stations rented a portable temporary tower brought in from Florida. He still makes his home in Tulsa. 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. 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. 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. Quotation [16] = " 'FTVLive.com a website I go too often for the latest news about the TV business (you should, too!)' On Friday, he quietly walked out the door for the last time. On cable, KTUL-DT3 is available on Cox Communications channel 73. As a byproduct of this, channel 8 aired Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher on a 90-minute delay from its then-recommended 11:05p.m. Central timeslot from its ABC debut in September 1995 until its cancellation in December 2002. 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. On Friday, he quietly walked out the door for the last time. 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. 5422. She is working as a news anchor and reporter for KOTV-The News On 6 in Tulsa from January 2020. 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. I had no idea what I was going to do until an opportunity presented itself to me. Tampa Weather Radar. KTUL-DT2 is the Comet-affiliated second digital subchannel of KTUL, broadcasting in standard definition on channel 8.2. That first meeting with Beth Rengel in my office created a bond between Beth and me that has made us colleagues and friends. In recent years, KTUL has traditionally ranked second in terms of total day news viewership, behind CBS affiliate KOTV. 45-year-old Michael Louis went to the Natalie Building around 450 pm. Deadline | Static.COOKIE_BANNER_CAPABLE = true; KJRH Morning Anchor Scott Thompson has left the Scripps station after less than two years on the job. 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. 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. // pattern, adding to the array. )[52][53] In 1979, KTUL began running one of the most successful station image campaigns in the United States with the debut of its "8's the Place" promotions. In April 1969, Griffin-Leake TV announced that it would break up its holdings into two separate companies. Quotation [14] = " 'FTVLive's Scott Jones one of the Most Important Media Reporters in America'- Mediaite" One of channel 8's most popular program hosts was John Chick, who joined the station (then KTVX) in 1955. Tulsa Police Chief Wendall Franklin said detectives believe over the course of 13 days a man went from needing back surgery to. [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. Tulsa news 6 anchors. 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. 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. Quotation[4] = "'FTVLive a TV news website that is often on the money' - LA Times"; Jimmy Kimmel Live! The proposal was featured on various syndicated and network programs such as American Journal, Geraldo and Maury. KTUL-DT5 is the Charge!-affiliated fifth digital subchannel of KTUL, broadcasting in letterboxed standard definition on channel 8.5. Jim Giles, Bob Losure and me at the MDA telethon. In addition, the Griffins ownership of KWTV, the KTUL and KFPW radio stations, KATV in Little Rock-Pine Bluff, Arkansas, and Oklahoma City radio station KOMA (now KOKC) was cited in Beck's complaint as constituting undue concentration of control. Neile Jones, a veteran journalist of over two decades, announced she is stepping back from broadcast journalism at the end of this year. Local News. Scripps Tulsa NBC affiliate KJRH. Do you know where your children are?," to open a late local newscast (shortly predating its ascension to iconic status when it was used by Tom Gregory at New York City independent station WNEW-TV [now Fox owned-and-operated station WNYW] beginning in 1967). 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). Us @2023 FTVLive LLC 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. Quotation[9] = "'FTVLive.com Scooped Everyone With News' - About.com "; 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. 8 Day Forecast. [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. She interviewed famous Supermodels, First Ladies, and then her favorite Oprah Winfrey. Once again, she decided to try something else, residential real estate and was named Rookie of the Year. 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. 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. My father sat me down and profoundly said, Mae Beth, youre graduating this year. Jessica Brown from KFOR is spokes woman for the OSBI, Don Sherry (KOCO) is still with ONG, and several have moved to CNN. 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). My parents and me right before Miss America Pageant. United States, Beth Rengel is a speaker and author of Anchored in Illusion. 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. We are Oklahomas Own News On 6. Carole Lambert who came to 1982 as a weekend evening anchor, before moving to the weeknight broadcasts in 1988, where she spent most of her tenure co-anchoring with Charles Ely was the longest serving host of the segment, taking over those duties in June 1990 and reporting for the feature until Lambert retired from KTUL in 2011. After Woods retired from KTUL on March 3, 1989, he continued to work as a watercolor artist and drew Gusty on occasion; Woods even authored a book entitled The Gospel According to Gusty, and one of his Gusty drawings is currently housed at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., which received the drawing in 1970 as a representation of contemporary American art. My daughter Ana Berry before Dance Recital. 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). Thompson came to KJRH in August, 2017, after 28 years across the street KOTV in Tulsa. Thompson came to KJRH in August, 2017, after 28 years across the street KOTV in Tulsa. Meet FOX Weather's Jason Frazer. Copyright 2016 Beth Rengel Enterprises, LLC, My dad and me in my one piece swim suit that my mom cut in half. 24 at 6 pm. On Wednesday to. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it. // Copyright 2004 by CodeLifter.com 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. Longtime Tulsa audiences will fondly remember [], April 3, 2017 | 3:25 pm EDT by TVNewsCheck. Reinventing is what she has done her whole life. [38][39][40][41][42], In November 1963, the Griffin-Leake interests reached an agreement to buy out the respective 25% interests in KWTV held by former Oklahoma Governor Roy J. Turner and Luther Dulaney which had expanded their interest in the Oklahoma City station in August 1962, after RKO General sold its stake in KWTV to address ownership issues related to RKO's multi-layered purchase-swap transaction involving WRC-TV and WRC-AM-FM (now WTEM and WKYS) in Washington, D.C., WNAC-TV (now defunct; former channel allocation now occupied by WHDH), WNAC-AM (now WRKO) and WRKO-FM (now WBZ-FM) in Boston, the WRCV television and radio stations (now KYW-TV and KYW [AM]) in Philadelphia, and the Washington-based WGMS radio stations (now WWRC and WTOP-FM) for an initial payment of $200,000 and title rights to the equipment used by KWTV, KTUL and KATV. Since she announced she is leaving KTUL, regular viewers have had a lot of questions. Quotation[5] = "'FTVLive was the first site to break the Jay Leno story' - KNX Radio"; That is the feeling I have today as I celebrate my 30th . 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. // Free for all; but please leave in this header. FTVLive | [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. 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. Shannon anchors the midday news every Monday through Friday at the CBS-affiliate in. Stewart has been the stations interim news director for the past month, replacing Mike McCardel. [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]. Contest. 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 Waiting Child segment which features the Oleta Adams song "(I'm a) Waiting Child", which was composed by Hower has been credited in the adoption of more than 4,000 Oklahoma children. On July 9, the FCC denied the protest petitions were invalid as the grant was handed down after a hearing. [90] The subchannel became an affiliate of Antenna TV on January 1, 2016, through a groupwide agreement between Sinclair and the network's owner, Tribune Broadcasting (which Sinclair would purchase in May 2017), that was spurred in part by the network's episode library acquisition of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.[91][92]. Trying to visualize myself as a blind person fitting in anywhere just didnt seem to work. [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. She loves anchoring FOX23 News This Morning from 4:30 to 9am weekdays, alongside Ron Terrell. From 1955 to 1963, Chick hosted the local afternoon children's program Cartoon Zoo, a showcase of cartoon shorts on which he originated the character Mr. Zing, donning a fake moustache which Chick had chosen for the purpose of maintaining anonymity when he was not performing the character and zookeeper's uniform; the program was the highest-rated children's program in the Tulsa market for most of its run. 14 hours agoThursday June 2nd 2022 555 am. KJRH on Smart TV. A Las Vegas news anchor was arrested after being found naked and passed out in her car, police said. Bob Hower launched KOTV's first newscast in 1949, followed by long-time favorite Cy Tuma. As a true entertainer, Beth can make you laugh and cry with her stories of success and failure. Among Morris' notable assignments during his tenure at channel 8 was a 1956 story involving David Peterson, an infant born with a hole in the wall separating the chambers of his heart, for whom Morris pled for aid to repair the defect. 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. 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