Be among the first to get breaking news, weather, and general news updates from News on 6 delivered right to your inbox! I cover pop culture and work as a feature writer at the Tulsa World. 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 story led to donations totaling over $1,000, allowing for Peterson to be flown to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota for surgery. Being able to interact with people ties his TV experience to his work at The Holmes Organization. KWTV - NEWS 9 - A former Tulsa TV news anchor was arrested - Facebook [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. Please refer to our. Lambert's tenure as segment host saw her be honored, through nomination by now-former U.S. Representative Brad Carson, with a 2004 "Angels in Adoption" award by the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute. Meanwhile, Rengels meal was something liked a boiled piece of chicken served atop lettuce. "I run my own practice," he said. She loves anchoring FOX23 News This Morning from 4:30 to 9am weekdays, alongside Ron Terrell. She consistently has been ranked in the top 10 percent of realtors there, she said. Liz began her career in Joplin, Mo. Deb McCaskey Then: Anchor/reporter on KJRH News Channel 2 Now: Recruiting specialist at Key Personnel in Tulsa. But they were just seeing the facade. KTVX assumed the rights to the ABC affiliation from KCEB, whose demise is directly linked to KTVX's sign-on; ABC's decision to move its programming full-time to channel 8 as well as the pending operational wind-down of the DuMont Television Network (a non-viable fourth network that itself would soon fold in August 1956) ended Beck's hopes to make his station viable, leaving him little choice but to shut down channel 23 on December 4, 1954. "And through word of mouth and referrals, we continue to be busy.". Former Tulsa TV Anchor Arrested On Meth Complaint - NewsOn6.com Read Full. (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.) I couldnt sleep. "Then, get home in time to go 90-to-nothing, taking my kids to their activities.". Tulsa News Team | News, Weather, Sports, Breaking News | KTUL In the 1970s, KTUL was also one of several ABC affiliates that chose to preempt the network's Sunday morning cartoon rerun block. Keeping our viewers safe, informed and entertained has been KOTV's mission for the past 70 years. "Instead of going into, 'Well, I haven't been on TV in a year and a half,' I just say thanks," Ziegenhorn said, laughing. She covered news from weather to sports to local issues. I like that real pretty little blonde.. Hudson, who. 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. STEPHEN PINGRY/Tulsa World, Former Tulsa TV news anchor Beth Rengel, whose autobiography is titled Anchored in Illusion, plays with her dogs on the patio of her home. ", From helping employers with job fairs, events and referral programs, McCaskey said she loves "getting to know more people on a business level. [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. 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. 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. It was a long, arduous process, chasing that illusion because what that judge may think is the perfect Miss Texas, this other judge may say, Oh no, shes too tall and skinny. KTUL (channel 8) is a television station in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States, affiliated with ABC and owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group. A news director once asked her, What do you think is the most important thing about a newscaster? Her answers delivery, believability, credibility were deemed incorrect. KJRH Anchor Dies After Collapsing - Tulsa News KOTV brought television to Tulsa in 1949. Dont give up, even in the aftermath of your most embarrassing moment. "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. Frustrated, Rengel uncorked a curse word. Michelle Linn is proud to be part of the longest-tenured morning anchor team in Tulsa. Welcome to KFOR-TV-DT the NBC Affiliate for Oklahoma City and surrounding areas. 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]. Longtime KOTV anchor Scott Thompson returns to TV on KJRH - Tulsa World