"That, and Oklahoma Living. Besides spending more time at local events, she will also keep up the communication with her followers through her social media and her blog, JonesN4Life.com. In 1990, Walls moved to KOTV Channel 6. My voice wasnt good enough singing. She consistently has been ranked in the top 10 percent of realtors there, she said. Dale Hogg was KOTV's first African American anchor and reporter. ", Karen Keith Then: Anchor and reporter on KTUL Channel 8; reporter and host of Oklahoma Living on KJRH News Channel 2 Now: Director of partnership development at Tulsa Convention & Visitors Bureau in Tulsa, While Karen Keith was in news, she "worked every shift you can imagine.". 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. Voss and James Kite for $3 million. 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. Rengel enjoys her new work, though it is rife with challenges. their second ABC-affiliated station, KTVX (now Tulsa-based KTUL) in Muskogee, .. 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]. In 2003, Rengel was commended as rookie of the year at McGraw Davisson. Every time. Tulsa, OK (74129) Today. 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", Teri Bowers Then: Anchor/reporter on KTUL News Channel 8 Now: Communications director at Oklahoma Aquarium in Jenks. "As a realtor, you've got total freedom.". In 1969, he began a 17-year stint as news anchor at KTUL-8. Cloudy with periods of light rain. They are expected to reach at least 80 pounds. 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. [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".) When Kathy Taylor succeeded Lafortune, Keith looked ways to continue her work with downtown revitalizations efforts. James D. Watts Jr. 918-581-8478 She didnt realize what she had said, or that it had gone out over the air, until news director George Stewart clued her in during a commercial break. 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. June 2019. But Rengel picked herself up from rock bottom (you can give in, give up or you can get back up) and was determined to continue her career. Turner and Dulaney would then sell the equipment, valued at $2.3 million, to First National Bank of Oklahoma City executives C.A. "I like the people I work with and for here, and this is an excellent school district.". 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). The Oklahoma Press Publishing Company a group majority owned by Tams Bixby Jr. and son Tams Bixby III, which The published the Muskogee Phoenix and Times-Democrat and owned Muskogee radio station KBIX (1490 AM) filed a separate application for the channel 8 license on October 9, 1952;[6] then on November 20, 1953, Southern California Telephone Company co-owner Ashley L. Robison (who would later acquire KOCO-TV in Oklahoma City in 1957) submitted the third permit application to build a television station on channel 8. 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. There was a problem saving your notification. 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. On July 9, the FCC denied the protest petitions were invalid as the grant was handed down after a hearing. Between Baton Rouge and Tulsa, she turned down an opportunity to be in the soap opera Guiding Light.. Thompson came to KJRH in August, 2017, after 28 years across the street KOTV in Tulsa. She said she was bullied by rich girls because of her clothing. "But I fell in love with the city.". Dale recently visited our current newsroom. Late Channel 4 news anchor Jack Ogle will be among four broadcasters inducted next year into the Oklahoma Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame. "I needed a change. He and a team of photographers received a national Emmy award for a documentary on blacks in Oklahoma titled "Through the Looking Glass Darkly." Read Full. She has been with Tulsa, Oklahomas KTUL for almost six years and is a beloved personality in the local community. The station was owned by oilman George Cameron and Maria Helen Alvarez became the first woman General Manager. 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"Dad was a very, very fair person," said Kelly Ogle, a 6 and 10 p.m. co-anchor at KWTV-9. He had a lot of people to thank, but most of all, he wants to. 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. Rengel won the Miss Texas crown in 1972 and was third runner-up in the Miss America pageant. "Which would have been difficult, since I haven't done an OSU basketball story in more than five years," Isbell said, laughing. Please subscribe to keep reading. White's experience in TV helps her determine what about her clients will or won't sell, and to adjust PR and advertising campaigns accordingly. 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). FOX23 Tulsa Now. Sign up for our newsletter to keep reading. Questions followed immediately. It never aired the program as recommended at 10:30/10:35 for the 32 years that ABC aired the newsmagazine in that timeslot; the hour following the late newscast would eventually be ceded to syndicated sitcom reruns, which have continued to fill that allocated time even after many Big Three affiliates in large and mid-sized markets began relegating carriage of off-network content to drama series aired in weekend timeslots. The station first signed on the air as KTVX at 12:30p.m. on September 18, 1954. 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. Network management backed off its pressure after owner Jimmy Leake informed Rule about The John Chick Show's high ratings locally. Jones, an author and domestic abuse survivor, is not going to be back on screens anytime soon. 800. 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. Anchors; Weather; Reporters; Sports; Contact Us. (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. Rengel lost weight, but she went to bed hungry. Michelle Linn is proud to be part of the longest-tenured morning anchor team in Tulsa. [31][32] Station manager L. A. 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. "I got to where I was enjoying doing this more than I was the meteorology thing," Anderson said, "especially at two in the morning when the alarm clock went off.". "I've never not been doing something with a TV station, at some level," White said. In the 1970s, KTUL was also one of several ABC affiliates that chose to preempt the network's Sunday morning cartoon rerun block. "Sun Up," KOTV's first-morning show started in 1957. Hill is a U.S. Army veteran and former police officer in Nashville who has appeared on such networks as CNN, HLN, Court TV and Fox News. "If you approach life with good intent," Rengel said, "it will turn out how it's supposed to be. October 2002 brought a sudden turn of events. "It made TV much more representative of what the population really was and also gave us an opportunity to show off some really brilliant people," remembers Clayton Vaughn. 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. They did the 10 oclock news later that night. ", Mike Ziegenhorn Then: Sportscaster on KTUL Channel 8, Now: Insurance Agent/Broker at The Holmes Organization in Tulsa. The Carl C. Smith Sports Complex in Tulsa is named in his honor for his work with the Tulsa Parks and Recreation Department. Vaughn was born in Kansas but raised in Cushing. KTUL-DT2 is the Comet-affiliated second digital subchannel of KTUL, broadcasting in standard definition on channel 8.2. 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. She said she had to downsize the last time she changed residences, so she gave some Santas away and has stopped accumulating them. Rengel's work for local magazines led to a story on the booming housing market. You can cancel at any time. Your California Privacy Rights / Privacy Policy. KTUL-DT5 is the Charge!-affiliated fifth digital subchannel of KTUL, broadcasting in letterboxed standard definition on channel 8.5. The story led to donations totaling over $1,000, allowing for Peterson to be flown to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota for surgery. After he left Channel 8, friends recruited Ziegenhorn to the insurance industry. My job was in mortal jeopardy, she wrote. KTUL launched a digital subchannel on virtual channel 8.5 on March 1, 2021. Other inductees are former Tulsa news anchors Clayton Vaughn and Bob Hower, and Carl Smith, a former Tulsa radio general manager who is the hall of fame's chief executive. Tulsa Gold and Silver is a jewelry, coin and bouillon merchant. But the forbidden snack helped her sleep like a baby. "Instead of going into, 'Well, I haven't been on TV in a year and a half,' I just say thanks," Ziegenhorn said, laughing. You massage data to come up with a result, whether it's for TV or to build benefit packages.". The station preempted the Sunday edition of ABC World News Tonight until September 2002, in favor of airing infomercials in the half-hour between its local early evening newscast and ABC's Sunday night lineup. 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]. Soon, she moved to Tulsa's KJRH Channel 2. "So, if you have children, it gets harder and harder to say, 'I'll be there to take you to cheerleading practice.'. He, along with former anchors Glenda Silvey,. An exhibit featuring memorabilia from Roy Clark's life and career soon will be on display at Church Studio. I like that real pretty little blonde.. A lady in a focus group suggested her earrings were too big. He would deliver a 15-minute broadcast four times a week. 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. Clark decided to make Tulsa his ho, In an interview with the Tulsa World in January, Pioneer Woman founder Ree Drummond said the renovations were necessitated by the venue's succ, The pop star - who was born Katheryn Hudson - was sued for trademark infringement by Australian fashion designer Katie Taylor. You have permission to edit this article. Once Russ was promoted to the evening newscast, though, life at home became hectic. Amy Avery Ashley Izbicki Brian Dorman Chinh Doan Craig Day Dave Davis Jonathan Cooper LeAnne Taylor Lori Fullbright Shannon Rousseau Tess Maune Same thing in sales - you don't want to sell something shoddy, just like you don't want to give a bad forecast. Oklahoma Sports Moments: Nebraska 7, Oklahoma 3 - 1988, Oklahoma's Sports Moments: Jason White Highlights (Part 2), Vigil Held At Henryetta High School Gym For Okmulgee County Victims, Gov. (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. [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.