[cite press release|title=Clear Channel Agrees to Sell Television Station Group to Providence Equity Partners|publisher=Clear Channel Communications|url=http://www.clearchannel.com/Corporate/PressRelease.aspx?PressReleaseID=1943|date=2007-04-20|accessdate=2007-04-20] ]The original offices and studios for KLRT were located at 11711 W. Markham Street, at the southeast corner of Bowman Road and West Markham Street in western Little Rock. KLRT was the first of Little Rock's television stations to maintain a studio outside the downtown area, and remains so today. Over the years, KLRT and KASN became properties of Clear Channel Communications, along with various radio stations serving the market. KLRT vacated its original studios and moved southeast into the Clear Channel Metroplex (a converted former Sam's Club) at 10800 Colonel Glenn Road, east of Interstate 430 in west Little Rock, where all of Clear Channel's central Arkansas properties were consolidated.
The original KLRT building was razed shortly after KLRT's departure. Today, a local branch of National Bank of Arkansas, an office of its mortgage division and a San Francisco Bread Company restaurant now occupy the former studio site. KLRT's broadcast tower remains atop Shinall Mountain in western Little Rock. Following the sale of KLRT and KASN to Providence Equity Partners, both stations remain in the same complex with the radio stations still owned by Clear Channel; the special events portion of the site is now referred to as the Metroplex Events Center.
News Operation
KLRT broadcasts a total of 12 hours of local news per week (with two hours on weekdays and one hour each on Saturdays and Sundays).
The station began airing an hour-long 9PM newscast in 2004. In 2007, the station began airing two half hour early evening newscasts at 5:00PM and 5:30PM. Prior to its full-scale newscasts, KLRT provided some brief news updates and public affairs programming during its earliest years on the air. Early weather information was once presented by former-KKYK and former-KURB morning disc jockey and now KTHV Sports Director Craig O'Neill. O'Neill included a vocal rendition of his radio character "Sherman Bonner, the World's Only Human Themometer" to voiceover some of the weather introduction.
News information was presented by Bill Powell (formerly of KTHV) and Linda Gilliam on an individual basis in the early years. Ron Breeding, who then primarily worked with radio station KARN-AM (currently working with the University of Arkansas at Little Rock via KUAR) provided news and later weather information for the station in the late 1980s.
FOX16 Notable Personalities
Current On-Air Talent (as of August 26, 2008)
Current Anchors
*Kevin Kelly: weeknights on FOX16 News at 5, 5:30 and 9PM
*Donna Terrell: weeknights on FOX16 News at 5, 5:30 and 9PM
*Justin Earley: weekends on FOX16 News at 9PM (also reporter)
*Kelly Dudzik: weekends on FOX16 News at 9PM (also reporter)
Reporters
*Jennifer Akers: General Assignment Reporter
*Roby Brock: Technology Reporter
*David Goins: General Assignment Reporter
*Sandra Kirk: General Assignment Reporter
*Brent Solomon: General Assignment Reporter
*LaTresha Woodruff: General Assignment Reporter
FOX16 Weather Team
*Troy Bridges (AMS Seal of Appoval): Chief Meteorologist, weeknights on FOX16 News at 5, 5:30 and 9PM
*Jeremy Baker (AMS/NWA Seals of Appoval): weekends on FOX16 News at 9PM (also fill-in weeknight meteorologist)
FOX16 Sports
*David Raath: Sports Director, weeknights on FOX16 News at 5, 5:30 and 9PM
*Morgan Adsit: weekends on FOX16 News at 9PM (also sports reporter)
Former On-Air Talent
Nate Higgens-Weekend Meteorologist
Logos
News/Station Presentation
Newscast Titles
*"Newscap 16" (1983-198?)
*"Fox 16 News" (2004-present)
tation Slogans
*"Prime All The Time" (1983-Late 1980s)
*"First. Complete. Local." (2004-2006)
*"Right Here. Right Now" (2006-2008)
*"Turn Me On" (2008-present)
References
External links
* [http://www.fox16.com/ KLRT Fox 16 Homepage]
*TVQ|KLRT
*BIA|KLRT|TV|TV
*TitanTV|KLRT
