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Sunday, September 30, 2007

The Atkins Chronicle Newspaper

The Atkins Chronicle
204 Avenue One NE
PO Box 188
Atkins, AR 72823

479-641-7161
e-mail news@atkinschronicle.com

website: http://www.atkinschronicle.com/index2.htm

The Arkadelphia Daily Siftings Herald Newspaper

The Arkadelphia Daily Siftings Herald

205 S. 26th St.
Arkadelphia, AR 71923

website: http://www.siftingsherald.com/

Established in 1886. The Arkadelphia Daily Siftings Herald, a Liberty Group - Arkansas Holdings Publication is published Monday through Friday evenings, except New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

KWNL-CA Univision Arkansas

KWNL-CA AR WINSLOW USA

Licensee: FORT SMITH 46, INC.
Service Designation: CA Class A television station

Channel: 9 186 - 192 MHz Licensed
File No.: BLTVL-20000703AEF Facility ID number: 52426
CDBS Application ID No.: 508428

website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KWNL-CA

KWNL-CA (formerly KBBL-CA) is a Univision affiliate in Winslow, Arkansas, serving the Fort Smith area on VHF channel 9. KWNL-CA is owned and operated by Equity Broadcasting, who also owns local Fox affiliate KPBI-CA. The call letters were changed on July 6, 2006.

As of July 14, 2006, the KBBL-CA call letters reappeared on Channel 56 in Springfield, Missouri, curiously the namesake of the Simpsons' fictional hometown. However, that station is a translator of KWBM, Equity's WB (to be My Network TV) station in that market, and likely not inspired by the KBBL-TV of The Simpsons.

KFTA-TV - Fox Fort Smith/Fayetteville, Arkansas

Nwahomepage.com and its supporting entities, KNWA-TV and KFTA-TV are committed to being your main internet portal for Northwest Arkansas and the River Valley. If you know of something you would like to see on this site, please let us know immediately.

Our Business Office is open 8am-5pm Monday – Friday. Our main office numbers are: (479) 571-5100 or toll-free at (866) 946-5692.

If you know of Breaking News, please contact us at (479) 571-TIPS or toll-free at (866) 990-2699.

website: http://nwahomepage.com/

KFTA-TV is the Fox affiliate for the Fort Smith/Fayetteville, Arkansas television market.

The station debuted on November 12, 1978 as KLMN-TV, the area's third television station. It was a CBS affiliate. In 1980, it swapped affiliations with KFSM-TV and became the area's NBC affiliate. Two years later, it changed its calls to KPOM-TV (for People On the Move). In 1989, it signed on a full-time satellite, KFAA-TV, to provide a better signal in Fayetteville. The station began a newscast in 1999. In 2005, the stations changed their calls to KFTA-TV and KNWA-TV, respectively, and KNWA became the main station.

In 2006, the stations' owner, Nexstar Broadcasting, announced that KFTA would become the Fox affiliate for the area, while KNWA will become the area's sole NBC affiliate. KFTA being sold to Mission Broadcasting; it will continue to be operated by Nexstar under a local marketing agreement with KNWA-TV. The network change took place on August 28 even though Equity Broadcasting, the owner of former Fox affiliate KPBI-CA, challenged the sale of KFTA-TV with the FCC.

The two stations will continue to simulcast from 7 AM to 5 PM until KFTA's sale is approved.

KLRT Fox 16

KLRT Fox 16
10800 Colonel Glenn
Little Rock, AR 72204

501.225.0016

Fax: National Sales Fax:
501.225.0428 501.225.0485

website: http://www.fox16.com/

KLRT (also referred to as "Fox 16"), is the Fox affiliate based out of Little Rock, owned by Clear Channel Communications in a duopoly with CW affiliate KASN channel 38. Its transmitter is located atop Shinall Mountain.

The station broadcasts its analog signal on UHF channel 16 and its digital signal broadcasts on UHF channel 30.

KLRT runs about 12 hours a week of locally produced newscasts, as well as first-run prime time and sports programming from Fox. It also runs off-network sitcoms, talk shows, reality shows, sports, and court shows.

KHBS TV Fort Smith, Arkansas

KHBS, Fort Smith
2415 North Albert Pike
Fort Smith, AR 72904

Phone: (479) 783-4040
Fax: (479) 785-5375

KHOG, Fayetteville
15 North Church Street
Fayetteville, AR 72701

Phone: (479) 521-1010
Fax: (479) 521-9124

website: http://www.4029tv.com/

KHBS is a television station in Fort Smith, Arkansas, broadcasting locally on channel 40 as an affiliate of ABC. Additionally, a satellite station, KHOG-TV in Fayetteville, Arkansas, rebroadcasts the station's signal on channel 29. Both stations are owned by Hearst-Argyle Television and are normally referred to as one entity.

History
Channel 40 began as CBS affiliate KFPW-TV in 1971. In 1977, a satellite station called KTVP on channel 29 in Fayetteville was added. It was Fayetteville's second attempt at a commercial television station, after KGTO-TV, airing NBC and CBS programs in the area on channel 36, went dark after a few years in the early 1970s.

Both stations have changed callsigns and their affiliation in their history. In 1978, the stations moved from CBS to ABC. In 1983, KFPW-TV changed its call letters to KHBS, and in 1987, KTVP became KHOG-TV.

KNWA-TV NBC TV Arkansas

KNWA-TV is the NBC television affiliate for the Fort Smith/Fayetteville, Arkansas television market. KNWA is licensed to Rogers; it broadcasts on analog channel 51 and digital channel 50. It operates out of Fayetteville under the ownership of Nexstar Broadcasting.

KNWA-TV was started on August 23, 1989 as KFAA-TV, a satellite of KPOM-TV in Fort Smith. It launched a newscast in 1999. The stations changed their calls to KNWA-TV and KFTA-TV in 2004, and KNWA became the main station.

KTAL TV - Texarkana News

KTAL TV
#132 Central Mall
Texarkana, TX 75503

Texarkana Phone
Main: (903) 334-0285
Main Fax: (903) 334-0288

website: http://arklatexhomepage.com/

KTAL-TV is the NBC television affiliate serving the Shreveport, Louisiana/ Texarkana, Arkansas-Texas market. It is licensed to the Texas side of Texarkana, and is the only station in the market licensed outside of Louisiana. Its main studio is located in Shreveport, with a satellite studio in Texarkana. KTAL-TV broadcasts on Channel 6 analog and Channel 15 digital. KTAL is owned by Nexstar Broadcasting. Its transmitter is located in Vivian in northern Caddo Parish.

KTVE, Channel 10 NBC TV

KTVE
200 Pavilion Road
West Monroe, LA 71292
(318) 323-1972

website: http://www.nbc10news.net/

KTVE, Channel 10, is the NBC affiliate for the El Dorado, Arkansas/Monroe, Louisiana DMA. The station is licensed to El Dorado, but its main studio is located in West Monroe, Louisiana. KTVE is owned by Piedmont Television, and is sister station to the area's Fox affiliate, KARD.

KTVE’s transmitter is a 609.6 meter high guy-wired aerial mast (or antenna) is located in Bolding, Arkansas(geographical coordinates: 33°4′41.7″N, 92°13′31″W), is one of the largest structures of its kind. As a result, KTVE’s signal can be seen in 18 counties and parishes in Arkansas and Louisiana. On certain occasions, the signal can been seen as far north as Hot Springs, Arkansas, and as far west as Texarkana, Texas. For many years, it was known as "Region 10" because it could be seen over the air and on cable in many areas outside the market.

KVTN in Little Rock

VTN
P.O. Box 22007
Little Rock, AR 72211

website: http://www.vtntv.com/

The Victory Television Network, or VTN, is a statewide religious television network founded in 1988 by husband-and-wife Happy and Jeanne Caldwell as a result of a direct calling from God to reach the state of Arkansas with the life-changing message of Jesus Christ. KVTN in Little Rock was the first station to sign on the air on December 1, 1988. VTN is available on more than 225 cable systems across the region. The main KVTN station is also available to DirecTV and Dish Network customers within the Little Rock market.

KAIT-TV in Jonesboro, Arkansas

KAIT-TV
PO Box 790
472 County Road 766
Jonesboro, AR 72401

Front Desk:
(870) 931-8888

News Tips Hotlines:
(870) 931-4291
1(800) 738-6397

News Tips by Email:
news8@kait8.com

website: http://www.kait8.com/

KAIT-TV in Jonesboro, Arkansas is the ABC television affiliate for Northeastern Arkansas and Southeastern Missouri, offering a mix of news and syndicated programming and local broadcasts. The station first signed on July 15, 1963 as an independent, and has been affiliated with ABC since 1965. Its transmitter is located in Egypt, Arkansas. Kait is owned and operated by Raycom Media.

For many years, KAIT also operated a low-powered translator station K11JW operating on Channel 11 in nearby Blytheville, Arkansas.

KAIT currently uses its digital signal to broadcast a 24-hour weather information channel (8-2) and uses one of its digital signals as an affiliate of The Tube Music Network (8-3).

KATV Channel 7 ABC Arkansas

KATV-TV
Box 77
Little Rock, AR 72203

(501) 324-7777

website: http://www.katv.com/

KATV (referred to as "KATV 7" or "Channel 7 News"), is an affiliate station of ABC serving the Little Rock television market and central Arkansas. The station is owned by Allbritton Communications. KATV's transmitter and antenna are located is located on the KATV Tower near Redfield, Arkansas.

The station broadcasts its analog signal on VHF channel 7 and its digital signal broadcasts on UHF channel 22. A 24-hour local news channel, 7 News Now is carried on KATV-DT digital channel 7.2.

History
It signed on the air on December 19, 1953, originally in Pine Bluff, and is now Little Rock's oldest television station, beating KARK-TV by a few months. Less than a year after it was founded in Pine Bluff, KATV moved to Little Rock and took over the studio of KRTV, a failed UHF station that had been Arkansas' first TV station (itself beating KFSM in Fort Smith by a few months), on North Beech Street near Kavanaugh; however, it burned in 1957.

KATV then moved to downtown Little Rock; it moved to its current studio, a former home of Worthen Bank (now Bank of America) on Main Street, in 1970. It continues to maintain a nominal studio in Pine Bluff to satisfy the original FCC conditions for moving the license to Little Rock, even though modern FCC rules would allow it to operate only from Little Rock even if the license returned to Pine Bluff.

KATV, along with sister station KTUL in Tulsa, Oklahoma and original sister station KWTV in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, were founded by John Griffin (whose company would later become today's Griffin Communications) and Jimmy Leake. Leake became sole owner of KATV and KTUL in the late 1960s or early 1970s, and owned the stations until 1982, when he sold both stations to their current owner, Allbritton Communications Company.

KATV has used the Circle 7 logo since the 1960's; though it is traditionally associated with O&O ABC stations, KATV is one of several non-O&Os to have used it. KATV's use of the Circle 7 logo predates even the variant Circle 7 once used by Allbritton's flagship WJLA before it switched to the standard version. However, unlike WJLA and most of the O&Os, KATV only uses the ABC logo with the Circle 7 occasionally, usually in screen-corner bugs where the Circle 7 covers the standard ABC bug. KATV also first placed the Circle 7 inside a square in the 1990's; WJLA now uses that as well, though neither station uses it consistently.

KFSM-TV CBS Fayetteville, Arkansas

KFSM-TV
4201 N. Shiloh Drive, Suite 169
Fayetteville, AR 72703

website: http://www.kfsm.com/

KFSM-TV had its beginning as KFSA-TV on July 22, 1953. KFSA was the first television station to go on the air in Fort Smith. From 1959 to 1973, the station was owned by Donald W. Reynolds and was a part of the Donrey Media block which included KFSA Radio and the Southwest Times Record newspaper.

In 1968, KFSA-TV, Channel 5, moved to its present location at 318 North 13th Street in Fort Smith. Its general offices are housed in the old Carnegie Library, which had served the city since the early 1900s. A large studio was attached to the building at the time of the move.

In 1972, 5NEWS opened its first office in Fayetteville. TV-5 was the first Fort Smith station to deliver local news and sports to viewers in Northwest Arkansas. Through the years, we have expanded our Northwest Arkansas news, production, and sales staff and we've increased our office and studio space three times. Each move was made to better serve the viewers and commercial clients in this part of our coverage area.

On April 4, 1973, KFSA-TV Channel 5, was sold to Buford Television, Inc., of Tyler, Tex. At that time, the call letters were changed to KFSM-TV, picking up the airport designation of the city since its main offices were in Fort Smith. The Fayetteville office was moved to a new location on College Street shortly after the purchase.

KFSM-TV entered into a new era of service to the coverage area when The New York Times Company purchased the station from Buford Television on October 1, 1979. In 1992, we made a major expansion of our Fayetteville offices and studio when we moved to the Northwest Arkansas Mall.

Today, 5NEWS provides News Channel 5, which is a 24/7 local news service available on COX Cable Channel 55. In 2001, 5NEWS expanded to the Internet with the launch of 5NEWSonline.com. In 2002 KFSM-DT signed on the air and delivered digital television and high definition television to the area. In 2006, 5NEWStoGO.com launched giving people access to local news, weather and information on the cell phone.

Over the years, 5NEWS has always been the ratings leader in the area. We have maintained, and even built upon, this leadership because of our ongoing commitment to service and excellence of product that is generated by our employees.

KARK 4 - NBC TV Arkansas

KARK 4
1401 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 104
Little Rock, AR 72201-2940

KARK 4 Main Phone Number
501-340-4444

website: http://arkansasmatters.com/

KARK, Channel 4, is a team of journalists dedicated to focusing on what is important, relevant and urgent to families in Arkansas. We believe that by putting a heavy emphasis on local news and weather in each newscast, we serve your family with information that matters to you. With in-depth stories on schools, family health, faith, crime prevention, local politics and other important issues, we strive to be relevant to your life both on KARK, Channel 4, and on our community portal arkansasmatters.com.

The mission of the Arkansas Educational Television Network (AETN) is to offer lifelong learning opportunities to all Arkansans; to supply instructional programs to Arkansas' schools; to provide programming and services to improve and enhance the lives of Arkansas' citizens; and to illuminate the culture and heritage of Arkansas and the world. To accomplish this mission, AETN, through the creative use of telecommunications, will present a high-quality public television service designed to inform, educate, motivate, entertain, enlighten and inspire.

Friday, September 7, 2007

Arkansas Times - Arkansas Newspaper

Arkansas Times
201 East Markham / Suite 200
Little Rock, AR 72201

Mailing Address:

Arkansas Times
Post Office Box 34010
Little Rock, AR 72203
Phone: (501) 375-2985
Fax: (501) 375-3623
Email: arktimes@arktimes.com

website: http://www.arktimes.com/

from the pages of the Arkansas Times...the Arkansas Times has appeared in many incarnations during its 30 years of existence. Our current weekly tabloid newspaper format debuted in 1992, mainly in response to the disappearance six months earlier of the Arkansas Gazette, which left Arkansas with only one statewide daily newspaper, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette - Arkansas Newspaper

The statewide newspaper is the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.

Democrat-Gazette Staff Directory

Griffin Smith Executive editor 501-399-3610

David Bailey Managing editor 501-378-3594

Frank Fellone Deputy editor 501-378-3475
ffellone@arkansasonline.com

Earlene Prince Administrative assistant 501-399-3665
eprince@arkansasonline.com

Robin Ward Executive editor's assistant 501-399-3611
rward@arkansasonline.com

The history of the statewide Arkansas newspaper is available online....dating from William E. Woodruff's fledgling beginnings with Arkansas Gazette to the newspaper war and purchase that resulted in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette's first appearance on October 19, 1991.

Log Cabin Democrat Newspaper in Conway, AR

The local Conway newspaper is the Log Cabin Democrat.

from their history...

When the Log Cabin Democrat began publishing more than a century ago, all the type was set by hand. Each letter was picked out of a type case, one character at a time. Now computers do most of the work, and what once took hours to accomplish is done in a matter of minutes. The Log Cabin has grown through the years along with Faulkner County and Conway.
The newspaper proudly traces its history to a date in July 1879, when Able F. Livingston came to Conway from Illinois and founded a newspaper

Livingston had been a member of the old Whig Party, and even though the party was gone by then, he chose the Log Cabin -- the symbol of the Whig Party -- as the name for his newspaper and named Charlie Cox its first editor.

In the early 1880s, Livingston moved to Morrilton to edit the Star, and his brothers-in-law, Zol and T. M. Woods, continued to publish the Log Cabin.

In March 1885, J. W. Underhill became part owner. Livingston had created the newspaper as a Republican weekly, but when Underhill assumed control from the Woods brothers in the late 1880s, he turned it into a Democratic Party newspaper.

On Jan. 1, 1894, Underhill and J. W. Robins, who owned a sawmill, decided to trade businesses. The deal was completed on a creek bank and was the beginning of an almost unbroken succession of Robins family ownership. Five generations of the family have been involved in the newspaper's history.

One of Robins' reasons for obtaining the newspaper was to provide his son, Frank, with the educational environment of a newspaper office. Young Frank Robins had just turned 13 when his 39-year-old father purchased the Log Cabin.

Six months later, J. W. Robins died. His wife, Minnie Freeman Robins, published the paper until the fall of 1894, when she turned the operation of the Log Cabin over to O. C. Ludwig. Three years later, Mrs. Robins again became involved in the operation of the newspaper.

Another newspaper, the Democrat, had begun publishing in Conway in 1881, but a fire at the offices caused it to cease publication in 1885.

About 10 years later, the Democrat was revived by a group of three men, and in 1896, Underhill returned to Conway and purchased it. In 1899, he married Minnie Robins and thus became associated again with the Log Cabin. The two newspapers were published from the same office, and the Robins-Underhill marriage was the first step toward the merger of the two papers.

A fire on June 19, 1900, delayed the merger, but it didn't delay that week's edition, the paper read:

"Fire this morning at three o'clock destroyed the brick building on West Oak Street, owned by Mrs. J. W. Underhill and occupied by the Conway Printing Co. and B. G. Muse's Meat Market; all of A. J. Witt's frame buildings including his store warehouse and wagon yard buildings and a small farm building, belonging to Mrs. Underhill...

"The fire is supposed to have originated in the upstairs room occupied by the printing office. The cause is unknown."

Just 15 months after the fire, the two papers became the Log Cabin Democrat. But a year later, Underhill's health failed and Frank E. Robins, then 22, took over management of the newspaper his father had purchased on a creek bank eight years earlier.

When Underhill died in 1906, Robins became editor and purchased his stepfather's interest Two years later, Sept. 14, 1908, there was a drastic change in the newspaper. Frank Robins decided to begin a daily edition of the Log Cabin Democrat to coincide with the opening of Arkansas Normal School (now the University of Central Arkansas).

The next major change in the newspaper's publishing frequency occurred Dec. 2, 1979, when the Log Cabin Democrat began a Sunday edition and dropped its Saturday delivery. On April 14, 1980, after 80 years on Oak Street, the Log Cabin offices were moved from 1318 Oak St. to its current quarters at 1058 Front St.

In July of that same year, a new computer system was installed which replaced the typewriter as the reporter's trusty tool, moving the Log Cabin another step away from the green-eyeshade era of journalism when Able F. Livingston opened his newspaper office in Conway.

Two years later, Aug. 26, 1982, the Log Cabin Democrat ceased publication of its weekly edition, ending a tradition of small-community coverage -- church singings and covered-dish suppers -- that stretched back over 100 years.

On Oct. 1, 1989, the Log Cabin Democrat finalized a planned restructuring of the corporation's ownership. The restructuring included 51 percent of the stock in the newspaper being owned by Frank E. Robins III, publisher; his wife, Dorothy Robins; and his daughter, Laura Robins Falls. The remaining 49 percent was purchased by Stauffer Communications Inc. of Topeka, Kan.

On March 20, 1994, Frank E. Robins III, a fifth-generation publisher of the Log Cabin Democrat, announced his retirement effective Friday, May 27. Mike Hengel was named publisher of the Log Cabin Democrat. The Log Cabin Democrat is now fully owned by Morris Communications Inc. of Augusta, Ga.

The online edition of the Log Cabin Democrat, thecabin.net, debuted May 15, 1997.

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