KARK Reporter Haven Hughes, 22, Dies in Motorcycle Crash
The station is also mourning the loss of veteran producer Chris Scott, who died after an undisclosed illness. read more >
The station is also mourning the loss of veteran producer Chris Scott, who died after an undisclosed illness. read more >
He has weather experience in Biloxi, Memphis and Sioux Falls. read more >
Laura Monteverdi, the veteran Little Rock TV journalist whose quiet departure from KTHV raised some eyebrows in July, is joining KARK in Little Rock as co-anchor on Channel 4’s evening newscasts with Bob Clausen. read more >
Shayla Teater was named Tuesday as news director of KTHV, Channel 11, in Little Rock, becoming the CBS affiliate’s first female news chief and only the second ever in the Little Rock television news market. read more >
As a contract standoff keeping Nexstar Media Group stations off the TV lineups of AT&T and DirecTV stretched into its second week, officials for both companies scheduled negotiations for Saturday in California. read more >
Little Rock ranks 57th on the list of America's top TV markets in the latest Nielsen roundup, but it punches well above its weight as a news town, and it has become a notable launching pad for TV journalists moving up. read more >
Nexstar Media Group is selling its northwest Arkansas CBS affiliate KFSM-TV, Channel 5, to Tegna Inc. read more >
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 >
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 >
Bobby Ampezzan, the Arkansas journalist whose job as managing editor of Arkansas Public Media was eliminated recently when major public radio grant funding ended, has joined Mangan Holcomb Partners/Team SI of Little Rock as a public relations executive. read more >
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 >
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 >
An Arkansas Supreme Court justice files a lawsuit to block a conservative group's TV ads targeting her re-election bid. read more >
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 >
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 >
Next month will bring a Little Rock reunion for four longtime Arkansas broadcast journalists when Jim Pitcock, Lew Short, Carolyn Long and Larry Foley are honored by the Mid-America Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. read more >
The Arkansas Broadcasters Association says Executive Director Doug Krile will retire this summer. read more >
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 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 >
Mike Vaughn, the general manager of KARK-TV before becoming a senior vice president and regional manager of Nexstar Media Group, has named his replacement at the Little Rock NBC affilliate: J. Kyle King, formerly general manager of KMID-TV in Odessa-Midland, Texas. read more >
