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KARK-TV (channel 4) is a television station in Little Rock, Arkansas, United States, affiliated with NBC.It is owned by Nexstar Media Group alongside MyNetworkTV affiliate KARZ-TV (channel 42); Nexstar also provides certain services to Fox affiliate KLRT-TV (channel 16) and Pine Bluff–licensed CW affiliate KASN (channel 38) under a local marketing agreement (LMA) with Mission Broadcasting.
By the start of 1954, the picture was clear. Little Rock's first VHF station, KARK-TV (channel 4), was coming to air at some point in the coming months, which would give central Arkansas two operating VHF outlets plus KRTV; in addition, KRTV would lose its NBC affiliation to KARK-TV, whose radio companion KARK was NBC's longtime Little Rock outlet.
KARZ-TV (channel 42) is a television station in Little Rock, Arkansas, United States, affiliated with MyNetworkTV.It is owned by Nexstar Media Group alongside NBC affiliate KARK-TV (channel 4); Nexstar also provides certain services to Fox affiliate KLRT-TV (channel 16) and Pine Bluff–licensed CW affiliate KASN (channel 38) under a local marketing agreement (LMA) with Mission Broadcasting.
Ted Snider purchased KARK AM-FM from Mullins Broadcasting and founded the Arkansas Radio Network with newscasts provided by KARK-TV Newscasters (Don Corbett and Les Bolton) and Sportscaster Jim Elder. KARK was distributed by KARK-FM or by relays through other FM stations (KNBY-FM in Newport to KRLW-Walnut Ridge as an example).
On April 15, 1954, KARK-TV signed on, the second TV station in Little Rock. (Channel 7 KATV had gone on the air seven months earlier.) Since KARK was an NBC Radio affiliate, KARK-TV began broadcasting NBC-TV programming, and has since its sign-on. On June 22, 1961, 103.7 KARK-FM began broadcasting, simulcasting 920 KARK.
In 2003, Nexstar acquired Quorum Broadcasting, owner of ten television stations. [15] [16] [17] Also that year, it went public on the NASDAQ, and purchased KARK-TV and WDHN-TV from Morris Multimedia. [18] In 2006, Nexstar bought out WTAJ-TV and the licensee rights of WLYH-TV from SJL Broadcasting for $56 million. [19]
The new management was led by Brown, who had set up KTHV's strong competition in the past. He had hired many of the market's most popular TV personalities when he ran KARK-TV in the late 1960s and early 1970s prior to being promoted by Combined Communications to the position of general manager at KPNX in Phoenix, Arizona. Brown hoped to reduce ...
KARK-TV: NBC No Identified as Channel 4 Eyewitness News from the 1970s to the mid-1980s and again from the late 1980s–1994; has identified as KARK 4 News since 2005. Los Angeles, California: KABC-TV 2 [12] ABC Yes Identified as (Channel 7) Eyewitness News 1969–1997, then ABC7 Eyewitness News since then. Louisville, Kentucky: WLKY: CBS ...