and Sunday-Fridays at 10:00 p.m.; also co-host of Oklahoma Sports Blitz Dusty Dvoracek – football analyst David Payne (AMS and NWA Seals of Approval) – chief meteorologist; weekdays at 4:00 and weeknights at 5:00, 6:00 and 10:00 p.m. Notable former on-air staff Mike Boettcher – reporter (1978–1980; later correspondent for ABC News) Gary England – chief meteorologist (1972–2013; now vice president of corporate relations and weather development at parent company, Griffin Media; makes occasional appearances in TV ads for local HVAC repair company Air Comfort Solutions) Shon Gables – weekend morning anchor/reporter (1998–2001; later at WFAA in Dallas–Fort Worth) Chris Harrison – weekend sports anchor/reporter (1993–1999; former host of The Bachelor, The Bachelorette and Bachelor in Paradise) Tiffany Liou – reporter (2016–2018; now at WFAA) Lauren Nelson – 4:00 p.m. anchor (2010–2013; now co-host of Discover Oklahoma) Frances Rivera – reporter (1999–2001; now at NBC News) Tracy Rowlett – anchor/reporter (1970–1974; later at WFAA and KTVT in Dallas–Fort Worth) Ed Turner – reporter/news director (1960–1966; later executive vice president at CNN, now deceased) Harry Volkman – chief meteorologist (1954–1960; later at WBBM-TV, WGN-TV and WFLD in Chicago; now deceased) Bob "Hoolihan" Wells – announcer (1957–1959; later at WJW in Cleveland) Technical information The station's digital signal is multiplexed: Analog-to-digital conversion and spectrum repack KWTV-DT began transmitting a digital television signal on UHF channel 39 on December 23, 2003. The station discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over VHF channel 9, on February 17, 2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television (which Congress had moved the previous month to June 12). The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 39 to VHF channel 9. Due to reception issues in parts of central Oklahoma, KWTV was granted permission by the FCC to operate a secondary signal on its former UHF digital channel 39 under special temporary authorization in October 2009, mapped to virtual channel 9.2. On March 9, 2010, the FCC issued a Report & Order, approving the station's request to move its digital signal from channel 9 to channel 39. On April 20, 2010, KWTV filed a minor change application on its new channel 39 allotment, that was granted on June 10. Short-lived service interruptions began on July 29 to allow viewers to rescan their digital tuners to carry the UHF channel 39 signal. On August 16, 2010, the digital signal on