A New Signal For Local News
Tulsa wants them back.Let's turn the signal back on.
The end of a television-station job should not automatically mean the end of a journalist's relationship with the community that trusted them. SignalLive Tulsa is building another path.
Help us measure whether Tulsa would follow the journalists it already knows and trusts to a new independent local-news platform.
The Announcement
I heard you, Tulsa.
People have been asking for another local-news choice. We're building one.
The signal went dark.
The trust didn't.
SignalLive Tulsa — turn the signal back on.
Audience Support
If you want them back, prove it.
Comments matter.
But measurable audience support can build something.
If trusted Tulsa journalists had a new independent way to continue delivering real local news, would you watch them?
Support is building.
The Idea
The audience didn't disappear.
A corporation can eliminate a position.
It cannot automatically erase years of trust between a journalist and the people they served.
SignalLive Tulsa is being built around a different idea:
The station may control the transmitter.It doesn't own the relationship.
How It Works
What if we turned the technology around?
People are understandably angry about technology being used to eliminate experienced journalists.
SignalLive takes a different approach.
Technology should preserve trusted journalism — not erase it.
What stays human
- Reporting
- Interviews
- Editorial judgment
- Story selection
- Verification
- Script approval
- Journalistic responsibility
- Identity authorization
What technology changes
- Virtual studio production
- Physical-presence requirements
- Production orchestration
- Presentation workflows
- Graphics and media routing
- Program assembly
- Distribution possibilities
The journalist remains the journalist.
Authorized Digital Twins
No authorization. No Digital Twin.
Where a journalist chooses to participate, an authorized Digital Twin can provide another way for that journalist to appear within SignalLive programming.
The Digital Twin represents a real person.
It is not permission to impersonate that person.
SignalLive is being designed around explicit identity authorization and controlled use.
- Real journalist.
- Real reporting.
- Real interviews.
- Real field video.
- Human editorial control.
- Authorized digital presentation.
SignalLive Producer™
This isn't just a concept.
The production system is already being built.
SignalLive Producer is being developed as the production and orchestration system behind SignalLive programming. It connects the approved rundown to talent, scripts, virtual-set positions, programmable screens, media, graphics and final production.
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Rundown
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Approved script
- 03
Authorized talent
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Set position
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Media + graphics
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Production
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QC
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Program
The Studio
A virtual studio built like a broadcast facility.
This is not intended to function as one static virtual background. SignalLive Tulsa is being designed as a multi-position broadcast environment capable of supporting an entire local newscast.
- Anchor desk
- Weather center
- Sports center
- Newsroom
- Reporter live-shot area
- OTS / story wall
- Reporter standup area
- Kitchen / lifestyle set
Technical Proof
This isn't just a virtual background.
It is being mapped for production.
Studio positions, cameras and programmable display surfaces are being mapped into SignalLive Producer so a producer can coordinate talent placement, graphics, weather, sports, OTS content and other production elements directly from the program workflow.
People
Local news takes a newsroom.
- Anchors
- Reporters
- MMJs
- Photojournalists
- Producers
- Assignment editors
- Video editors
- Meteorologists
- Sports journalists
- Graphics / creative
- Newsroom leaders
SignalLive is not based on replacing an entire newsroom with an avatar.
Real local journalism still requires people.
The delivery model can change.The value of journalists doesn't.
Journalists
Your broadcasting career doesn't have to end here.
If you were affected by newsroom layoffs, SignalLive wants to hear from you.
This is an early interest conversation — not a guaranteed job or employment offer.
Founding Sponsors
Help put local journalism back on the air.
We are also interested in hearing from businesses and organizations that want to support a new independent local-news model.
FAQ
Questions
+ What is SignalLive Tulsa?
SignalLive Tulsa is a developing independent local-news platform combining real journalism, virtual production, authorized Digital Twin presentation and the SignalLive Producer production system.
+ Is AI replacing the journalist?
That is not the SignalLive model. Journalists retain their professional role and human editorial authority. Technology changes parts of production and presentation.
+ What is an authorized Digital Twin?
A digital representation of a real individual used with that individual's authorization.
+ Have former KJRH journalists joined SignalLive?
SignalLive is currently reaching out to affected journalists. No individual journalist should be assumed to be affiliated with or participating in SignalLive unless that participation is officially announced.
+ Where will SignalLive Tulsa air?
Distribution plans are currently being developed. Supporters who register will receive launch updates.
+ When does it launch?
We're moving quickly. Join the support list to receive launch updates.
The signal went dark.The trust didn't.
If you would follow trusted Tulsa journalists to a new independent local-news platform, make your voice measurable.
SignalLive Tulsa™
Turn the signal back on.