ShopTalk Bob Hower, Anchor of Tulsa’s First Newscast, Dies By Merrill Knox on Sep. 24, 2012 - 10:50 AM Bob Hower, the anchor of Tulsa’s first newscast, died Saturday morning. He was 87. Hower was at the anchor desk when KOTV became Tulsa’s first television station in 1949. He left the station for the Air Force at the be ...