With both OKC and Tulsa being minor league TV markets, it’s been pretty common over the years to see anchors and reporters moving back and forth between the two towns, but we’ve never seen an entire TV news channel leave one market for the other.
Well, until now.
Yesterday, KTUL Channel 8 – the Sinclair-owned ABC affiliate in Tulsa – conducted mass layoffs and announced they’re going to produce their “hyper-local” Tulsa news broadcast at the KOKH Fox 25 studios in Oklahoma City.
Via The Tulsa World:
Longtime Tulsa television station will be changing how it presents the news.
KTUL, Channel 8, the city’s Sinclair Broadcast Group-owned ABC affiliate, announced Thursday that all news the station airs will soon be produced out of Oklahoma City, although local content from Tulsa-based reporters will still be featured.
“Beginning December 11 we will be making changes to the way we produce news in Tulsa and refocusing our resources, establishing a regional content center to super serve the Tulsa and Oklahoma City television markets,” KTUL said in a statement. “This will allow hyperlocal news and weather content from both markets, as well as regional content, to be included in every newscast.”
Yep, nothing says “hyperlocal” news like producing it in another market located 100 miles away.