45-year-old Michael Louis went to the Natalie Building around 450 pm. By default, Griffin decided to seek the channel 8 allocation in Muskogee (located 50.1 miles [80.6km] southeast of the city), the first channel allocation appropriated to northeastern Oklahoma for television use that was not assigned to the larger city of Tulsa and the nearest city within the market that had a channel allocation assigned to the VHF band. Rich has strong ties to Oklahoma said Bill Perry vice president of local content OETA. McCarde joins from KTVT Dallas. 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. 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 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. That first meeting with Beth Rengel in my office created a bond between Beth and me that has made us colleagues and friends. (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. Tulsa, OK FOX23 Tulsa announced the promotion of longtime FOX23 News Reporter and Weekend Evening Anchor Sara Whaley to the position of . [143][144][145][146] Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former VHF analog channel 8. [111], Shortly before channel 8 (as KTVX) signed on in Muskogee, station management sought to hire a weather anchor who could draw a cartoon character. Quotation [12] = "'has handed in his resignation, according to FTVLive.com' - TVNewser" 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. 7/11/99: Jack Morris recently retired from his 2nd career at Nordam here in Tulsa. 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. Michelle Linn is proud to be part of the longest-tenured morning anchor team in Tulsa. 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. [75] On September 7, 2004, channel 8 became the first Tulsa station to debut a late afternoon newscast at 4:00p.m.; the half-hour program would bounce within that hour in later years, first moving to 4:30p.m. on September 8, 2008, then being shifted back to its original timeslot on September 7, 2010. Quotation [19] = " 'FTVLive.com, a prominent television industry website' - Lexington Herald Leader" I retired about 10 years too late he said. KTUL also operates a digital fill-in translator on UHF channel 24, which serves the southern part of the viewing area, including McAlester. On Friday, he quietly walked out the door for the last time. 3 hours agoThe physician targeted in Oklahoma mass shooting was a former WNBA team doctor. 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. In April 1969, Griffin-Leake TV announced that it would break up its holdings into two separate companies. 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Tuesday August 21st 2012 917 am. Facebook She has been with Tulsa, Oklahoma's KTUL for almost six years and is a beloved personality in the local community. We are Oklahomas Own News On 6. 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". [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".) 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. She is working as a news anchor and reporter for KOTV-The News On 6 in Tulsa from January 2020. 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. Bob Hower launched KOTV's first newscast in 1949, followed by long-time favorite Cy Tuma. 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]). Contest. [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. Beth started her love for writing as a teenager and didnt realize that she would someday use her life experiences to become an author and speaker. Connie Chung turns 70 on August 20th. // To add more quotations, continue with the 6 hours agoDuring a press conference on Thursday morning city leaders revealed more details of the deadly incident. Quotation[9] = "'FTVLive.com Scooped Everyone With News' - About.com "; 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. January 27, 2022. Tulsa World | In April 2005, the Oklahoma Legislature passed and then-Governor Brad Henry signed a state resolution designating Gusty as the state's official cartoon character.[112][113][114][115]. The station's first broadcast was a college football game between Oklahoma and California, which Oklahoma won. 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. #9 of 100. She was 65. April 1, 2016 | 6:18 am EDT by TVNewsCheck, TVSpy | Kotv Names New Anchor For Six In The Morning Archive Tulsaworld Com. Tulsa, OK, 74136 Kitchen Design by Beth Rengel front cover of Better Homes and Gardens Country Kitchen Magazine. Quotation[4] = "'FTVLive a TV news website that is often on the money' - LA Times"; Chinh anchor weekend evenings and report weekdays. 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). 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. By: News 9. Preston Phillips second from left served as team doctor for the WNBAs Tulsa Shock. TULSA Oklahoma AP A police captain says multiple people have been shot at a Tulsa medical building on a hospital campus and some. 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. KJRH-TV, virtual channel 2, is the NBC-affiliated television station in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The Most Influential News Anchors of All Time. Meagan O'Halloran is leaving Fox 31 for. Trying to visualize myself as a blind person fitting in anywhere just didnt seem to work. Twitter | Quotation [20] = " ' first published by the website FTVLive' - The Hill" August 21, 2019 | 6:38 am EDT by Mark Miller, July 28, 2017 | 8:32 am EDT by Mark K. Miller, Scripps-owned NBC affiliate KJRH Tulsa, Okla. (DMA 58), is reuniting two news anchors who each have deep roots covering the biggest news stories in Tulsa and throughout Oklahoma. Read Full. AVENTURA, Fla. - Local 10 News is saddened to report that Jilda Unruh, a former Local 10 News anchor and reporter, has died. 0:57. Some KOTV news anchors went on to. News On 6 anchors LeAnne Taylor and Craig Day shared a love of reading and Dr. Lori Fullbright likes shoes. Former Tulsa TV news anchor Beth Rengel, whose autobiography is titled "Anchored in Illusion," plays with her dogs on the patio of her home. )[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. 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. var Quotation=new Array() // do not change this! [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. 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. The segment which started as a weekly feature on the Wednesday edition of channel 8's 10:00p.m. newscast, and currently appears on the 4:00p.m. newscast each Wednesday and on Saturdays during the 10:00p.m. newscast was initially conducted by Bob Hower; after Hower's retirement from television broadcasting following his diagnosis of spasmodic dysphonia in 1986, the segment was hosted by Rea Blakey (19861988, during her final years as weeknight co-anchor), and later, by John Walls (19861989, while serving as the station's sports director). He still makes his home in Tulsa. The third (and last) VHF frequency allocated to the Tulsa market channel 11 had been reserved by the FCC for a non-commercial educational licensee (that allocation is now occupied by PBS member station and OETA satellite KOED, which launched on January 12, 1959), while the UHF band was considered unviable at the time as most television sets on the retail market then were not equipped with UHF tuners (this situation would not change until after the All-Channel Receiver Act took effect in 1961). 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. Lori Fullbright, Tess Maune, Brain Dorman, Chinh Doan, Amy Kauffman, Jonathan Cooper, Ashley Izbicki, Dave Davis, Shannon Rousseau are among the popular names in News On 6. 07-31-2004, 09:24 AM A lot of the former anchors move stations or go into the private sector. From 1955 to 1963, Chick hosted the local afternoon children's program Cartoon Zoo, a showcase of cartoon shorts on which he originated the character Mr. Zing, donning a fake moustache which Chick had chosen for the purpose of maintaining anonymity when he was not performing the character and zookeeper's uniform; the program was the highest-rated children's program in the Tulsa market for most of its run. April 14, 2011 | 3:13 pm EDT by TVNewsCheck, Copyright 2023 NewsCheckMedia LLC, 238 Crosshill Road, Wynnewood, PA 19096 | 610-649-7989. Oklahoma native Mike Brooks will be the co-anchor with veteran Karen Larsen of the stations three news programs at 5 6 and 10 pm. 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. KJRH on Smart TV. 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. They were friends then and have remained close . window._taboola = window._taboola || []; _taboola.push({flush: true}); 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). According to jail records, a Tulsa. 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. (Robison received $6,000 to pay legal expenses incurred through the bid's prosecution.) Sep 2019 - Present2 years 8 months. [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. 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. Hoods last newscast will be Thursday Oct. Weeknight newscasts with Craig Day recently announced her upcoming retirement in October. November 27, 2013 | 6:07 am EST by TVNewsCheck, KJRH | 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. Additionally, the station upgraded its transmission power to 316,000 watts, which allowed the station to increase its city-grade coverage deeper into the Tulsa area and extending up to 40 miles (64km) to the west of the city. Local News. The station first signed on the air as KTVX at 12:30p.m. on September 18, 1954. It is owned by The E.W. That simple phone call created a flood of memories and emotions in my mind. Scripps Tulsa NBC affiliate KJRH. Mike McCardel is the new news director at Scripps-owned Tulsa, Okla., NBC affiliate KJRH. Voss and James Kite for $3 million. (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. 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Quotation[10] = "'The statement from New York-based NBC was in response to a report on the FTVLive' - Bloomberg"; As you read Beths story and experience her life, please do as I have done as I have gotten to know Beth, and use her experiences and perspective to create a context that will allow you to anchor your own priorities while stretching your potential impossibilities. [72][73] Negotiations between Disney and Allbritton broke down when the former dropped out of discussions to buy the stations the following month. Quotation[6] = "'The site that everyone that works in TV News turns to' - NPR "; However, many are unclear on the best way . Max Defender 8 App. John Knicely co-anchors live at 4, 5, 6:30, and 10 p.m. nightly on 6 News WOWT. At that same time, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, there were billboards, commercials, and media announcements about a new broadcaster coming to town named Beth Rengel. "Rich has strong ties to Oklahoma," said Bill Perry, vice president of local content, OETA. Kellie Burns. On Wednesday to. "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. Viewers even sent in requests for their own Gusty drawings, with Woods holding on-air drawings selecting a viewer who would win one. KTUL currently carries the entire ABC network schedule, with program preemptions only occurring on the station to accommodate extended breaking news and severe weather coverage. [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. You Today weekdays from 4:30 to 7 a.m. beginning Aug. 14 announced the promotion of longtime FOX23 Reporter... 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