Meet FOX Weather's Jason Frazer. Bluejay on the station's iteration of The Bozo the Clown Show in the late 1950s) and "Cousin Zack" (played by Kent Doll) and featured various in-studio games in which a select member of the audience of around a dozen local children participated in between the three cartoon shorts. Tulsa news 6 anchors. Reinventing is what she has done her whole life. She is working as a news anchor and reporter for KOTV-The News On 6 in Tulsa from January 2020. The station broadcasts its digital signal on VHF channel 8, using its former analog channel assignment of 2 as its . Neile Jones, a veteran journalist of over two decades, announced she is stepping back from broadcast journalism at the end of this year. Loving also aired mid-mornings on a one-day delay until September 1990, when the station replaced it with the hour-long version of The Home Show; KTUL preempted ABC's half-hour soap operas (Loving, The City and finally, Port Charles) until the network ceded the 12:30p.m. Central Time slot to its affiliates in October 2003. 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. 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. Thompson came to KJRH in August, 2017, after 28 years across the street KOTV in Tulsa. _taboola.push({flush: true}); "His friendships, along with his knowledge of the people, government and state of Oklahoma make him an excellent addition and the perfect person to deliver the . var Quotation=new Array() // do not change this! Network management backed off its pressure after owner Jimmy Leake informed Rule about The John Chick Show's high ratings locally. [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. 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. ;) ;) Patrick 08-03-2004, 12:57 AM News Sport Region Music Person Profession Crypto Do you want to stay up to date of all the news about Tulsa. 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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). Chinh anchor weekend evenings and report weekdays. It was over a decade ago when I received a call at my office requesting an appointment for a meeting with Beth Rengel. (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.) 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. KJRH Channel 2 announced today that two veterans news anchors, Scott Thompson and Lisa Jones, will become co-anchors again during the 4:30 a.m. to 7 a.m. weekday newscast. The station also did not carry the network's daytime talk shows: Home and, throughout their entire respective runs, its successors, Mike and Maty and Caryl & Marilyn: Real Friends were not carried between September 1992 and August 1997, while The View was preempted from its debut in August 1997 until September 2000, when KTUL began clearing the program in its regular timeslot. Viewers even sent in requests for their own Gusty drawings, with Woods holding on-air drawings selecting a viewer who would win one. Quotation[7] = "'FTVLive Delivers some of the TV World's Biggest Scoops' - Tonawanda News "; Scott Thompson and Lisa Jones will co-anchor 2 Works for You Today weekdays from 4:30 to 7 a.m. beginning Aug. 14. 3655 East 67th Street Since she announced she is leaving KTUL, regular viewers have had a lot of questions. The passage of time is often difficult to grasp. Let's take a look back at TV broadcasters over the years and see how they have changed. TULSA Oklahoma AP A police captain says multiple people have been shot at a Tulsa medical building on a hospital campus and some. 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. We are Oklahomas Own News On 6. 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! Tulsa OK 74103 918-732-6000 Meet the Team. However, many are unclear on the best way . in a business suit delivering the news each night. The first two personalities at the station were news anchor Jack Morris and meteorologist Don Woods, with sports director Hal O'Halloran joining . In recent years, KTUL has traditionally ranked second in terms of total day news viewership, behind CBS affiliate KOTV. After submitting a second relocation request eight months earlier on January 18, the FCC granted the reassignment of the KTVX license and its accompanying VHF channel 8 allocation to Tulsa on August 2, 1957. 14 hours agoThursday June 2nd 2022 555 am. KTUL ABC 8 provides local and national news, sports, weather and notice of community events in Tulsa, Oklahoma and surrounding towns including Broken Arrow, Owasso . Those three clichs have driven many of my life choices in family and in several careers. 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. Kitchen Design by Beth Rengel front cover of Better Homes and Gardens Country Kitchen Magazine. August 21, 2019 | 6:38 am EDT by Mark Miller, July 28, 2017 | 8:32 am EDT by Mark K. Miller, 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. TULSA Former television newsman Robert Joffe has filed an $11 million lawsuit against KOTV-Channel 6 and its news anchor Clayton Vaughn claiming his firing was due to false accusations he is homosexual. 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). 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. CLAYTON Vaughns distinguished 35-year career as a Tulsa TV news anchor ended in 1998 when he retired from KOTV-6. Quotation[0] = "'Mr. [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. 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. In April 1969, Griffin-Leake TV announced that it would break up its holdings into two separate companies. 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. She has been with Tulsa, Oklahoma's KTUL for almost six years and is a beloved personality in the local community. (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. For a spy may be lurking. At that same time, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, there were billboards, commercials, and media announcements about a new broadcaster coming to town named Beth Rengel. [104][105] In September 1995, when the station cut back its Saturday morning newscast to an hour-long broadcast at 7a.m., channel 8 resumed carriage of the network's Saturday morning lineup, when it began airing four hours of the Saturday cartoon lineup from 8a.m. to noon; it began clearing the entire lineup again in 1997. Jonathans family lives in Owasso but he loves Oklahoma and spends quality time here. The subchannel is not currently available on Cox Communications in the Tulsa market. // to increment the Quotation[x] index! (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. Voss and James Kite for $3 million. 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. Meet the News Team. "Rich has strong ties to Oklahoma," said Bill Perry, vice president of local content, OETA. By FOX23.com News Staff October 20, 2021 at 3:00 pm CDT. Prior to joining The News On 6 news, Chinh worked as an anchor and reporter for KETV in Omaha from August 2013 to January 2020. Kotv Names New Anchor For Six In The Morning Archive Tulsaworld Com. "I was fired by KOTV after Clayton Vaughn told management at Channel 6 that the man who cuts his hair, Mark Bogatay, had a . Connie Chung turns 70 on August 20th. 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. Max Defender 8 Live. "Longtime Tulsa audiences will fondly remember when Scott and Lisa anchored together. )[75] In January 2013, the station changed its branding to "Tulsa's Channel 8". Local News. Lori Fullbright, Tess Maune, Brain Dorman, Chinh Doan, Amy Kauffman, Jonathan Cooper, Ashley Izbicki, Dave Davis, Shannon Rousseau are among the popular names in News On 6. Change this Tulsa from January 2020 news viewership, behind CBS affiliate KOTV call at office... 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