Jaeger, with her pageant looks and surprisingly stentorian voice, saw her popularity bound well beyond Arkansas when she took to social media, and particularly TikTok, with its funny video snippets, in 2020. KATV'S Kaila Lafferty demonstrates how she edited her on-air reports and the podcast, Timeline: The Disappearance of Cassie Compton, in the KATV studios in downtown Little Rock. When it comes down to it, Im a wife and a mom who just happens to be on TV.. Three newsroom pros at KATV are pregnant, and another just gave birth, leaving News Director Nick Genty to shuffle his lineup and wonder if something's in the water. Sinclair Group Manager John Seabers said Nick Genty was suspended Sept. 17, but Seabers. In November 1963, the Griffin-Leake interests reached an agreement to buy out the respective 25% interests in KWTV held by former Oklahoma Governor Roy J. Turner and Luther Dulaney which had expanded their interest in the Oklahoma City station in August 1962, after RKO General sold its stake in KWTV to address ownership issues related to RKO's multi-layered purchase-swap transaction involving WRC-TV and WRC-AM-FM (now WTEM and WKYS) in Washington, D.C., WNAC-TV (now defunct; former channel allocation now occupied by WHDH), WNAC-AM (now WRKO) and WRKO-FM (now WBZ-FM) in Boston, the WRCV television and radio stations (now KYW-TV and KYW [AM]) in Philadelphia, and the Washington-based WGMS radio stations (now WWRC and WTOP-FM) for an initial payment of $200,000 and title rights to the equipment used by KWTV, KTUL and KATV. ", Arkansas Business Publishing Group The couple also has three sons including Cameron. Griffin and James C. "Jimmy" Leake (who also founded sister station KTUL in Tulsa and original sister station KWTV in Oklahoma City, the company founded by the former of the two founders would later become the present-day Griffin Communications). Beth joined Channel 7 as a General Assignment Reporter in November 2002. It was the journalist's first podcast, but she is eager to do more after a little rest. Arkansas Business Publishing Group Luke Ender Cline has arrived. The AP will not be held liable for any delays, inaccuracies, errors or omissions therefrom or in the transmission or delivery of all or any part thereof or for any damages arising from any of the foregoing. ", Print Headline: KATV anchor, meteorologist apologize for controversial wig incident. Jaeger, the popular former Miss Kansas, left Channel 11 at the start of April to become senior manager, digital strategy and brand management, at Walmart Inc. in Bentonville. Im so grateful people here in Arkansas trusted me to deliver their news every day, Lafferty said. Sullivan has been named one of the Top 30 Irish Americans in Media by IrishCentral.com and has served as media spokesperson for the American Heart Association. She added that her daughters are both actresses, whose careers are expanding, and she will be helping to manage their careers. They fear that to get involved with housework would send them hurtling into the bottomless pit of self-sacrifice that is womens current caring roles.Debbie Taylor (20th century). In addition, she has also been honored several times by the readers of the Arkansas Times, as Best of Arkansas in the category of Best TV News Person most recently in 2014. Beth followed Gen. Wesley Clark on the campaign trail to Iowa and beyond in 2004 as he sought the Democratic nomination for President. However, it lost the appeal in April 2010.[33]. [27][28][29][30][31][32], In February 1999, KATV aired commercials for the Walt Disney Pictures animated film Doug's 1st Movie during an ABC network broadcast of Disney's Doug. He'll anchor the 5, 6 and 10 p.m. newscast. 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. On December 9, 1952, the Central South Sales Co. (owned by John T. Griffin and James C. Leake) applied for a construction permit to build a new channel 7 TV station in Pine Bluff;[2] it was later joined by competing applications from the Pine Bluff Television Co. (owned by Dallas construction executive Burnett Estes) on December 27, 1952,[3] and the Arkansas Television Company, owned by construction and real estate executive Gaylord Shaw, and unrelated to the company of the same name that founded KTHV [channel 11]) on January 28, 1953. "My oldest daughter is a junior in high school now and it's important to me to be able to be there for all the special moments she has coming up before she heads off to college. An Arkansas native, Beth grew up. Now-defunct Little Rock-based Equity Media Holdings initially helped restore KATV's signal to area cable and satellite providers[34] by relaying its digital signal over the third digital subchannel of KWBF (channel 42, now KARZ-TV and owned by Nexstar Media Group) originally as digital channel 42.3 in standard definition, later remapped as digital channel 7.1 and upgraded to high definition. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. 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. Anne Pressly (August 28, 1982 - October 25, 2008) was an American news anchor for KATV Channel 7 in Little Rock, Arkansas. Sullivan won several awards, including an Emmy Award and the Associated Press First Place Award for Breaking News. "This incident has taught me to be more aware of cliches and stereotypes and the damage they can cause. During this time, in July 1958, KATV successfully filed to change its city of license from Pine Bluff to Little Rock, completing the move that October. [9] KATV was founded by John Toole "J.T." Beth anchors Channel 7 News at 6 and 10. Two white TV reporters were suspended after wearing Afro-like wigs on-air for a 1970s-themed segment last month, the Arkansas Times reported. "My intentions were irrelevant. Beth also offers her time and talents to different charities, such as the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Big Brothers/Big Sisters as well as the American Heart Association. We've got big baby news at FOX 5 DC! The station first signed on the air on December 19, 1953. Beth Hunt, the popular evening anchor and Bison from Carlisle High School, is due to deliver her third child in June. I appropriated a look that was not just unprofessional, it was insensitive and it was offensive. Sullivan was a co-anchor of the evening news for WBBM-TV in Chicago with Rob Johnson from September 2010 to September 2015. The station moved its operations to the Worthen Bank Building in downtown Little Rock in October 1970, after Worthen vacated it and moved into a new downtown skyscraper. Copyright 2023, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Inc. She covered the presidential run of General Wesley Clark and the opening of the Clinton Presidential Library which won the station a regional Emmy award. All that matters was how I made people feel, and it is clear that I caused many people, many African-Americans in particular, to feel pain. But she said both her girls are actresses, and they need her. The CBS affiliate is a sister . On Oct. 4, Tucker posted on Twitter: "We had productive conversations with @WeAreSinclair CEO and upper management. [52] A city zoning variance request to build a 100-foot (30m) studio-to-transmitter link tower next to the building had initially been withdrawn, amid opposition from residents of a nearby condominium complex on visual and property value concerns, but was granted by the Little Rock Board of Adjustment to the building's former owners in December 2019. "And moving forward, we promise we will.". She was complimentary of Sinclair in subsequent tweets and commended the company for firing Genty. )[23][24][25][26], On November 3, 1982, Leake Industries sold KATV and KTUL to Washington, D.C.-based Allbritton Communications in an all-cash transaction for $80million; the sale received FCC approval on February 14, 1983. [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. Beth Hunt is a 45-year-old American evening anchor at KATV Channel 7. Courtney stated her decision to step away is because her oldest daughter is a junior in high school, and she wants to be there to share the special moments before she heads off to college. Elicia Dover, the Bryant native who co-hosts Good Afternoon Arkansas, is last in line, due for her firstborn in September. Sinclair regional news director Blaise Labbe will oversee the KATV newsroom on an interim basis. She has been a part of the. [4] Shaw's applicationfiled as business colleague Estes withdrew his, with duplicate engineering data included in both applicationswas accused of being a "strike" bid, purposely intended to delay the grant of the channel 7 permit. She was appointed by Governor Mike Beebe to serve on the AR Governors Council on Fitness in 2010. KATV anchor Alyson Courtney is stepping away from the anchor's desk, she announced on her Facebook Monday. In turn, the three Griffin-Leake stations would be folded into a single corporate umbrella under KATV parent licensee KATV Inc. (subsequently rechristened as Griffin-Leake TV), which would enter into a ten-year equipment leasing agreement with Voss and Kite for a total of $4.5million (or $37,500 per month). [citation needed]. Jean Franseen is excited to join the KATV family as the Weekend Anchor/Reporter. Little Rock, AR 72201, Toll free: (888) 322-6397 Arkansas political scientist and pollster Jim Ranchino, who had been appearing on the station as a commentator during elections since 1972, died of a heart attack as he was waiting to offer election commentary on KATV on November 7, 1978. Todd Yakoubian KATV, Bio, Wiki, Age, Weather Blog, Salary, Net Worth, Alyson Courtney Little Rock, Bio, Wiki, Age, Husband, Salary, and Net Worth, Copyright 2023 | WordPress Theme by MH Themes, List of States in the US, Alphabetical list of States in the U.S., and Abbreviation of States in United States. Rusley, whos from Bossier City, got her start in Shreveport at KSLA, then worked across town as a multimedia journalist and reporter at KTAL. She graduated Cum Laude. Just about nine months ago, Dover told Arkansas Business that her recently settled life in Sherwood, with husband, Jeremy Flynn, and her parents down the street, had been like a Mayberry existence. Papa Flynn is a former marketing manager for the Little Rock production firm Waymack & Crew who joined Verizon Arena as sales manager in 2016. All rights reserved. @KATVChrisMay, KATVBeth, @KATVNed, @KATVNICK pic.twitter.com/NB43aEFQRV, ITS OFFICIAL: My last day at @KATVNews is done, Rusley posted April 20 on Twitter. Jaeger praised her news colleagues and shared some funny TV memories, including a moment when she was reporting at a shopping mall and a fan approached and touched her abdomen, asking when the baby was due. For nearly eight years, the donated footage remained untouched until the Tyson family donated $1.5million to the Pryor Center to digitize the footage. Her message? Clear Channel Broadcasting Tower Redfield, Erin Hawley - Saturdays at 6, Sundays at 5, and weekends at 10 p.m.; also investigative reporter, Scott Inman - weeknights at 5, 6 and 10 p.m.; also reporter, Christina Muoz - weeknights at 6 and 10 p.m.; also reporte. 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[16][17][18][19][20][21], KATV has used the Circle 7 logo since 1965, a logo that had traditionally been associated at the time with ABC owned-and-operated stations, and was one of the network's first affiliates to have used the logo (as designed by G. Dean Smith in 1962). Franseen will report during the week and serve as an anchor for the station on weekends, she said. On-air personalities at KATV during its early years of operation included the station's first announcer, Don Curran; the first news director, Bill Hadley; and news announcer, Oscar Alagood. FILE A KATV sign is shown in this undated file photo. Sullivan was a co-anchor of the evening news for WBBM-TV in Chicago with Rob Johnson from September 2010 to September 2015. Levi White, 32, and Zackary King, 27, face up to 10 years in prison for using excessive force. In a post-Oscars clip seen 2.6 million times, she jokes about the Will Smith-Chris Rock episode: "Update this morning, apparently everyone still hates Chris," and "studies say two things we shouldn't talk about: Bruno, and Jada.". 2 min read, Arkansas Bar Association Legal Hall of Fame, East Village Brewery Seeks $4.5M Planning Permit, 2024 Eclipse Seen as Historic Tourism Opportunity, PCME Receives $766,100 Judgment in Federal Court, New Heights Restaurant George's Hints at Summer Opening, Outdoor Recreation is 'Big Business,' With Room to Grow, 5 CTEH Employees Killed in Little Rock Plane Crash, Supreme Court Won't Upset Arkansas Anti-Israel Boycott Law, Car-Mart Profit Plummets 92% in Fiscal Q3. Neither these AP materials nor any portion thereof may be stored in a computer except for personal and noncommercial use. Turner and Dulaney would then sell the equipment, valued at $2.3million, to First National Bank of Oklahoma City executives C. A. Voss and James Kite for $3million. Under Doubleday, KATV became a major competitor in the Little Rock market. KATV local news anchor Chris May and meteorologist Barry Brandt wore the wigs during a segment announcing that a cold front was approaching Little Rock, Arkansas, bringing the city's record-high summer temperatures down into the 70s. Former KATV anchor returning to work at Little Rock station Arkansas Online. [14][15] In 1959, Robert Doubleday became one of the youngest television station managers in the country at the age of 26. Following that position, she served as the morning anchor for FOX 33/NBC 6 in Shreveport, where she worked for almost two years. Theres a family feel at the station, they are culturally aware of issues going on locally and nationally, and they are focused on integrity with storytelling.. Arkansas really helped shape who I am becoming as a person.. KATV's use of the Circle 7 logo predates even the variant Circle 7 used by Allbritton flagship station WJLA-TV in Washington, D.C. from 1977 until it switched to the standard version in 2001. She will be helping manage their careers. She is 45 years old. News cameramen included Bob Donaldson and Lou Oberste. ", Jaeger, who competed in the Miss America Pageant after her 2014 Miss Kansas victory and joined Channel 11 in Little Rock in 2016, started recently in the new Walmart job. Beth stands at a height of 5 ft 6 in (Approx 1.65 m). Three newsroom pros at KATV are pregnant, and another just gave birth, leaving News Director Nick Genty to shuffle his lineup and wonder if somethings in the water. In addition to anchoring CBS 2 News This Morning with Maurice DuBois and CBS 2 News at Noon, she co-hosted and filled in as the newsreader at CBS' The Saturday Early Show with Chris Wragge, Lonnie Quinn, and Erica Hill. KWCH is owned by the Gray Television chain of Atlanta; KTHV belongs to the Tegna chain of Tysons Corner, Virginia. KATV news director terminated, company confirms nwaonline.com. [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. In December 2014, the couple welcomed their first child, a son.[4]. On July 6, 2004, a spectacular intense high MUF Sporadic-E opening allowed Mike Bugaj[64] to receive KATV[65] in Enfield, Connecticut, 1,176 miles (1,893km) from Little Rock. 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. It was originally published at 11:52 a.m. Barh is part of the anchor team that won an Emmy due to their Best Newscast and has also won Associated Press awards due to her news reporting. The AP will not be held liable for any delays, inaccuracies, errors or omissions therefrom or in the transmission or delivery of all or any part thereof or for any damages arising from any of the foregoing. Customer Service: (501) 455-9333 or email, Monday, Apr. After ten months, she came back to central Arkansas and her Channel 7 family. In her previous job as an ABC News producer, Dover was always a plane ride from the next breaking story, from Hurricane Sandy to Sandy Hook. Genty said he doesnt expect all the maternity leave to disrupt his team severely. [58] KATV is currently one of only two television stations in the Little Rock market (alongside CBS affiliate KTHV, which debuted a Saturday morning newscast in April 2010) that carries a newscast on weekend mornings, the station has produced a Saturday edition of Channel 7 News Daybreak since 1992; KATV does not currently air news programming on Sunday mornings. From 2001 to June 30, 2005, KATV rebroadcast its weeknight 6:00 and 10:00p.m. newscasts on Pax TV affiliate KYPX (channel 49, now Me-TV affiliate KMYA-DT) under a news share agreement, which was discontinued as a result of a decision by Paxson Communications (now Ion Media) to terminate news share agreements with major network affiliates in the markets it had a Pax station, due to financial troubles as well as its rebranding as i: Independent Television (now Ion Television). Copyright 2023, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Inc. Latest title? Courtney stated her decision to. [37][38], On July 29, 2013, Allbritton announced that it would sell its seven television stations, including KATV, to the Hunt Valley, Maryland-based Sinclair Broadcast Group for $985million, to concentrate the company's operations exclusively around its political news website, Politico. "That night I did what many of you have said I did. 4 oz. "After 14 years of getting up at 2:30 in the morning, I'm stepping away from the anchor desk," Courtney wrote. Doubleday was replaced in his former position by general sales manager Thomas Goodgame, who would later move to Tulsa as general manager and would eventually become president of Westinghouse Broadcasting.). This story has been updated. Sullivan began her journalistic career in the Midwest at the CBS affiliate WSBT-TV in South Bend, Indiana, where she started as an intern and was promoted to a general assignment reporter. While at KATV, Kate reported on 9/11 from Ground Zero in New York and presented stories about Arkansans who had lost loved ones during the tragedy. The morning anchor announced the news on social media that last Friday would be his last day. The AP will not be held liable for any delays, inaccuracies, errors or omissions therefrom or in the transmission or delivery of all or any part thereof or for any damages arising from any of the foregoing. Currently, Beth serves as an evening anchor at KATV Channel 7. (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. She came to Channel 7 in November 2002 working as a General Assignment Reporter. The station's transmitter tower in Redfield collapsed on January 11, 2008, while workers were adjusting guy wires[34] (the tower was also used by the Arkansas Educational Television Network for the analog signal of flagship station KETS (channel 2), whose analog signal remained off-air until June 13, 2008, when a temporary analog antenna was installed at the Clear Channel Broadcasting Tower Redfield, where its digital transmitter had already originated). Main line: (501) 372-1443 Tucker said a member from the local chapter notified the national organization. Customer Service: (501) 455-9333 or email, Monday, Apr. Overnight producer Kristen Belue and husband, David, are expecting their first child, also in June. One of her grandmothers worked as a nurse and the other as a homemaker, so beth had great examples of how to work and how to run a home. When I spoke with my now News Director, I knew ABC 7 would be a great fit, Franseen said. KATV appealed the fine, claiming the error was due to a last-minute insertion order from ABC. Therefore, Beth has accumulated a decent fortune over the years she has worked. . News director Nick Genty was fired as a result, but the suspended anchor returned to the air Wednesday night. Most importantly, she has won many awards. City is 42% Black," Tucker said in a Tweet on Sept. 22. KATV anchor Chris May and meteorologist Barry Brandt donned the wigs on camera last Thursday as they spoke of a cold front moving through their area. Beth served behind the scenes at Channel 7 for a few months, then took her first reporting tenure in Fort Smith/Fayetteville. She leaves her position after 14 years, she said. Im blessed to have a strong bench of reporters that can all anchor shows, Genty said. Griffin and the Leakes would own approximately all of the common voting stock and collectively own 84% of nonvoting common shares in KATV Inc. post-merger, with 10% of the remaining nonvoting interest held by Edgar Bell (who would remain executive vice president and general manager at KWTV). 114 Scott St. Franseen is a graduate from Middle Tennessee State University and has previously worked as a morning . KATV also first placed the Circle 7 inside a square in the 1990s; WJLA now uses this version as well, though neither station uses it consistently (KATV stopped placing the Circle 7 logo inside the square in September 2008). Originally licensed to Pine Bluff, the station was a CBS affiliate with a secondary ABC affiliation. 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. Marina Marraco & Angie Goff break some personal news! Prior to joining Channel 7, Mayo served as the weekend and morning anchor for News Operation. Local news journalists are giving everyone outside the affected area short glimpses of what's happening through social media. But I do my own hair and makeup. Lafferty said some of her favorite experiences as a reporter included creating the podcast, Timeline: the Disappearance of Cassie Compton, and going into the community to learn about local traditions. Courtney praised Chris Kane and Melinda Mayo as stalwart co-workers and best friends, and she saluted her loyal viewers, saying they'd helped her change for the better. KATV is Little Rock's oldest continually operating television station, beating NBC affiliate KARK-TV (channel 4) by almost five months. Rusley Heads to BeaumontOne face you wont be seeing on Channel 7 is Kimberly Rusleys. Main line: (501) 372-1443 Two broadcasters at KATV, Channel 7, in Little Rock, apologized Wednesday for their "insensitive" actions the previous month. Proud papa is the versatile Jason Cline, the yoga-teaching former communications staffer who goes to law school while somehow keeping up with officerhood in the Army National Guard. She also anchored the morning and noon news at WCBS-TV in New York (20062010). Dad is Brian Cress, a North Little Rock Shelter Insurance agent. A recent Twitter post celebrated her newfound ability to sleep in, displaying her 2:55 a.m. alarm, then backups at 2:57, 3 and 3:07. Congrats to @KATVJanelle and Jason. She is the co-host of "Daybreak" and "Good Morning Arkansas" for KATV. She is leaving Little Rock to return to Seattle, where she grew up, so she can be closer to family. She was born in Arkansas and raised up in the small town of Carlisle by her caring and loving father and mother. Little Rock, AR 72201, Toll free: (888) 322-6397 [8] It became a full ABC affiliate in 1955 after KTHV (channel 11) signed on and took the CBS affiliation due to KTHS (now KAAY) having a long time relation with CBS Radio; during the late 1950s, the station was also briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network. 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. The station was criticized after a white anchor appeared on air wearing an Afro wig to "celebrate" 70-degree weather, according to a Twitter post from Dorothy Tucker, president of the National Association of Black Journalists. Melinda Mayo (b. Apr 28) is a renowned American weather anchor and reporter working as a meteorologist for KATV, Channel 7, which is an NBC affiliate in Little Rock, Arkansas. 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