5422. James C. "Jimmy" Leake who had moved from being a 3.5% minority partner in KTUL to half-owner as a result of the earlier investor divestitures retained ownership of KATV, KTUL, Ponca City-based cable television operator Cable TV Co. and a controlling 80% interest in the construction permit for Fajardo, Puerto Rico television station WSTE (now WORO-DT), while Griffin retained ownership of KWTV under the licensee Century Communications Co. (Griffin's company, which eventually became Griffin Communications, would re-enter the Tulsa market when it purchased KOTV in October 2000. Eric Burns is the host of Fox News Watch, which airs Saturdays at 6:30 p.m. ET/3:30 p.m. PT and Sundays at 1:30 a.m. ET/10:30 p.m. PT . AVENTURA, Fla. - Local 10 News is saddened to report that Jilda Unruh, a former Local 10 News anchor and reporter, has died. 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]. var Q = Quotation.length; Contest. Tracking the Tropics. Bob Hower wrote 1921 Tulsa Race Riot: The American Red Cross-Angels of Mercy Jack Morris and Don Woods from 1959 TV Guide, courtesy of Ed Colton Jack was elected to the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame in 1974. 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]). Since she announced she is leaving KTUL, regular viewers have had a lot of questions. Quotation [17] = " 'An insider newsy website' - Hoda Kotb" Quotation [19] = " 'FTVLive.com, a prominent television industry website' - Lexington Herald Leader" 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. She was 65. Beth Rengel, through sometrials and tribulations, proved to her colleagues and everyone at home watching her on television that she was much more than a pretty face. (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. That is the feeling I have today as I celebrate my 30th . 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. Quotation[4] = "'FTVLive a TV news website that is often on the money' - LA Times"; Kitchen Design by Beth Rengel front cover of Better Homes and Gardens Country Kitchen Magazine. // Do not change anything below this line [90] The subchannel became an affiliate of Antenna TV on January 1, 2016, through a groupwide agreement between Sinclair and the network's owner, Tribune Broadcasting (which Sinclair would purchase in May 2017), that was spurred in part by the network's episode library acquisition of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.[91][92]. Once again, she decided to try something else, residential real estate and was named Rookie of the Year. Quotation[6] = "'The site that everyone that works in TV News turns to' - NPR "; Fox 5 Las Vegas morning weekday anchor and reporter Feven Kiflegiorgis was busted nude and . function showQuotation(){document.write(Quotation[whichQuotation]);} Beth Rengel, through some. Photo courtesy KJRH Channel 2. We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. Turner and Dulaney would then sell the equipment, valued at $2.3 million, to First National Bank of Oklahoma City executives C.A. United States, Beth Rengel is a speaker and author of Anchored in Illusion. [65][66][67][68][69], On January 6, 1992, channel 8 began maintaining a 24-hour-a-day programming schedule on Sunday through Fridays, adding a mix of syndicated feature films and the ABC overnight news program World News Now to fill overnight timeslots (the station continued to sign-off from 2:00 to 5:00a.m. on Saturday night/early Sunday mornings until January 1999). Those three clichs have driven many of my life choices in family and in several careers. Tulsa Broadcasting executives ultimately decided that it would be too risky for apply for a television license at that point, even though the study results and Alvarez herself suggested that the company file an application as soon as possible.)[4][5]. His origin however is from Kansas City Mississippi. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); // ============================================== 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. Do you know where your children are?," to open a late local newscast (shortly predating its ascension to iconic status when it was used by Tom Gregory at New York City independent station WNEW-TV [now Fox owned-and-operated station WNYW] beginning in 1967). Tulsa, OK FOX23 Tulsa announced the promotion of longtime FOX23 News Reporter and Weekend Evening Anchor Sara Whaley to the position of . // ====================================== She went on to become a successful opera singer in Europe. 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. Anchor and special projects reporter Jacqueline Fernandez joins the 6 News anchor desk weekdays for First at 4 and . Industry . (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. Remember 45-year-old Michael Louis went to the Natalie Building around 450 pm. 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). Preston Phillips second from left served as team doctor for the WNBAs Tulsa Shock. 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. The story led to donations totaling over $1,000, allowing for Peterson to be flown to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota for surgery. Find anchors, reporters and more KOCO 5 News staff members. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition VHF channel 10. 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. 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. Exclusive: Victims of former Waterbury mayor open 1 hour ago. 3655 East 67th Street Tampa Weather Radar. Griffin and the Leakes would own approximately all of the common voting stock and collectively own 84% of nonvoting common shares in KATV Inc. post-merger, with 10% of the remaining nonvoting interest held by Edgar Bell (who would remain executive vice president and general manager at KWTV). As a true entertainer, Beth can make you laugh and cry with her stories of success and failure. Twitter | (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. [7] Over time, Tulsa Broadcasting's competitors for the permit withdrew their respective applications. A former Tulsa TV news anchor was arrested on a drug complaint late Sunday night after officers searched his pickup truck following a traffic. Tulsa Police Chief Wendall Franklin said detectives believe over the course of 13 days a man went from needing back surgery to. Get News On 6 delivered to your inbox everyday. in a business suit delivering the news each night. Voss and James Kite for $3 million. 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. )[75] In January 2013, the station changed its branding to "Tulsa's Channel 8". We are Oklahomas Own News On 6. 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. In September 2014, KTUL pushed both Kimmel and Nightline (which had their broadcast order on ABC's late-night schedule switched by the network in January 2013) ahead a half-hour, starting at 11:07p.m., per a request by the network that the station air both programs at earlier times; KTUL would start carrying Kimmel and Nightline in their recommended timeslots in January 2019. September 6, 2022 | 7:19 am EDT by Armando Tinoco, TVSpy | The subchannel is not currently available on Cox Communications in the Tulsa market. [136][137] On May 6, 2012, the station premiered Ford Sports Xtra, a sports highlight and discussion show that aired Sunday nights after the late-evening newscast, which focused primarily on college athletics and professional sports around Oklahoma; the program replaced You Make the Call, a sports call-in and discussion program that debuted on the station on September 6, 1998. Trying to visualize myself as a blind person fitting in anywhere just didnt seem to work. Tuesday, August 21st 2012, 9:51 am. Residents of Tulsa, Oklahoma are saddened to hear that Keith Taylor, an anchor on KTUL-TV, is leaving Good Morning Oklahoma and the station. 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. 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. 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. )[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. After nearly a year of delays, Sinclair's deal to acquire Allbritton was approved by the FCC on July 24, 2014, and was completed on August 1, 2014. showQuotation(); 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). STEPHEN PINGRY/Tulsa World STEPHEN PINGRY. Both KTUL and KGCT restored over-the-air service later that week after the stations rented a portable temporary tower brought in from Florida. 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! (A sale of any of the affected Allbritton properties to a separate buyer was not an option for Sinclair, as Allbritton wanted its stations to be sold together to limit the tax rate that the company would have had to pay from the accrued proceeds, which it estimated would have been substantially higher if the group was sold piecemeal; Sinclair sold most of the conflict outlets to Howard Stirk Holdings on the pretense that it would forego entering into operational agreements with Sinclair.)[80][81][82][83][84]. Local News. Quotation[2] = "'The story first broke on FTVLive.com' - AP"; 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. 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