He said,Its a possibility, maybe even a likelihood.. Its so interesting how different generations perceive Chuck. A KATV reporter since September 2016, the Louisiana native and former Miss Bossier City will be a news anchor at KFDM in Beaumont, Texas. "That young man was me. The Block Plant is located at 565 Front Street in Conway. Prior to that, Beth anchored live shows from Heifer International, Riverfest, Toadsuck, and just about each other major festival or event in the state. Pearsons story is a little different in how it happened, but similar in the outcome. Dan Margolies is a senior reporter and editor at KCUR. I wish I could say I did, he told AMP. KATV's analog signal remained off the air for two weeks, until it built temporary transmitter facilities from an auxiliary tower on Shinall Mountain used by CBS affiliate KTHV. Read more about this topic: KATV, News Operation, News Team, The current flows fast and furious. It is also available on Comcast analog cable channel 8, with its HD simulcast on . If you watched KATV's. Both Fullers and Merediths attorneys declined to comment on the settlement. On retrial, she won $325,000 but that award was overturned on appeal. Griffin and James C. "Jimmy" Leake (who also founded sister station KTUL in Tulsa and original sister station KWTV in Oklahoma City, the company founded by the former of the two founders would later become the present-day Griffin Communications). Weather forecast delivered at 9:00 am daily. Former KCTV Channel 5 anchor Karen Fuller has settled her age and discrimination lawsuit against the station's owner, . Once he was ready to make the change, Inman said he had to find something he could be passionate about. In a post about his return on Facebook, May said he was "coming home" and called KATV one of the "greatest success stories in all of American broadcasting. Arkansas Travelers Team Up With Buz2 for Radio Arkansas Native Bryce Mitchell Competing at UFC This 2022-2023 Arkansas Racing Season Kicks Off at Oaklawn. The station's digital signal is multiplexed: KATV shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 7, on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. Fast Company has named AcreTrader on its prestigious annual list of the Worlds Most Innovative Companiesfor 2023. Doubleday was replaced in his former position by general sales manager Thomas Goodgame, who would later move to Tulsa as general manager and would eventually become president of Westinghouse Broadcasting.). Sinclair Group Manager John Seabers said Nick Genty was suspended Sept. 17, but Seabers. She moved to Little Rock during her high school junior year when her mother remarried. Under Doubleday, KATV became a major competitor in the Little Rock market. He had spent a dozen years at Channel 7, starting in sports before shifting to morning news for more than a decade. All rights reserved. Ned Perme (NWA Seal of Appoval) - chief meteorologist; weeknights at 6 and 10 p.m. Barry Brandt (AMS Seal of Appoval) - meteorologist and co-host; weekday mornings, Melinda Mayo (AMS Seal of Appoval) - meteorologist and co-host; weekday mornings, Todd Yakoubian (AMS Seal of Appoval) - meteorologist; Saturday mornings. On the heels of Amanda Jaeger's declaration that she was leaving KTHV's early-morning anchor slot for a senior job at Walmart Inc., KATV morning anchor Alyson Courtney has announced that she is leaving Channel 7 to help her two daughters with acting opportunities. In 2015, Mangham was named senior vice president/chief finance officer. Jaeger praised her news colleagues and shared some funny TV memories, including a moment when she was reporting at a shopping mall and a fan approached and touched her abdomen, asking when the baby was due. The KABC team covers the Los Angeles and Southern California area like no one else. Arkansas Fan Tries To Make It Right Almost 50 Years Later, Arkansas Hires New OC To Replace Kendal Briles, Report: Arkansas OC Kendal Briles Leaving For TCU OC Job, Arkansas Photographer Absolutely Bites It Running On Court After Razorbacks Buzzer-Beater, Tenn Influencer Rachel Stuhlmann Shows Off Her 'Rack-et', Michael Douglas Owes Catherine Zeta-Jones When He Loses At Golf: I have to whip it out, Nick Saban Not Happy With Proposed SEC Schedule, Check Out Viktor Hovland's Awesome Hole-In-One. Copyright 2023, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Inc. During this time, in July 1958, KATV successfully filed to change its city of license from Pine Bluff to Little Rock, completing the move that October. ", Print Headline: PAPER TRAILS: Lawsuit settled for former Little Rock TV anchor. His contract is over at the end of January 2016. Fri, Mar 03 @9:00am. Upon its move to the Riverdale building, the Main Street facility is to be redeveloped as part of the planned Little Rock Technology Park complex. 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May first joined the Little Rock station in 1993 and served as the weeknight co-anchor from 1995 to 1998. "For the last time", For the last time pic.twitter.com/zo6CF5SCDn. Courtney even led her news with it. He also worked for stations in Boston after leaving KATV in 1998. RelateCare, an Irish healthcare communications and services organization, will create 255 new jobs within three years in Sherwood, to support back-office functions for hospitals and healthcare facilities for clients in the United States. All rights reserved. [53][54] KATV originally planned to move to the Riverdale facility in early 2020; however, the relocation was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Longtime Little Rock viewers will remember one time KTHV anchor Andy Pearson. Inman is a good dudeall the way back to his Sugatown days. At 11:09 PM, October 07, 2013, Anonymous said. . On-air personalities at KATV during its early years of operation included the station's first announcer, Don Curran; the first news director, Bill Hadley; and news announcer, Oscar Alagood. KATV last week announced Barry Brandt -- "the single most-experienced meteorologist on the Arkansas airwaves, having covered the natural state for more than three decades" -- will fill the role. When KATV made the announcement, it quoted Inman as saying he made the decision to allow him to spend more time with his family. Its a great work environment, he said of KATV. Pearson is also a father and mentionedthe same challenges Inman faced as a parent. But they don't. She was 58 at the time. [48][49][50][51], On February 20, 2019, KATV announced that it would relocate to a renovated facility in the city's Riverdale district in a building Sinclair purchased for $4.36 million. Nearly eight years later, in 2007, the FCC levied a $8,000 fine against KATV for violating the "host-selling" provision in the Children's Television Act that classifies the broadcast of a commercial that features characters from a children's program being televised (thus classified as the 'hosts') as a program-length commercial. Another discrimination lawsuit by a local TV reporter, Lisa Benson Cooper, is set to go to trial next month. Inman closed out his 17-year-old career at KATV in March to begin a job at GenWealth Financial Advisors. Inman wont be totally removed from broadcasting. 2023 Five Legged Stool LLC. KATV, channel 7, is an ABC affiliated television station serving the Little Rock television market and central Arkansas. Every day they tell us that we are a free people fighting to defend freedom. [16][17][18][19][20][21], KATV has used the Circle 7 logo since 1965, a logo that had traditionally been associated at the time with ABC owned-and-operated stations, and was one of the network's first affiliates to have used the logo (as designed by G. Dean Smith in 1962). All rights reserved. On July 6, 2004, a spectacular intense high MUF Sporadic-E opening allowed Mike Bugaj[64] to receive KATV[65] in Enfield, Connecticut, 1,176 miles (1,893km) from Little Rock.[66]. In turn, the three Griffin-Leake stations would be folded into a single corporate umbrella under KATV parent licensee KATV Inc. (subsequently rechristened as Griffin-Leake TV), which would enter into a ten-year equipment leasing agreement with Voss and Kite for a total of $4.5million (or $37,500 per month). [9] KATV was founded by John Toole "J.T." Ol Pard must be rolling over in his grave. Cooper, who went by Lisa Benson and is African American, originally sued KSHB Channel 41 for race discrimination, alleging she was consistently sent to the urban core for her stories and had been denied promotions since joining the station in 2004. I wasnt ready for this kind of change 10or even five years ago.. Dan Margolies has been a reporter for the Kansas City Business Journal, The Kansas City Star, and KCUR Public Radio. If the COVID-19 pandemic increased challenges and concerns for adults, then it certainly amplified those concerns for children. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. When Barry and Todd leave KATV thats the beginning of the end for them. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data. Contests. News headlines delivered at 4:00 pm Monday - Friday. News cameramen included Bob Donaldson and Lou Oberste. He also points out the impact technology has had on the on-screen product. Associated Press text, photo, graphic, audio and/or video material shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium. KATV News Director Nick Genty confirmed . KATV originally transmitted its signal from a tower near Jefferson, until a taller tower was built farther north in Redfield in 1965. 2023 Five Legged Stool LLC. Kane, who anchored "Daybreak" and "Good Morning Arkansas" after starting as a sports desk intern, announced on social media that Friday, Aug. 12, was his last broadcast day. KRQE NEWS 13 - Breaking News, Albuquerque News, New Mexico News, Weather, and Videos. Breaking news alerts and stories Live streaming New weather section with hourly and daily forecasts Live weather radar and traffic information Completely overhauled app that is faster and easier to use. Customer Service: (501) 455-9333 or email, Monday, Aug. 15, 2022 3:49 pm To celebrate temperatures dipping into the 70s after a sweltering weekslong heatwave, Arkansas' KATV anchor Chris May and . The return of May, who co-anchored KATVs weeknight newscasts from 1995 until his departure in 1998, comes as the station is looking to fill a void left open by former weeknight anchor Scott Inman. As corny as it sounds, now I do it every day, he added. They were former news anchors, weather anchor and sports anchor at KAIT in Jonesboro during the 1980's. "I'm also looking forward to being able to see my husband a lot more," Courtney said. Chris May | KATV WATCH MURDAUGH PODCAST Chris May Evening News Anchor Connect With Chris May Chris May, a Little Rock native and a versatile, experienced journalist, anchors the. Full Profile Brittney Johnson Little Rock, AR Professions & Specialties This is what he expects to be doing as he leads GenWealth Financials marketing, which includes the companys regular wealth-management radio show and other outreach efforts. Will Inman ever become a financial adviser himself? Neither these AP materials nor any portion thereof may be stored in a computer except for personal and noncommercial use. They're all so terrified of offending one person, they destroy their entire station for it. Kane announced the news on social media that last Friday would be his last day. "I can't remember Matt without a smile," meteorologist Todd Yakoubian said. Griffin and the Leakes would own approximately all of the common voting stock and collectively own 84% of nonvoting common shares in KATV Inc. post-merger, with 10% of the remaining nonvoting interest held by Edgar Bell (who would remain executive vice president and general manager at KWTV). The settlement was reached just before the case was set to go to trial in federal court in Kansas City, Kansas, next month. She will be helping manage their careers. KATV was one of a few television stations affiliated with a network other than NBC to participate in a news share agreement with a Pax TV station. At 12:48 PM, November 05, 2013, Anonymous said. )[43][44][45][46][47] After nearly a year of delays, Sinclair's deal to acquire Allbritton was approved by the FCC on July 24, 2014, and was completed on August 1. Odds tilt to above normal precipitation anyway during January and February. In 2009, KATV donated approximately 300 hours of film and 26,000 hours of video tape to the University of Arkansas David and Barbara Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History. On December 9, 1952, the Central South Sales Co. (owned by John T. Griffin and James C. Leake) applied for a construction permit to build a new channel 7 TV station in Pine Bluff;[2] it was later joined by competing applications from the Pine Bluff Television Co. (owned by Dallas construction executive Burnett Estes) on December 27, 1952,[3] and the Arkansas Television Company, owned by construction and real estate executive Gaylord Shaw, and unrelated to the company of the same name that founded KTHV [channel 11]) on January 28, 1953. KATV also first placed the Circle 7 inside a square in the 1990s; WJLA now uses this version as well, though neither station uses it consistently (KATV stopped placing the Circle 7 logo inside the square in September 2008). Fuller, now an anchor for the CBS affiliate in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, filed her lawsuit two-and-a-half years ago. All rights reserved. 1 min read, Arkansas Bar Association Legal Hall of Fame, Anchors Away at KATV, KTHV: Courtney, Jaeger Depart, ArcBest Sells FleetNet to Cox in $100M Cash Deal, Lindsey Millar to Leave Arkansas Times Editorship in May, Owens Corning to Build New Facility in Russellville, East Village Brewery Seeks $4.5M Planning Permit, 2024 Eclipse Seen as Historic Tourism Opportunity, PCME Receives $766,100 Judgment in Federal Court, New Heights Restaurant George's Hints at Summer Opening, Outdoor Recreation is 'Big Business,' With Room to Grow. It was their first appearance since Sept. 16, when they wore curly black wigs on-air in a stunt that led to complaints of racial insensitivity and the firing of News Director Nick Genty. . Its not uncommon for journalists to change careers. Leake who had moved from being a 3.5% minority partner in KATV to half-owner as a result of the earlier investor divestitures retained ownership of KATV, KTUL, Ponca City, Oklahoma-based cable television operator Cable TV Co. and a controlling 80% interest in the construction permit for Fajardo, Puerto Rico television station WSTE (now WORO-DT), while Griffin retained ownership of KWTV under the licensee Century Communications Co. (Griffin's company would eventually return to Arkansas in September 1985, when it purchased NBC affiliate KPOM-TV [now Fox affiliate KFTA-TV] in Fort Smith from the Ozark Broadcasting Company; Griffin would sell KPOM and the Rogers-based satellite station it signed on in October 1989, KFAA-TV [now KNWA-TV], to the Nexstar Broadcasting Group owner of KATV rival KARK-TV in September 2003. Jaeger, with her pageant looks and surprisingly stentorian voice, saw her popularity bound well beyond Arkansas when she took to social media, and particularly TikTok, with its funny video snippets, in 2020. Wendy Suares - KARK 4 Today anchor 2010-2013. Her message? A former anchor who spent 5 years with KATV in the 1990s returned to the anchor desk Monday, filling a role left empty since Scott Inman departed the station earlier this year. Inman doesnt know if hell miss TV. Kate Sullivan (born June 19, 1976) is an American television show host, producer, and television news anchor. "Twelfth Night" Campus Performance. He said if he does miss it, its only during really big stories. It issues in a spate of words from the loudspeakers and the politicians. "She came in and fit into our pattern immediately. KWCH is owned by the Gray Television chain of Atlanta; KTHV belongs to the Tegna chain of Tysons Corner, Virginia. Lungstrum cited remarks made by KCTV managers as evidence they were looking for a younger anchor to replace Fuller. Kane, who anchored "Daybreak" and "Good Morning Arkansas" after starting as a sports desk intern, announced on social mediathat Friday, Aug. 12, was his last broadcast day. FORECAST CAST: And speaking of KATV and Perme, the station has named a replacement chief meteorologist. Barbara Roberts - she was with the station in the early 2000s. That is until February of 2015 when, at age 47, Fuller's contract was not renewed. LITTLE ROCK, Ark. Mike Beebe; Cecillea Pond-Mayo, a onetime TV reporter, who is now communications director for the Arkansas House of Representatives; Meg Matthews, a onetime TV reporter on KTHV, who served as communications director for the city of Little Rock; and,