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. The local daytime program featured a mix of interviews with Tulsa area newsmakers, community affairs and women's topics; the program which ran until Boyd left channel 8 in 1980 to serve as the director of information for Tulsa Vo-Tech (now Tulsa Technology Center) helped KTUL reach first place among female viewers at a time when ABC had remained lagged in third place among the three national networks in the Nielsen ratings.[100]. But she knows shes more comfy in her own skin than ever before and shes being who she wants to be instead of who someone else wants her to be. STEPHEN PINGRY/Tulsa World, Former Tulsa TV news anchor Beth Rengel, whose autobiography is titled Anchored in Illusion, plays with her dogs on the patio of her home. VIDEO: A farewell message from longtime FOX23 Anchor Clay Loney. KTUL-DT4 is the TBD-affiliated fourth digital subchannel of KTUL, broadcasting in letterboxed standard definition on channel 8.4. 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). She used to cherish childhood trips to see Grandma and Grandpa. In recent years, KTUL has traditionally ranked second in terms of total day news viewership, behind CBS affiliate KOTV. Between Baton Rouge and Tulsa, she turned down an opportunity to be in the soap opera Guiding Light.. The Trustoria Service Professional Directory gives you all the resources needed to know the right service provider for any need. By: Caroline John - Published: December 14, 2021 at 5:11 am. "That is also the case here. 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. "Instead of going into, 'Well, I haven't been on TV in a year and a half,' I just say thanks," Ziegenhorn said, laughing. During that time, Walls was also freelancing for ESPN, ESPN II and Prime Sports Network. [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). "I just love sports," he said. FOX23 Weather 24/7. "If you approach life with good intent," Rengel said, "it will turn out how it's supposed to be. Keith was director of communications and community relations for Mayor Lafortune's office. aired instead on WB affiliate KWBT from April 7, 2003, until April 8, 2004, after which KTUL began airing the talk show on a one-hour delay. news9.com Former Tulsa TV Anchor Arrested On Meth Complaint 1212 Also Read: Dave Wagner Leaving KIRO 7: The Seattle Journalist Announces Retirement. They are curious if she is retiring from the field and if she will continue to reside in Tulsa. 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. Winds N at 5 to 10 mph. "I loved being around it all the time.". [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. 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. We tell our clients' stories every day. Smith, who started in radio as a salesman with Tulsa's KAKC in 1958, was sales manager and general manager at KRAV for many years, building it into one of Tulsa's most successful radio operations. The station first signed on the air as KTVX at 12:30p.m. on September 18, 1954. Welcome to KFOR-TV-DT the NBC Affiliate for Oklahoma City and surrounding areas. 918-732-6000. Creative writing, media management, crisis management, relationship building, fundraising, Mid-day Announcer/Promotions at Cox Media-Tulsa, Morning Reporter at KOKI FOX23 (Cox Media Group), Administrative Assistant at Linde Process Plants. Phone: 918-581-8389. This page is not available in other languages. Ogle, who died last year at age 68, started in radio in the 1950s at Norman stations KNOR and WNAD. In September 2012, channel 8 became the first station in Tulsa to employ a female chief meteorologist, when it hired Jennifer Zeppelin in that position on the weekday evening newscasts; Zeppelin who had joined KTUL as a fill-in meteorologist in December 2011, after having served as a meteorologist at CBS owned-and-operated station KCNC-TV in Denver left the station in August 2015. 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). Walls decided no time was better than the present for a transition. Station management replied in a counter-filing that it saw nothing wrong in promoting itself as a Tulsa market station, and suggested that these and other issues raised in the complaint considered to be unfair trade practices should be appealed to the Federal Trade Commission instead. Rascon has traveled the country and world for nearly 30 years, capturing some of the most compelling, heart-wrenching, and inspiring stories. I had a blast.". The following fields overflowed: SECTION = Oklahoma NOW! She said she had to downsize the last time she changed residences, so she gave some Santas away and has stopped accumulating them. 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. She eventually anchored the morning show, which at that time was Good Morning Oklahoma. High 63F. Find out when Tulsa International Mayfest, Rooster Days, the Renaissance Festival at the Castle of Muskogee and many more are happening. He has worked for the trade association, CTIA - The Wireless Association, as its vice president of public affairs since 2004. Bob Hower, a longtime KTUL, Channel 8, news anchorman, appears with fellow Tulsa television pioneer Betty Boyd as Tulsa's Centennial Homecoming king and queen in 1997. "Then, get home in time to go 90-to-nothing, taking my kids to their activities.". [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. News On 6 anchor Rich Lenz is headed in a new direction. 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. [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. 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]). 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. Viewers even sent in requests for their own Gusty drawings, with Woods holding on-air drawings selecting a viewer who would win one. "I like having a job that serves the community," Isbell said. He reminisced about his time at KOTV and met current reporter, Joseph Holloway. "I needed a change. (you can give in, give up or you can get back up). [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. By 1951, the station would boast the first mobile unit. Soon, Walls was one of the few Tulsa TV anchors who had made the rounds to each of Tulsa's three major news stations. "If you feel like you need a change, don't be afraid," he said. FOX23 Tulsa Now. Among Morris' notable assignments during his tenure at channel 8 was a 1956 story involving David Peterson, an infant born with a hole in the wall separating the chambers of his heart, for whom Morris pled for aid to repair the defect. Isbell attended Broken Arrow schools, so he feels connected and tied to the community in his new position. The station was owned by oilman George Cameron . Women would be added to the newsroom along the way. Over time, you learn to interpret it. The FCC dismissed the complaint on September 2, noting that there were issues with past violations and inaccurate claims pertaining to its facilities and signal coverage; Tulsa Broadcasting admitted to failing to comply with station identification rules, but made assurances that it stopped such practices.[28][29][30]. July 29, 2021 at 6:00 a.m. After five years on FOX 31's morning show, Meagan O'Halloran is moving on. Neile Jones, a veteran journalist of over two decades, announced she is stepping back from broadcast journalism at the end of this year. Frustrated, Rengel uncorked a curse word. The subchannel is not currently available on Cox Communications in the Tulsa market. "I run my own practice," he said. She consistently has been ranked in the top 10 percent of realtors there, she said. 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. 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. I wasn't sleeping," she said, laughing. She covered news from weather to sports to local issues. A teammate advised her to ignore it. [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]. Carole Lambert who came to 1982 as a weekend evening anchor, before moving to the weeknight broadcasts in 1988, where she spent most of her tenure co-anchoring with Charles Ely was the longest serving host of the segment, taking over those duties in June 1990 and reporting for the feature until Lambert retired from KTUL in 2011. 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". Ex-reporter Sues Tulsa TV Station, Cites Homosexual Claim Robby Trammell View Comments 0:00 0:15 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. 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). The anchor's last show will be Friday as she heads for Sinclair's new evening edition of "The. She said she was so mortified and humiliated by her slip of the tongue that she asked the KTUL switchboard operator to take down the name and address of everyone who called the station to lodge a complaint. -- News", "Channel 8 to Drop Saturday Cartoon Schedule", "Former News Anchor Bridged Gap From Radio to TV // Jack Morris to Be Inducted Into Broadcasters Hall of Fame", "Jack Morris 1921-2010: Longtime Tulsa newscaster Jack Morris died at 88", "KTVX (TV) Moves on the Land and in the Air", "Retired meteorologist Don Woods dies at 84", "Jimmie Tramel: Generations of Oklahomans remember Don Woods and Gusty", "Don Woods Has Lost His Battle With Cancer", "Television Briefs: Anchor honored for adoption support", "Longtime KTUL news anchor Carole Lambert to leave", "New Morning Program To Debut on Channel 8", "Scene setting: What's going on around you today", "Tying the Knot // KTUL's Teri Bowers, Frank Mitchell to Wed", "Meteorologist Frank Mitchell to resign from KTUL", "KTUL Meteorologist Draws Weather Maps After Graphics Malfunction", "Andrew Kozak, Local Weatherman, Improvises Forecast When Computers Fail (VIDEO)", "Channel 8 Provides Closed Captioned News", "KTUL-8 to close-caption local newscasts", "Storms - Watch Out! The tower which, at 1,909-foot (582m), became the second-tallest broadcast tower in the United States at that time was activated on July 24 of that year.[49][50][51]. Receive the latest in local entertainment news in your inbox weekly! Though she looked for TV jobs outside Tulsa, the partnership with Powell took hold. Lazalier still works with weather. Tulsa residents and Jones social media followers can take comfort knowing that Neile Jones will remain in her hometown. As a co-anchor at KTUL channel 8, Rengel was part of a juggernaut TV news crew that included co-anchor Bob Hower, sportscaster Chris Lincoln and beloved meteorologist/Gusty artist Don Woods. As a news anchor and reporter, Neile has interviewed people from all different walks of life including celebrities, corporate executives, and entrepreneurs. "But if we look at it another way, there is news value. 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. "We were watching Channel 6 Doppler Pathfinder Radar and we feel like that's what saved our lives," said a tornado survivor in the 90's. . After Oklahoma City native Mike Anderson earned his meteorology degree from the University of Oklahoma, he moved into his first position with KOTV Channel 6 doing morning and weekend newscasts. The autobiography is titled Anchored in Illusion. She can look back at life so far and realize she spent decades chasing illusions things that represented the illusion of happiness or perfection. Every time. She later earned her BS in broadcast journalism from Oklahoma State University and a dual MA in human resources and development and management from Webster University. I felt paralyzed.. I found myself curled up in the fetal position on the kitchen floor by the telephone, waiting for the call, crying and unable to get up or move. He and a team of photographers received a national Emmy award for a documentary on blacks in Oklahoma titled "Through the Looking Glass Darkly." 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). Jones, an author and domestic abuse survivor, is not going to be back on screens anytime soon. "Knowing so much about the history and where we came from and where we are now, and to see the man, who in my opinion set the tone for people like me to be in this newsroom, I mean it means a lot to me," Holloway says. 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. Since she announced she is leaving KTUL, regular viewers have had a lot of questions. After nearly a year of delays, Sinclair's deal to acquire Allbritton was approved by the FCC on July 24, 2014, and was completed on August 1, 2014. According to jail records, a Tulsa. Other inductees will be former Tulsa news anchors Clayton Vaughn and Bob Hower, and Carl Smith, a former Tulsa radio general manager who is the OAB's chief executive. Mostly expansions in two different markets", "Two more additions taking place in September, both within a week", "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds", "TV signal switch looms for thousands in Tulsa", "Last analog TV holdouts in Tulsa go digital today", A website of the history of Tulsa Television and radio stations, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=KTUL&oldid=1142390130, This page was last edited on 2 March 2023, at 03:40. {{start_at_rate}} {{format_dollars}} {{start_price}} {{format_cents}} {{term}}, {{promotional_format_dollars}}{{promotional_price}}{{promotional_format_cents}} {{term}}, Embarrassing on-air gaffe did not deter Beth Rengel from achieving her career goals. [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. [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. Newson6.com is proud to provide Oklahomans with timely and relevant news and . 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. STEPHEN PINGRY/Tulsa World, Beth Rengel keeps memorabilia from her TV career at her home, but she also has a big Santa Claus collection. 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. "I'm having such a great time. The program would later evolve into Mr. Zing and Tuffy, after station director Wayne Johnson (who was promoted by KTUL management to serve as its production chief in 1970) conceived the idea for the costumed tiger character Tuffy; he was also joined by another costumed animal character, Shaggy Dog (played by Tom Ledbetter and later, Mike Denney).
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