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. Scott Thompson and Lisa Jones will co-anchor 2 Works for You Today weekdays from 4:30 to 7 a.m. beginning Aug. 14. Quotation[7] = "'FTVLive Delivers some of the TV World's Biggest Scoops' - Tonawanda News "; CLAYTON Vaughns distinguished 35-year career as a Tulsa TV news anchor ended in 1998 when he retired from KOTV-6. Anchor and special projects reporter Jacqueline Fernandez joins the 6 News anchor desk weekdays for First at 4 and . August 12, 2014 | 6:08 am EDT by TVNewsCheck, Tulsa World | In the ensuing decades, Beth has had a world of experiences, dealt with triumph and tragedy, and through it all, became a person that you will enjoy getting to know within the pages of this book. 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. However, many are unclear on the best way . The Griffin-owned group saw competition crop up for the channel 8 permit over the next two years. He still makes his home in Tulsa. 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. 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. 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. Weather Alerts. September 6, 2022 | 7:19 am EDT by Armando Tinoco, TVSpy | Walter Leland Cronkite Jr. (November 4, 1916 - July 17, 2009) was an American broadcast journalist who served as anchorman for the CBS Evening News for 19 years (1962-1981). Looking back on 30 years at Channel 6. [107][108][109] Another one of Morris' accomplishments at KTUL was the local television documentary The Five Civilized Tribes: Unfinished Journey, a one-hour documentary that took a look at the histories of Oklahoma's principal Native American tribes Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek and Seminole in the 19th century as illustrated through paintings, which won the prestigious Edward R. Murrow Award for "Best Television Documentary" in 1966. 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). It took the ABC affiliation from Tulsa's second television station, KCEB-TV (channel 23). Can't disclose until June 2013 - Tulsa Anchor since Jan 2013 KOKI FOX23 - Tulsa Main Anchor KOKI Fox23 Nov 2002 - Jan 2013 Full Profile Lacie Lowry Tulsa, OK Professions & Specialties News Anchor Reporter Commercial Announcer Presenter Experience & Education Position: Weekend Anchor/Reporter at News On 6 Title: Anchor/Reporter at KOTV 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". The Oklahoma Press Publishing Company a group majority owned by Tams Bixby Jr. and son Tams Bixby III, which The published the Muskogee Phoenix and Times-Democrat and owned Muskogee radio station KBIX (1490 AM) filed a separate application for the channel 8 license on October 9, 1952;[6] then on November 20, 1953, Southern California Telephone Company co-owner Ashley L. Robison (who would later acquire KOCO-TV in Oklahoma City in 1957) submitted the third permit application to build a television station on channel 8. November 27, 2013 | 6:07 am EST by TVNewsCheck, KJRH | Tulsa, OK FOX23 Tulsa announced the promotion of longtime FOX23 News Reporter and Weekend Evening Anchor Sara Whaley to the position of . 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. [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. Thomas John Brokaw (; born February 6, 1940) is an American television journalist and author, best known for being the anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News for 22 years (1982-2004). 397178 likes 44353 talking about this. (In the former case, this limits mandatory deferrals of certain Weekend Adventure programs that are preempted in their normal Saturday timeslots for college football game broadcasts that ABC typically airs during the late morning in the Central Time Zone between late August and early December. 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. 0:57. Reinventing is what she has done her whole life. News On 6 anchors LeAnne Taylor and Craig Day shared a love of reading and Dr. Lori Fullbright likes shoes. Contest. On November 2, 1999, KTUL unveiled an additional 29,000 square feet (2,694m2) of studio space on the eastern portion of the Lookout Mountain facility, which included an expanded newsroom referred to as the "Newscenter" (which is designed in the style of the "newsplex" set pioneered by WSVN in Miami, which integrates the main anchor desk and weather center into the newsroom), a new sales office, and a 10-by-40-foot (3.0m 12.2m) deck outside the studio for use in weather segments that overlooks the downtown Tulsa skyline. // Do not change anything below this line News On 6 anchors LeAnne Taylor and Craig Day shared a love of reading and Dr. Lori Fullbright likes shoes. 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). Scripps Company. "Rich has strong ties to Oklahoma," said Bill Perry, vice president of local content, OETA. 3 hours agoThe physician targeted in Oklahoma mass shooting was a former WNBA team doctor. In addition to his anchoring duties, Morris who had worked for KTUL radio since 1940, with the exception of a three-year period in which he served in the Army during World War II served as the station's original news director until he left to become main anchor at KVOO-TV in 1970. Quotation [20] = " ' first published by the website FTVLive' - The Hill" 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. Since 2007, Lenz has been the co-anchor for the 6 in the Morning program on KOTV, Tulsa. Kotv Names New Anchor For Six In The Morning Archive Tulsaworld Com. ;) ;) Patrick 08-03-2004, 12:57 AM 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. For ten years, Carl Bartholemew hosted the show playing the titular gruff senior in the similarly formatted cartoon showcase, who was accompanied an array of rural characters including "Uncle Zip" (played by Dick Van Dera, who hosted a short-lived spinoff series, Uncle Zip's Do-Da-Day), "Uncle Zeke" (played by Al Clauser, who previously served as the puppeteer and voice of B.J. 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. Meet FOX Weather's Jason Frazer. [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]. Photo courtesy KJRH Channel 2. ), 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]. August 8, 2014 | 3:19 pm EDT by TVNewsCheck, KJRH | )[75] In January 2013, the station changed its branding to "Tulsa's Channel 8". As a true entertainer, Beth can make you laugh and cry with her stories of success and failure. 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[4] = "'FTVLive a TV news website that is often on the money' - LA Times"; Shea Smith 5:06 PM, Feb 27, 2023 . The woman pictured above is KJRH news anchor Liz Bryant. 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. She sang with the New Christy Minstrels traveling all over the United States. Static.COOKIE_BANNER_CAPABLE = true; KJRH Morning Anchor Scott Thompson has left the Scripps station after less than two years on the job. (The state possessive was removed from the branding in February 2006, as part of a graphical overhaul that included the introduction of the station's current logo. 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. | Tata Consultancy Services. 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. Im leaving my News On 6 family and viewers whom Ive always. Fox 5 Las Vegas morning weekday anchor and reporter Feven Kiflegiorgis was busted nude and . Kellie Burns. 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. [7] Over time, Tulsa Broadcasting's competitors for the permit withdrew their respective applications. She had a successful television career as a reporter and evening news anchor in Baton Rouge, Atlanta and Tulsa for more than two decades. STEPHEN PINGRY/Tulsa World STEPHEN PINGRY. New deputy, former Tulsa officer meet decade after deadly shooting. [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. Quotation [13] = " '(FTVLive) is a Mad Blogger'- Piers Morgan" Leaders from around the state are commenting on the mass shooting that left 5 people dead including the suspected shooter at. - Greta Van Susteren" [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. Contact As KTUL does not carry a local newscast on weekend mornings, the station airs the live-action educational program block Litton's Weekend Adventure one hour ahead of the "live" feed (airing from 8:00 to 11:00a.m., instead of 9:00a.m. to 12:00p.m.) on Saturdays, and This Week on the same hour-ahead format on Sundays. Those three clichs have driven many of my life choices in family and in several careers. On Friday, he quietly walked out the door for the last time. I have lived my life driven by three clichs: My grandmother always said, You dont regret the things you do, but the things you dont do. My mother would remind me Youll never know unless you try. And my father had a way with words Well, hell, if you fail, its better than a kick in the ass.. 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. 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. 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. 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