Meet FOX Weather's Jason Frazer. [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. // pattern, adding to the array. [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. // ====================================== 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. August 8, 2014 | 3:19 pm EDT by TVNewsCheck, KJRH | Published February 22, 2012. 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 . #9 of 100. Quotation[10] = "'The statement from New York-based NBC was in response to a report on the FTVLive' - Bloomberg"; [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. 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. 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. She loves anchoring FOX23 News This Morning from 4:30 to 9am weekdays, alongside Ron Terrell. On October 31, 2015, KTUL-DT2 converted into a charter affiliate of Comet, a science fiction-focused network owned by Sinclair in conjunction with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. 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. var whichQuotation=Math.round(Math.random()*(Q-1)); Tulsa, OK, 74136 If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it. KTUL launched a digital subchannel on virtual channel 8.5 on March 1, 2021. Tulsa World | Tuesday August 21st 2012 917 am. KTUL (channel 8) is a television station in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States, affiliated with ABC and owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group. Quotation [17] = " 'An insider newsy website' - Hoda Kotb" Sep 2019 - Present2 years 8 months. Although KTUL radio had been an affiliate of the CBS Radio Network since 1933 (it would switch its affiliation to the Mutual Broadcasting System in 1959), channel 8 has operated as an ABC affiliate since its sign-on; this was essentially by default, as CBS Television had already maintained a primary affiliation with KOTV since it signed on in October 1949. Max Defender 8 App. You have three choices: Get a job, get married or get a scholarship. My older sister was given a full four year scholarship because she had a beautiful voice. Quotation[7] = "'FTVLive Delivers some of the TV World's Biggest Scoops' - Tonawanda News "; Beth Rengel is a well known personality because of her history in public life. [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. (The FCC would later assign VHF channel 3 to Eufaula, a non-commercial educational allocation that would be granted to the Oklahoma Educational Television Authority [OETA] for satellite station KOET, which launched on December 1, 1977.) )[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. This practice began in September 1981, when KTUL began to delay Nightline to 11:30p.m.an hour later than most ABC stations had carried it at the timein order to air syndicated reruns of Hawaii Five-O following its late newscast. 24 at 6 pm. 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. 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. Quotation[4] = "'FTVLive a TV news website that is often on the money' - LA Times"; Former KODE anchor Tiffany Alaniz was fired from her job as 5 and 6 p.m. anchor at KOKI Fox 23 in Tulsa. 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.. Both KTUL and KGCT restored over-the-air service later that week after the stations rented a portable temporary tower brought in from Florida. Terry Hood the long-time News On 6 anchor who currently co-anchors the 6 and 10 pm. [134] In November 1999, KTUL began utilizing "Live Doppler 8000", a Doppler radar system that utilizes live VIPIR data from radars operated by National Weather Service radar sites out of Tulsa; Oklahoma City; Wichita; Fort Smith, Arkansas and Springfield, Missouri for use by station meteorologists for weather segments within its newscasts and for severe weather cut-ins. In 2014 Beth was inducted into the Ponca City Pioneer Woman Museum for her Broadcasting career. 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. As KTUL does not carry a local newscast on weekend mornings, the station airs the live-action educational program block Litton's Weekend Adventure one hour ahead of the "live" feed (airing from 8:00 to 11:00a.m., instead of 9:00a.m. to 12:00p.m.) on Saturdays, and This Week on the same hour-ahead format on Sundays. 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. As a byproduct of this, channel 8 aired Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher on a 90-minute delay from its then-recommended 11:05p.m. Central timeslot from its ABC debut in September 1995 until its cancellation in December 2002. Rich has strong ties to Oklahoma said Bill Perry vice president of local content OETA. 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. var Quotation=new Array() // do not change this! On cable, KTUL-DT3 is available on Cox Communications channel 73. Hoods last newscast will be Thursday Oct. Weeknight newscasts with Craig Day recently announced her upcoming retirement in October. It took the ABC affiliation from Tulsa's second television station, KCEB-TV (channel 23). His origin however is from Kansas City Mississippi. 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. She interviewed famous Supermodels, First Ladies, and then her favorite Oprah Winfrey. We are Oklahomas Own News On 6. 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. Get News On 6 delivered to your inbox everyday. 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 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. . It was over a decade ago when I received a call at my office requesting an appointment for a meeting with Beth Rengel. Chinh anchor weekend evenings and report weekdays. United States, Beth Rengel is a speaker and author of Anchored in Illusion. My father sat me down and profoundly said, Mae Beth, youre graduating this year. Contest. At that same time, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, there were billboards, commercials, and media announcements about a new broadcaster coming to town named Beth Rengel. Quotation [16] = " 'FTVLive.com a website I go too often for the latest news about the TV business (you should, too!)' // Set up the quotations to be shown, below. Quotation [15] = " 'FTVLive Reported the Story First'- NY Times" ;) ;) Patrick 08-03-2004, 12:57 AM [14][15] KOTV owner Wrather-Alvarez Inc. and Arthur R. Olson, permitee for the license of the then-unlaunched KSPG (channel 17, now defunct; allocation now occupied by Bartlesville-based TBN owned-and-operated station KDOR-TV) submitted their own petitions that made very similar allegations against Tulsa Broadcasting two weeks later. As a bestselling author of fiction, I pride myself on creating fascinating characters and putting them in the middle of compelling stories, but on my best day, I could not have created a fictitious character as powerful, fascinating, and diverse as the real-life Beth Rengel you are preparing to meet. Digitally. 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! Let's take a look back at TV broadcasters over the years and see how they have changed. Voss and James Kite for $3 million. Marine Forecast. ), Syndicated programs broadcast by KTUL (as of September 2020[update]) include Jeopardy!, Rachael Ray, The Drew Barrymore Show, Two and a Half Men, and Wheel of Fortune. Anchor and special projects reporter Jacqueline Fernandez joins the 6 News anchor desk weekdays for First at 4 and . Scripps Spelling Bee. April 1, 2016 | 6:18 am EDT by TVNewsCheck, TVSpy | Contact Us. Scott Thompson and Lisa Jones will co-anchor 2 Works for You Today weekdays from 4:30 to 7 a.m. beginning Aug. 14. January 27, 2022. [72][73] Negotiations between Disney and Allbritton broke down when the former dropped out of discussions to buy the stations the following month. (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). 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. September 6, 2022 | 7:19 am EDT by Armando Tinoco, TVSpy | 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. 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