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]). 5422. Quotation[6] = "'The site that everyone that works in TV News turns to' - NPR "; In 2014 Beth was inducted into the Ponca City Pioneer Woman Museum for her Broadcasting career. Thompson came to KJRH in August, 2017, after 28 years across the street KOTV in Tulsa. 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On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. I retired about 10 years too late he said. In 1990, Walls moved to KOTV Channel 6. 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. [34][35][36] On September 12, the day the move to Tulsa was approved by the FCC, the station changed its call letters to KTUL-TV to match its radio sister (the "-TV" suffix would be excised from the callsign on February 22, 1993; the KTVX call sign is currently used by another ABC-affiliated television station in Salt Lake City, Utah). var whichQuotation=Math.round(Math.random()*(Q-1)); Copyright 2016 Beth Rengel Enterprises, LLC, My dad and me in my one piece swim suit that my mom cut in half. 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]. Quotation[3] = "'The TV Blogger who broke the news.' - Gawker"; Quotation[9] = "'FTVLive.com Scooped Everyone With News' - About.com "; [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. 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. (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. 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. September 6, 2022 | 7:19 am EDT by Armando Tinoco, TVSpy | AVENTURA, Fla. - Local 10 News is saddened to report that Jilda Unruh, a former Local 10 News anchor and reporter, has died. Remember June 2019. Us @2023 FTVLive LLC She was 65. Tulsa OK 74103 918-732-6000 Meet the Team. KTVX assumed the rights to the ABC affiliation from KCEB, whose demise is directly linked to KTVX's sign-on; ABC's decision to move its programming full-time to channel 8 as well as the pending operational wind-down of the DuMont Television Network (a non-viable fourth network that itself would soon fold in August 1956) ended Beck's hopes to make his station viable, leaving him little choice but to shut down channel 23 on December 4, 1954. KTUL-DT5 is the Charge!-affiliated fifth digital subchannel of KTUL, broadcasting in letterboxed standard definition on channel 8.5. Both KTUL and KGCT restored over-the-air service later that week after the stations rented a portable temporary tower brought in from Florida. [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. (Robison received $6,000 to pay legal expenses incurred through the bid's prosecution.) Read Full. Tulsa Police Chief Wendall Franklin said detectives believe over the course of 13 days a man went from needing back surgery to. Of course, we need not forget the ones who just changed stations or had some legal problems. KTUL launched a community outreach initiative in October 1980 with the debut of the "Waiting Child" series of feature segments produced in conjunction with the Oklahoma Department of Human Services (OKDHS), which profile children in OKDHS custody that either have had difficulty being placed in a permanent home (either because of their age or they are a sibling group who wants to be adopted together) or have special needs that are in need of an adoptive family. The first time I was put to the test was as a senior in high school in Wichita Falls, Texas. 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. Contact Us. The woman pictured above is KJRH news anchor Liz Bryant. Weather Stories. Warren Stewart has been named news director of E.W. [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. Facebook KTUL also operates a digital fill-in translator on UHF channel 24, which serves the southern part of the viewing area, including McAlester. She had a successful television career as a reporter and evening news anchor in Baton Rouge, Atlanta and Tulsa for more than two decades. She has been with Tulsa, Oklahoma's KTUL for almost six years and is a beloved personality in the local community. 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. You can catch me anchoring the 4,5,6 and 10 pm newscasts Monday through Friday alongside Mark Bradshaw. Quotation [14] = " 'FTVLive's Scott Jones one of the Most Important Media Reporters in America'- Mediaite" 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. She was third runner up in the Miss America Pageant as Miss Texas. Jim Giles, Bob Losure and me at the MDA telethon. "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. Quotation [12] = "'has handed in his resignation, according to FTVLive.com' - TVNewser" 45-year-old Michael Louis went to the Natalie Building around 450 pm. Kotv Names New Anchor For Six In The Morning Archive Tulsaworld Com. Kitchen Design by Beth Rengel front cover of Better Homes and Gardens Country Kitchen Magazine. She went on to become a successful opera singer in Europe. 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. [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. 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. [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. 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. . Im leaving my News On 6 family and viewers whom Ive always. 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. )[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. - Greta Van Susteren" Tampa Weather Radar. 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). Quotation [17] = " 'An insider newsy website' - Hoda Kotb" Mike McCardel is the new news director at Scripps-owned Tulsa, Okla., NBC affiliate KJRH. 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). United States, Beth Rengel is a speaker and author of Anchored in Illusion. Replacing O'Halloran on KDVR's morning show will be Ashley Ryan, who is moving here from Tulsa.. O'Halloran's new show will debut Sept. 27 . She sang with the New Christy Minstrels traveling all over the United States. Since 2011, the segment has been hosted by Keith Taylor (who joined KTUL in 2001 as a news and sports reporter, before becoming weekday morning co-anchor in 2003). [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. 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. His origin however is from Kansas City Mississippi. 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. On December 15, 2008, KTUL-DT3 became an affiliate of the Retro Television Network, through a groupwide agreement between Allbritton Communications and the then-owner of the classic television network, Equity Media Holdings. 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. April 14, 2011 | 3:13 pm EDT by TVNewsCheck, Copyright 2023 NewsCheckMedia LLC, 238 Crosshill Road, Wynnewood, PA 19096 | 610-649-7989. 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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. in a business suit delivering the news each night. August 12, 2014 | 6:08 am EDT by TVNewsCheck, Tulsa World | Tulsa news 6 anchors. Historically, the station has preempted certain ABC network programs or aired them out of pattern to make room for other local or syndicated programs or, occasionally, because of internal concerns over a program's content. Marine Forecast. 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. Scott Thompson and Lisa Jones will co-anchor 2 Works for You Today weekdays from 4:30 to 7 a.m. beginning Aug. 14. [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. 65 Years in TV. April 1, 2016 | 6:18 am EDT by TVNewsCheck, TVSpy | Stewart has been the stations interim news director for the past month, replacing Mike McCardel. That simple phone call created a flood of memories and emotions in my mind. 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. . The station broadcasts its digital signal on VHF channel 8, using its former analog channel assignment of 2 as its . The station first signed on the air as KTVX at 12:30p.m. on September 18, 1954. My father sat me down and profoundly said, Mae Beth, youre graduating this year. March 18, 2022 | 2:31 pm EDT by Kevin Eck, TVSpy | var Quotation=new Array() // do not change this! Digitally. Video. Thompson came to KJRH in August, 2017, after 28 years across the street KOTV in Tulsa. Twitter | 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.. 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. 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. Tulsa World | Following by an initial decision issued by FCC Hearing Examiner Millard French that recommended approval of its application, the FCC granted the permit to Tulsa Broadcasting on April 8, 1954. Inducted into the Ponca City Pioneer Woman Museum for broadcasting. [107][108][109] Another one of Morris' accomplishments at KTUL was the local television documentary The Five Civilized Tribes: Unfinished Journey, a one-hour documentary that took a look at the histories of Oklahoma's principal Native American tribes Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek and Seminole in the 19th century as illustrated through paintings, which won the prestigious Edward R. Murrow Award for "Best Television Documentary" in 1966. ;) ;) Patrick 08-03-2004, 12:57 AM Quotation[0] = "'Mr. Weather Alerts. Tulsa, OK, 74136 Concurrent with the unveiling of the newsroom-studio combination, the station changed its on-air branding to Oklahoma's NewsChannel 8; at that time, KTUL became the second Tulsa-area television station to have used the "NewsChannel" moniker, which had previously been used by KJRH-TV for its news branding as NewsChannel 2 from August 1992 until November 1994, when that station adopted a short-lived watered-down version of WSVN's newscast format. [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]. 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 current studio facility on Lookout Mountain in west Tulsa (which originally spanned 24,000 square feet [2,200m2]) originally served as an auxiliary studio for the station, which Tulsa Broadcasting had purchased from KCEB for whom the facility was originally built shortly before the station's sign-on as channel 23 was preparing to cease operations. Cover of Magazine section for Dallas Morning Newspaper 1972, Burt Parks last year as Emcee at the Miss America Pageant, Honeymoon in Jamaica with Mike Rengel of New Orleans Saints Football 1974, First Magazine Show I hosted called "Take 2", 5:30pm news anchor on 11 Alive in Atlanta. // Do not change anything below this line [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. [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. 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. )[75] In January 2013, the station changed its branding to "Tulsa's Channel 8". (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. 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). 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). [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. Meet FOX Weather's Jason Frazer. 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. Welcome to KFOR-TV-DT the NBC Affiliate for Oklahoma City and surrounding areas. 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