KTUL News

KTUL News is an ABC affiliate TV channel that operates at Virtual CH 10 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Channel 8 Tulsa is an entity of Sinclair Broadcast Group. Get the Tulsa local news, KTUL breaking news, national & international stories, entertainment content, Offbeat content, Inside Your World, Connect to Congress, Election Results, Project Oklahoma, Tracking Terror, and Question of the Day.  Furthermore, KTUL Tulsa is available in all parts of Tulsa and its nearby areas over the air via antenna, through satellite, cable, and at the official website/mobile app via KTUL live stream. Channel 8 Tulsa uses the branding NewsChannel 8 and the tagline Standing Up for What’s Right for a newscast. 

KTUL weather services include HD interactive KTUL radar, KTUL weather maps, school closings, Burn Bans, Channel 8 Tulsa Weather Cams, and traffic updates. Likewise, other exciting features include Chime In, Good Day Tulsa, community events, and Tulsa Sports. The station also feature Open for Business, Waiting Child, For Pet’s Sake, Partner Spotlight, Sinclair Cares, #BullyingisNotOK, Sinclair Cares: Roll Up Your Sleeves, Lifestyle Matters, and more. 

Watch KTUL News Live Stream

Watch the latest Tulsa news, KTUL Weather coverage, sports transmission, live traffic conditions, political reports, and exciting top stories ranging from local events to international stories at KTUL live stream. Live News Globe provides HD, a non-buffering service to the audience within a reach of a single click. Below you can find a window with the play button. Click the button and wait until the stream loads. Once it’s loaded, you can enjoy the KTUL News services live.

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KTUL News Team

If everything exciting occurs in Tulsa, the KTUL news team is always the first one to report. Their reporters and anchors are skilled and experts in their respective fields. From breaking the important news to the viewers to providing critical sports updates, the KTUL team always provides the most authentic piece of information, as well as the updates. Quality is their number one focus and they never compromise on that. Journalism requires trust, as today no one trusts the words of journalists, but the KTUL team believes, if you have trust, you have everything. Through hard work and passion, they have earned a great deal of trust from the Tulsa community, and they make sure they never lose that trust. Morgan Beard, T.J. Eckert, Burt Mummolo, Jamison Keefover, Kristine Frazao, Mark Bradshaw, Neile Jones, Ahtra Elnashar are among the most popular names in the reporters and anchors.

Mark Bradshaw: Anchor at NewsChannel 8

Mark Bradshaw is an anchor of weekday newscasts at 5 pm, 6 pm, and 10 pm. He co-hosts the news programs together with Neile Jones. Mark has been a part of KTUL TV since 1996. His passion for news drove him to make coast-to-coast-to-coast trips to several US regions. Over the years, Mark Bradshaw has done several great projects such as covering California’s earthquakes, Oregon’s billion-dollar pot raids, the east coast’s hurricanes, Oklahoma’s tornadoes, Mississippi’s floods, and Vegas’ entertainment. He cherished each and every moment in journalism. That’s what he likes more about the job. Mark took his graduation degree from Biola University.

Before KTUL Channel 8, Bradshaw used to serve at KLAS News as an anchor and reporter from July 1994 to September 1996. He was a host and of 4 pm and 6:300 pm weeknight news service and reported. From 1992 to 1994, Mark worked at CBN news as a national anchor/reporter for 2 years. Prior to this, Mark was a member of KMID News as an anchor and reporter for 10 months. In May 1981, Bradshaw started working as a reporter at KTVL News. He used to offer 5 pm and 11 pm weeknight news transmission. Before that, he worked 12 years at KTRVL News from 1980 to 1992. Mark started his career in journalism at KPIC News as an Anchor and Reporter from July 1980 to March 1980.

Cumming’s Other Experiences

Prior to this, Cummings was an Assistant Director at The Shawn M. Donnelley Center for Nonprofit Communication in May 2018. Later, she was promoted to Firm Director. When she was an Assistant Director, she managed social media, content development teams, and videos for clients. In June 2019, Lilly became a part of CBS News as an Internee of CBS This Morning Saturday, where she worked alongside producers to gather content for stories, wrote teases, helped with shoots, transcribed interviews, pulled content from newspath, archives, and Avid interplay software, wrote newsworthy and also conducted relevant stories every week.

Lilly was a Marketing Intern at Pythian Market in January 2019 for 5 months. She scheduled content via Sprout Social, compiled digital content for Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, created promotional material. In June 2017, Cummings also became a Promotional Intern at Tulsa Driller Baseball and developed game-day scripts for the video production and promotion crew. Plus, she also acquired sales and production experience there. 

Lilly was also a Morning News Intern at WDSU TV News Orleans from January 2018 to May 2018. In New Orleans, she produced edits and anchors packages, compiled scripts for anchors in weekend guest interviews, managed the intern Twitter account and also helped web production and assignment desk operations.

KTUL weather team covers a wide range of weather transmissions in Tusla, Oklahoma. With state-of-the-art weather technology such as interactive KTUL weather radar, KTUL weather cams, Tusla’s Channel 8 weather vehicle loaded with advanced equipment, and other technology, Channel 8 Tusla weather team provides the best forecast in the region. Besides, the team keeps a close eye on the harsh weather conditions and lets the audience know as soon as they detect unusual weather behavior in any part of Tusla and Oklahoma.

Did KTUL get some new meteorologists?

The new meteorologist who came after the retirement of Frank Mitchell was Dan Threlkeld. Threlkeld is also a part of Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences as a Director of Digital Media Relations. Before that, he was a member of Cox Media Group, Tulsa as a Producer from November 2014 to November 2015. Dan also worked at Tulsa Community College as an Adjunct Professor from March 2013 to September 2015. 

In October 2002, he joined KJRH as a Chief Meteorologist and earned Emmys in 2006, 2007, and 2012. There, he also used to act as a director and leader for a newsroom team and managed the squad of 4 weather anchors on severe weather and other such weather-related events. Moreover, under his supervision, the station’s 6 pm newscast jumped from number 4 to number 2. Dan also developed an experienced network of spotters/storm chasers, delivering them extra training based on his previous experiences.

Threkeld started his career in journalism as a Meteorologist from KFOR. Dan used to create and provide the weathercast for the channel, take part in storm chasing both on the ground and in the chopper, helped in scheduling the reporting alongside producing weather-related sections. Moreover, he also used to deliver web content for the network and developed sweep stories for the viewers. Not to mention, his participation in all severe weather events. 

Furthermore, Therkeld did his Bachelor’s degree in Arts from the University of Central Oklahoma from 1994 to 1997. He completed his graduation in Meteorology from the Mississippi State University.

KTUL Weather Maps 

The following table shows the list of maps and forecasts. Each one depicts the separate weather conditions based on the latest weathercast.

KTUL Tulsa Weather Cams

The table below shows all the weather cams installed across Tulsa, Oklahoma.

KTUL Mobile Apps

The world is getting digitized day by day and therefore media is now gradually shifting towards digital platforms as well. Despite having a strong presence over the air, cable and satellite, KTUL also aims to provide the best coverage on its digital platforms including mobile apps. It features both a news app and a weather app for the viewers in Tulsa. Hence, audiences can browse news updates at Tulsa’s Channel 8 KTUL news app and weather updates at KTUL Weather. 

KTUL Tulsa’s Channel 8 News App 

KTUL news app provides the latest news happening in the Tusla region. Also, never miss on political reports, sports transmission, weather coverage, traffic updates, KTUL live stream, and in-depth articles with the station’s newly designed KTUL mobile app. Moreover, the app’s notification system provides alerts about Tusla breaking news and local events. 

Other services included in the app are:

• News weather section in the app with latest forecasts
• KTUL live stream
• Breaking News Alerts & stories 
• Completely user-friendly mobile app that is convenient to use
• Live KTUL weather radar and traffic updates

KTUL Weather

The KTUL Weather app provides the latest forecasts, forecast video, live interactive KTUL radar, weather apps. It also features KTUL school closings, weather cams, severe weather conditions, and other such services. 

The KTUL Weather app includes the following features:

• KTVU News’ specified media content solely focused on the smartphone’s users
• HD satellite image
• 250m live radar with highest quality feed available
• The hourly weather forecast, and daily weather forecast based on the advanced weather radar
• GPS service for the user’s current location 
• Ability to add and remove the locations in the map
• And several others

KTUL News Popular Shows

Following are some of the popular shows aired by KTUL News via KTUL live stream. Viewers can also enjoy these programs on digital platforms including the official website, mobile app and RokuRokuTooltip content stream.

About KTUL TV

KTUL TV first hit the waves with the calls KTVX at 12:30 pm on 18 September 1954. The first show to air on KTVX was an ABC’s college football match between the California Golden Bears and the University of Oklahoma Sooners. Sooners won that game with 27/13 score. Channel 8 Tulsa TV channel has been first signed on under the affiliation of ABC ever since its inauguration, despite the fact that KTVX radio was a CBS affiliate channel. 

KTUL TV still operates under the affiliation of ABC Network. However, it has changed several ownerships over the years and currently has been serving under the name of Sinclair Broadcast Group. KTUVU News’ secondary affiliate partners are Comet, TBD, Antenna TV, and Charge!.