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Ernie Paulson Moves Up to Become News Director at KARK/KLRT

Longtime right hand man Ernie Paulson has landed his dream job, moving up to become news director at KARK and KLRT in Little Rock. read more >
Haylee Brooks
Media & Marketing

KARK and Fox 16 Hire Web Anchor, Haylee Brooks

Haylee Brooks, a news reporter at KMID-TV in Midland, Texas, has joined Little Rock sister stations KARK, Channel 4, and KLRT, Fox16. read more >
Austin Kellerman

KARK’s Kellerman, Who Put Spotlight On ‘Babe Bracket,’ Heading Home to Texas

KARK-TV News Director Austin Kellerman says he’s going home to Texas to work for parent company Nexstar Communications, ending a seven-year stint of directing news coverage for the Little Rock NBC affiliate. read more >
Chanley Painter
Media & Marketing

Chanley Painter, Multifaceted KARK Reporter, Will Join Court TV

Chanley Painter, a lawyer, former Miss Arkansas, champion fiddler and Clinton School of Public Service graduate, will go to work as a legal correspondent for the new Court TV. read more >
D.J. Williams
Education

Woo Pigs: Flirty Hogs Have a TV Teammate

D.J. Williams, the former star tight end for the Arkansas Razorbacks now at KARK-TV in Little Rock, found himself on opposing teams as the football season wound down, torn between his “Razorback family” and Channel 4’s news audience. read more >
Wolf Blitzer with Jessica Dean, who joined CNN two weeks ago.
Government & Politics

Little Rock’s Jessica Dean Has a New Home at CNN

In Jessica Dean’s first week as a Washington correspondent, CNN threw her to the wolves. Or at least to the Wolf. read more >
Hilary Hunt

Hilary Hunt Returns to KARK as Weekend Anchor

She left Little Rock for Fayetteville as a blond TV reporter, but two years later Hilary Hunt has announced her return to KARK as a brunette anchor. read more >
Susanne Brunner (left) will make her first appearance as co-host of "KARK 4 Today" on July 23. Her replacement as co-host of "Good Day" on sister station KLRT-TV, Channel 16, is Ashlei King.
Media & Marketing

New Morning Co-Anchor at KARK; New Sports Anchor at KTHV

A familiar morning face on KLRT, Fox 16, is taking her talents across the office to sister station KARK as Susanne Brunner becomes a co-anchor of Channel 4's award-winning morning news program, "KARK 4 Today." read more >
103.7 The Buzz announced Wednesday that it has renamed its Babe Backet, which will continue as The Bracket With No Name.
Media & Marketing

Bye-Bye Babe: A Controversial Contest Goes Nameless

KABZ-FM's embattled radio contest pitting local female newscasters against one another in a March Madness-style bracket has avoided elimination by changing its name. read more >
Chanley Painter
Media & Marketing

News Staff Moves at KARK, KLRT

Chanley Painter, a former Miss Arkansas USA and attorney, has joined KARK/KLRT as a full-time reporter, News Director Austin Kellerman confirmed Thursday. The addition was one of several staff moves in the stations' news division. read more >
News traveled fast of Derrick Gragg's hiring as University of Arkansas athletic director – even though that news turned out to be completely wrong.
Education / Media & Marketing

Wrong About Head Hog, Then Getting It Right

KARK News Director Austin Kellerman had to 'fess up after messing up when his Pig Trail Nation brand jumped the gun, reporting on Nov. 30 that the University of Arkansas would name the University of Tulsa’s Derrick Gragg as athletic director to replace Jeff Long. read more >
Austin Kellerman distributed photos at KARK after 2014’s deadly tornadoes.
Government & Politics / Media & Marketing / Nonprofits

Mocking the Media at Its Heroic Hour

A hurricane had devastated his hometown, other powerful storms were brewing in the Atlantic, and Bill Bishop was fed up with hot air. read more >
Tyler Thomason and Rebecca Jeffrey
Media & Marketing

Anchor Couple Return to Arkansas, Joining KARK

Two former Arkansas newscasters are on their way back to the state, coming as a package deal to KARK-TV, Channel 4 in Little Rock. read more >
Business Services / Media & Marketing

ComScore Makes Inroads as LR Stations Track Ratings

Sinclair Broadcast Group’s revelation last month that it will use the ratings service ComScore to track all local TV viewership was old news to journalists at KATV, Channel 7, the Sinclair-owned ABC affiliate in Little Rock. read more >
"Every 30 to 60 minutes I'm anchoring in a different city," says Media Gateway newswoman Anne Imanuel, who appears in four markets. Her job reflects a trend as TV stations outsource news and operations.
 
Media & Marketing

Coming to You Live from 1 Shackleford Drive

In a 31,000-SF multimedia center in Little Rock, The Media Gateway LLC pioneers a new kind of newscasting in a consolidating industry where master control functions, the last line of quality control before broadcast, are increasingly outsourced. read more >
Director of Broadcasting Charles Rasberry, KASU Chief Engineer Roy Barnhill (with pipe) and A-State journalism instructor Rebecca Gardner working on Corporation for Public Broadcasting grant papers in 1975.
Education / Media & Marketing

As KASU Hits 60, New Media Is the Message

KASU-FM at Arkansas State University provides journalists to a media industry not just looking for radio announcers, TV reporters, news writers and social media specialists, but seeking prospects who do it all. read more >
Price McKeon
Government & Politics / Media & Marketing

KARK Hires New Reporter, Price McKeon

Price McKeon, a Floridian by way of the University of Georgia and KOKI, Fox23 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, has hired on as reporter at KARK-TV in Little Rock. read more >
Jessi Turnure
Government & Politics / Media & Marketing

Jessi Turnure Rises at KARK as Petrimoulx Heads to D.C.

Jessi Turnure has been promoted to statewide political correspondent for Nexstar television stations in Arkansas, including KARK-TV in Little Rock, where she will host the Sunday morning political program "Capitol View." read more >
Hayden Nix
Media & Marketing

New Weatherman, Hayden Nix, Joins KARK

Hayden Nix, who says his fascination with the weather was kindled in the tiny Cleveland County town, is returning to Arkansas as the weekend meteorologist at KARK-TV, Channel 4. read more >
Government & Politics / Media & Marketing

KARK Channel 4 Wins Local ‘Cage Night’ Election Battle

Riding the wave of NBC’s national election coverage, Little Rock’s KARK won the local ratings battle as Donald J. Trump won the political war. read more >