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KTVE
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El Dorado, Arkansas
Branding NBC10
Slogan Coverage You Can Count On
Channels 10 (VHF) analog,
27 (UHF) digital
Affiliations NBC
Owner Piedmont Television
Founded 1955
Call letters meaning K TV El Dorado
Former affiliations ABC
Website www.nbc10news.net

KTVE, Channel 10, is the NBC affiliate for the El Dorado, Arkansas/Monroe, Louisiana DMA. Although KTVE’s City of License with the FCC is El Dorado, the station’s main office is located in West Monroe, Louisiana, with the original main office in El Dorado featuring only a few staff members, including one news reporter/photographer. KTVE is owned by Piedmont Television of El Dorado/Monroe.

KTVE’s transmitter is located in Bolding, Arkansas, and is one of the largest structures of its kind. As a result, KTVE’s signal can be seen in all of southern Arkansas, northern Louisiana, and parts of extreme west-central Mississippi. Also, the signal can be seen throughout many counties in the Little Rock and Shreveport DMA. On certain occasions, the signal can been seen as far north as Hot Springs, Arkansas, and as far west as Texarkana, Texas.

The KTVE calls originally belonged to channel 32 in Longview, TX, and were operated between 1951 and 1955 as a CBS affiliate. Then, not long after, KTVE signed on in El Dorado, with their studios located south of El Dorado, on South Jackson. The original building, although vacant, is still standing.

For a time, former El Dorado mayor Mike Dumas served as the main evening anchor, while he was serving his early days in office.

In the late 1990s, due to many complaints from South Arkansas residents about KTVE’s news only featuring stories from Monroe, the FCC forced KTVE to adopt a split-anchor format. During the 5:00 and 6:00 newscasts, one anchor was stationed in Monroe, while another was stationed in El Dorado.

The station was affiliated with ABC for a short period, in the early to mid 1980s. The Monroe FOX affililate KARD became its sister station after it lost its old ABC affiliation in 1994.

KTVE also operated a translator station W02AW on Channel 2. The transmitter was said to be located south of Monroe, Louisiana.

In 2006, KTVE was the winner of the Radio-Television News Directors Association’s Ultimate News Makeover contest. The station received about $300,000 in free design, consultation, manufacturing, production and coaching. [1] On the same day that the station revealed its new set, it dropped the longstanding “Region 10” brand in favor of “NBC10.”

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[edit] Personalities and programming

Current personalities on KTVE-TV news broadcasts (as of July 2006) include:

In addition to NBC programming, KTVE-TV airs syndicated programs such as Entertainment Tonight, Martha, Ellen and The 700 Club.

[edit] Production Crew

  • Rhoda Brown, Head of Production/Morning Director
  • Dave Goss, Evening Director (also fill-in audio, chyron, camera)
  • Brad Singleton, Evening Audio/Weekend Director (also fill-in chyron, camera)
  • Jeff Crise, Evening Chyron
  • Chris Yates, Evening Camera/Weekend Chyron
  • William “Billy” Belsom, Morning Video (also fill-in audio)

[edit] Previous Logos

KTVE’s previous logo, used until early 2006.

[edit] External links


Broadcast television in the El Dorado / Monroe market  (Nielsen DMA #135)

KNOE 8 (CBS) - KTVE 10 (NBC) - KAQY 11 (ABC) - KLTM 13 (PBS/LPB) - KARD 14 (FOX) - WMAU 17/WMPN 29 (PBS/MPB) - KMCT 39 (Worship) - KEJB 43 (MyNetworkTV)
Local digital television channels

KETZ 12 (PBS/AETN)
Local cable television channels
KWMB 12 (The WB)
NBC Network Affiliates in the state of Arkansas

KARK 4 (Little Rock) - KTVE 10 (El Dorado) - KNWA 51 (Rogers)
See also: ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, MyNetworkTV, PBS, and Other stations in Arkansas
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