Joie Bettenhausen Named Morning Meteorologist at KTUL Tulsa

By Jon Lafayette
( Broadcasting & Cable )
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She will appear on 'Good Morning Oklahoma,' weekdays 4:30 to 7 a.m.

Joie Bettenhausen KTUL Sinclair
Joie Bettenhausen (Image credit: Sinclair Broadcast Group)

KTUL, Sinclair Broadcast Group’s television station in Tulsa, Oklahoma, named Joie Bettenhausen as morning meteorologist.

Bettenhausen will deliver weather forecasts on Good Morning Oklahoma on weekdays from 4:30 to 7:00 a.m.

Bettenhausen joined the station in 2022  as the station’s traffic reporter and midday meteorologist from KWWL Waterloo, Iowa. She has been filling in on the morning show since Bud Ford left to go to flight school.

“Joie is a positive, energetic, and knowledgeable meteorologist.  She knows severe weather and is an excellent forecaster.  She makes the mornings more fun to watch,” said Dan Threlkeld, chief meteorologist at KTUL.

Bettenhausen holds a B.S. degree in meteorology from Valparaiso University She was a weather intern at WCIA Champaign, Illinois, and WGN Chicago before becoming weekend meteorologist at KSNF Joplin, Missouri. 

“I’m very grateful for the opportunity to become the morning meteorologist at KTUL,” Bettenhausen said. “I work with the best team and I’m excited to continue working with them in a larger role. Tulsa is home and I hope to have a long career at this station.” 

Jon Lafayette
Jon Lafayette

Jon has been business editor of Broadcasting+Cable since 2010. He focuses on revenue-generating activities, including advertising and distribution, as well as executive intrigue and merger and acquisition activity. Just about any story is fair game, if a dollar sign can make its way into the article. Before B+C, Jon covered the industry for TVWeek, Cable World, Electronic Media, Advertising Age and The New York Post. A native New Yorker, Jon is hiding in plain sight in the suburbs of Chicago.