Bumped Up In Tulsa

Back in the Summer, FTVLive told you that longtime KOKI (Tulsa) Anchor Clay Loney was leaving the station to take care of his ailing parents in Texas.

The Cox station has finally gotten around to hiring a replacement for Loney and it will make a bit of history in Oklahoma’s second-biggest city.

KOKI News Director Frank Volpicella held a staff meeting yesterday in which he announced that Weekend Anchor Sara Whaley is getting the main-Anchor gig.

Whaley joins Shae Rozzi on the desk and that means that KOKI’s main evening and late newscasts will be fronted by two female Anchors.

This is a first for Tulsa and still not a practice that you see often in this business.

Kind of refreshing….don’t ya think?