Loving also aired mid-mornings on a one-day delay until September 1990, when the station replaced it with the hour-long version of The Home Show; KTUL preempted ABC's half-hour soap operas (Loving, The City and finally, Port Charles) until the network ceded the 12:30p.m. Central Time slot to its affiliates in October 2003. KTUL-DT5 is the Charge!-affiliated fifth digital subchannel of KTUL, broadcasting in letterboxed standard definition on channel 8.5. 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. His origin however is from Kansas City Mississippi. 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. It was over a decade ago when I received a call at my office requesting an appointment for a meeting with Beth Rengel. 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. Anchor and special projects reporter Jacqueline Fernandez joins the 6 News anchor desk weekdays for First at 4 and . )[75] In January 2013, the station changed its branding to "Tulsa's Channel 8". You can catch me anchoring the 4,5,6 and 10 pm newscasts Monday through Friday alongside Mark Bradshaw. The woman pictured above is KJRH news anchor Liz Bryant. Former KODE anchor Tiffany Alaniz was fired from her job as 5 and 6 p.m. anchor at KOKI Fox 23 in Tulsa. 3 hours agoThe physician targeted in Oklahoma mass shooting was a former WNBA team doctor. To punish your shirking. Quotation [13] = " '(FTVLive) is a Mad Blogger'- Piers Morgan" Quotation [14] = " 'FTVLive's Scott Jones one of the Most Important Media Reporters in America'- Mediaite" [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. 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. 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. 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". KTUL launched a digital subchannel on virtual channel 8.3 in 2004, which originally served as a standard definition simulcast of the station's primary channel. [3] About one year later, the Tulsa Broadcasting Company a company run by John and his sister, Marjory Griffin Leake, which already owned Tulsa-based radio station KTUL (1430 AM, now KTBZ) and KFPW in Fort Smith, Arkansas filed an application to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for a construction permit to build and license to operate a television station on VHF channel 8 on June 27, 1952. Hoods last newscast will be Thursday Oct. Weeknight newscasts with Craig Day recently announced her upcoming retirement in October. Inducted into the Ponca City Pioneer Woman Museum for broadcasting. 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. [94][123][135], On August 22, 2011, KTUL became the third television station in the Tulsa market (after NBC affiliate KJRH and Fox affiliate KOKI) to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition. News Tips 2023 Griffin News. [33] KTUL began auxiliary operations at the Lookout Mountain building on November 1, 1955, with that evening's airing of the local book review program Lewis Meyer Bookshelf. [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. Tampa Weather Radar. 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. 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). 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. Prior to joining The News On 6 news, Chinh worked as an anchor and reporter for KETV in Omaha from August 2013 to January 2020. Quotation[7] = "'FTVLive Delivers some of the TV World's Biggest Scoops' - Tonawanda News "; window._taboola = window._taboola || []; Terry Hood the long-time News On 6 anchor who currently co-anchors the 6 and 10 pm. 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. 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. Turner and Dulaney would then sell the equipment, valued at $2.3 million, to First National Bank of Oklahoma City executives C.A. Staff. 397178 likes 44353 talking about this. 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. [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]. #1 of 65. )[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. Let's take a look back at TV broadcasters over the years and see how they have changed. Since 2007, Lenz has been the co-anchor for the 6 in the Morning program on KOTV, Tulsa. 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. [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. showQuotation(); Chinh anchor weekend evenings and report weekdays. My parents and me right before Miss America Pageant. [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. [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). We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. 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. 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. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it. Quotation [18] = " 'FTVLive is the Most Incrediable thing in our Business' - i24News" At that same time, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, there were billboards, commercials, and media announcements about a new broadcaster coming to town named Beth Rengel. Kellie Burns anchors NBC2 News at 5:00, News at 5:30 and News at 6. WFLA Weather Cameras. 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