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KTUL

March 17, 2024

For the airport serving Tulsa, Oklahoma, assigned the ICAO code KTUL, see Tulsa International Airport.

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 primary transmitter is located on South 321st Avenue East, adjacent to the Muskogee Turnpike, in unincorporated southeastern Tulsa County (near Coweta).

KTUL
Channels
BrandingNewsChannel 8
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
History
First air date
September 18, 1954; 69 years ago (1954-09-18) (in Muskogee, Oklahoma, license moved to Tulsa in 1957)
Former call signs
  • KTVX (1954–1957)
  • KTUL-TV (1957–1993)
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog: 8 (VHF, 1954–2009)
  • Digital: 10 (VHF, 2009–2023)
DuMont (1954–1955)
Call sign meaning
Taken from KTUL radio, now KTBZ
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID35685
ERP1,000 kW
HAAT578 m (1,896 ft)
Transmitter coordinates35°58′8″N 95°36′56″W / 35.96889°N 95.61556°W / 35.96889; -95.61556
Translator(s)24 (UHF) McAlester
Links
Public license information
  • Public file
  • LMS
Websitektul.com

Channel 8 was originally allocated to Muskogee, Oklahoma, where several groups sought the permit, including Muskogee-based and out-of-town interests. The permit was won by J. T. Griffin and Marjory Griffin Leake, who owned radio station KTUL in Tulsa, and went on the air as KTVX on September 18, 1954. It affiliated with ABC, giving the Tulsa market primary affiliates of each of the Big Three networks. Despite several complaints from stations in Tulsa, the Federal Communications Commission granted KTVX permission to move to Tulsa in 1957, whereupon it became KTUL-TV. The station began broadcasting from Coweta in 1964; it continued to produce several notable non-news local programs into the 1970s.

KTUL was acquired in 1983 by Allbritton Communications. The station's newscasts generally fought for first and second place in the market, while the news department continued to expand its news offerings and resources. Sinclair Broadcast Group acquired the station in 2014 as part of its purchase of Allbritton. The news department was wound down in December 2023 in a cost-cutting measure, with the station sharing news programs with Sinclair-owned KOKH-TV in Oklahoma City.

Early history in Muskogee edit

Hearing process and construction edit

John Toole "J. T." Griffin—majority owner and president of wholesale food distributors Griffin Grocery Company and Denison Peanut Company, and hardware manufacturer Western Hardware Corporation, all of which were headquartered in Muskogee—became interested in television broadcasting around 1950, after noticing during one of his commutes that many homes in the Oklahoma City area had installed outdoor television antennas to receive the signal of Oklahoma City station WKY-TV.[2] In June 1952, the Tulsa Broadcasting Company—a company run by John and his sister, Marjory Griffin Leake, and owner of Tulsa radio station KTUL (1430 AM) as well as radio interests in Oklahoma City and Fort Smith, Arkansas, applied to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for a construction permit to build a television station on channel 8 in Muskogee. The application proposed studios in Muskogee and a transmitter on Concharty Mountain, 20 miles (32 km) northwest of the city.[3][4][5] The choice to apply for Muskogee and not Tulsa's available channel 2 was attributed to the way the FCC was processing its backlog of applications, prioritizing cities without existing stations; Tulsa had KOTV on channel 6.[6]

The Griffin-owned group saw competition crop up for the channel 8 permit over the next two years. The Oklahoma Press Publishing Company—a group majority owned by Tams Bixby Jr. and son Tams Bixby III, which 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.[7] The applicants derided the KTUL-led bid as an attempt to "slip in the back door" to Tulsa from the start, down to its proposal to use the call sign KTUL-TV.[8] The Oklahoma Press application had the effect of pushing Muskogee—and channel 8—down the priority order because the channel was contested.[9] The Tulsa Broadcasting Company took out a full-page advertisement questioning why, if these groups sought to provide local service, they did not apply for Muskogee's other channel, UHF channel 66.[10] Another application for channel 8 was received in November 1953 from Ashley L. Robison, who was selling a stake in a station he owned in Sacramento, California.[11][12] The Tulsa Broadcasting bid was modified in early 1954 to specify a new general manager and studio site.[13]

In February 1954, just as hearings were to begin for channel 8 in Muskogee and channel 2 in Tulsa,[14] Oklahoma Press Publishing announced it was withdrawing from the case;[15] the Daily Phoenix ran a front-page editorial declaring that the record now showed a city like Muskogee could not support a station on its own and that local businessmen were not supportive of the station they proposed, which they learned would be a "most hazardous venture".[16] Robison followed suit weeks later; Tulsa Broadcasting settled with him and paid him $6,000 for the legal costs incurred in his application. This left Tulsa Broadcasting unopposed.[17] FCC hearing examiner Millard French issued an initial decision in its favor,[18][19] followed by a commission grant of the permit on April 8, 1954.[20][21] Tulsa Broadcasting sought a call sign for the new station containing the letters TV and ended up with the call sign KTVX; Griffin discovered that the calls had been dormant since the S.S. William S. Clark turned in its signal code to the Customs Bureau of the Treasury Department upon the ocean vessel's January 1947 retirement.[22]

Weeks after the FCC granted the permit, J. Elfred Beck, owner of fledgling UHF outlet KCEB, filed a protest with the FCC. Beck alleged that the Concharty Mountain transmitter site would provide better service to Tulsa than to Muskogee and that it would overlap with other Griffin-owned properties, particularly KWTV in Oklahoma City, as well as other Griffin holdings: KTUL, KFPW, and KOMA radio, as well as KATV in Pine Bluff, Arkansas.[23][24] KOTV owner Wrather-Alvarez Inc. and Arthur R. Olson, permittee for an unbuilt UHF station in Tulsa, submitted their own petitions that made very similar allegations against Tulsa Broadcasting two weeks later.[25][26] On July 9, the FCC denied the protest petitions were invalid, as the grant was handed down after a hearing.[27][28][29] All three petitioners appealed the ruling to the D.C. Court of Appeals, which would deny their request to stay the construction of KTVX.[30][31][32]

Early years edit

KTVX began broadcasting on September 18, 1954,[33] ramping up to a full 316,000 watts of power on November 30.[34] It assumed the ABC affiliation shortly before launching,[35] and it also aired programming from the DuMont Television Network.[33] DuMont and NBC had previously been seen on KCEB when that station began in March,[36] and NBC moved to channel 2 when KVOO-TV began on December 5.[37] KCEB suspended operation on December 10.[38] In April 1955, Tulsa Broadcasting bought KCEB's studios on Lookout Mountain in Tulsa for use as an auxiliary facility for KTVX;[39] KTUL radio moved in the next month.[40]

The earlier charges pertaining to KTVX's transmitter location resurfaced in April 1955, when KOTV owner General Television and KVOO-TV parent Central Plains Enterprises filed complaints requesting that the FCC force KTVX to cease representing itself as a Tulsa station or face a hearing. At the time, channel 8 identified as such or as a Muskogee–Tulsa station in on-air and print promotions. Station management replied 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.[41][42] The FCC dismissed the complaint on September 2; Tulsa Broadcasting admitted to failing to comply with station identification rules but made assurances that it stopped such practices.[43] The commission also admonished the station for exaggerating its coverage area in trade publications and reminded it that it must give "primary consideration" to Muskogee in its local programming.[44] Two months later, KTVX began originating programs from the Tulsa studio.[45]

Transfer to Tulsa edit

On January 18, 1957, Tulsa Broadcasting filed a request to move KTVX's city of license from Muskogee to Tulsa.[46] Tulsa Broadcasting claimed that Muskogee was not large enough to support a VHF station, that the move would put it at a better advantage with its Tulsa-based competitors, and that it would provide a third competitive station in Tulsa. After the FCC invited comments on the switch and other proposals,[47] the owners of KOTV and KVOO-TV as well as Arthur Olson replied in opposition. Olson asked that KTVX remain licensed to Muskogee and relegated to a UHF channel if the channel 8 allocation were reassigned to Tulsa, claiming that Tulsa Broadcasting had "engaged in a pattern of inconsistent, misleading and incorrect representations to the [FCC]"; he stated that he would have applied for channel 8 instead of UHF channel 17 had it had been allocated to Tulsa from the start. KOTV and KVOO-TV and that it had been operating as a de facto Tulsa station with limited equipment and personnel based in Muskogee.[48] The commission denied these requests on August 2, 1957, moving channel 8 and KTVX to Tulsa.[49] With the move, in September, the station changed its call letters to KTUL-TV to match its radio sister.[50] The Griffin-Leake interests sold off KTUL radio in 1961.[51] In 1963, Griffin and Leake bought out minority investors in KWTV, folding KTUL and KATV into the resulting company.[52]

In 1963, the station applied to construct a new transmitter tower at a site two miles (3.2 km) east of Coweta (approximately 10 miles [16 km] northeast of the original transmitter site). Consideration of the application was delayed because a hearing was in progress over Griffin-Leake's qualifications to be a licensee in a case revolving around a planned transmitter relocation for KATV.[53] After that hearing was dismissed,[54] the FCC approved the relocation and new 1,890-foot (576 m) tower in February 1964.[55] The new mast, billed as the second-tallest artificial structure in the world,[56] was put into service on July 24, 1965.[57] In 1967, the station began airing local programming in color.[58]

One of channel 8's most popular program hosts in its early history was John Chick, who joined then-KTVX in 1955. From 1955 to 1963, Chick hosted the local afternoon children's program Cartoon Zoo, a showcase of cartoon shorts on which he originated the character Mr. Zing, donning a fake moustache—which Chick had chosen for the purpose of maintaining anonymity when he was not performing the character—and zookeeper's uniform. The program was the highest-rated children's program in the Tulsa market for most of its run.[59] The program would later evolve into Mr. Zing and Tuffy after station director Wayne Johnson 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).[60]

Another popular KTUL personality joined channel 8 in 1965 when Betty Boyd, a well-known personality at rival KOTV, was lured away to host The Betty Boyd Show. The local daytime program, which featured a mix of interviews with Tulsa-area newsmakers, community affairs, and women's topics, later turned into a morning show, Good Morning Oklahoma, which ran until Boyd left channel 8 in 1980. It 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.[61][62]

Sole Leake ownership edit

Griffin and Leake separated their broadcasting interests in 1969, unwinding a 29-year business connection: Griffin became the sole licensee of KWTV and retained the Muskogee-based Griffin Grocery Company, while Leake retained control of KTUL and KATV as well as a station in Fajardo, Puerto Rico, and other interests.[63][64]

When Mr. Zing and Tuffy ceased production in January 1970, it was partially replaced with Uncle Zeb's Cartoon Camp,[65] hosted by KTUL promotion director Carl Bartholomew. The program was discontinued in 1979, as Bartholomew decided to focus his duties on his existing role as promotions director at channel 8.[66] Dan Murphy, a KTUL reporter, briefly took over the time slot, hosting as "Dr. Ding A. Ling",[67] and another local children's show, Uncle Zip's Do-Da-Day, aired in 1980.[68][69]

The end of Zing also saw Chick move into a new role. Chick began hosting The John Chick Show, a live morning music program that featured local country music talent.[59] The weekday morning program beat The Today Show in the local ratings at 7 a.m. Chick remained on the air in mornings even after ABC debuted Good Morning America in 1975; the president of ABC visited the station to see why they did not air the morning show and acquiesced to the affiliate,[70] calling the series "a local phenomenon".[71] Chick ended his eponymous morning show in January 1979, following a diagnosis of early stage multiple sclerosis two months prior; he died in May 1986.[71]

On July 20, 1981, Leake fired some 50 employees at his two stations and other businesses, including 24 at KTUL, in a move to "streamline" company operations.[72] The employees at KTUL and KATV lodged a formal complaint, claiming the real reason for their dismissal was their involvement in an attempt by NABET to unionize the two stations; off-camera employees at KTUL had voted earlier that month to unionize, becoming the first TV station in Tulsa to do so.[73] The National Labor Relations Board concurred and ordered Leake to pay back wages to the staffers; the board also accused Leake with transferring and demoting employees that engaged in union activities and holding back pay increases.[74] Leake protested, and a hearing was in progress when an agreement was reached, only to nearly fall apart because KTUL refused to sign off on it.[75] The head of the NABET local at KTUL was fired twice from his position, contributing to a poor climate for efforts to unionize other broadcast stations in Oklahoma.[76]

Allbritton ownership edit

On November 3, 1982, Leake Industries sold KTUL and KATV to Washington, D.C.–based Allbritton Communications in an all-cash transaction for $80 million;[77][78] the sale received FCC approval on February 14, 1983.[79][a]

The tower at Coweta collapsed in an ice storm on December 26, 1987.[81] The collapse, brought on by the accumulation of 1,000,000 pounds (454,000 kg) of ice on the mast, damaged the transmitter building, disturbing insulation containing asbestos.[82] It also knocked out communication for the sheriff's department.[83] The station restored a signal to Tulsa Cable Television, the city's main cable system, within 24 hours.[84] On January 2, 1988, KTUL resumed transmitting from a temporary facility, a 300-foot (91 m) tower, at just 13 percent of its authorized power;[82][85] in February, it moved to a temporary 1,200-foot (370 m) mast at Oneta.[86] A replacement tower at Coweta went into service on May 25, 1988.[87] KTUL began 24-hour broadcasting five days a week in January 1992.[88][89]

The station announced in January 1998 that it would expand its Lookout Mountain studio in a $2 million project to add 12,000 square feet (1,115 m2) which would include a new newsroom, sales offices, and an outdoor deck for weather segments.[90] The project was completed in October 1999 and included a new layout for employees, whose offices were previously scattered on the building's two floors; the station simultaneously rebranded its newscasts as Oklahoma's NewsChannel 8.[91]

Acquisition by Sinclair edit

Allbritton announced the sale of their television station holdings to Sinclair Broadcast Group on July 29, 2013, in a $985 million deal.[92][93] While the deal did not pose regulatory issues in Tulsa, conflicts in other markets where Allbritton and Sinclair each owned stations—including Birmingham, Alabama; Charleston, South Carolina; and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania—held up FCC approval,[94][95] and the deal did not close for a full year.[96]

Newscasts edit

See also: KOKH-TV § News operation

Early history edit

Channel 8's news department began operations when the station signed on the air in 1954. The station's newscast was anchored by Jack Morris. In addition to his anchoring duties, Morris—who had worked for KTUL radio since 1940, with the exception of a three-year period in which he served in the Army during World War II—served as the station's original news director until he left to become main anchor at KVOO-TV in 1970.[97] Among Morris's notable assignments during his tenure at channel 8 was a 1956 story involving David Peterson, an infant born with a hole in the wall separating the chambers of his heart, for whom Morris pled for aid to repair the defect. The story led to donations totaling over $1,000, allowing for Peterson to be flown to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, for surgery.[98][99][100] Another one of Morris's 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. The film won the Edward R. Murrow Award for "Best Television Documentary" in 1966.[101]

Shortly before the station signed on, management sought to hire a weather anchor who could draw a cartoon character. Don Woods—a professional meteorologist then working at KTVH in Hutchinson, Kansas[102]—was chosen. His cartoon character became Gusty, a boy caricature based on one which Woods created in 1953 for KTVH. 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: waving flags and smiling for fair weather, holding an umbrella if rain was forecast, or jumping in his "fraidy hole" for thunderstorms. Viewers sent in requests for their own Gusty drawings, with Woods holding on-air drawings to select lucky viewers. Woods was 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. After Woods retired from KTUL on March 3, 1989, he continued to work as a watercolor artist and drew Gusty on occasion;[103] Woods 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. In April 2005, the Oklahoma Legislature passed and then-Governor Brad Henry signed a state resolution designating Gusty as the state's official cartoon character.[104][105][106]

Beginning in the mid-1970s, KTUL unseated a previously dominant KOTV to have the highest-rated newscasts in Tulsa.[107][108] This continued for most of the next 25 years,[109] though KJRH edged ahead in February 1988 after the KTUL tower collapsed,[110] and beginning in the mid-1990s, KOTV and KTUL were often neck-and-neck in news viewership and total-day ratings.[111][112]

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), profiling foster children in need of adoptive families. The initiative began as weekly segments on Wednesdays, modeled after similar features airing on KOCO-TV in Oklahoma City, and was initially conducted by Bob Hower; Hower composed a song, "(I'm a) Waiting Child", used during the segments.[113][114] Waiting Child helped place more than 800 children in homes in its first decade on the air.[115] After Hower retired in 1986, evening news anchor Carole Lambert took up the initiative[115] and was later honored with an "Angels in Adoption" award by the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute.[116][117]

News expansions under Allbritton edit

The station's morning newscast, Good Morning Oklahoma (GMO), debuted on June 11, 1990, as an hour-long broadcast;[118] by 2010, GMO had expanded to 2+1⁄2 hours on weekdays.[119] The franchise was extended to weekends in 1992 with the market's first weekend morning newscast, airing on Saturdays where channel 8 had been broadcasting cartoons.[120][121] In the 1990s and 2000s, KTUL became the first Oklahoma station to offer closed captioning of its newscasts for deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers;[122][123] partnered with KOCO-TV for storm coverage;[124] and launched the first 4 p.m. newscast in the market.[125][119][126]

In 1998, KTUL debuted a new Sunday night sports show, You Make the Call. This program was retooled as Ford Sports Xtra in 2012 and replaced in a 2017 with an extension of the late newscast.[127][128]

Under Sinclair edit

Where KTUL had remained a strong second-place contender after being surpassed by KOTV in the mid-2000s, its ratings fell off after that. By 2012, KOTV had twice as many viewers for its 10 p.m. newscast.[129] By 2015, KOKI-TV, the Fox affiliate, had moved ahead of channel 8 in mornings.[130]

On November 9, 2023, KTUL announced that it would consolidate production of its newscasts at Fox-affiliated sister station KOKH-TV in Oklahoma City.[131]

Non-news programming edit

The station also produces the news/talk/lifestyle program Good Day Tulsa, which airs weekday mornings at 9 a.m. and is co-produced by KTUL's news and advertising sales departments; the hour-long program debuted on August 30, 2004, under original hosts D.C. Roberts, Amanda Juergens and Frank Mitchell (as of September 2017, it is currently co-hosted by Keith Taylor, Erin Christy and meteorologist Molly McCollum, who also anchor the station's weekday morning newscast, Good Morning Oklahoma, and its weekday 11 a.m. newscast).[132]

Notable former on-air staff edit

Technical information edit

Subchannels edit

The station's signal is multiplexed:

Subchannels of KTUL[141]
Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming
8.1 720p 16:9 ABC Main KTUL programming / ABC
8.2 480i Comet Comet
8.3 4:3 Antenna Antenna TV
8.4 16:9 TBD TBD
8.5 Charge! Charge!

Analog-to-digital conversion edit

KTUL shut down its analog signal on June 12, 2009, when full-power television stations transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate.[142] The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition VHF channel 10,[143] using virtual channel 8. Channel 10 had been substituted at KTUL's request for the original assignment of channel 58.[144]

Sinclair applied in 2020 to move KTUL from the VHF band to the UHF band on channel 14, citing reception complaints. A construction permit was granted in 2021;[145][146] the switch to channel 14 was made in June 2023.[147]

Translator edit

Translator of KTUL
Call sign City of license Channel ERP HAAT Facility ID Transmitter coordinates
KTUL (DRT) McAlester 24 600 W 156 m (512 ft) 35685 34°59′13″N 95°42′11″W / 34.98694°N 95.70306°W / 34.98694; -95.70306 (KTUL (DRT))

Notes edit

  1. ^ Allbritton had previously attempted to acquire another TV station in Oklahoma when it reached a deal to trade WMAL-TV in Washington, D.C., to Combined Communications Corporation for KOCO-TV in Oklahoma City. Instead, the company sold The Washington Star newspaper.[80]

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External links edit

  • Official website
  • KTUL Television Tower at Structurae
  • "Listing 1010985". Antenna Structure Registration database. U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
  • A website of the history of Tulsa Television and radio stations

March 17, 2024
ktul, this, article, long, read, navigate, comfortably, please, consider, splitting, content, into, articles, condensing, adding, subheadings, please, discuss, this, issue, article, talk, page, february, 2024, airport, serving, tulsa, oklahoma, assigned, icao,. This article may be too long to read and navigate comfortably Please consider splitting content into sub articles condensing it or adding subheadings Please discuss this issue on the article s talk page February 2024 For the airport serving Tulsa Oklahoma assigned the ICAO code KTUL see Tulsa International Airport 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 primary transmitter is located on South 321st Avenue East adjacent to the Muskogee Turnpike in unincorporated southeastern Tulsa County near Coweta KTULTulsa OklahomaUnited StatesChannelsDigital 14 UHF Virtual 8BrandingNewsChannel 8ProgrammingAffiliations8 1 ABCfor others see SubchannelsOwnershipOwnerSinclair Broadcast Group KTUL Licensee LLC HistoryFirst air dateSeptember 18 1954 69 years ago 1954 09 18 in Muskogee Oklahoma license moved to Tulsa in 1957 Former call signsKTVX 1954 1957 KTUL TV 1957 1993 Former channel number s Analog 8 VHF 1954 2009 Digital 10 VHF 2009 2023 Former affiliationsDuMont 1954 1955 Call sign meaningTaken from KTUL radio now KTBZTechnical information 1 Licensing authorityFCCFacility ID35685ERP1 000 kWHAAT578 m 1 896 ft Transmitter coordinates35 58 8 N 95 36 56 W 35 96889 N 95 61556 W 35 96889 95 61556Translator s 24 UHF McAlesterLinksPublic license informationPublic fileLMSWebsitektul wbr comChannel 8 was originally allocated to Muskogee Oklahoma where several groups sought the permit including Muskogee based and out of town interests The permit was won by J T Griffin and Marjory Griffin Leake who owned radio station KTUL in Tulsa and went on the air as KTVX on September 18 1954 It affiliated with ABC giving the Tulsa market primary affiliates of each of the Big Three networks Despite several complaints from stations in Tulsa the Federal Communications Commission granted KTVX permission to move to Tulsa in 1957 whereupon it became KTUL TV The station began broadcasting from Coweta in 1964 it continued to produce several notable non news local programs into the 1970s KTUL was acquired in 1983 by Allbritton Communications The station s newscasts generally fought for first and second place in the market while the news department continued to expand its news offerings and resources Sinclair Broadcast Group acquired the station in 2014 as part of its purchase of Allbritton The news department was wound down in December 2023 in a cost cutting measure with the station sharing news programs with Sinclair owned KOKH TV in Oklahoma City Contents 1 Early history in Muskogee 1 1 Hearing process and construction 1 2 Early years 2 Transfer to Tulsa 2 1 Sole Leake ownership 2 2 Allbritton ownership 2 3 Acquisition by Sinclair 3 Newscasts 3 1 Early history 3 2 News expansions under Allbritton 3 3 Under Sinclair 4 Non news programming 5 Notable former on air staff 6 Technical information 6 1 Subchannels 6 2 Analog to digital conversion 6 3 Translator 7 Notes 8 References 9 External linksEarly history in Muskogee editHearing process and construction edit John Toole J T Griffin majority owner and president of wholesale food distributors Griffin Grocery Company and Denison Peanut Company and hardware manufacturer Western Hardware Corporation all of which were headquartered in Muskogee became interested in television broadcasting around 1950 after noticing during one of his commutes that many homes in the Oklahoma City area had installed outdoor television antennas to receive the signal of Oklahoma City station WKY TV 2 In June 1952 the Tulsa Broadcasting Company a company run by John and his sister Marjory Griffin Leake and owner of Tulsa radio station KTUL 1430 AM as well as radio interests in Oklahoma City and Fort Smith Arkansas applied to the Federal Communications Commission FCC for a construction permit to build a television station on channel 8 in Muskogee The application proposed studios in Muskogee and a transmitter on Concharty Mountain 20 miles 32 km northwest of the city 3 4 5 The choice to apply for Muskogee and not Tulsa s available channel 2 was attributed to the way the FCC was processing its backlog of applications prioritizing cities without existing stations Tulsa had KOTV on channel 6 6 The Griffin owned group saw competition crop up for the channel 8 permit over the next two years The Oklahoma Press Publishing Company a group majority owned by Tams Bixby Jr and son Tams Bixby III which 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 7 The applicants derided the KTUL led bid as an attempt to slip in the back door to Tulsa from the start down to its proposal to use the call sign KTUL TV 8 The Oklahoma Press application had the effect of pushing Muskogee and channel 8 down the priority order because the channel was contested 9 The Tulsa Broadcasting Company took out a full page advertisement questioning why if these groups sought to provide local service they did not apply for Muskogee s other channel UHF channel 66 10 Another application for channel 8 was received in November 1953 from Ashley L Robison who was selling a stake in a station he owned in Sacramento California 11 12 The Tulsa Broadcasting bid was modified in early 1954 to specify a new general manager and studio site 13 In February 1954 just as hearings were to begin for channel 8 in Muskogee and channel 2 in Tulsa 14 Oklahoma Press Publishing announced it was withdrawing from the case 15 the Daily Phoenix ran a front page editorial declaring that the record now showed a city like Muskogee could not support a station on its own and that local businessmen were not supportive of the station they proposed which they learned would be a most hazardous venture 16 Robison followed suit weeks later Tulsa Broadcasting settled with him and paid him 6 000 for the legal costs incurred in his application This left Tulsa Broadcasting unopposed 17 FCC hearing examiner Millard French issued an initial decision in its favor 18 19 followed by a commission grant of the permit on April 8 1954 20 21 Tulsa Broadcasting sought a call sign for the new station containing the letters TV and ended up with the call sign KTVX Griffin discovered that the calls had been dormant since the S S William S Clark turned in its signal code to the Customs Bureau of the Treasury Department upon the ocean vessel s January 1947 retirement 22 Weeks after the FCC granted the permit J Elfred Beck owner of fledgling UHF outlet KCEB filed a protest with the FCC Beck alleged that the Concharty Mountain transmitter site would provide better service to Tulsa than to Muskogee and that it would overlap with other Griffin owned properties particularly KWTV in Oklahoma City as well as other Griffin holdings KTUL KFPW and KOMA radio as well as KATV in Pine Bluff Arkansas 23 24 KOTV owner Wrather Alvarez Inc and Arthur R Olson permittee for an unbuilt UHF station in Tulsa submitted their own petitions that made very similar allegations against Tulsa Broadcasting two weeks later 25 26 On July 9 the FCC denied the protest petitions were invalid as the grant was handed down after a hearing 27 28 29 All three petitioners appealed the ruling to the D C Court of Appeals which would deny their request to stay the construction of KTVX 30 31 32 Early years edit KTVX began broadcasting on September 18 1954 33 ramping up to a full 316 000 watts of power on November 30 34 It assumed the ABC affiliation shortly before launching 35 and it also aired programming from the DuMont Television Network 33 DuMont and NBC had previously been seen on KCEB when that station began in March 36 and NBC moved to channel 2 when KVOO TV began on December 5 37 KCEB suspended operation on December 10 38 In April 1955 Tulsa Broadcasting bought KCEB s studios on Lookout Mountain in Tulsa for use as an auxiliary facility for KTVX 39 KTUL radio moved in the next month 40 The earlier charges pertaining to KTVX s transmitter location resurfaced in April 1955 when KOTV owner General Television and KVOO TV parent Central Plains Enterprises filed complaints requesting that the FCC force KTVX to cease representing itself as a Tulsa station or face a hearing At the time channel 8 identified as such or as a Muskogee Tulsa station in on air and print promotions Station management replied 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 41 42 The FCC dismissed the complaint on September 2 Tulsa Broadcasting admitted to failing to comply with station identification rules but made assurances that it stopped such practices 43 The commission also admonished the station for exaggerating its coverage area in trade publications and reminded it that it must give primary consideration to Muskogee in its local programming 44 Two months later KTVX began originating programs from the Tulsa studio 45 Transfer to Tulsa editOn January 18 1957 Tulsa Broadcasting filed a request to move KTVX s city of license from Muskogee to Tulsa 46 Tulsa Broadcasting claimed that Muskogee was not large enough to support a VHF station that the move would put it at a better advantage with its Tulsa based competitors and that it would provide a third competitive station in Tulsa After the FCC invited comments on the switch and other proposals 47 the owners of KOTV and KVOO TV as well as Arthur Olson replied in opposition Olson asked that KTVX remain licensed to Muskogee and relegated to a UHF channel if the channel 8 allocation were reassigned to Tulsa claiming that Tulsa Broadcasting had engaged in a pattern of inconsistent misleading and incorrect representations to the FCC he stated that he would have applied for channel 8 instead of UHF channel 17 had it had been allocated to Tulsa from the start KOTV and KVOO TV and that it had been operating as a de facto Tulsa station with limited equipment and personnel based in Muskogee 48 The commission denied these requests on August 2 1957 moving channel 8 and KTVX to Tulsa 49 With the move in September the station changed its call letters to KTUL TV to match its radio sister 50 The Griffin Leake interests sold off KTUL radio in 1961 51 In 1963 Griffin and Leake bought out minority investors in KWTV folding KTUL and KATV into the resulting company 52 In 1963 the station applied to construct a new transmitter tower at a site two miles 3 2 km east of Coweta approximately 10 miles 16 km northeast of the original transmitter site Consideration of the application was delayed because a hearing was in progress over Griffin Leake s qualifications to be a licensee in a case revolving around a planned transmitter relocation for KATV 53 After that hearing was dismissed 54 the FCC approved the relocation and new 1 890 foot 576 m tower in February 1964 55 The new mast billed as the second tallest artificial structure in the world 56 was put into service on July 24 1965 57 In 1967 the station began airing local programming in color 58 One of channel 8 s most popular program hosts in its early history was John Chick who joined then KTVX in 1955 From 1955 to 1963 Chick hosted the local afternoon children s program Cartoon Zoo a showcase of cartoon shorts on which he originated the character Mr Zing donning a fake moustache which Chick had chosen for the purpose of maintaining anonymity when he was not performing the character and zookeeper s uniform The program was the highest rated children s program in the Tulsa market for most of its run 59 The program would later evolve into Mr Zing and Tuffy after station director Wayne Johnson 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 60 Another popular KTUL personality joined channel 8 in 1965 when Betty Boyd a well known personality at rival KOTV was lured away to host The Betty Boyd Show The local daytime program which featured a mix of interviews with Tulsa area newsmakers community affairs and women s topics later turned into a morning show Good Morning Oklahoma which ran until Boyd left channel 8 in 1980 It 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 61 62 Sole Leake ownership edit Griffin and Leake separated their broadcasting interests in 1969 unwinding a 29 year business connection Griffin became the sole licensee of KWTV and retained the Muskogee based Griffin Grocery Company while Leake retained control of KTUL and KATV as well as a station in Fajardo Puerto Rico and other interests 63 64 When Mr Zing and Tuffy ceased production in January 1970 it was partially replaced with Uncle Zeb s Cartoon Camp 65 hosted by KTUL promotion director Carl Bartholomew The program was discontinued in 1979 as Bartholomew decided to focus his duties on his existing role as promotions director at channel 8 66 Dan Murphy a KTUL reporter briefly took over the time slot hosting as Dr Ding A Ling 67 and another local children s show Uncle Zip s Do Da Day aired in 1980 68 69 The end of Zing also saw Chick move into a new role Chick began hosting The John Chick Show a live morning music program that featured local country music talent 59 The weekday morning program beat The Today Show in the local ratings at 7 a m Chick remained on the air in mornings even after ABC debuted Good Morning America in 1975 the president of ABC visited the station to see why they did not air the morning show and acquiesced to the affiliate 70 calling the series a local phenomenon 71 Chick ended his eponymous morning show in January 1979 following a diagnosis of early stage multiple sclerosis two months prior he died in May 1986 71 On July 20 1981 Leake fired some 50 employees at his two stations and other businesses including 24 at KTUL in a move to streamline company operations 72 The employees at KTUL and KATV lodged a formal complaint claiming the real reason for their dismissal was their involvement in an attempt by NABET to unionize the two stations off camera employees at KTUL had voted earlier that month to unionize becoming the first TV station in Tulsa to do so 73 The National Labor Relations Board concurred and ordered Leake to pay back wages to the staffers the board also accused Leake with transferring and demoting employees that engaged in union activities and holding back pay increases 74 Leake protested and a hearing was in progress when an agreement was reached only to nearly fall apart because KTUL refused to sign off on it 75 The head of the NABET local at KTUL was fired twice from his position contributing to a poor climate for efforts to unionize other broadcast stations in Oklahoma 76 Allbritton ownership edit On November 3 1982 Leake Industries sold KTUL and KATV to Washington D C based Allbritton Communications in an all cash transaction for 80 million 77 78 the sale received FCC approval on February 14 1983 79 a The tower at Coweta collapsed in an ice storm on December 26 1987 81 The collapse brought on by the accumulation of 1 000 000 pounds 454 000 kg of ice on the mast damaged the transmitter building disturbing insulation containing asbestos 82 It also knocked out communication for the sheriff s department 83 The station restored a signal to Tulsa Cable Television the city s main cable system within 24 hours 84 On January 2 1988 KTUL resumed transmitting from a temporary facility a 300 foot 91 m tower at just 13 percent of its authorized power 82 85 in February it moved to a temporary 1 200 foot 370 m mast at Oneta 86 A replacement tower at Coweta went into service on May 25 1988 87 KTUL began 24 hour broadcasting five days a week in January 1992 88 89 The station announced in January 1998 that it would expand its Lookout Mountain studio in a 2 million project to add 12 000 square feet 1 115 m2 which would include a new newsroom sales offices and an outdoor deck for weather segments 90 The project was completed in October 1999 and included a new layout for employees whose offices were previously scattered on the building s two floors the station simultaneously rebranded its newscasts as Oklahoma s NewsChannel 8 91 Acquisition by Sinclair edit Allbritton announced the sale of their television station holdings to Sinclair Broadcast Group on July 29 2013 in a 985 million deal 92 93 While the deal did not pose regulatory issues in Tulsa conflicts in other markets where Allbritton and Sinclair each owned stations including Birmingham Alabama Charleston South Carolina and Harrisburg Pennsylvania held up FCC approval 94 95 and the deal did not close for a full year 96 Newscasts editSee also KOKH TV News operation Early history edit Channel 8 s news department began operations when the station signed on the air in 1954 The station s newscast was anchored by Jack Morris In addition to his anchoring duties Morris who had worked for KTUL radio since 1940 with the exception of a three year period in which he served in the Army during World War II served as the station s original news director until he left to become main anchor at KVOO TV in 1970 97 Among Morris s notable assignments during his tenure at channel 8 was a 1956 story involving David Peterson an infant born with a hole in the wall separating the chambers of his heart for whom Morris pled for aid to repair the defect The story led to donations totaling over 1 000 allowing for Peterson to be flown to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester Minnesota for surgery 98 99 100 Another one of Morris s 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 The film won the Edward R Murrow Award for Best Television Documentary in 1966 101 Shortly before the station signed on management sought to hire a weather anchor who could draw a cartoon character Don Woods a professional meteorologist then working at KTVH in Hutchinson Kansas 102 was chosen His cartoon character became Gusty a boy caricature based on one which Woods created in 1953 for KTVH 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 waving flags and smiling for fair weather holding an umbrella if rain was forecast or jumping in his fraidy hole for thunderstorms Viewers sent in requests for their own Gusty drawings with Woods holding on air drawings to select lucky viewers Woods was 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 After Woods retired from KTUL on March 3 1989 he continued to work as a watercolor artist and drew Gusty on occasion 103 Woods 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 In April 2005 the Oklahoma Legislature passed and then Governor Brad Henry signed a state resolution designating Gusty as the state s official cartoon character 104 105 106 Beginning in the mid 1970s KTUL unseated a previously dominant KOTV to have the highest rated newscasts in Tulsa 107 108 This continued for most of the next 25 years 109 though KJRH edged ahead in February 1988 after the KTUL tower collapsed 110 and beginning in the mid 1990s KOTV and KTUL were often neck and neck in news viewership and total day ratings 111 112 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 profiling foster children in need of adoptive families The initiative began as weekly segments on Wednesdays modeled after similar features airing on KOCO TV in Oklahoma City and was initially conducted by Bob Hower Hower composed a song I m a Waiting Child used during the segments 113 114 Waiting Child helped place more than 800 children in homes in its first decade on the air 115 After Hower retired in 1986 evening news anchor Carole Lambert took up the initiative 115 and was later honored with an Angels in Adoption award by the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute 116 117 News expansions under Allbritton edit The station s morning newscast Good Morning Oklahoma GMO debuted on June 11 1990 as an hour long broadcast 118 by 2010 GMO had expanded to 2 1 2 hours on weekdays 119 The franchise was extended to weekends in 1992 with the market s first weekend morning newscast airing on Saturdays where channel 8 had been broadcasting cartoons 120 121 In the 1990s and 2000s KTUL became the first Oklahoma station to offer closed captioning of its newscasts for deaf and hard of hearing viewers 122 123 partnered with KOCO TV for storm coverage 124 and launched the first 4 p m newscast in the market 125 119 126 In 1998 KTUL debuted a new Sunday night sports show You Make the Call This program was retooled as Ford Sports Xtra in 2012 and replaced in a 2017 with an extension of the late newscast 127 128 Under Sinclair edit Where KTUL had remained a strong second place contender after being surpassed by KOTV in the mid 2000s its ratings fell off after that By 2012 KOTV had twice as many viewers for its 10 p m newscast 129 By 2015 KOKI TV the Fox affiliate had moved ahead of channel 8 in mornings 130 On November 9 2023 KTUL announced that it would consolidate production of its newscasts at Fox affiliated sister station KOKH TV in Oklahoma City 131 Non news programming editThe station also produces the news talk lifestyle program Good Day Tulsa which airs weekday mornings at 9 a m and is co produced by KTUL s news and advertising sales departments the hour long program debuted on August 30 2004 under original hosts D C Roberts Amanda Juergens and Frank Mitchell as of September 2017 update it is currently co hosted by Keith Taylor Erin Christy and meteorologist Molly McCollum who also anchor the station s weekday morning newscast Good Morning Oklahoma and its weekday 11 a m newscast 132 Notable former on air staff editJohn Anderson weekend sports anchor 1988 1990 133 Chris Lincoln sports director 1974 1981 and 2007 2011 134 135 Mike Denney cameraman and director 136 Travis Meyer chief meteorologist 1981 2005 137 138 Jeanne Tripplehorn host of the music video program Night Shift in the mid 1980s known on air as Jeannie Summers 139 Steve Zabriskie sports anchor 1970s 140 Technical information editSubchannels edit The station s signal is multiplexed Subchannels of KTUL 141 Channel Res Aspect Short name Programming8 1 720p 16 9 ABC Main KTUL programming ABC8 2 480i Comet Comet8 3 4 3 Antenna Antenna TV8 4 16 9 TBD TBD8 5 Charge Charge Analog to digital conversion edit KTUL shut down its analog signal on June 12 2009 when full power television stations transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate 142 The station s digital signal remained on its pre transition VHF channel 10 143 using virtual channel 8 Channel 10 had been substituted at KTUL s request for the original assignment of channel 58 144 Sinclair applied in 2020 to move KTUL from the VHF band to the UHF band on channel 14 citing reception complaints A construction permit was granted in 2021 145 146 the switch to channel 14 was made in June 2023 147 Translator edit Translator of KTUL Call sign City of license Channel ERP HAAT Facility ID Transmitter coordinatesKTUL DRT McAlester 24 600 W 156 m 512 ft 35685 34 59 13 N 95 42 11 W 34 98694 N 95 70306 W 34 98694 95 70306 KTUL DRT Notes edit Allbritton had previously attempted to acquire another TV station in Oklahoma when it reached a deal to trade WMAL TV in Washington D C to Combined Communications Corporation for KOCO TV in Oklahoma City Instead the company sold The Washington Star newspaper 80 References edit Facility Technical Data for KTUL Licensing and Management System Federal Communications Commission Interview with Griffin Communications president David Griffin from the anniversary special50 Years of News 9 Griffin Communications 2003 Griffin Planning City TV Station To Cover Region Equipment Bought Much Of It Ready Awaiting FCC Nod Muskogee Times Democrat Muskogee Oklahoma June 26 1952 p 1 Retrieved December 9 2023 via Newspapers com At Deadline 65 TV Applications Filed with FCC Broadcasting Telecasting June 30 1952 p 86 ProQuest 1285692262 FCC Roundup Broadcasting Telecasting July 7 1952 p 49 ProQuest 1401197946 Tulsan Seeks Video Station At Muskogee Tulsa World Tulsa Oklahoma June 26 1952 p 26 Retrieved December 9 2023 via Newspapers com Television Applications Filed at FCC Broadcasting Telecasting October 13 1952 p 11 ProQuest 1285689719 Muskogeeans Contest KTUL for TV Permit The Tulsa Tribune Tulsa Oklahoma October 4 1952 p 4 Retrieved December 9 2023 via Newspapers com Bixby Blocks Springfield s Muskogee TV Station Muskogee Morning News Muskogee Oklahoma October 9 1952 p 1 Retrieved December 9 2023 via Newspapers com A Statement Regarding the KTUL TV Application for Channel 8 Muskogee Muskogee Morning News Muskogee Oklahoma October 23 1952 p 3 Archived from the original on December 10 2023 Retrieved December 9 2023 via Newspapers com Muskogee May Get TV Station Okmulgee Daily Times Okmulgee Oklahoma Associated Press November 24 1953 p 2 Archived from the original on December 10 2023 Retrieved December 9 2023 via Newspapers com At Deadline New San Jose Station Proposed Other FCC Actions Broadcasting Telecasting November 23 1953 p 11 ProQuest 1401209010 Muskogee TV Bid Altered by Firm The Tulsa Tribune Tulsa Oklahoma January 2 1954 p 13 Retrieved December 9 2023 via Newspapers com Baxter Norman K January 31 1954 3 Way Fights On TV Permits Start Friday 6 Groups to Compete for FCC Channel Bids for Tulsa Muskogee Tulsa World Tulsa Oklahoma pp 3 1 3 12 Archived from the original on December 10 2023 Retrieved December 9 2023 via Newspapers com Tulsa Muskogee TV Applications Are Withdrawn Muskogee Applicant Is Denied Request For Short Delay Muskogee Daily Phoenix Muskogee Oklahoma February 6 1954 p 2 Archived from the original on December 10 2023 Retrieved December 9 2023 via Newspapers com An Editorial This Will Please Some People Muskogee Daily Phoenix Muskogee Oklahoma February 6 1954 p 1 Archived from the original on December 10 2023 Retrieved December 9 2023 via Newspapers com Only One Left In Contest For Local Television Channel Muskogee Times Democrat Muskogee Oklahoma Associated Press February 27 1954 p 1 Archived from the original on December 10 2023 Retrieved December 9 2023 via Newspapers com New Muskogee TV Station Proposed by Commission Broadcasting Telecasting March 8 1954 p 54 ProQuest 1285709072 For the Record Broadcasting Telecasting March 8 1954 p 96 ProQuest 1285704707 First Local TV Grant Goes to Muskogee Okla Broadcasting Telecasting April 12 1954 p 36 ProQuest 1285699937 For the Record Broadcasting Telecasting April 19 1954 p 108 ProQuest 1285713692 KTVX Is Signal of Channel 8 Call Letters of Ship Given to New Station Tulsa World Tulsa Oklahoma April 14 1954 p 3 Archived from the original on December 10 2023 Retrieved December 9 2023 via Newspapers com At Deadline Protest Muskogee Grant Other Actions of FCC Broadcasting Telecasting May 10 1954 p 9 ProQuest 1285703865 For the Record Broadcasting April 26 1954 p 104 ProQuest 1285711110 Two More Tulsa Outlets Protest Muskogee Grant Broadcasting Telecasting May 17 1954 pp 60 62 ProQuest 1285718810 For the Record Broadcasting Telecasting June 21 1954 p 99 ProQuest 1285718111 At Deadline Lamb Denied Injunction Against FCC Will Appeal Broadcasting Telecasting June 14 1954 p 9 ProQuest 1285713910 Protest of Muskogee Ch 8 Grant Denied Broadcasting Telecasting July 12 1954 p 50 ProQuest 1285721023 Tulsa UHFs Challenge Dismissal of Protest Broadcasting Telecasting July 19 1954 p 88 ProQuest 1285709354 For the Record Broadcasting Telecasting July 19 1954 p 95 ProQuest 1285704428 Milwaukee Muskogee Cases Before Court Broadcasting Telecasting August 9 1954 p 65 ProQuest 1285714348 Two Stay Requests Denied by Court Broadcasting August 16 1954 p 54 ProQuest 1285720315 a b Two TV Stations Begin Operations Broadcasting September 20 1954 p 68 ProQuest 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the original on December 10 2023 Retrieved December 9 2023 via Newspapers com KTUL Now Operating On Lookout Mountain Tulsa World Tulsa Oklahoma May 18 1955 p 17 Archived from the original on December 10 2023 Retrieved December 9 2023 via Newspapers com Tulsa Competitors Charge KTVX TV Misrepresentation Broadcasting Telecasting April 4 1955 p 76 ProQuest 1285735704 KTVX TV Denies Charges by Stations Broadcasting Telecasting April 18 1955 p 78 ProQuest 1285722220 KTVX TV License Granted Despite Tulsa TV Protests Broadcasting Telecasting September 5 1955 p 90 ProQuest 1014911824 For the Record Broadcasting Telecasting September 5 1955 p 102 ProQuest 1014913876 Warning to KTVX by FCC Alleged Violations of Regulations Cited The Tulsa Tribune Tulsa Oklahoma September 2 1955 p 33 Archived from the original on December 10 2023 Retrieved December 9 2023 via Newspapers com KTVX Operations Expand This Week Muskogee Morning News Muskogee Oklahoma November 3 1955 p 1 Archived from the original on December 10 2023 Retrieved December 9 2023 via Newspapers com At Deadline Asks Ch 8 Move to Tulsa Broadcasting Telecasting January 21 1957 p 9 ProQuest 1285771459 WIRL TV in Court to Save Ch 8 FCC Proposes Still More Shifts Broadcasting Telecasting April 1 1957 p 60 ProQuest 1401223095 TV Rulemaking Pleas On Shifts Flood FCC Broadcasting Telecasting May 6 1957 pp 82 83 ProQuest 1401222364 At Deadline FCC Papers Fly on Vacation Eve Broadcasting August 5 1957 p 10 ProQuest 1401222364 New KTVX TV Call KTUL TV Broadcasting Telecasting September 23 1957 p 93 ProQuest 1505637134 KTUL Now KELI Format Changed The Tulsa Tribune Tulsa Oklahoma December 12 1961 p 22 Archived from the original on December 10 2023 Retrieved December 9 2023 via Newspapers com TV Station Stocks Sold Griffin Leake Will Own Outlet at OC Tulsa World Tulsa Oklahoma December 11 1963 p 1 Archived from the original on December 10 2023 Retrieved December 9 2023 via Newspapers com KTUL TV application hits stumbling block Broadcasting December 2 1963 p 10 ProQuest 1014468628 Dismiss KATV TV Plea Broadcasting February 3 1964 pp 65 66 ProQuest 1014479705 For the Record Broadcasting February 24 1964 p 97 Giant KTUL Tower Near Completion Tulsa World Tulsa Oklahoma March 8 1965 p 7 Archived from the original on December 10 2023 Retrieved December 9 2023 via Newspapers com Channel 8 s New Tower Goes on Amid Pageantry Tulsa World Tulsa Oklahoma July 25 1965 p 16 Archived from the original on December 10 2023 Retrieved December 9 2023 via Newspapers com KTUL Adds More Color The Pictorial Press Tahlequah Oklahoma February 16 1967 p 6 Archived from the original on December 10 2023 Retrieved December 9 2023 via Newspapers com a b Beaty James August 21 2016 John Chick Ups and downs of live programs McAlester News Capital Archived from the original on November 25 2020 Retrieved December 15 2017 KTUL s Tuffy Johnson dies at 66 Tulsa World March 24 2008 Archived from the original on October 14 2023 Retrieved December 15 2017 Sherrow Rita September 10 1980 Betty Boyd Leaving Television for Vo Tech Position Tulsa World Tulsa Oklahoma p A 18 Archived from the original on December 10 2023 Retrieved December 10 2023 via Newspapers com Stanley Tim January 7 2011 Queen of Tulsa TV Betty Boyd dies at 86 Tulsa World Archived from the original on May 21 2022 Retrieved December 18 2017 Griffin Leake s TV Ownership Divided Tulsa World Tulsa Oklahoma April 15 1969 p A 15 Archived from the original on December 10 2023 Retrieved December 9 2023 via Newspapers com Griffin Leake Division Given Approval by FCC Tulsa World Tulsa Oklahoma October 5 1969 p A 6 Archived from the original on December 10 2023 Retrieved December 9 2023 via Newspapers com Is it true that the Mr Zing and Tuffy show is going off the air Tulsa World Tulsa Oklahoma January 21 1970 p A 7 Retrieved December 10 2023 via Newspapers com The show is titled Uncle Zeb s Cartoon Camp beginning in listings dated February 8 1970 Butler Ronald E May 31 1979 Viewpoint Tulsa World Tulsa Oklahoma p F 4 Archived from the original on December 10 2023 Retrieved December 10 2023 via Newspapers com Sherrow Rita October 7 1979 KTUL s Dr Ding A Ling Kiddie Show Off to a Good Start Tulsa World Tulsa Oklahoma pp TV World 33 35 Retrieved December 10 2023 via Newspapers com Sherrow Rita March 2 1997 Happy Trails Uncle Zeb Hanging Up His Hat After More Than 4 000 Shows Tulsa World Archived from the original on October 14 2023 Retrieved December 15 2017 Memorial service today for KTUL s Uncle Zip Tulsa World April 17 2007 Archived from the original on October 14 2023 Retrieved December 18 2017 Nipper Clara January 5 2011 John Chick This Land This Land Press Archived from the original on February 23 2018 Retrieved December 15 2017 a b Gallant Fight Lost At Age 53 Tulsa World Tulsa Oklahoma May 21 1986 p C 1 Archived from the original on December 10 2023 Retrieved December 9 2023 via Newspapers com Stefanic Vern July 21 1981 KTUL TV Streamlines Its Operation Fires Several Employees Tulsa World Tulsa Oklahoma p A14 Archived from the original on December 10 2023 Retrieved December 10 2023 via Newspapers com Enfield Bill July 22 1981 Union Terms KTUL Firings Labor Massacre Tulsa World Tulsa Oklahoma p B7 Archived from the original on December 10 2023 Retrieved December 10 2023 via Newspapers com Enfield Bill December 23 1981 Labor Board Wants KTUL to Reinstate Employees Tulsa World Tulsa Oklahoma p C4 Archived from the original on December 10 2023 Retrieved December 10 2023 via Newspapers com Enfield Bill August 25 1982 Union KTUL Agreement On the Verge of Collapse Tulsa World Tulsa Oklahoma p B5 Archived from the original on December 10 2023 Retrieved December 10 2023 via Newspapers com Enfield Bill April 20 1983 Broadcast Union Finds Fertile Ground Barren Tulsa World Tulsa Oklahoma p C1 Archived from the original on December 10 2023 Retrieved December 10 2023 via Newspapers com In Brief Broadcasting November 8 1982 p 118 ProQuest 963220754 Changing Hands Broadcasting November 15 1982 pp 89 90 ProQuest 1014701872 For the Record Broadcasting March 7 1983 p 124 ProQuest 963242544 Allbritton Axes D C Okla Deal On TVer Swap Variety March 29 1978 pp 43 62 ProQuest 1401327140 25 000 Homes Powerless TV Tower Falls Tulsa World Tulsa Oklahoma December 27 1987 pp A 1 A 4 Archived from the original on December 10 2023 Retrieved December 10 2023 via Newspapers com a b In Sync Helping Hand Broadcasting January 11 1988 p 70 ProQuest 1016920811 McMahan Liz January 2 1988 Previous One Destroyed in KTUL TV Tower Crash Radio Transmitter Donated to Sheriff s Office Tulsa World Tulsa Oklahoma p A 18 Archived from the original on December 10 2023 Retrieved December 10 2023 via Newspapers com In Brief Tower trouble Broadcasting January 4 1988 p 145 ProQuest 1014729595 Channel 8 Is Solving Problems Temporary 300 Foot Broadcasting Tower in Place Tulsa World Tulsa Oklahoma January 6 1988 p B6 Archived from the original on December 10 2023 Retrieved December 10 2023 via Newspapers com Temporary facilities are completed for TV station Okmulgee Daily Times Okmulgee Oklahoma February 2 1988 p 10 Retrieved December 10 2023 via Newspapers com 2 Dead After 2 000 foot TV Tower Collapses Tulsa World Tulsa Oklahoma Associated Press June 3 1988 p D15 Archived from the original on December 10 2023 Retrieved December 10 2023 via Newspapers com KTUL Starts 24 Hour Schedule Adds Late Movie Tulsa World January 3 1992 Archived from the original on October 14 2023 Retrieved December 13 2017 KTUL 8 to begin 24 hour schedule Tulsa World January 4 1992 Archived from the original on October 14 2023 Retrieved December 13 2017 Sherrow Rita February 1 1998 Channel 8 Announces Plans To Expand Its Facilities Tulsa World Tulsa Oklahoma p H 2 Retrieved December 10 2023 via Newspapers com Sherrow Rita October 31 1999 KTUL channel 8 unveils newly expanded newsroom and weather center Tulsa World Archived from the original on October 14 2023 Retrieved December 13 2017 Heath Thomas Wilgoren Debbi July 29 2013 Allbritton to sell 7 TV stations including WJLA to Sinclair for 985 million The Washington Post Archived from the original on September 3 2020 Retrieved December 12 2017 Arnold Kyle July 30 2013 KTUL television station sold to Sinclair Group Tulsa World Archived from the original on October 22 2021 Retrieved December 13 2017 Halonen Doug July 25 2014 FCC Okays Modified Sinclair Allbritton Deal TVNewsCheck Archived from the original on December 14 2017 Retrieved December 13 2017 Eger Andrea July 26 2014 KTUL sale approved by federal regulators Tulsa World Archived from the original on February 24 2022 Retrieved December 13 2017 Malone Michael August 1 2014 Sinclair s Deal For Allbritton Closes Broadcasting amp Cable Archived from the original on August 8 2014 Retrieved December 12 2017 Morris Resigns KTUL Post Tulsa World Tulsa Oklahoma January 25 1970 p B1 Archived from the original on December 10 2023 Retrieved December 10 2023 via Newspapers com Pearson Janet May 22 1991 Former News Anchor Bridged Gap From Radio to TV Jack Morris to Be Inducted Into Broadcasters Hall of Fame Tulsa World Archived from the original on October 14 2023 Retrieved December 19 2017 Stanley Tim December 7 2010 Jack Morris 1921 2010 Longtime Tulsa newscaster Jack Morris died at 88 Tulsa World Archived from the original on October 14 2023 Retrieved December 19 2017 KTVX TV Plea Aids Infant Broadcasting Telecasting June 25 1956 p 100 ProQuest 1285746107 Public served better through color TV Broadcasting January 2 1967 pp 54 64 66 ProQuest 1014507742 KTVX Building Progresses High Gain Antenna Arrives Muskogee Morning News Muskogee Oklahoma August 26 1954 p 1 Archived from the original on December 10 2023 Retrieved December 10 2023 via Newspapers com Wolfe Ron March 3 1989 Woods to take Gusty and blow Tulsa World Archived from the original on October 14 2023 Retrieved December 19 2017 Retired meteorologist Don Woods dies at 84 Tulsa World June 13 2012 Archived from the original on October 14 2023 Retrieved December 19 2017 Tramel Jimmie March 9 2015 Jimmie Tramel Generations of Oklahomans remember Don Woods and Gusty Tulsa World Archived from the original on October 14 2023 Retrieved December 19 2017 Don Woods Has Lost His Battle With Cancer KTUL June 12 2012 Archived from the original on June 19 2012 Butler Ronald E August 13 1976 Viewpoint Tulsa World Tulsa Oklahoma p B 6 Retrieved December 10 2023 via Newspapers com Butler Ronald E October 13 1978 Local Television Newsrooms Square Off Tulsa World Tulsa Oklahoma pp B 1 B 2 Retrieved December 10 2023 via Newspapers com Sherrow Rita March 30 1981 KTUL News and Prime Time Place First Ratings Indicate Tulsa World Tulsa Oklahoma p A14 Archived from the original on December 10 2023 Retrieved December 10 2023 via Newspapers com KJRH Is Ratings Champ at 6 and 20 p m Tulsa World Tulsa Oklahoma April 2 1988 p C 20 Archived from the original on December 10 2023 Retrieved December 10 2023 via Newspapers com Sherrow Rita March 21 1996 Channel 6 Sweeps Ratings Race With February Airings Tulsa World Tulsa Oklahoma p D 2 Retrieved December 10 2023 via Newspapers com Sherrow Rita April 2 1998 Channels 6 8 In Ratings Race Tulsa World Tulsa Oklahoma p D 3 Retrieved December 10 2023 via Newspapers com A Waiting Child Newsman Scores a Hit With Kids Song Tulsa World Tulsa Oklahoma April 25 1982 pp F 1 F 2 Retrieved December 10 2023 via Newspapers com The New Adoption Finding a Family for Every Child Tulsa World Tulsa Oklahoma April 25 1982 p F 1 Retrieved December 10 2023 via Newspapers com a b 10 Years of Love KTUL Looks Back at Waiting Child Tulsa World November 11 1990 Archived from the original on October 14 2023 Retrieved December 18 2017 Television Briefs Anchor honored for adoption support Tulsa World September 23 2004 Archived from the original on October 14 2023 Retrieved December 18 2017 Sherrow Rita June 11 2011 Longtime KTUL news anchor Carole Lambert to leave Tulsa World Archived from the original on October 14 2023 Retrieved December 18 2017 New Morning Program To Debut on Channel 8 Tulsa World June 9 1990 Archived from the original on October 14 2023 Retrieved December 18 2017 a b Scene setting What s going on around you today Tulsa World September 2 2010 Archived from the original on October 14 2023 Retrieved December 18 2017 Wooley John July 17 1992 Good Morning Again Saturday Edition Preempts Cartoons in Favor of Gulp News Tulsa World Archived from the original on October 14 2023 Retrieved December 15 2017 Channel 8 to Drop Saturday Cartoon Schedule Tulsa World May 28 1992 Archived from the original on October 14 2023 Retrieved December 15 2017 Sherrow Rita August 7 1990 Channel 8 Provides Closed Captioned News Tulsa World Archived from the original on October 14 2023 Retrieved December 18 2017 Wolfe Ron August 10 1990 KTUL 8 to close caption local newscasts Tulsa World Archived from the original on October 14 2023 Retrieved December 18 2017 Sherrow Rita March 7 1993 Storms Watch Out KTUL Oklahoma City Station Create Statewide Storm Network Tulsa World Archived from the original on March 31 2022 Retrieved December 18 2017 Sherrow Rita July 24 2004 Jane Pauley to show on Channel 8 Tulsa World Archived from the original on October 14 2023 Retrieved December 18 2017 Sherrow Rita September 6 2008 KTUL changing lineup Tulsa World Archived from the original on October 14 2023 Retrieved December 19 2017 Bill Haisten New shows challenge Ch 2 s Sports Extra Tulsa World August 30 1998 Archived from the original on November 25 2020 Retrieved December 18 2017 Haisten Bill March 30 2017 Bill Haisten After phenomenal Russell Westbrook s 57 point blast MVP discussion heats up Tulsa World Archived from the original on October 14 2023 Retrieved December 18 2017 Malone Michael March 4 2013 Market Eye Tulsa Stations Turn Up the Heat Broadcasting amp Cable Archived from the original on July 5 2022 Retrieved December 10 2023 Malone Michael August 10 2015 Market Eye Drilling Deep for Viewers Broadcasting amp Cable Archived from the original on June 29 2023 Retrieved December 10 2023 Stanley Tim November 9 2023 Tulsa s KTUL Channel 8 moving news production to Oklahoma City Tulsa World Archived from the original on November 9 2023 Retrieved November 10 2023 KTUL KTULDT schedule KTUL Archived from the original on January 8 2018 Retrieved January 19 2018 Haisten Bill July 12 1996 KOTV s Anderson Scores Phoenix Job Tulsa World Tulsa Oklahoma p B 3 Retrieved December 10 2023 via Newspapers com Haisten Bill May 4 2007 Lincoln replaces Bunds at KTUL 8 Tulsa World Tulsa Oklahoma p B2 Retrieved December 10 2023 via Newspapers com Sherrow Rita July 23 2011 KTUL anchor changes revamp primetime news Tulsa World Tulsa Oklahoma p D3 Retrieved December 10 2023 via Newspapers com King Dennis December 15 1996 Child Again Oklahoma Native Comes Home to Launch Film Project Tulsa World Tulsa Oklahoma p H 2 Retrieved December 10 2023 via Newspapers com Sherrow Rita January 8 2005 Meteorologist Meyer confirms move from 8 to 6 Tulsa World Tulsa Oklahoma p D3 Retrieved December 10 2023 via Newspapers com Sherrow Rita May 3 2005 Travis Meyer goes on the air at KOTV June 1 Tulsa World Tulsa Oklahoma p D6 Retrieved December 10 2023 via Newspapers com Tripplehorn Leaving Tulsa for New York Tulsa World Tulsa Oklahoma January 31 1986 p B 4 Archived from the original on December 10 2023 Retrieved December 10 2023 via Newspapers com KTUL Local Programming A Challenge Tulsa World Advertisement Tulsa Oklahoma September 10 1972 p I 5 Retrieved December 10 2023 via Newspapers com RabbitEars TV Query for KTUL RabbitEars Archived from the original on December 14 2017 Retrieved December 13 2017 Arnold Kyle June 12 2009 Analog TV a thing of the past Tulsa World Archived from the original on April 23 2022 Retrieved December 13 2017 DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and Second Rounds PDF Federal Communications Commission May 23 2006 Archived from the original PDF on August 29 2013 Retrieved August 29 2021 Sherrow Rita May 1 2002 Most Tulsa stations unable to get digital signals on air Tulsa World Tulsa Oklahoma p D4 Archived from the original on December 10 2023 Retrieved December 10 2023 via Newspapers com Channel Substitution Community of License Change Licensing and Management System Federal Communications Commission November 30 2020 Archived from the original on January 25 2022 Retrieved November 30 2020 Report amp Order PDF Media Bureau Federal Communications Commission September 16 2021 Archived PDF from the original on September 17 2021 Retrieved September 17 2021 Lafayette Jon June 29 2023 Sinclair s KTUL Tulsa Upgrades to UHF Signal Broadcasting amp Cable Archived from the original on July 1 2023 Retrieved December 10 2023 External links editOfficial website KTUL Television Tower at Structurae Listing 1010985 Antenna Structure Registration database U S Federal 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