KLRT-TV

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KLRT-TV
Image:Fox16.jpg
Little Rock, Arkansas
Branding Fox 16
Channels Analog: 16 (UHF)

Digital: 30 (UHF)
Affiliations Fox
Owner Newport Television, LLC
First air date June 26, 1983
Call letters’ meaning Little
Rock
Television
Sister station(s) KASN
Former affiliations independent (1983-1990)
Transmitter Power 5000 kW (analog)
1000 kW (digital)
Height 539 m (analog)
449 m (digital)
Facility ID 11951
Transmitter Coordinates 34°47′56.8″N, 92°29′29.8″W
Website www.fox16.com

KLRT (also referred to as "Fox 16"), is the Fox affiliate based out of Little Rock, owned by Clear Channel Communications in a duopoly with CW affiliate KASN channel 38. Its transmitter is located atop Chenal Mountain.

The station broadcasts its analog signal on UHF channel 16 and its digital signal broadcasts on UHF channel 30.

KLRT runs about 12 hours a week of locally produced newscasts, as well as first-run prime time and sports programming from Fox. It also runs off-network sitcoms, talk shows, reality shows, sports, and court shows.

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[edit] History

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KLRT signed on the air as Arkansas' first independent station and Little Rock's fourth overall station on June 26, 1983. In 1990, it became affiliated with Fox after picking up the affiliation from KASN, its eventual sister station.

During its early independent years, KLRT's slogan was "Prime Time All the Time".

On April 20, 2007, Clear Channel entered into an agreement to sell its entire television stations group to Providence Equity Partners.[1]

The original offices and studios for KLRT were located at the southeast corner of Bowman Road and West Markham Street in western Little Rock. KLRT vacated its original studios for the Clear Channel Metroplex on Colonel Glenn Road east of Interstate 430 in west Little Rock. The Clear Channel Metroplex in Little Rock had previously been the former location of the west Little Rock Sam's Club. KASN and several of Clear Channel's radio properties are housed in this building.

The original KLRT was razed shortly after KLRT's departure. Today, a local branch of National Bank of Arkansas now occupies the former studio's land at the southeast corner of Bowman Road and West Markham Street.

KLRT's broadcast tower is atop Chenal Mountain in western Little Rock.

[edit] News Operation

The station began airing an hour-long 9PM newscast in 2004. In 2007, the station began airing two half hour early evening newscasts at 5:00PM and 5:30PM. Prior to its full-scale newscasts, KLRT provided some brief news updates and public affairs programming during its earliest years on the air. Early weather information was once presented by former-KKYK and former-KURB morning disc jockey and now KTHV Sports Director Craig O'Neill. O'Neill included a vocal rendition of his radio character "Sherman Bonner, the World's Only Human Themometer" to voiceover some of the weather introduction.

News information was presented by Bill Powell and Linda Gilliam on an individual basis in the early years. Then-KARN's Ron Breeding provided news and later weather information for the station in the late 1980s.

[edit] Personalities

[edit] Current On-Air Talent

FOX 16 NEWS ANCHORS

  • Kevin Kelly: Weeknight Anchor/Weekday Evening Anchor/Reporter
  • Donna Terrell: Weeknight Anchor/Reporter
  • Justin Earley: Weekend Evening Anchor/Reporter
  • Kelly Dudzik: Weekend Evening Anchor/Reporter

FOX 16 NEWS REPORTERS

  • Jennifer Akers: General Assignment Reporter
  • Roby Brock: Technology Reporter
  • David Goins: General Assignment Reporter
  • Sandra Kirk: General Assignment Reporter
  • Brent Solomon: General Assignment Reporter
  • LaTresha Woodruff: General Assignment Reporter

FOX 16 WEATHER TEAM

  • Troy Bridges (AMS Seals of Appoval): Chief Meteorologist
  • Jeremy Baker (AMS/NWA Seals of Appoval): Weekend Meteorologist/Fill-in Weeknight Meteorologist

SPORTS ANCHORS/REPORTERS

  • David Raath: Sports Director/Weekday Evening Sports Anchor
  • Chris Kolkhorst: Weekend Sports Anchor/Reporter

[edit] News/Station Presentation

[edit] Newscast Titles

  • Newscap 16 (1983-198?)
  • Fox 16 News (2004-present)

[edit] Station Slogans

  • Prime Time All the Time (1983-Late 1980s)
  • First. Complete. Local. (2004-2006)
  • Right Here. Right Now (2006-present)

[edit] References

  1. ^ Clear Channel Communications (2007-04-20). "Clear Channel Agrees to Sell Television Station Group to Providence Equity Partners". Press release. Retrieved on 2007-04-20.

[edit] External links

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Broadcast television in the Little Rock-Pine Bluff market  (Nielsen DMA #57)

KETS 2 / KEMV 6 / KETG 9 (PBS/AETN) - KARK 4 (NBC) - KATV 7 (ABC) - KTHV 11 (CBS) - KHUG 14 (unknown) - KLRT 16 (Fox) - KVTN 25 / KVTH 26 (Religious Ind./VTN/TLN) - KJLR 28 (AMG) - KKAP 36 (DAY) - KASN 38 (The CW) - KWBF 42 (MNTV) - KKYK-DT 49 / KKYK-CA 20 (RTN) - KLRA 58 (UNI)

Defunct broadcast stations
KLEP 17 (Edu. Ind.)
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Fox Network Affiliates in the state of Arkansas
See also: ABC, CBS, CW, MyNetworkTV, NBC, PBS, and Other stations in Arkansas