KFTA-TV
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| KFTA-TV | |
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| Fort Smith/Fayetteville, Arkansas | |
| Branding | Fox 24 |
| Slogan | It's About Time! The Area's Only 9pm Newscast |
| Channels | Analog: 24 (UHF) |
| Affiliations | Fox |
| Owner | Mission Broadcasting, Inc. |
| First air date | November 12, 1978 |
| Call letters’ meaning | ForT Smith, Arkansas |
| Former callsigns | KLMN-TV (1978-1982) KPOM-TV (1982-2004) |
| Former affiliations | CBS (1978-1980) NBC (1980-2006) |
| Transmitter Power | 2510 kW (analog) 200 kW (digital) |
| Height | 317 m (analog) 305 m (digital) |
| Facility ID | 29560 |
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| Website | Fox 24 |
KFTA-TV ("Fox 24") is the Fox affiliate for the Fort Smith/Fayetteville, Arkansas television market. The station is licensed to Fort Smith and operates out of Fayetteville on the historic downtown square. The station also maintains an additional office and newsroom in north Fort Smith off of the Kelly Highway.
The station debuted on November 12, 1978 as KLMN-TV, the area's third television station. It was a CBS affiliate. In 1980, it swapped affiliations with KFSM-TV and became the area's NBC affiliate. Two years later, it changed its calls to KPOM-TV (for People On the Move). In 1989, it signed on a full-time satellite, KFAA-TV, to provide a better signal in Fayetteville. The station began a newscast in 1999. In 2005, the stations changed their calls to KFTA-TV and KNWA-TV, respectively and KNWA became the main station.
In 2006, the stations' owner, Nexstar Broadcasting, announced that KFTA would become the Fox affiliate for the area, while KNWA will become the area's sole NBC affiliate, although KFTA would continue to show NBC daytime programming until 2008. KFTA was sold to Mission Broadcasting; though it will continue to be operated by Nexstar under a local marketing agreement with KNWA-TV. The network change took place on August 28 even though Equity Broadcasting, the owner of former Fox affiliate KPBI-CA, challenged the sale of KFTA-TV with the FCC. [1]
With some programming exceptions, the two stations simulcast from 7 AM to 5 PM until KFTA's sale was approved. KFTA and KNWA now air separate programming schedules.
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[edit] Current Anchors
- Dana Sargent
- Dan Skoff
- Courtney Timmons
[edit] Former Anchors
- Deena Day
- Justin Earley
- Don Elkins
- Steve Gibbs
- Rhonda Justice
- Rick Katzfey
- John Patrick
- Bernadette Woods
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- KFTA Fox 24
- Fox Switch Planned Monday (article dated August 26, 2006)
- Query the FCC's TV station database for KFTA
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KFTA-TV
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