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. [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. Kellie Burns anchors NBC2 News at 5:00, News at 5:30 and News at 6. The station's studios are located at Lookout Mountain (near South 29th West Avenue, west of Interstate 244) in southwestern Tulsa, and its transmitter is located on South 321st Avenue East, adjacent to the Muskogee Turnpike, in unincorporated southeastern Tulsa County (near Coweta). ABC programs that were preempted or otherwise interrupted by local news events that warrant long-form coverage are usually tape delayed to air in overnight timeslots; although station personnel gives viewers the option to watch the affected shows the following day on ABC's desktop and mobile streaming platforms or its cable/satellite video-on-demand service. Woods one of the few professional meteorologists on Tulsa television at the time and the first television weather anchor in Oklahoma to hold a meteorology degree was chosen, and his cartoon character became Gusty, a boy caricature based on one which Woods created in 1953 as a meteorologist at KTVH (now Wichita-licensed KWCH-DT) in Hutchinson, Kansas, who was named through a contest held beginning the day of channel 8's sign-on. In April 1969, Griffin-Leake TV announced that it would break up its holdings into two separate companies. 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. 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. Neile Jones a veteran journalist of over two decades announced she is stepping back from broadcast journalism at the. Former Tulsa news anchor Yvonne Lewis | | claremoreprogress.com 51 Saturday, February 4, 2023 E-Paper Stokes reflects on decade of service Wearable art comes to life 'Momma Lynn' builds. Kellie Burns. (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. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); // ============================================== It was originally anchored by former KOTV anchor Karen Larsen (who would later become an evening anchor at KJRH) and Clark Powell (who had previously served as weekend anchor at KAUZ-TV in Wichita Falls); the program which initially featured a mix of news, weather and interviews, before evolving into a more traditional news-based morning show by 2005 was the first local morning newscast to debut in the Tulsa market. Since 2007, Lenz has been the co-anchor for the 6 in the Morning program on KOTV, Tulsa. Copyright 2016 Beth Rengel Enterprises, LLC, My dad and me in my one piece swim suit that my mom cut in half. [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. STEPHEN PINGRY/Tulsa World STEPHEN PINGRY. Chinh anchor weekend evenings and report weekdays. // pattern, adding to the array. Both KTUL and KGCT restored over-the-air service later that week after the stations rented a portable temporary tower brought in from Florida. Warren Stewart has been named news director of E.W. [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. My daughter Ana Berry before Dance Recital. Beck cited that the proposed 1,020-foot (310m) transmitter tower on Concharty Mountain (in the Wagoner County town of Stone Bluff) would produce overlap of Grade A signal coverage between KTVX and KWTV, and would permit dual coverage of both Muskogee and Tulsa in violation with the agency's channel allocation table. 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. [85][86][87][88] As result of the Allbritton purchase, KTUL gained new sister stations in nearby markets: Fox affiliate KOKH-TV and CW affiliate KOCB in Oklahoma City (the former of which began to share news stories with KTUL for inclusion in their respective local newscasts), and Fox affiliate KSAS-TV and its MyNetworkTV-affiliated LMA partner KMTW in Wichita. 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. Quotation[1] = "'The One-Man Website That Broke the Jay Leno Story' - About.com "; 6 hours agoDuring a press conference on Thursday morning city leaders revealed more details of the deadly incident. (In the former case, this limits mandatory deferrals of certain Weekend Adventure programs that are preempted in their normal Saturday timeslots for college football game broadcasts that ABC typically airs during the late morning in the Central Time Zone between late August and early December. News Channel 8 shuffled its anchor lineup this week, promoting morning anchors Darren Kramer and Sonia Baghdady to the higher-profile 5 p.m. news hour and 11 p.m. shows, and downsizing Ted. Marine Forecast. _taboola.push({flush: true}); Anchor and special projects reporter Jacqueline Fernandez joins the 6 News anchor desk weekdays for First at 4 and . Before that, she worked as a news reporter for KWTX-TV in Waco, Texas . New deputy, former Tulsa officer meet decade after deadly shooting. June 2019. By FOX23.com News Staff October 20, 2021 at 3:00 pm CDT. KTUL launched a digital subchannel on virtual channel 8.4 on February 13, 2017, serving as a charter affiliate of the Sinclair-owned digital content network TBD, which soft-launched on KTUL and five other Sinclair stations on that date. [138][139][140] KTUL premiered an hour-long newscast at 11:00a.m. on September 11, 2017, which marked the first time that the station has offered a local newscast during the weekday midday timeslot and made it the last news-producing station in Tulsa to offer one; until August 2018, it competed against an hour-long midday newscast that aired in that timeslot on KJRH.[141]. 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.. A former Tulsa TV news anchor was arrested on a drug complaint late Sunday night after officers searched his pickup truck following a traffic. 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. My plans of being a professional athlete were shattered along with any other ideas I had ever had about what I might do with my life. Find anchors, reporters and more KOCO 5 News staff members. 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 She sang with the New Christy Minstrels traveling all over the United States. Those three clichs have driven many of my life choices in family and in several careers. Bob Hower wrote 1921 Tulsa Race Riot: The American Red Cross-Angels of Mercy Jack Morris and Don Woods from 1959 TV Guide, courtesy of Ed Colton Jack was elected to the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame in 1974. August 8, 2014 | 3:19 pm EDT by TVNewsCheck, KJRH | The Griffin-owned group saw competition crop up for the channel 8 permit over the next two years. Quotation [12] = "'has handed in his resignation, according to FTVLive.com' - TVNewser" The talk show that replaced it, Jimmy Kimmel Live! That simple phone call created a flood of memories and emotions in my mind. 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. 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. Thompson came to KJRH in August, 2017, after 28 years across the street KOTV in Tulsa. [72][73] Negotiations between Disney and Allbritton broke down when the former dropped out of discussions to buy the stations the following month. | Tata Consultancy Services. On July 9, the FCC denied the protest petitions were invalid as the grant was handed down after a hearing. KOTV - News On 6 Tulsa OK. 397178 likes 44353 talking about this. The story led to donations totaling over $1,000, allowing for Peterson to be flown to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota for surgery. [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".) Weather. 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). The gunman blamed the surgeon for his continued back pain following an operation. (A sale of any of the affected Allbritton properties to a separate buyer was not an option for Sinclair, as Allbritton wanted its stations to be sold together to limit the tax rate that the company would have had to pay from the accrued proceeds, which it estimated would have been substantially higher if the group was sold piecemeal; Sinclair sold most of the conflict outlets to Howard Stirk Holdings on the pretense that it would forego entering into operational agreements with Sinclair.)[80][81][82][83][84]. Residents of Tulsa, Oklahoma are saddened to hear that Keith Taylor, an anchor on KTUL-TV, is leaving Good Morning Oklahoma and the station. Jessica Brown from KFOR is spokes woman for the OSBI, Don Sherry (KOCO) is still with ONG, and several have moved to CNN. Life has proven to me that you always have to walk through your fears, take risks and persevere. United States, Beth Rengel is a speaker and author of Anchored in Illusion. Scripps Company. 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. WFLA Weather Cameras. 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. 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. Trying to visualize myself as a blind person fitting in anywhere just didnt seem to work. The Most Influential News Anchors of All Time. 1970. Channel 8 subsequently restored service to cable television subscribers via a direct studio feed that it relayed to Tulsa Cable Television (which would eventually have its franchise rights transferred to United Artists Cable, Tele-Communications, Inc., and finally, to Cox Communications, which has owned the Tulsa cable franchise since April 2000). Quotation[5] = "'FTVLive was the first site to break the Jay Leno story' - KNX Radio"; [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. She was 65. Published February 22, 2012. (from Guestbook 113) Mike Garner said: The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition VHF channel 10. // Copyright 2004 by CodeLifter.com Stewart has been the stations interim news director for the past month, replacing Mike McCardel. The team of Hower, Woods and sports director Chris Lincoln (who left KTUL in 1976, and following subsequent stints at ABC Sports and ESPN, returned for additional runs at channel 8 from 2007 to 2011 and again beginning in January 2013) were often known as the "News Guys", in reference to a popular series of spots focusing on the main anchor team during whose tenure, the station continued its ratings dominance in local news that was developed by promotions director Carl Bartholomew. news9.com. January 27, 2022. KTUL-DT2 is the Comet-affiliated second digital subchannel of KTUL, broadcasting in standard definition on channel 8.2. Jonathans family lives in Owasso but he loves Oklahoma and spends quality time here. (Both programs, during their respective runs on the ABC Saturday morning lineup, were cleared by nearby ABC affiliates KAKE in Wichita and KODE-TV in Joplin; as both stations provide reasonable coverage within the northern fringes of the Tulsa market, they each served as the city's default home for the preempted ABC Kids programs. Quotation[2] = "'The story first broke on FTVLive.com' - AP"; Quotation[8] = "'CNBC wanted a reaction to a story someone had seen on FTVLive' - Vanity Fair "; )[75] In January 2013, the station changed its branding to "Tulsa's Channel 8". [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. 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. 1996. Tracking the Tropics. In recent years, KTUL has traditionally ranked second in terms of total day news viewership, behind CBS affiliate KOTV. 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. This move led network president Elton Rule and other ABC executives to visit the station in 1976 to discuss why KTUL did not give clearance to the then-fledgling and fast-growing ABC morning show. December 6, 2013 | 2:55 pm EST by TVNewsCheck, Tulsa News Today | During that time, Walls was also freelancing for. This mortified weather girl has become an Internet sensation after accidentally flashing her assets live on air. September 6, 2022 | 7:19 am EDT by Armando Tinoco, TVSpy | 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. [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. 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]. On Friday, he quietly walked out the door for the last time. Video. 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 . From the block's September 2002 rebranding as ABC Kids until September 2006, KTUL began timeshifting the ABC children's programs that were recommended to air during the 10a.m. hour to air on a week-delayed basis at 5a.m., with the remaining four hours airing in pattern from the ABC off-air feed. FTVLive | FOX Weather meteorologists are an eclectic group from all across the nation. It was over a decade ago when I received a call at my office requesting an appointment for a meeting with Beth Rengel. Inducted into the Ponca City Pioneer Woman Museum for broadcasting. 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"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 . [93][94], KTUL aired several popular local non-news programs over the years, several of which helped make channel 8 the leading television station in the Tulsa market and one of ABC's strongest affiliates for 35 years under Griffin-Leake and Allbritton ownership, even as ABC would not improve its viewership to become America's most-watched broadcast network until the late 1970s. Quotation[3] = "'The TV Blogger who broke the news.' - Gawker"; KJRH on Smart TV. function showQuotation(){document.write(Quotation[whichQuotation]);} Fox 5 Las Vegas morning weekday anchor and reporter Feven Kiflegiorgis was busted nude and . [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. 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. 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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. Beth Rengel is a well known personality because of her history in public life. Mike McCardel is the new news director at Scripps-owned Tulsa, Okla., NBC affiliate KJRH. Scott Thompson and Lisa Jones will co-anchor 2 Works for You Today weekdays from 4:30 to 7 a.m. beginning Aug. 14. 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". The subchannel is not currently available on Cox Communications in the Tulsa market. KTUL also operates a digital fill-in translator on UHF channel 24, which serves the southern part of the viewing area, including McAlester. )[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 been with Tulsa, Oklahoma's KTUL for almost six years and is a beloved personality in the local community. KTUL preempted Good Morning America for the first three years of its run from November 1975 to December 1978, in favor of airing The John Chick Show (GMA's short-lived predecessor AM America was aired on a joined-in-progress basis from January to November 1975, with KTUL choosing to preempt the first hour in favor of Chick). Static.COOKIE_BANNER_CAPABLE = true; KJRH Morning Anchor Scott Thompson has left the Scripps station after less than two years on the job. By: News 9. Oklahoma Press Publishing had its bid dismissed by an FCC petition grant on February 19, 1954;[8][9] Robison backed out of the running by petition two weeks later on March 1. "Longtime Tulsa audiences will fondly remember when Scott and Lisa anchored together. 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. Read more. KJRH-TV, virtual channel 2, is the NBC-affiliated television station in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In June 1998, ABC parent The Walt Disney Company entered into negotiations to purchase the eight Allbritton stations and its local marketing agreements involving fellow ABC affiliates WJSU-TV (now WGWW) in Anniston, Alabama and WJXX in Jacksonville, Florida, for a reported offer totaling more than $1 billion; the latter two stations had been involved in an affiliation deal between Allbritton and ABC that was reached in response to the May 1994 affiliation deal between New World Communications and Fox that affected WBRC in Birmingham, Alabama. However, many are unclear on the best way . 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. Former KODE anchor Tiffany Alaniz was fired from her job as 5 and 6 p.m. anchor at KOKI Fox 23 in Tulsa. [95][96][97], KTUL replaced Mr. Zing and Tuffy in 1969 with another children's program, Uncle Zeb's Cartoon Camp. Welcome to KFOR-TV-DT the NBC Affiliate for Oklahoma City and surrounding areas. Neile Jones, a veteran journalist of over two decades, announced she is stepping back from broadcast journalism at the end of this year. Weather Alerts. 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. Tulsa Channel 6 News Team. 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