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KWTV has long had a rivalry with KFOR-TV, vying with that station for first place as the most-watched television newscast in the Oklahoma City market in most news timeslots. KWTV had the highest-rated late evening newscast in the United States during the May 2006 sweeps period, and its 10 p.m. newscast was the top-rated newscast in the nation ...
Original "News Now 53" logo, used from 1996 to 2001. Until the mid-2000s, News Now 53 carried live telecasts of KWTV – and later KOTV's newscasts – in the event that either station was unable to air its regularly scheduled evening newscasts due to CBS sports telecasts that run into that timeslot. In 2008, the channel underwent a graphical ...
Gary England (born October 3, 1939) is the former chief meteorologist for KWTV (channel 9), the CBS-affiliated television station in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.England was the first on-air meteorologist to alert his viewers of a possible tornado using a commercial Doppler weather radar. [2]
In 1993, Payne left KTUL to become the morning meteorologist at KFOR-TV. As morning meteorologist, Payne had often been known for his humor and sometimes makes jokes, mostly aimed at co-anchor Kent Ogle, during the newscasts. His humorous nature has since been carried over to his role as evening/chief meteorologist at KWTV.
Ogle was born in Edmond, Oklahoma, the son of Jack Ogle (1930–1999), a veteran television journalist who worked for NBC affiliate WKY-TV (channel 4, now KFOR-TV) as a news anchor and later news director from 1962 to 1977, and Karen Ogle (née Lee; 1947–2000). He is the eldest of their three sons, all of whom would eventually follow their ...
Dean Blevins (born approximately 1955) is an American sportscaster.He is the sports director for KWTV, the CBS affiliate in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.He also is a co-host of an afternoon radio show on the Sports Animal called "The Total Dominance Hour" and he hosts the weekly Brent Venables Show.
Following Don Locke's death in February 2000, [11] Locke Supply's board of directors—led by Locke's former wife, Wanda McKenzie, who took over as the company's chief executive officer—were approached by various station owners beginning in April 2001 for offers to acquire KSBI, its regional translator network and low-power sister station KXOC-LP (channel 54, later on channel 41; now defunct).
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