News Operation
OETA is one of only a handful of PBS stations to produce a local newscast. The Oklahoma News Report is anchored by Dick Pryor, Angela Rosecrans and Lis Exon. It originally featured clips of special reports from newscasts in the Oklahoma City and Tulsa area. The newscast airs weekdays (except on Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and the day after, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, and New Year's Eve and New Year's Day). The newscast features reports from its offices in Oklahoma City and Tulsa, OETA's Stateline and Gallery units, the State Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry, the Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education and Oklahoma's commercial television stations.
The newscast features the traditional news and also the following:
- In July 2010, started a strictly news oriented show without any weather, unless it was a news story.
- The newscast has no sports coverage, but occasionally features sports related stories.
- The newscast airs a stock market segment featuring the day's closing numbers of the Dow Jones and NASDAQ markets and stocks on businesses that do business in Oklahoma (Kerr-McGee, ConocoPhillips, etc.)
On July 1, 2011, the Oklahoma News Report signed off for the last time as a weeknightly news program, citing a 9% cut in OETA's budget by the Oklahoma state legislature as the reason, the newscast's timeslot was replaced with the PBS NewsHour as part of a shuffling of OETA's early evening news block as a result of the removal of ONR as a weekdaily newscast; ONR relaunched as a once-a-week newsmagazine on July 15, 2011, airing on Friday nights only.
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