Some examples include Matt DeCample, who left KATV to be communications director for former Gov. KCUR serves the Kansas City region with breaking news and powerful storytelling. I guess the meteorologists are exempt from getting into reporting the woke news. Fri, Mar 03. Anchors Alyson Courtney - weekday mornings Daybreak Chris Kane - weekday mornings Daybreak Erin Hawley - Saturdays at 6, Sundays at 5, and weekends at 10 p.m.; also investigative reporter Beth Hunt - weekdays at 11:30 a.m. ( Mid-Day Arkansas ), and weeknights at 5 p.m.; also reporter and fill-in 6 and 10 p.m. anchor Local television station KATV decided to celebrate with wordplay in a "return to the 70s" segment in which on-air personalities sported looks popular . At 12:48 PM, November 05, 2013, Anonymous said. Having Anne on was really strange. The station's studios are located on Riverfront Drive in the Riverdale section northwest of downtown Little Rock, and its transmitter is located at the Shinall Mountain antenna farm in the Chenal Valley area (itself a developer-created corruption of "Shinall"). All rights reserved. KATU ABC 2 offers coverage of news, weather, sports and community events for Portland, Oregon and surrounding towns, including Beaverton, Lake Oswego, Milwaukie . He retired as a reporter in December 2022 after a 37-year journalism career. The other two, he struggles and his voice is just annoying, puts you in a bad mood. . Also said he never thought hed be so happy to retire. Plus Allyson and the Hispanic reporter. A former KATV morning anchor, Kane left the stationin August and has joined Delta Solar of Little Rock as a business developer. The KATV news release about his departure pointed out that thestation led the ratings for the years Inman has been a part of the news department. Associated Press text, photo, graphic, audio and/or video material shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium. Haislip Theatre. Donaldson would later lead the film department at the University of Arkansas Medical School for many years, and Oberste would work at the Arkansas Department of Tourism. Copyright 2023, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Inc. Two white TV reporters were suspended after wearing Afro-like wigs on-air for a 1970s-themed segment last month, the Arkansas Times reported. KATV presently broadcasts 31 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 5 hours each weekday, three hours on Saturdays and one hour on Sundays); in addition, the station produces the Sunday morning business and political discussion program Talk Business and Politics, hosted by Roby Brock (the program previously aired on Fox affiliate KLRT-TV (channel 16) from its debut in 2000 until its move to KATV on March 2, 2014). Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page. Dan Margolies has been a reporter for the Kansas City Business Journal, The Kansas City Star, and KCUR Public Radio. On the heels of Amanda Jaeger's declaration that she was leaving KTHV's early-morning anchor slot for a senior job at Walmart Inc., KATV morning anchor Alyson Courtney has announced that she is leaving Channel 7 to help her two daughters with acting opportunities. This years list highlights the businesses at the forefront of their respective industries, paving the way for future innovations. KATV Channel 7 News -- The Spirit of Arkansas -- For more news and weather visit www.katv.com or follow us on Twitter -. The report offers a comprehensive overview of the LRCVBs year-over-year accomplishments in the areas of convention The post Little Rock Convention & Visitors Bureau Releases 2022 Report appeared first on AMP. Inman isnt the first Little Rock television anchor to transition intothe financial services sector. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data. Also known as newsreaders, newscasters or news presenters, these professionals narrate the day's news in the format of a cohesive television program. Fuller was a news anchor at KCTV from 2003 to 2015, when she was abruptly let go. But they don't. She anchors the KARK 4 News Today and also hosts Newsfeed Now for stations across the country. There was barely an Internet.. I believe our coldest days this winter are ahead of us. Chris Kane, a KATV morning anchor and a familiar face on Channel 7s newscasts for more than a dozen years, has left the station. The station's digital signal is multiplexed: KATV shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 7, on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. On September 20, 2010, KATV expanded its weekday morning newscast to 2 hours, moving the start time to 4:30a.m.[61] On September 10, 2011, KATV became the fourth (and final) television station in the Little Rock market to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition (KTHV became the first station in the market to produce its newscasts in high definition in December 2010, and KARK and KLRT both began producing its newscasts in HD in April 2011, making the transition within five days of one another). [9] KATV was founded by John Toole "J.T." This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. Latest News Stories 'Still in shock' | Pine Bluff man wins $5.75 million lottery prize. Lungstrum cited remarks made by KCTV managers as evidence they were looking for a younger anchor to replace Fuller. At 11:09 PM, October 07, 2013, Anonymous said. Who would have ever thought old circle 7 would have so many 11 Action News folks grace there screen. [39][40][41][42] The sale's regulatory process was held up for nearly a year, however, as Sinclair attempted to address ownership issues involving stations it already operated in three markets (WTTO/WDBB and WABM in Birmingham, Alabama, WMMP in Charleston, South Carolina, and WHP-TV and WLYH-TV in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) and Albritton-owned stations that placed Sinclair in conflict with FCC regulations on local station ownership (WBMA/WCFT/WJSU, WCIV and WHTM, respectively), specifically with regard to LMAs that were grandfathered following a 1999 ruling by the Commission that such agreements made after November 5, 1996, covering the programming of more than 15% of a station's broadcast day would count toward the ownership limits for the brokering station's parent licensee. (A sale of any of the affected Allbritton properties to a separate buyer was not an option for Sinclair, as Allbritton wanted its stations to be sold together to limit the tax rate that the company would have had to pay from the accrued proceeds, which it estimated would have been substantially higher if the group was sold piecemeal; Sinclair sold most of the conflict outlets to Howard Stirk Holdings on the pretense that it would forego entering into operational agreements with Sinclair. Ryan Houston, a Pine Bluff. Vintage Market Days of Little Rock. But he doesnt miss the day-to-day television business. All rights reserved. KATV began transmitting its digital signal from the new facility located on Shinall Mountain on February 1, 2009. May started out at KATV as a general assignment reporter in December 1993, according to a cached biography on the station's website dating back to July 1998. Hilary had previously worked for us as a general assignment reporter. Once he was ready to make the change, Inman said he had to find something he could be passionate about. 114 Scott St. This document may not be reprinted without the express written permission of Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Inc. Material from the Associated Press is Copyright 2023, Associated Press and may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Anne Pressly (August 28, 1982 - October 25, 2008) was an American news anchor for KATV Channel 7 in Little Rock, Arkansas. Its been an amazing run, he wrote on Twitter. The case, scheduled for trial this month, was settled in December; details remain confidential. It doesn't mean it will be bitterly cold, but we should start to turn colder and we will have several chances for precipitation. Learn more about each member of the ABC7 news team with exclusive bios. TV has always been a visual medium, but he adds now its a real catch your eye approach. Its so interesting how different generations perceive Chuck. LITTLE ROCK (KATV) KATV has announced Ryan Houston and Cassandra Webb will be joining Meteorologist Melinda Mayo to round out the Daybreak team in the mornings. A Florida sheriff's office says a man suspected in the murder of a woman in an Orlando-area neighborhood Wednesday morning is also accused of shooting and killing a local journalist and a 9-year-old in the same area hours later, and injuring two others. [35] KATV eventually received FCC approval to build a new tower on Shinall Mountain, where Little Rock's other major network affiliates (and both of KATV's present backup signals) are located. Along with helping GenWealth with their radio programs, he hopes to remain involved in the broadcast of the Arkansas Razorback Sports Network, something hes done for many years and enjoys. Hilary Hunt rejoined KARK in Sept. 2018 after spending two years away from Little Rock with Nexstar stations KNWA and Fox 24 in Fayetteville. . However, it lost the appeal in April 2010.[33]. [48][49][50][51], On February 20, 2019, KATV announced that it would relocate to a renovated facility in the city's Riverdale district in a building Sinclair purchased for $4.36 million. 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