News Operation
KTUL broadcasts a total of 27 hours of local news per week (with five hours on weekdays and two hours each on Saturdays and Sundays); unlike most ABC affiliates, KTUL does not carry a local newscast in a weekday midday timeslot (although none of Oklahoma's standalone ABC affiliates carry a midday newscast, though the ABC-affiliated digital subchannel of Ada NBC affiliate KTEN simulcasts KTEN's midday newscast). The station also produces a local sports show called Ford Sports Xtra, airing Sundays after the 10 p.m. newscast, featuring sports-related questions, competing with The Oklahoma Sports Blitz airing on rival KOTV.
On August 22, 2011, KTUL became the third television station in the Tulsa market to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition. This leaves KOTV as the only station in the market not currently producing its local newscasts in true HD, KOTV upgraded its news programming to 16:9 enhanced definition widescreen in October 2010.
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