KOTV

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KOTV
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Branding	KOTV 6 / The News on 6
Slogan	Spirit of Oklahoma
Channels	6 (VHF) analog, 55 (UHF) digital
Affiliations	CBS
Owner	Griffin Communications
Founded	1949
Call letters meaning	K Oklahoma Television
Former affiliations	NBC, ABC, DuMont and Paramount (secondary, 1949-54)
Website	http://www.kotv.com

KOTV, "KOTV 6" is the CBS affiliate in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in the United States. KOTV broadcasts from its studios in downtown Tulsa. KOTV's transmitter is located in Oneta, Oklahoma.

[edit] History

Channel 6 signed on in October 1949. It is Oklahoma's second oldest television station, having signed on a few months after NBC affiliate WKY-TV in Oklahoma City (later changed to KTVY and now known as KFOR-TV). KOTV carried programs from CBS, ABC, NBC, DuMont and Paramount until 1954. When now-defunct KCEB Channel 23 signed in March, 1954, it took DuMont, which, like KCEB, folded for lack of revenue. In 1953, Paramount and ABC merged, and in September, 1954, KOTV relinquished ABC to KTVX in Muskogee {now KTUL-TV in Tulsa}. And in December, 1954, KOTV relinquished NBC to KVOO-TV {later KTEW and now KJRH}. For many years KOTV was owned by Corinthian Television. In December of 1983 in a corporate deal Belo acquired KOTV along with other Corinthian stations. In the late 1990's Belo sold KOTV to Oklahoma City-based Griffin Communications, owner of that city's CBS affiliate, KWTV.

[edit] Programming

KOTV is one of the few (possibly the only) CBS affiliates that does not run the daytime soap "Bold and the Beautiful" at 12:30pm. Instead, they run an hour of local news without airing B&B in daytime. Initially CBS had refused to let them run the show late at night because cable systems carried other CBS affiliates that ran the show in pattern. But CBS changed their mind when most cable systems dropped duplicate CBS affiliates and KOTV began broadcasting the show at 1:05am.

On Monday, September 18, 2006, KOTV's sister station KQCW 19 in Tulsa began airing The Bold and the Beautiful in its regular network timeslot at 12:30pm. This finally brings the show back to daytime in Tulsa after KOTV dropped the show in the 1990s to expand its noon newscast to an hour.On september 18^th KOTV began broadcasting a half hour news cast on KQCW with Omar Villafranca, Jennifer Loren, and Meteorologist Katie Green

KOTV also airs local news from 5-9am and shows CBS's "Early Show" from 7-9 AM and the second half 9-10am--later than most affiliates.

[edit] Clayton Vaughn

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Clayton Vaughn joined KOTV from AM rock radio station KAKC-AM 970, where he was a news announcer. He succeeded Jim Hartz, who left KOTV for NBC, and later anchored the Today Show with Barbara Walters. Vaughn was selected to be anchor. People who worked with Vaughn at KOTV included Bob Brown, who later went to ABC News' 20/20; Mike Flynn, Tulsa's first enviromental reporter who is now a retired professor of journalism at John Brown University in Siloam Springs, Arkansas; and Bob Losure, who went on to CNN and later became a motivational speaker.

Clayton Vaughn worked at KOTV Channel 6 off and on from 1964 until retiring in 1999. He left KOTV in 1970 to work at KABC in Los Angeles, where he covered the Charles Manson trial, and met his wife. He returned to KOTV in 1971 and anchored Tulsa's first hour-long early evening newscast. Also during his time at KOTV, he introduced reading viewer mail on the air, ranging from comments of the issues of the day to those that can just plain funny.

At KOTV, Vaughn covered civil rights in Tulsa, went to Vietnam to interview Oklahomans serving there, and covered the environmental issues of Oklahoma. And he always ended his newscasts with: Good Night.

In 1978, Vaughn again left KOTV for a job in public television in New Jersey, but returned in 1980 for good. He stayed in the anchor's chair until 1996, when he decided to work behind the scenes being full-time managing editor, special events anchor, reading the viewer mail and anchoring the news strictly as a substitute anchor. His best known show was "A Conversation With....," where he interviewed people. On his last show in 1999, he was the guest, and one of the other reporters was the moderator. Following his retirement, he became Chairman of the Tulsa Historical Society until 2005, when he retired the post.

[edit] Newscasts

Weekdays

• Six in the Morning 5 - 9 AM (8 - 9 AM shared with The Early Show)
  • anchored by Casey Norton and LeAnne Taylor with Alan Crone on weather
• The News on 6 @ Noon 12 - 1 PM
  • anchored by Glenda Silvey with Alan Crone on weather
• The News on 6 @ 5 5 - 5:30 PM
  • anchored by Craig Day and Lori Fullbright with Travis Meyer on weather and John Holcomb with sports
• The News on 6 @ 6 6 - 6:30 PM
  • anchored by Scott Thompson and Terry Hood with Travis Meyer on weather and John Holcomb with sports
• The News on 6 @ 10 10 - 10:35 PM
  • anchored by Scott Thompson and Terry Hood with Travis Meyer on weather and John Holcomb with sports

Saturday

• The News on 6 @ 6 6 - 6:30 PM
  • anchored by Tami Marler with Dick Faurot on weather and Mike Wolfe with sports

• The News on 6 @ 10 10 - 10:35 PM
  • anchored by Tami Marler with Dick Faurot on weather and Mike Wolfe with sports

Sunday

• The News on 6 @ 5:30 5:30 - 6 PM
  • anchored by Tami Marler with Dick Faurot on weather and Mike Wolfe with sports
• The News on 6 @ 10 10 - 10:25 PM
  • anchored by Tami Marler with Dick Faurot on weather
• Oklahoma Sports Blitz 10:25 - 11:00 PM
  • hosted by Dean Blevins (KWTV) and John Holcomb

[edit] Personalities

[edit] Current On-Air Talent

NEWS ON 6 ANCHORS

• Scott Thompson, 6PM & 10PM Weekday Anchor/"Oklahoma Traveler"
• Terry Hood, 6PM & 10PM Weekday Anchor
• Lori Fullbright, 5PM Weekday Anchor/Crime Reporter
• Craig Day, 5PM Weekday Anchor/Nightside Reporter
• Tami Marler, Weekend Anchor/Reporter
• Glenda Silvey, Weekday Noon Anchor
• Casey Norton, Weekday Morning Anchor/Consumer Reporter
• LeAnne Taylor, Weekday Morning Anchor/Medical Reporter

NEWS ON 6 REPORTERS

• Steve Berg, General Assignment/Business Reporter
• Joshua Brakhage, General Assignment Reporter
• Emory Bryan, General Assigment/Government Reporter
• Heather Lewin, General Assignment/Native Issues Reporter
• Jennifer Loren, 9PM Anchor/General Assignment Reporter
• Ashli Sims, General Assignment/Education Reporter
• Carina Sonn, General Assignment Reporter
• Omar Villafranca, 9PM Anchor/General Assignment Reporter
• Rick Wells, Features Reporter
• Chris Wright, General Assignment Reporter

NEWS ON 6 METEOROLOGISTS

• Travis Meyer, Chief Meteorologist
• Dick Faurot, Weekend Evening Meteorologist
• Alan Crone, Weekday Moring Meteorologist
• Katie Green, Weekday Noon and 9PM Meteorologist

SPORTS ANCHORS/REPORTERS

• John Holcomb, Sports Director/Weekday Sports Anchor/"Friday Football Fever" Host/Oklahoma Sports Blitz Co-Host
• Mike Wolfe, Weekend Sports Anchor/Sports Reporter
• Scott Smith, Sports Reporter/Fill-in Anchor

[edit] See also

• News Now 53

[edit] External links

• Tulsa TV Memories: KOTV
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KOTV