Nathan Vandiver

Jonathan Seaborn will be succeeding Nathan Vandiver, who had led KUAR-FM and sister station KLRE-FM since 2016. read more >

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 >

An anonymous benefactor gave a record $1.5 million to University of Arkansas at Little Rock Public Radio, home to central Arkansas’ NPR station, KUAR-FM, 98.1, and the state’s only classical music FM station, KLRE Classical 90.5. read more >

The amount is 10 times what the broadcaster was seeking during its fall fund drive. read more >

Bobby Ampezzan didn’t learn he was on the firing line till August, but he knew his nonprofit Arkansas Public Media project was in trouble when an 11th-hour appeal for additional national grant money crashed. Spectacularly. read more >

Don’t mourn the complete loss of Arkansas Public Media, the statewide news collaboration of the state’s public radio stations whose major grant funding ran out at the end of September. read more >

KUAR found itself abruptly short-staffed last month when news veterans Jacob Kauffman and Sarah Whites-Koditschek departed on the same day. read more >

The outpouring was swift and heartfelt after University of Arkansas at Little Rock public radio leader Ben Fry died in his sleep March 10 after almost 30 years of shaping campus stations KUAR and KLRE. read more >

Ben Fry, the longtime general manager of Little Rock public radio stations KUAR and KLRE died early Thursday. He was 54. read more >

KUAR-FM, 89.1 has announced some programming changes during its “Morning Edition” and “All Things Considered” broadcasts to allow the station more flexibility in airing regional news. The station announced it will now air state news headlines in the morning at 20 and 43 minutes past the hour and in the afternoon at 4:34 p.m. and 5:34 p.m. read more >

Nathan Vandiver is filling in for Regina Scruggs, who left at the end of April. Scruggs was appointed in November to fill in for Ron Breeding, who departed in July 2012. General Manager Ben Fry said Scruggs’ departure was amiable. read more >