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. She had a successful television career as a reporter and evening news anchor in Baton Rouge, Atlanta and Tulsa for more than two decades. Quotation [12] = "'has handed in his resignation, according to FTVLive.com' - TVNewser" His friendships along with his knowledge of the people government and state of Oklahoma make him an excellent addition and the perfect person to deliver the news to our. Jim Giles, Bob Losure and me at the MDA telethon. 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. 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). Tulsa news 6 anchors. Bob Hower launched KOTV's first newscast in 1949, followed by long-time favorite Cy Tuma. News Sport Region Music Person Profession Crypto Do you want to stay up to date of all the news about Tulsa. [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. Quotation[4] = "'FTVLive a TV news website that is often on the money' - LA Times"; After moving to Tulsa in 1984 from Charleston, S.C., John Walls anchored the sportscast at KTUL Channel 8. [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. 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. [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. Tracking the Tropics. Since she announced she is leaving KTUL, regular viewers have had a lot of questions. [7] Over time, Tulsa Broadcasting's competitors for the permit withdrew their respective applications. She is working as a news anchor and reporter for KOTV-The News On 6 in Tulsa from January 2020. 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. Shea Smith 5:06 PM, Feb 27, 2023 . Quotation[3] = "'The TV Blogger who broke the news.' - Gawker"; Remember var whichQuotation=Math.round(Math.random()*(Q-1)); 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 . Although KTUL radio had been an affiliate of the CBS Radio Network since 1933 (it would switch its affiliation to the Mutual Broadcasting System in 1959), channel 8 has operated as an ABC affiliate since its sign-on; this was essentially by default, as CBS Television had already maintained a primary affiliation with KOTV since it signed on in October 1949. 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. News9.com is proud to provide Oklahomans with timely and relevant news and information, sharing the stories, pictures and loves of Oklahomans across our great state. 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. [93][94], KTUL aired several popular local non-news programs over the years, several of which helped make channel 8 the leading television station in the Tulsa market and one of ABC's strongest affiliates for 35 years under Griffin-Leake and Allbritton ownership, even as ABC would not improve its viewership to become America's most-watched broadcast network until the late 1970s. This announcement is really bittersweet for me Hood said. ), KTUL also declined carriage of ABC's World League of American Football game broadcasts during the league's 1992 season (its last before the WLAF's two-year operational suspension), after complaints from some viewers about the games preempting its weekly broadcast of the Boston Avenue United Methodist Church Sunday services in the spring of 1991 as well as ABC declining a request by station management to join the games in progress.[106]. Tuesday, August 21st 2012, 9:51 am. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); // ============================================== She interviewed famous Supermodels, First Ladies, and then her favorite Oprah Winfrey. 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. (Bartholomew would later resurrect the Uncle Zeb character in 1990, when he revived Cartoon Camp as a local public access program on United Artists Cable's Tulsa system, running for seven additional years through much of the Tulsa system's ownership under TCI. 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. 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 . 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. // to increment the Quotation[x] index! Taylor has been with the ABC affiliate for two decades, and his departure comes as a shock to them. On cable, KTUL-DT2 is available on Cox Communications channel 74. I retired about 10 years too late he said. 7/11/99: Jack Morris recently retired from his 2nd career at Nordam here in Tulsa. New deputy, former Tulsa officer meet decade after deadly shooting. 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. 65 Years in TV. KTUL-DT4 is the TBD-affiliated fourth digital subchannel of KTUL, broadcasting in letterboxed standard definition on channel 8.4. The subchannel carried local forecast segments presented by meteorologists from the station's "First Alert Weather" team (which were recorded and updated up to three times per day); local, regional and national weather information updated via a computer automation on both the channel's main screen and an on-screen "L"-shaped ticker; and periodic live feeds of the station's Doppler radar system (then branded as "First Alert Doppler 8000"), accompanied by audio from Tulsa-based NOAA Weather Radio station KIH27. 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. Life has proven to me that you always have to walk through your fears, take risks and persevere. KTUL (channel 8) is a television station in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States, affiliated with ABC and owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group. 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. The woman pictured above is KJRH news anchor Liz Bryant. Residents of Tulsa, Oklahoma are saddened to hear that Keith Taylor, an anchor on KTUL-TV, is leaving Good Morning Oklahoma and the station. The first time I was put to the test was as a senior in high school in Wichita Falls, Texas. The identity of the shooter and victims in a mass shooting at a Tulsa doctors office has been released by Tulsa Police. 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. The Most Influential News Anchors of All Time. [72][73] Negotiations between Disney and Allbritton broke down when the former dropped out of discussions to buy the stations the following month. showQuotation(); Scott Thompson and Lisa Jones will co-anchor 2 Works for You Today weekdays from 4:30 to 7 a.m. beginning Aug. 14. The story led to donations totaling over $1,000, allowing for Peterson to be flown to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota for surgery. KFOR 10pm News Team from the Left, Mike Morgan, Kevin Ogle, Joleen Chaney, Brian Brinkley, Adan Snider. By: News 9. The station had traditionally aired syndicated programs (airing in a block running anywhere from one hour to 90 minutes) following its 10p.m. newscast for many years, resulting in certain ABC late-night programs that the network recommended its stations air immediately after their late local newscasts being delayed to accommodate them. 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. Scripps Spelling Bee. Some KOTV news anchors went on to. McCarde joins from KTVT Dallas. After submitting a second relocation request eight months earlier on January 18, the FCC granted the reassignment of the KTVX license and its accompanying VHF channel 8 allocation to Tulsa on August 2, 1957. 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. 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. Tulsa Channel 6 News Team. KJRH-TV, virtual channel 2, is the NBC-affiliated television station in Tulsa, Oklahoma. As a result she was chosen to be part of the Miss America USO Show and toured parts of Europe entertaining the troopes. Weather Alerts. [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. 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. [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]. "We bid you a hearty welcome tonight as always," reported Tuma. [31][32] Station manager L. A. January 27, 2022. 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. Quotation [20] = " ' first published by the website FTVLive' - The Hill" 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. Quotation [13] = " '(FTVLive) is a Mad Blogger'- Piers Morgan" Scott Thompson and Lisa Jones will co-anchor 2 Works for You Today weekdays from 4:30 to 7 a.m. beginning Aug. 14. "Three days ago, I found out I will no longer be working at Fox23 News with my LONGTIME teammates, who I love and are family to me," Alaniz posted Thursday on both her Facebook page and Twitter account. Marine Forecast. He succeeds Susan DAstoli who left in February. 14 hours agoThursday June 2nd 2022 555 am. 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. [65][66][67][68][69], On January 6, 1992, channel 8 began maintaining a 24-hour-a-day programming schedule on Sunday through Fridays, adding a mix of syndicated feature films and the ABC overnight news program World News Now to fill overnight timeslots (the station continued to sign-off from 2:00 to 5:00a.m. on Saturday night/early Sunday mornings until January 1999). She was 65. 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. 5:06 PM, Feb 27, 2023 27, 2022, Adan Snider Smith 5:06,... 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