24 at 6 pm. The first time I was put to the test was as a senior in high school in Wichita Falls, Texas. 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. She sang with the New Christy Minstrels traveling all over the United States. She has been with Tulsa, Oklahoma's KTUL for almost six years and is a beloved personality in the local community. Those three clichs have driven many of my life choices in family and in several careers. Former Tulsa news anchor arrested after possible meth found (2012-08-21) 7,005 views Jan 4, 2018 10 Dislike Share Save The Oklahoman Video Archive 8.32K subscribers A former Tulsa. 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. 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. Beth Rengel, through some. 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. 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. March 18, 2022 | 2:31 pm EDT by Kevin Eck, TVSpy | [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. Suess with elementary school kids. "Longtime Tulsa audiences will fondly remember when Scott and Lisa anchored together. 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. 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. The station broadcasts its digital signal on VHF channel 8, using its former analog channel assignment of 2 as its . On July 9, the FCC denied the protest petitions were invalid as the grant was handed down after a hearing. Quotation [12] = "'has handed in his resignation, according to FTVLive.com' - TVNewser" June 30, 2015 | 7:42 am EDT by TVNewsCheck. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it. function showQuotation(){document.write(Quotation[whichQuotation]);} [37] KTUL radio (which, as of 2017[update] under the KTBZ calls, is now owned by iHeartMedia) was sold to the Wichita Falls, Texasbased Texoma Broadcasting Companya group co-owned by Raymond Ruff and Charles A. Sammons that, in compliance with a since-repealed FCC rule that prohibited separately owned radio and television stations based in the same city from sharing the same base call letters, changed its calls to KELI after the sale was finalizedfor $450,000 in July 1961; the Griffin-Leake interests retained ownership of KTUL-TV. [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. During the heyday of CBS .more. I retired about 10 years too late he said. United States, Beth Rengel is a speaker and author of Anchored in Illusion. Our mission is to keep Oklahomans Safe Informed and Entertained. [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. 8; FCC Proposes Still More Shifts", "TV Rulemaking Pleas On Shifts Flood FCC", "KTVX Boosts Power to 316,000 Watts Sharpens Reception in Four States", "At Deadline: FCC Papers Fly on Vacation Eve", "KTUL-TV application hits stumbling block", "Griffin, Leake plan to split up holdings", "Tulsa station sold to owners of city's KWTV", "Allbritton Communications Co. said Thursday it will acquire ownership", "WMAL-TV fetches $100 million, trading record", "Allbritton Plans Trade of WMAL-TV In Effort to Save Star", "Allbritton deal twists slowly in the wind", "Allbritton deal again clears FCC; court appeal is still a hang-up", "Local TV Stations Plan Shared Newsbreaks", "KTUL Starts 24-Hour Schedule; Adds Late Movie", "Disney in Talks to Buy WJLA; ABC Would Take Over Allbritton's Television Empire", "KTUL channel 8 unveils newly expanded newsroom and weather center", "Allbritton to sell 7 TV stations, including WJLA, to Sinclair for $985 million", "KTUL television station sold to Sinclair Group", "Sinclair Buying Allbritton Stations For $985M", "Sinclair Agrees to Buy Allbritton for $985 Million", "Letter to Sinclair and Allbritton legal counsel", "Sinclair Proposes Surrendering Three Licenses to Get Allbritton Deal Done", "Sinclair Giving Up 3 Stations To Appease FCC", "APPLICATION FOR CONSENT TO ASSIGNMENT OF BROADCAST STATION CONSTRUCTION PERMIT OR LICENSE", "Howard Stirk Holdings Grabs WCIV for $50,000", "FCC Okays Modified Sinclair-Allbritton Deal", "KTUL sale approved by federal regulators", "KTUL adds 24-hour weather station on Cox digital cable", "KTUL Tulsa, OK, Adding Retro TV Network", "John Chick: Ups and downs of live programs", "Happy Trails // Uncle Zeb Hanging Up His Hat After More Than 4,000 Shows", "Memorial service today for KTUL's Uncle Zip", "Kimmel tops Letterman in first night in earlier time slot", "Good Morning, Again // 'Saturday Edition' Preempts Cartoons in Favor of -- Gulp! As other Allbritton-owned ABC stations did with the series, KTUL aired the Power Rangers series anduntil it was dropped by the network in September 2006Kim Possible on the pre-sunrise tape delay due to their lack of educational content; for similar reasons, it preempted Power Rangers outright from September 2006 until the program was dropped by ABC on August 28, 2010. During that time, Walls was also freelancing for. Klein's imminent exit was first reported by FTVLive' - NY Times"; The Griffin-owned group saw competition crop up for the channel 8 permit over the next two years. Chung came into the limelight as the first woman to co-anchor "CBS. Quotation [16] = " 'FTVLive.com a website I go too often for the latest news about the TV business (you should, too!)' As a result she was chosen to be part of the Miss America USO Show and toured parts of Europe entertaining the troopes. For ten years, Carl Bartholemew hosted the show playing the titular gruff senior in the similarly formatted cartoon showcase, who was accompanied an array of rural characters including "Uncle Zip" (played by Dick Van Dera, who hosted a short-lived spinoff series, Uncle Zip's Do-Da-Day), "Uncle Zeke" (played by Al Clauser, who previously served as the puppeteer and voice of B.J. Get News On 6 delivered to your inbox everyday. 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! On November 3, 1982, Leake Industries sold KTUL and KATV to Washington, D.C.-based Allbritton Communications in an all-cash transaction for $80 million; the sale received FCC approval on February 14, 1983. Longtime Tulsa audiences will fondly remember [], April 3, 2017 | 3:25 pm EDT by TVNewsCheck. Contest. For a spy may be lurking. Photo courtesy KJRH Channel 2. KTUL (channel 8) is a television station in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States, affiliated with ABC and owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group. Quotation[9] = "'FTVLive.com Scooped Everyone With News' - About.com "; // pattern, adding to the array. The talk show that replaced it, Jimmy Kimmel Live! 5422. Inducted into the Ponca City Pioneer Woman Museum for broadcasting. [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 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. [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. On Wednesday to. 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. Stewart has been the stations interim news director for the past month, replacing Mike McCardel. This streak as the perennial leader in the Tulsa television market ended in 1999, when KOTV overtook KTUL as the area's most-watched television station. The earlier charges pertaining to KTVX's transmitter location resurfaced that April, when KOTV owner General Television and KVOO-TV parent Central Plains Enterprises filed complaints requesting that FCC force KTVX to cease representing itself as a Tulsa station at the time, channel 8 identified as such or as a Muskogee-Tulsa station in on-air and print promotions or face an agency hearing. Michelle Linn is proud to be part of the longest-tenured morning anchor team in Tulsa. Chinh anchor weekend evenings and report weekdays. Of course, we need not forget the ones who just changed stations or had some legal problems. 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. Kitchen Design by Beth Rengel front cover of Better Homes and Gardens Country Kitchen Magazine. [110] During its early years, the station maintained a fleet of 15 vehicles and two airplanes for aerial and ground-level newsgathering. She went on to become a successful opera singer in Europe. Meet the News Team. KTUL-DT4 is the TBD-affiliated fourth digital subchannel of KTUL, broadcasting in letterboxed standard definition on channel 8.4. KFOR 10pm News Team from the Left, Mike Morgan, Kevin Ogle, Joleen Chaney, Brian Brinkley, Adan Snider. On cable, KTUL-DT2 is available on Cox Communications channel 74. One of channel 8's most popular program hosts was John Chick, who joined the station (then KTVX) in 1955. 6 hours agoDuring a press conference on Thursday morning city leaders revealed more details of the deadly incident. As a teenager who still had my sight at that time, the photos and video images of Beth Rengel immediately informed me and everyone else in town that this was not going to be your typical, gray-haired, middle-aged guy. December 6, 2013 | 2:55 pm EST by TVNewsCheck, Tulsa News Today | This announcement is really bittersweet for me Hood said. Read Full. if(window.ImageLoader) window.ImageLoader.bootstrap({}, document);Squarespace.afterBodyLoad(Y). Kotv Names New Anchor For Six In The Morning Archive Tulsaworld Com. STEPHEN PINGRY/Tulsa World STEPHEN PINGRY. Quotation [15] = " 'FTVLive Reported the Story First'- NY Times" )[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. 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. KTUL-DT5 is the Charge!-affiliated fifth digital subchannel of KTUL, broadcasting in letterboxed standard definition on channel 8.5. Tulsa Channel 6 News Team. 9 hours agoThursday June 2nd 2022 1056 am. Visit the post for more. Quotation [20] = " ' first published by the website FTVLive' - The Hill" 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. [75] On September 7, 2004, channel 8 became the first Tulsa station to debut a late afternoon newscast at 4:00p.m.; the half-hour program would bounce within that hour in later years, first moving to 4:30p.m. on September 8, 2008, then being shifted back to its original timeslot on September 7, 2010. 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