Quotation [19] = " 'FTVLive.com, a prominent television industry website' - Lexington Herald Leader" On December 15, 2008, KTUL-DT3 became an affiliate of the Retro Television Network, through a groupwide agreement between Allbritton Communications and the then-owner of the classic television network, Equity Media Holdings. The program which ended each episode with the audience members walking across a bridge in the studio to greet family and friends was discontinued in 1979, as Bartholomew decided to focus his duties on his existing role as promotions director at channel 8. Weather Stories. A Las Vegas news anchor was arrested after being found naked and passed out in her car, police said. She is working as a news anchor and reporter for KOTV-The News On 6 in Tulsa from January 2020. The book you are reading now has been in the making for a decade, and the stories and experiences that make up this book are the product of a rich and full lifetime. in a business suit delivering the news each night. Since she announced she is leaving KTUL, regular viewers have had a lot of questions. Facebook // Copyright 2004 by CodeLifter.com 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. Quotation[7] = "'FTVLive Delivers some of the TV World's Biggest Scoops' - Tonawanda News "; Amy Avery Ashley Izbicki Brian Dorman Chinh Doan Craig Day Dave Davis Jonathan Cooper LeAnne Taylor Lori Fullbright Shannon Rousseau Tess Maune Meteorologist Jason Frazer came to FOX Weather from WKYC in Cleveland. Tuesday August 21st 2012 917 am. The station first signed on the air as KTVX at 12:30p.m. on September 18, 1954. I retired about 10 years too late he said. function showQuotation(){document.write(Quotation[whichQuotation]);} Thompson came to KJRH in August, 2017, after 28 years across the street KOTV in Tulsa. [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".) [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. During the heyday of CBS .more. var Q = Quotation.length; You can catch me anchoring the 4,5,6 and 10 pm newscasts Monday through Friday alongside Mark Bradshaw. Those three clichs have driven many of my life choices in family and in several careers. Marine Forecast. 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. Brenna Rose | KTUL Brenna Rose Anchor Hi, I'm Brenna! Beth Rengel, through some. (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. November 27, 2013 | 6:07 am EST by TVNewsCheck, KJRH | Contact Us. Anchor and special projects reporter Jacqueline Fernandez joins the 6 News anchor desk weekdays for First at 4 and . After Morris left KTUL for KVOO in 1970, KOTV anchor Bob Hower joined channel 8 and took over as main anchor of its evening newscasts. KOTV - News On 6 Tulsa OK. Monday through Friday while. 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). The first time I was put to the test was as a senior in high school in Wichita Falls, Texas. 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. That simple phone call created a flood of memories and emotions in my mind. 65 Years in TV. [24][25][26][27] The station's original studio facilities were based inside a 45-by-48-foot (14 by 15m) facility inside a converted grocery store on East Side Boulevard and Houston Street in northwestern Muskogee. Network management backed off its pressure after owner Jimmy Leake informed Rule about The John Chick Show's high ratings locally. Tulsa, OK FOX23 Tulsa announced the promotion of longtime FOX23 News Reporter and Weekend Evening Anchor Sara Whaley to the position of . var Quotation=new Array() // do not change this! 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. Scripps Company. Local News. [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. [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. [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. 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. 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. _taboola.push({flush: true}); 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. [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. They want to know why he is leaving or if he was let go. 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. 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. 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". Our mission is to keep Oklahomans Safe Informed. April 1, 2016 | 6:18 am EDT by TVNewsCheck, TVSpy | Meet the WTNH News 8 team of reporters, anchors and meteorologists. ), 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]. Get News On 6 delivered to your inbox everyday. KTUL launched a digital subchannel on virtual channel 8.5 on March 1, 2021. 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. Quotation [18] = " 'FTVLive is the Most Incrediable thing in our Business' - i24News" Incidentally, FCC regulations had been changed in 1952 to allow for a broadcast station to house their main studio within 50 miles [80km] of their city of license, which would have allowed channel 8 to remain licensed to Muskogee but base its operations solely in Tulsa (a television station would not be licensed to Muskogee again until September 12, 1999, when a joint venture of Tulsa Communications and Tulsa Channel 19, LLC signed on WB affiliate KWBT [channel 19, now CW affiliate KQCW-DT]). Jonathan Cooper acts as a noon anchor at KOTV 6 Tulsa and airs newscasts from Monday to Friday. in a business suit delivering the news each night. 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. This mortified weather girl has become an Internet sensation after accidentally flashing her assets live on air. Since 2007 Lenz has been the co-anchor for the 6 in the Morning program on KOTV Tulsa. Voss and James Kite for $3 million. Tulsa Channel 6 News Team. Stewart has been the stations interim news director for the past month, replacing Mike McCardel. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); // ============================================== If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it. The identity of the shooter and victims in a mass shooting at a Tulsa doctors office has been released by Tulsa Police. McCarde joins from KTVT Dallas. 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. Had the ABC offer been successfully brokered, KTUL would have become the first commercial television station in the Tulsa market (and the state of Oklahoma, in general) to have served as an owned-and-operated station of a major broadcast television network.[74]. Read Full. Kitchen Design by Beth Rengel front cover of Better Homes and Gardens Country Kitchen Magazine. 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. 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. 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. It took the ABC affiliation from Tulsa's second television station, KCEB-TV (channel 23). 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. [131][132][133] On January 3, 1994, under a partnership with TCI Cablevision of Tulsa, KTUL began producing six-minute-long local newscasts for Headline News under the channel's Local Edition insert format, which aired in half-hour intervals at :25 and :55 minutes past the hour each weekday between 9:00a.m. and 10:00p.m. on TCI channel 30 in place of Headline News's national lifestyle segments. [72][73] Negotiations between Disney and Allbritton broke down when the former dropped out of discussions to buy the stations the following month. Tracking the Tropics. Weather. Our mission is to keep Oklahomans Safe Informed and Entertained. 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). )[75] In January 2013, the station changed its branding to "Tulsa's Channel 8". Photo courtesy KJRH Channel 2. Exclusive: Victims of former Waterbury mayor open 1 hour ago. Jessica Brown from KFOR is spokes woman for the OSBI, Don Sherry (KOCO) is still with ONG, and several have moved to CNN. Suess with elementary school kids. 07-31-2004, 09:24 AM A lot of the former anchors move stations or go into the private sector. 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. KTUL also operates a digital fill-in translator on UHF channel 24, which serves the southern part of the viewing area, including McAlester. Rich has strong ties to Oklahoma said Bill Perry vice president of local content OETA. KJRH on Smart TV. The program was anchored by Jack Morris, one of the first two personalities at KTVX, alongside meteorologist Don Woods (Hal O'Halloran would join the station in 1964 as its sports director). 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. 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