"Then, get home in time to go 90-to-nothing, taking my kids to their activities.". They are curious if she is retiring from the field and if she will continue to reside in Tulsa. Walls now lives in Arlington, Va., and works in Washington, D.C. 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. Get News On 6 delivered to your inbox everyday. sharing the stories, pictures and loves of Oklahomans across our great state. During that time, Walls was also freelancing for ESPN, ESPN II and Prime Sports Network. Keith was director of communications and community relations for Mayor Lafortune's office. 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. You massage data to come up with a result, whether it's for TV or to build benefit packages.". You can opt-out at any time. Same thing in sales - you don't want to sell something shoddy, just like you don't want to give a bad forecast. She loves anchoring FOX23 News This Morning from 4:30 to 9am weekdays, alongside Ron Terrell. 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. 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. 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. Emmy award-winning and veteran TV journalist Dan Rascon is the weekend anchor for KSL-TV (NBC) in Salt Lake City. [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. Having been a household name certainly doesn't hinder Rengel in Tulsa's real estate market. "During football season, someone asked me who was covering a game and if I would be there. Anderson said that he sees more of his family and relishes his more regular hours. "Knowing so much about the history and where we came from and where we are now, and to see the man, who in my opinion set the tone for people like me to be in this newsroom, I mean it means a lot to me," Holloway says. [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. He would deliver a 15-minute broadcast four times a week. She eventually anchored the morning show, which at that time was Good Morning Oklahoma. [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. Women would be added to the newsroom along the way. [124][125][126] Subsequently, during a January 2013 GMO broadcast, weekday morning meteorologist Andrew Kozak (a former meteorologist at KOKI-TV, who worked at channel 8 from June 2012 to September 2014) hand-drew the weather forecast after a computer that supplied its weather graphics crashed. 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. Rengel's work for local magazines led to a story on the booming housing market. "What I liked most about being in television was meeting a wide variety of people," Bowers said. 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KTUL viewers wanted to know why she is leaving and if she has another job in the works. 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. 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. In 1969, he began a 17-year stint as news anchor at KTUL-8. Right now . She covered news from weather to sports to local issues. "So I called and said I knew someone for the job - me. "Dad was a very, very fair person," said Kelly Ogle, a 6 and 10 p.m. co-anchor at KWTV-9. Jones, an author and domestic abuse survivor, is not going to be back on screens anytime soon. "Zig" encounters Tulsans who think he's still the TV sports guy. "It's a great way for me to be a reporter - to get the message out.". (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 turn, the three Griffin-Leake stations would be folded into a single corporate umbrella under KATV parent licensee KATV Inc. (subsequently rechristened as Griffin-Leake TV), which would enter into a ten-year equipment leasing agreement with Voss and Kite for a total of $4.5 million (or $37,500 per month). You can cancel at any time. Lazalier took "two tours of duty" in the weather office at KJRH Channel 2, first from 1984 to 1989, and again from 1995 to 2002. Find out more a. 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. ", Mike Anderson Then: Meteorologist on KOTV Channel 6 and KJRH Channel 2 Now: Coin collecting expert and enthusiast, Tulsa Gold and Silver in Tulsa. The audience judges you by how you wear your hair.. Be among the first to get breaking news, weather, and general news updates from News on 6 delivered right to your inbox! RELIGION - ETHICS - VALUES. 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. Maybe some of those moms wanted to trade places with her so they could wear the big earrings and the nice clothes. Keith heard about an opening in Mayor Bill LaFortune's office. TOP LOCAL STORIES. "Sun Up," KOTV's first-morning show started in 1957. 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. Chance of rain 80%.. In April 1969, Griffin-Leake TV announced that it would break up its holdings into two separate companies. According to jail records, a Tulsa. Neile Jones, the daughter of award-winning journalist Sam Jones, grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and graduated from Booker T. Washington High School. The most notable experience during Liz's broadcasting career is the May 22, 2011 tornado in Joplin. Gone in Tulsa May 28, 2019 / Scott Jones KJRH Morning Anchor Scott Thompson has left the Scripps station after less than two years on the job. 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. 200. The idea of whats right changes from one news consultant or one boss to another. VIDEO: A farewell message from longtime FOX23 Anchor Clay Loney. High 63F. 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KFOR 10pm News Team from the Left, Mike Morgan, Kevin Ogle, Joleen Chaney, Brian Brinkley, Adan Snider. It was a refurbished bread truck that was basically a TV station on wheels. Between Baton Rouge and Tulsa, she turned down an opportunity to be in the soap opera Guiding Light.. (renews at {{format_dollars}}{{start_price}}{{format_cents}}/month + tax). In recent years, KTUL has traditionally ranked second in terms of total day news viewership, behind CBS affiliate KOTV. 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. A post shared by Neile Jones (@neilejones). An exhibit featuring memorabilia from Roy Clark's life and career soon will be on display at Church Studio. Isbell is recognized from time to time. In 2003, Rengel was commended as rookie of the year at McGraw Davisson. Deb McCaskey Then: Anchor/reporter on KJRH News Channel 2 Now: Recruiting specialist at Key Personnel in Tulsa. [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]. ", Keith Isbell Then: Anchor, reporter and sportscaster on KJRH News Channel 2 Now: Chief communications officer at Broken Arrow Public Schools in Broken Arrow, At KJRH, Keith Isbell loved working with people, "first and foremost. Steve Largent is the company's CEO and president. "I've never not been doing something with a TV station, at some level," White said. You have permission to edit this article. She found her way to the Tulsa Convention & Visitors Bureau, 2 W. Second St., Ste. [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. The purchase marked the second time in which Allbritton acquired a television station in Oklahoma; as Washington Star Communications, in March 1977, the company attempted to purchase fellow ABC affiliate KOCO-TV in Oklahoma City in a trade deal with the Combined Communications Corporation for the Star's Washington D.C. flagship station WMAL-TV (now WJLA-TV) and approximately $65 million in Combined nonvoting stock to offset monetary losses of the company's then-namesake newspaper The Washington Star; that deal was terminated weeks after Star Communications' February 1978 sale of the Star newspaper to Time Inc.[54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63][64], On December 26, 1987, the Coweta transmitter facility (which was used by independent station KGCT-TV [channel 41, now MyNetworkTV affiliate KMYT-TV] and several local radio stations to house their transmitters at the time) collapsed due to heavy freezing rain, caused by a major ice storm over the Christmas weekend that affected much of northeastern Oklahoma; at least 500,000 pounds (226,796kg) of ice had accumulated on the tower. newscast). Im finished with the picket fences. Cursing on the air, in a city described as the buckle of the Bible belt, could have spelled the end of Rengels career. ", "I liked working with and for Al Jerkins when I was in sports," he said. Keith's career in news started with an internship at KTUL Channel 8. 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. CORY YOUNG/Tulsa World Cory Young Jimmie Tramel KJRH channel 2 announced Thursday that 2 Works for You is. "You have to go where the story is," Bowers said. Rascon has traveled the country and world for nearly 30 years, capturing some of the most compelling, heart-wrenching, and inspiring stories. She's covered everything from. Also Read: Dave Wagner Leaving KIRO 7: The Seattle Journalist Announces Retirement. White picket fence equals happiness, right? [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. Liz began her career in Joplin, Mo. On May 30, 1992, KTUL launched the market's first weekend morning newscast when it debuted a Saturday edition of GMO from 8:00 to 10:00a.m., taking over part of the timeslot that the station had previously allotted to ABC's children's cartoon lineup (the newscast would be reduced to one hour starting at 7:00a.m. by September 1995, where the Saturday broadcast would remain until it was discontinued in September 2000; as a result, KTUL is currently the Tulsa market's only Big Four affiliate without a newscast on weekend mornings, since KOTV launched weekend editions of its Six in the Morning broadcast in March 2015). 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. 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. What that usually means is you are off the air. 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). Voss and James Kite for $3 million. ), 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. 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]). The subchannel carried local forecast segments presented by meteorologists from the station's "First Alert Weather" team (which were recorded and updated up to three times per day); local, regional and national weather information updated via a computer automation on both the channel's main screen and an on-screen "L"-shaped ticker; and periodic live feeds of the station's Doppler radar system (then branded as "First Alert Doppler 8000"), accompanied by audio from Tulsa-based NOAA Weather Radio station KIH27. Rengel enjoys her new work, though it is rife with challenges. "We were watching Channel 6 Doppler Pathfinder Radar and we feel like that's what saved our lives," said a tornado survivor in the 90's. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition VHF channel 10. Our Lobby Hours. He is .more #8 of 50 The Most Trustworthy Newscasters on TV Today #23 of 51 The Best Regular Guests on Morning Joe #22 of 30 Famous Model Train Hobbyists 6 KTUL-DT5 is the Charge!-affiliated fifth digital subchannel of KTUL, broadcasting in letterboxed standard definition on channel 8.5. I couldnt sleep. Judy Pryor anchored on "Sun Up" and Georgia Jones on the Noon news. "I needed a change. She traded the TV life to be an entrepreneur. Born Mae Beth Cormany, Rengel said she grew up poor in south Texas residences that lacked air conditioning but not mosquitoes. She had to get past a pageant girl stigma and pay dues as a TV reporter in Baton Rouge. ", From helping employers with job fairs, events and referral programs, McCaskey said she loves "getting to know more people on a business level. Rengel lost weight, but she went to bed hungry. 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. As a co-anchor at KTUL channel 8, Rengel was part of a juggernaut TV news crew that included co-anchor Bob Hower, sportscaster Chris Lincoln and beloved meteorologist/Gusty artist Don Woods. Isbell reported news and sports at KJRH from 1991 to 2001. Former Tulsa TV news anchor Beth Rengel's book "Anchored in Illusion" can be purchased at bethrengel.com. He and Bob Barry Sr. broadcast University of Oklahoma football and basketball games from 1962 to 1972 on WKY-AM 930. 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. Be sure to research other towns near you to get the records of more service providers. Im finished with trying to be skinny and tan. Jimmy Kimmel Live! [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.