Michael Hibblen
Podcast Festival Announces Speakers, Contest Judges
The festival, hosted by the nonprofit Arkansas Podcast Collaborative, will be Sept. 1-7 in Little Rock and Sept. 20-21 in northwest Arkansas. Podcasters and podcast fans will attend. read more >
KUAR Promotes Daniel Breen to News Director, Ryan Gregory to Program Director
Breen succeeds longtime news director Michael Hibblen, who moved to Arkansas PBS late last year. read more >
by Kyle Massey -
Texas Tech Veteran to Lead UA Little Rock Public Radio
Jonathan Seaborn will be succeeding Nathan Vandiver, who had led KUAR-FM and sister station KLRE-FM since 2016. read more >
by Kyle Massey -
Hibblen’s Familiar Voice Turns to a Different Dial
The news director of University of Arkansas at Little Rock campus radio station KUAR is changing course after 14 years. read more >
KUAR Veteran Nathan Vandiver Stepping Down as GM
Vandiver has led the campus station and NPR affiliate KUAR-FM, 89.1, and classical music outlet KLRE-FM, 90.5, since March 2016. read more >
by Kyle Massey -
Remembering Pat Lynch, Radio’s Local Days
Pat Lynch was built for radio, his old colleague Michael Hibblen says, perhaps because Lynch inhabited an audio world. read more >
by Kyle Massey -
Wanted: Job in Radio. Experience: Legendary.
Tom Wood may be an Arkansas radio icon, but he's also one who's unemployed, a casualty of modern radio’s big chain era. read more >
by Kyle Massey -
A Vulture and a Child; A Mob and a Student
Journalists constantly consider possible unintended effects of what they print. They also walk a line between taking action and strictly observing events. read more >
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KUAR’s Startup Arkansas Public Media Aims High
Bobby Ampezzan and Vanessa McKuin are leading a new multimedia startup based at KUAR-FM in Little Rock, funded by a grant of $287,300 from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. read more >
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Bobby Ampezzan Joins Statewide Radio Network
Natural State News, a regional collaboration of Arkansas public radio stations based at KUAR-FM in Little Rock, announced that Bobby Ampezzan has been hired as the project's managing editor. read more >
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Tax Cuts, Voter ID, Big River Steel on ‘Arkansas Week’
On "Arkansas Week," those $2 billion worth of looming tax cut bills Republicans are starting to run in the Legislature, more on the non-expansion expansion of Medicaid, voter ID, a bit on Big River Steel and battling budgets in Washington D.C. read more >
by Lance Turner -
Arkansas Week Tonight: McDaniel, Shoffner, #ARLEG, Medicaid & Wal-Mart
A packed, fast-paced show tonight on AETN's "Arkansas Week." read more >
by Lance Turner -
Video: Joe Thompson, Jeff Hankins & the Health Care Ruling on ‘Arkansas Week’
Video of this week "Arkansas Week," which centers on Thursday's landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling on health care reform. The episode begins with a 15-minute interview with Arkansas Surgeon General Dr. Joe Thompson. read more >
by Lance Turner -
May Tax Collections; Runoffs in #AR1, #AR4; Ethics on the Ballot; and Whither Winconsin? on ‘Arkansas Week’
KUAR-FM radio's Michael Hibblen, Arkansas Times' Max Brantley and I join Steve Barnes for tonight's edition of AETN's "Arkansas Week." read more >
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Video: Jeff Hankins Sees ‘A Better Mood’ About the State’s Economy
Appearing on AETN's "Arkansas Week" this week, Arkansas Business Publisher Jeff Hankins examines the state's April tax collections report and senses a better sense that the economy is improving. read more >
by Lance Turner -