Three years after his unexpected firing , in July 1990 , Roger Cooper returned as anchor of the 6:00 and 10:00 p.m. editions of '' Newsline 9 '' , after the station failed to renew Bowen 's contract ( Bowen would subsequently return to KOCO as an early evening anchor ; Cooper would depart KWTV for the second time in June 1993 ) . Former co-anchor Patti Suarez concurrently left to become evening anchor at KTTV in Los Angeles , and was replaced that August by Jenifer Reynolds ( who joined KWTV as a State Capitol reporter in 1987 ) . A duPont – Columbia University Award winner for her work at Stillwater public radio station KOSU ( 90.7 FM ) while a student at Oklahoma State University , her 14-year tenure at KWTV ( ending with her departure from television journalism in 2001 ) also saw her conduct investigative reports that had led to reforms of state charity bingo laws , the closure of a chemical supply store that the Drug Enforcement Administration ( DEA ) failed to shut down despite it selling chemicals commonly used to make illegal drugs and the dissolution of a DEA fund trust by the Oklahoma City Council , issues of corruption that spurred management changes at the Oklahoma Highway Patrol , and the implementation of the Emergency Medical Services Authority to provide EMS services in Oklahoma City . In May 1991 , KWTV began providing closed captioning of its newscasts for deaf and hard of hearing viewers . The station became the third and last television station in Oklahoma City to launch a weekend morning newscast in July 1993 , with the debut of a two-hour Saturday broadcast from 6:00 to 8:00 a.m. ; the program was joined by a Sunday edition in September 1995
duPont – Columbia University Award
Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award
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