Visit the post for more. Get News On 6 delivered to your inbox everyday. Arthur Olson stated in his petition filing that he would have applied for channel 8 instead of UHF channel 17 for KSPG had it had been allocated to Tulsa. Since we really don't know a lot about the media babes of our state's second city, let's take a look at her bio from KJRH.com: Liz Bryant joined KJRH in August 2011 as a multi-media journalist.Liz is excited to be back home! On cable, KTUL-DT3 is available on Cox Communications channel 73. Quotation [14] = " 'FTVLive's Scott Jones one of the Most Important Media Reporters in America'- Mediaite" That is the feeling I have today as I celebrate my 30th . Jim Giles, Bob Losure and me at the MDA telethon. 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 . Jonathan Cooper acts as a noon anchor at KOTV 6 Tulsa and airs newscasts from Monday to Friday. 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. 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. 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. 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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. [127][128], 1990 also saw KTUL become the first television station in Oklahoma to offer closed captioning of its newscasts for deaf and hard of hearing viewers. Both KTUL and KGCT restored over-the-air service later that week after the stations rented a portable temporary tower brought in from Florida. It was over a decade ago when I received a call at my office requesting an appointment for a meeting with Beth Rengel. Local News. She was 65. Staff. News Sport Region Music Person Profession Crypto Do you want to stay up to date of all the news about Tulsa. [122][123][104][105] The program made national news in 1995, when meteorologist Frank Mitchell (who would eventually serve as KTUL's chief meteorologist from 2005 to 2012) surprised his co-anchor and girlfriend, Teri Bowers (who joined KTUL alongside Mitchell in 1990 and remained with the station until 2006, serving most of her tenure alongside Mitchell on Good Morning Oklahoma, originally as the co-hosts of the Saturday edition and later on the weekday broadcasts), with a live, on-air wedding proposal. . showQuotation(); Max Defender 8 App. A stumbling block for the Griffins came on May 7, 1954, when Albec Oil founder J. Elfred Beck, owner of fledgling UHF outlet KCEB (channel 23, now defunct; allocation now occupied by Fox affiliate KOKI-TV), filed a protest motion asking for the FCC to revoke or stay the grant. Since 2007, Lenz has been the co-anchor for the 6 in the Morning program on KOTV, Tulsa. Former Tulsa news anchor arrested after possible meth found (2012-08-21) 7,005 views Jan 4, 2018 10 Dislike Share Save The Oklahoman Video Archive 8.32K subscribers A former Tulsa. April 1, 2016 | 6:18 am EDT by TVNewsCheck, TVSpy | Weather Stories. 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. You can catch me anchoring the 4,5,6 and 10 pm newscasts Monday through Friday alongside Mark Bradshaw. // ====================================== He still makes his home in Tulsa. 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. The station's digital signal is multiplexed: KTUL shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 8, at 9:00a.m. on June 12, 2009 (with a ceremonial switchover airing on that morning's broadcast of Good Day Tulsa), the official date on which full-power television stations transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. However, many are unclear on the best way . Exclusive: Victims of former Waterbury mayor open 1 hour ago. 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. // ====================================== [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. Warren Stewart has been named news director of E.W. Quotation[0] = "'Mr. 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. Jilda collapsed at her Aventura home Friday . Quotation [18] = " 'FTVLive is the Most Incrediable thing in our Business' - i24News" Shannon anchors the midday news every Monday through Friday at the CBS-affiliate in. 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. She sang with the New Christy Minstrels traveling all over the United States. Longtime Tulsa audiences will fondly remember [], April 3, 2017 | 3:25 pm EDT by TVNewsCheck. 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. The Most Influential News Anchors of All Time. I retired about 10 years too late he said. The woman pictured above is KJRH news anchor Liz Bryant. The proposal was featured on various syndicated and network programs such as American Journal, Geraldo and Maury. June 2019. Quotation [13] = " '(FTVLive) is a Mad Blogger'- Piers Morgan" Meagan O'Halloran is leaving Fox 31 for. (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. [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. 0:00. KJRH on Smart TV. John Toole "J. T." Griffin majority owner and president of wholesale food distributors Griffin Grocery Company and Denison Peanut Company, and hardware manufacturer Western Hardware Corporation, all of which were headquartered in Muskogee became interested in television broadcasting around 1950, after noticing during one of his commutes that many homes in the Oklahoma City area had installed outdoor television antennas to receive the signal of primary NBC affiliate WKY-TV (now KFOR-TV) in Oklahoma City, which signed on as Oklahoma's first television station on June 6, 1949. 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. KTVX assumed the rights to the ABC affiliation from KCEB, whose demise is directly linked to KTVX's sign-on; ABC's decision to move its programming full-time to channel 8 as well as the pending operational wind-down of the DuMont Television Network (a non-viable fourth network that itself would soon fold in August 1956) ended Beck's hopes to make his station viable, leaving him little choice but to shut down channel 23 on December 4, 1954. That first meeting with Beth Rengel in my office created a bond between Beth and me that has made us colleagues and friends. [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. Lambert's tenure as segment host saw her be honored, through nomination by now-former U.S. Representative Brad Carson, with a 2004 "Angels in Adoption" award by the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute. During his tenure at channel 8, Morris was one of the first television news anchors in the United States to use the phrase, "It's 10 o'clock. Bluejay on the station's iteration of The Bozo the Clown Show in the late 1950s) and "Cousin Zack" (played by Kent Doll) and featured various in-studio games in which a select member of the audience of around a dozen local children participated in between the three cartoon shorts. Quotation[8] = "'CNBC wanted a reaction to a story someone had seen on FTVLive' - Vanity Fair "; Read more. KTUL ABC 8 provides local and national news, sports, weather and notice of community events in Tulsa, Oklahoma and surrounding towns including Broken Arrow, Owasso . On Friday, he quietly walked out the door for the last time. Scripps Company. 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. The weekday morning program proved to be a more popular alternative to network morning shows Today on KVOO and the CBS Morning News on KOTV that competed against it in the 7:00a.m. timeslot; Chick ended his eponymous morning show in January 1979, following his diagnosis of early stage multiple sclerosis two months prior. 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. Some KOTV news anchors went on to. Tulsa Channel 6 News Team. 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. The subchannel is not currently available on Cox Communications in the Tulsa market. Copyright 2016 Beth Rengel Enterprises, LLC, My dad and me in my one piece swim suit that my mom cut in half. [76][77][78][79] The sale's regulatory process was held up for nearly a year, however, as Sinclair attempted to address ownership issues involving stations it already operated in three markets (WTTO/WDBB and WABM in Birmingham, Alabama, WMMP in Charleston, South Carolina, and WHP-TV and WLYH-TV in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) and Albritton-owned stations that placed Sinclair in conflict with FCC regulations on local station ownership (WBMA/WCFT/WJSU, WCIV and WHTM, respectively), specifically with regard to LMAs that were grandfathered following a 1999 ruling by the Commission that such agreements made after November 5, 1996, covering the programming of more than 15% of a station's broadcast day would count toward the ownership limits for the brokering station's parent licensee. 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. AVENTURA, Fla. - Local 10 News is saddened to report that Jilda Unruh, a former Local 10 News anchor and reporter, has died. September 6, 2022 | 7:19 am EDT by Armando Tinoco, TVSpy | )[98][99], Another popular KTUL personality was Betty Boyd, a well-known personality at rival KOTV who was lured away to channel 8 in 1965 to host The Betty Boyd Show. 7/11/99: Jack Morris recently retired from his 2nd career at Nordam here in Tulsa. Brenna Rose | KTUL Brenna Rose Anchor Hi, I'm Brenna! 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. 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. 2's 'Sports Extra', "Bill Haisten: After 'phenomenal' Russell Westbrook's 57-point blast, MVP discussion heats up", "FIRST ON THE BLOG: There are some changes to discuss. 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.. My father sat me down and profoundly said, Mae Beth, youre graduating this year. 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. KTUL (channel 8) is a television station in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States, affiliated with ABC and owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group. (which has preceded Nightline since the network switched the scheduling order of the two programs in January 2013), was originally preempted by KTUL when it debuted in January 2003, after the station refused to comply with carrying the show in its recommended slot (making it one of a handful of ABC stations that included WSB-TV in Atlanta, WFTV in Orlando, WSOC-TV in Charlotte and WEAR-TV in Pensacola, Florida, not to carry Kimmel). Connie Chung turns 70 on August 20th. Chung came into the limelight as the first woman to co-anchor "CBS. She had a successful television career as a reporter and evening news anchor in Baton Rouge, Atlanta and Tulsa for more than two decades. Reinventing is what she has done her whole life. #1 of 65. Tracking the Tropics. 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. [110] During its early years, the station maintained a fleet of 15 vehicles and two airplanes for aerial and ground-level newsgathering. (from Guestbook 113) Mike Garner said: Quotation[7] = "'FTVLive Delivers some of the TV World's Biggest Scoops' - Tonawanda News "; Before that, she worked as a news reporter for KWTX-TV in Waco, Texas . Hoods last newscast will be Thursday Oct. Weeknight newscasts with Craig Day recently announced her upcoming retirement in October. 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. She was third runner up in the Miss America Pageant as Miss Texas. 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. Mike McCardel is the new news director at Scripps-owned Tulsa, Okla., NBC affiliate KJRH. Tulsa World | // Free for all; but please leave in this header. One of channel 8's most popular program hosts was John Chick, who joined the station (then KTVX) in 1955. My daughter Ana Berry before Dance Recital. On Wednesday to. 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]. Network management backed off its pressure after owner Jimmy Leake informed Rule about The John Chick Show's high ratings locally. FOX Weather meteorologists are an eclectic group from all across the nation. 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. John Knicely co-anchors live at 4, 5, 6:30, and 10 p.m. nightly on 6 News WOWT. It took the ABC affiliation from Tulsa's second television station, KCEB-TV (channel 23). (Incidentally, in 1949, Tulsa Broadcasting had assigned Helen Alvarez who would become founding part-owner of KOTV (channel 6) to study whether a television station venture in Tulsa could be successful. 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. Since 2007 Lenz has been the co-anchor for the 6 in the Morning program on KOTV Tulsa. Amy Avery Ashley Izbicki Brian Dorman Chinh Doan Craig Day Dave Davis Jonathan Cooper LeAnne Taylor Lori Fullbright Shannon Rousseau Tess Maune Quotation [20] = " ' first published by the website FTVLive' - The Hill" The identity of the shooter and victims in a mass shooting at a Tulsa doctors office has been released by Tulsa Police. window._taboola = window._taboola || []; 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. 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. 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. Terry Hood the long-time News On 6 anchor who currently co-anchors the 6 and 10 pm. She was 65. News On 6 anchors LeAnne Taylor and Craig Day shared a love of reading and Dr. Lori Fullbright likes shoes. if(window.ImageLoader) window.ImageLoader.bootstrap({}, document);Squarespace.afterBodyLoad(Y). Inducted into the Ponca City Pioneer Woman Museum for broadcasting. [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. Before being promoted to noon anchor Cooper was a weekend evening anchor at News On 6. | Tata Consultancy Services. 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). 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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). [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".) To punish your shirking. 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 covered stories like the Oklahoma City bombing, a major oil spill off the coast of Mississippi and went behind the scenes of the only facility in the country where people live who were afflicted with leprosy. 45-year-old Michael Louis went to the Natalie Building around 450 pm. 4 hours agoThursday June 2nd 2022 341 pm. The station also produces the news/talk/lifestyle program Good Day Tulsa, which airs weekday mornings at 9:00a.m. and is co-produced by KTUL's news and advertising sales departments; the hour-long program debuted on August 30, 2004, under original hosts D.C. Roberts, Amanda Juergens and Frank Mitchell (as of September 2017[update], it is currently co-hosted by Keith Taylor, Erin Christy and meteorologist Molly McCollum, who also anchor the station's weekday morning newscast, Good Morning Oklahoma, and its weekday 11:00a.m. News On 6 anchors LeAnne Taylor and Craig Day shared a love of reading and Dr. Lori Fullbright likes shoes. During the heyday of CBS .more. 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. KOTV - News On 6 Tulsa OK. Monday through Friday while. Suess with elementary school kids. KOTV News on 6. [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]. Kotv Names New Anchor For Six In The Morning Archive Tulsaworld Com. )[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. Leaders from around the state are commenting on the mass shooting that left 5 people dead including the suspected shooter at. She is working as a news anchor and reporter for KOTV-The News On 6 in Tulsa from January 2020. 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. . 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