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Former Tulsa news anchor arrested after possible meth found (2012-08-21) The Oklahoman Video Archive 11.2K subscribers Subscribe 12 9.1K views 5 years ago A former Tulsa television news. Get up-to-the-minute news sent straight to your device. After retiring, Vaughn worked for the Historical Society. Meagan O'Halloran leaving FOX 31, Ashley Ryan takes her place Deb McCaskey Then: Anchor/reporter on KJRH News Channel 2 Now: Recruiting specialist at Key Personnel in Tulsa. Karen Hudson-Samuels, 68, a former anchor and news director of WGPR-TV . Professional Background CheckInformation on professionals, their work history and resumes. They converted the old International Harvester Dealership into one of the largest TV studios in the country. [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]. 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. During that time, Walls was also freelancing for. ", "As an anchor, you're tied to the desk," Rengel said. Also Read: Dave Wagner Leaving KIRO 7: The Seattle Journalist Announces Retirement. Please subscribe to keep reading. We were trying all kinds of things," remembers Vaughn. 800. After Woods retired from KTUL on March 3, 1989, he continued to work as a watercolor artist and drew Gusty on occasion; Woods even authored a book entitled The Gospel According to Gusty, and one of his Gusty drawings is currently housed at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., which received the drawing in 1970 as a representation of contemporary American art. The program would later evolve into Mr. Zing and Tuffy, after station director Wayne Johnson (who was promoted by KTUL management to serve as its production chief in 1970) conceived the idea for the costumed tiger character Tuffy; he was also joined by another costumed animal character, Shaggy Dog (played by Tom Ledbetter and later, Mike Denney). [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. Anderson moved to the morning show on KJRH Channel 2 in 1993. The owner of Tulsa Gold and Silver, 6357 E. 41st St., "started teaching me how to grade coins, figure out their value. Former Tulsa TV news anchor Beth Rengel's book "Anchored in Illusion" can be purchased at bethrengel.com. [70][71] In November 1992, the station began identifying as "Oklahoma's Channel 8" for general purposes and Oklahoma's News 8 for its local newscasts (adding the possessive "Oklahoma's" to the station's existing branding), introducing a logo featuring the station branding and gold serif "8" over an image of the state of Oklahoma. [122][123][104][105] The program made national news in 1995, when meteorologist Frank Mitchell (who would eventually serve as KTUL's chief meteorologist from 2005 to 2012) surprised his co-anchor and girlfriend, Teri Bowers (who joined KTUL alongside Mitchell in 1990 and remained with the station until 2006, serving most of her tenure alongside Mitchell on Good Morning Oklahoma, originally as the co-hosts of the Saturday edition and later on the weekday broadcasts), with a live, on-air wedding proposal. Sunday, November 24th 2019, 3:24 pm. Rengel lost weight, but she went to bed hungry. "I'm having such a great time. Lori Fullbright. "Obviously in today's world, it would never have happened that way but I was so so very happy that it did. Broadcasters selected for hall of fame - oklahoman.com 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. )[98][99], Another popular KTUL personality was Betty Boyd, a well-known personality at rival KOTV who was lured away to channel 8 in 1965 to host The Betty Boyd Show. 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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. Lazalier was attracted to the insurance and investment industries. He provides weekly forecasts for a local natural gas marketing firm's client newsletter, and he teaches a meteorology class at Tulsa Community College. During the suspension, she was eaten up with worry. [107][108][109] Another one of Morris' accomplishments at KTUL was the local television documentary The Five Civilized Tribes: Unfinished Journey, a one-hour documentary that took a look at the histories of Oklahoma's principal Native American tribes Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek and Seminole in the 19th century as illustrated through paintings, which won the prestigious Edward R. Murrow Award for "Best Television Documentary" in 1966. 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. The audience judges you by how you wear your hair.. KOTV Celebrates 70 Years Of Television In Tulsa. 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. And Karen Keith - they were all great people.". "Zig" encounters Tulsans who think he's still the TV sports guy. He is now a benefit planning specialist with the Tulsa-based Premier Advisors Group, 4111 S. Darlington, Ste. But they were just seeing the facade. 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). Cloudy with periods of light rain. 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. Whaley will. 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). Also an Emmy-winning journalist, Neile has a special place in T-Towns community because of her work. Shortly afterward, KTUL upgraded its transmission equipment to allow carriage of ABC programming in color; the station would later begin producing its local programming in color on February 21, 1967. KTUL-DT4 is the TBD-affiliated fourth digital subchannel of KTUL, broadcasting in letterboxed standard definition on channel 8.4. )[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. Walls decided no time was better than the present for a transition. James D. Watts Jr. 918-581-8478 The station's studios are located at Lookout Mountain (near South 29th West Avenue, west of Interstate 244) in southwestern Tulsa, and its transmitter is located on South 321st Avenue East, adjacent to the Muskogee Turnpike, in unincorporated southeastern Tulsa County (near Coweta). Smith, who started in radio as a salesman with Tulsa's KAKC in 1958, was sales manager and general manager at KRAV for many years, building it into one of Tulsa's most successful radio operations. 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. Clayton Vaughn joined Channel 6 in 1964. KOTV has always be a leader in weather coverage, pioneering Pathfinder, a storm tracking system to help save lives. Send Us A News Tip; Contact The Webmaster; . A clip of the segment was featured on several national news programs including Good Morning America and Anderson Cooper 360, the latter of which had its titular host refer to Kozak's segment as the "Best Forecast Ever". Dale recently visited our current newsroom. Isbell is recognized from time to time. Tulsa News Team | News, Weather, Sports, Breaking News | KTUL You can opt-out at any time. She was ready to take the baton and run with it. My job was in mortal jeopardy, she wrote. I like that real pretty little blonde.. But the forbidden snack helped her sleep like a baby. He is now at The Holmes Organization, 1350 S. Boulder Ave., Ste. About Us - NewsOn6.com A lady in a focus group suggested her earrings were too big. Mike "Zig" Ziegenhorn reported sports at KTUL for 17 years. Phone: 918-581-8389. "Three days ago, I found out I will no longer be working at Fox23 News with my LONGTIME teammates, who I love and are family to me," Alaniz posted Thursday on both her Facebook page and Twitter account. Frustrated, Rengel uncorked a curse word. "I can tell them that a certain aspect of their message won't get coverage," White said. They finished the newscast. [43][44][45][46][47][48], In 1963, the station applied to construct a new transmitter tower at a site two miles (3.2km) east of Coweta (approximately 10 miles [16km] northeast of the original transmitter site); approval of the application was delayed due to issues regarding issues concerning the sister station KATV's own later-dismissed application to relocate its transmitter from Pine Bluff to Little Rock, breaching an earlier promise to Pine Bluff civic officials not to move the transmitter outside of Jefferson County, Arkansas. [72][73] Negotiations between Disney and Allbritton broke down when the former dropped out of discussions to buy the stations the following month. Keith heard about an opening in Mayor Bill LaFortune's office. She left TV news 20 years ago and now is a Realtor with McGraw Realtors. She loves anchoring FOX23 News This Morning from 4:30 to 9am weekdays, alongside Ron Terrell. Bowers has been at the Oklahoma Aquarium, 300 Aquarium Drive in Jenks, since August. Lazalier still works with weather. "Then, get home in time to go 90-to-nothing, taking my kids to their activities.". Newson6.com is proud to provide Oklahomans with timely and relevant news and . Tulsa, OK (74129) Today. FOX23 Tulsa Breaking News. June 2019. She got a fresh start in a bigger market Atlanta and returned to Tulsa to complete a triple crown, serving tours of duty at KJRH and KOTV. (Bartholomew would later resurrect the Uncle Zeb character in 1990, when he revived Cartoon Camp as a local public access program on United Artists Cable's Tulsa system, running for seven additional years through much of the Tulsa system's ownership under TCI. This move led network president Elton Rule and other ABC executives to visit the station in 1976 to discuss why KTUL did not give clearance to the then-fledgling and fast-growing ABC morning show. I said, 'No, someone else from the station is going.'". In 1990, Walls moved to KOTV Channel 6. "So I called and said I knew someone for the job - me. Find out when Tulsa International Mayfest, Rooster Days, the Renaissance Festival at the Castle of Muskogee and many more are happening. Producing, Broadcast, Video, Journalism, New Media, HD Video, Non-linear Editing, Broadcast Reporter at KCTV / KSMO / Meredith Corporation, United Industries Corporation (Tulsa, OK), Rex Industrial Corp. dba WEJ-IT Fastening Systems (Tulsa, OK). We tell our clients' stories every day. KTUL (channel 8) is a television station in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States, affiliated with ABC and owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group. Interview with WGN's Larry Potash in Chicago, 9:45 a.m. June 21. Its your hair, the news director said. In 1990, Walls moved to KOTV Channel 6. I couldnt sleep. A Miss Astros contest (the winner became an ambassador for the Houston Astros professional baseball team) changed the course of her life. Rengels microphone troubles got fixed during the newscast, but Howers microphone went dead. October 2002 brought a sudden turn of events. KOTV Celebrates 70 Years Of Television In Tulsa - NewsOn6.com (Both programs, during their respective runs on the ABC Saturday morning lineup, were cleared by nearby ABC affiliates KAKE in Wichita and KODE-TV in Joplin; as both stations provide reasonable coverage within the northern fringes of the Tulsa market, they each served as the city's default home for the preempted ABC Kids programs. Tulsa, OK 74103. As producer, director and host of "The Waiting Child," he helped place 406 children with special needs in homes. Keith had worked at KJRH for 21 years when she decided she'd like to influence Tulsa in other ways. By default, Griffin decided to seek the channel 8 allocation in Muskogee (located 50.1 miles [80.6km] southeast of the city), the first channel allocation appropriated to northeastern Oklahoma for television use that was not assigned to the larger city of Tulsa and the nearest city within the market that had a channel allocation assigned to the VHF band. It was the only way I could feel good about it, she said. "If you do an interview with someone, you've got to be aggressive," he said. "As a realtor, you've got total freedom.". Rich Lenz Says Goodbye To News On 6 Former KOTV News On 6 Anchor, Hall-Of-Fame Journalist Clayton Vaughn Dies "It's a great way for me to be a reporter - to get the message out.". "You have to go where the story is," Bowers said. STEPHEN PINGRY/Tulsa World, Former Tulsa TV anchor Beth Rengel said writing a book about her life was difficult. Hill is a U.S. Army veteran and former police officer in Nashville who has appeared on such networks as CNN, HLN, Court TV and Fox News. Jimmy Kimmel Live! During that time, Walls was also freelancing for ESPN, ESPN II and Prime Sports Network. During her two years, she took on various roles, including weekend weather anchor, news anchor, reporter and sports sideline reporter. The idea of whats right changes from one news consultant or one boss to another. FOX eventually offered White a full-time position as a weekend anchor. [95][96][97], KTUL replaced Mr. Zing and Tuffy in 1969 with another children's program, Uncle Zeb's Cartoon Camp. Though she looked for TV jobs outside Tulsa, the partnership with Powell took hold. Throughout his 35-year tenure at the station, Woods drew Gusty live during his weather forecasts in a way that viewers could tell what the expected weather was by what Gusty was doing or wearing: as examples, he could be drawn waving flags and smiling for fair weather, holding an umbrella if rain was forecast or jumping in his "fraidy hole" for thunderstorms. On Friday, he quietly walked out the door for the last time. 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. According to jail records, a Tulsa. The local daytime program featured a mix of interviews with Tulsa area newsmakers, community affairs and women's topics; the program which ran until Boyd left channel 8 in 1980 to serve as the director of information for Tulsa Vo-Tech (now Tulsa Technology Center) helped KTUL reach first place among female viewers at a time when ABC had remained lagged in third place among the three national networks in the Nielsen ratings.[100]. White picket fence equals happiness, right? Tulsa Press Club (415 S. Boston Ave.) book signing, 5-7 p.m. June 16. "He didn't choose sides in a story. Thomas John Brokaw (; born February 6, 1940) is an American television journalist and author, best known for being the anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News for 22 years (1982-2004). The anchor's last show will be Friday as she heads for Sinclair's new evening edition of "The. Neile Jones, the daughter of award-winning journalist Sam Jones, grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and graduated from Booker T. Washington High School. news9.com Former Tulsa TV Anchor Arrested On Meth Complaint 1212 Jessica Powell, co-founder of Emerge Interactive Media at 3741 S. Peoria Ave., and White "had dreamed for three years about going into business together," White said. Isbell has been chief communications officer at Broken Arrow Public Schools, 601 S. Main St., since 2002. He reminisced about his time at KOTV and met current reporter, Joseph Holloway. 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. You massage data to come up with a result, whether it's for TV or to build benefit packages.". 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 July 29, 2021 at 6:00 a.m. After five years on FOX 31's morning show, Meagan O'Halloran is moving on. She arrived in Tulsa in 1979, and worked at all three Tulsa TV news stations. Teri Bowers, the new communications director at Oklahoma Aquarium, uses her news background to help one of the Tulsa area's newest attractions grow. 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. Following by an initial decision issued by FCC Hearing Examiner Millard French that recommended approval of its application, the FCC granted the permit to Tulsa Broadcasting on April 8, 1954. Former Tulsa TV news anchor Beth Rengel, whose autobiography is titled "Anchored in Illusion," plays with her dogs on the patio of her home. 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. The tool can run in and latch another tool such as a ball valve into a packer, for example. KTUL (channel 8) is a television station in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States, affiliated with ABC and owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group.The station's studios are located at Lookout Mountain (near South 29th West Avenue, west of Interstate 244) in southwestern Tulsa, and its transmitter is located on South 321st Avenue East, adjacent to the Muskogee Turnpike, in unincorporated southeastern Tulsa . Emmy award-winning and veteran TV journalist Dan Rascon is the weekend anchor for KSL-TV (NBC) in Salt Lake City. John Hudson, anchor for Tulsa television station KJRH, collapsed at the television studio only 40 minutes before going on the air and died of a massive coronary early Wednesday. He later did commentaries on Oklahoma City's three major TV stations. As of November 2017[update], KTUL presently broadcasts 30 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 5 hours each weekday, one hour on Saturdays and 1 hours on Sundays). [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. Soon, Walls was one of the few Tulsa TV anchors who had made the rounds to each of Tulsa's three major news stations. "But if we look at it another way, there is news value. During his time there, Walls yearned to tell stories about issues that were "more life-impacting," he said. Isbell reported news and sports at KJRH from 1991 to 2001. (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. Rascon has traveled the country and world for nearly 30 years, capturing some of the most compelling, heart-wrenching, and inspiring stories. You can cancel at any time. Diane White's Tulsa TV career started in 1996 when she helped anchor the morning show and did consumer reporting for KOTV Channel 6. " I had a blast.". She was persuaded by her mother to enter the Miss Astros competition because first prize included a four-year college scholarship and a new Toyota.
