At 11:09 PM, October 07, 2013, Anonymous said. Recently, however, she's been the news. Chris May | KATV WATCH MURDAUGH PODCAST Chris May Evening News Anchor Connect With Chris May Chris May, a Little Rock native and a versatile, experienced journalist, anchors the. "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. It wasnt his idea to leave. According to the Kansas City Star, Fuller filed suit against the station's parent company in June of 2017, saying she was terminated without cause and alleging age discrimination: "In the eyes of Meredith Corporation, women news anchors like Ms. Fuller, unlike their male counterparts, simply become too old to deliver the news.". 2023 Five Legged Stool LLC. Courtney even led her news with it. Inman is a good dudeall the way back to his Sugatown days. Chris Kane, a KATV morning anchor and a familiar face on Channel 7s newscasts for more than a dozen years, has left the station. KCTV claimed Fuller was terminated because of poor on-air and off-air performance, even though her contract had been renewed numerous times and her performance appraisals had been positive. Shuster began his journalism career in CNN's Washington, D.C. bureau. LITTLE ROCK, Ark. Some examples includeMatt DeCample, who left KATV to be communications director for former Gov. I guess Inman didn't kiss up like Chuck did. To celebrate temperatures dipping into the 70s after a sweltering weekslong heatwave, Arkansas' KATV anchor Chris May and . KATV began transmitting its digital signal from the new facility located on Shinall Mountain on February 1, 2009. Miss him being on the air, and he should be the voice of the Hogs! Meredith and Fuller did not respond to requests for comment. LAWSUIT ROUTE: Karen Fuller, a popular former anchor at Little Rock's KATV, Channel 7, is used to delivering the news. Coincidentally, he pointed out he and his wife recently discussed that he wasnt ready for career change until now. During the analog era, many sections of the state as well as western sections of Bolivar and Coahoma counties in west-central Mississippi were able to receive KATV's signal. KATV primarily serves the central portion of Arkansas. Anchor at KATV Location: Little Rock, Arkansas Area Industry: Broadcast Media Work history: KATV Anchor since Apr 2003 KDLH-TV New Reporter Apr 2002 - Apr 2003 Skills: Journalism, ENPS, Broadcast, Radio, Broadcast Journalism, Television, Video Production, Broadcast. He also points out the impact technology has had on the on-screen product. Karen is 53 years old. 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. Its been an amazing run, he wrote on Twitter. Former KATV (Little Rock) Anchor Christina Munoz isn't the first former TV Anchor to be shilling for a furniture store, but she is catching heat for doing so. Neither these AP materials nor any portion thereof may be stored in a computer except for personal and noncommercial use. All rights reserved. The station broadcasts its digital signal via UHF channel 22, using its former analog assignment of 7 as its virtual channel via PSIP. . Meteorologist Melinda Mayo will continue to work mornings. Granted, we never wouldve heard Eels and none of us knew Chuck in any capacity before being the voice of the Razorbacks. Lungstrum cited remarks made by KCTV managers as evidence they were looking for a younger anchor to replace Fuller. Each one threw down his staff, and they became snakes; but Aarons staff swallowed up theirs.Bible: Hebrew, Exodus 7:12. It is also available on Comcast analog cable channel 8, with its HD simulcast on . Inman doesnt know if hell miss TV. RelateCare, an Irish healthcare communications and services organization, will create 255 new jobs within three years in Sherwood, to support back-office functions for hospitals and healthcare facilities for clients in the United States. One was brought by a longtime and popular anchor in that city who worked for Merediths NBC affiliate in that city for 33 years before she was fired two years ago. At 12:48 PM, November 05, 2013, Anonymous said. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 22. Meredith is facing at least two other age discrimination lawsuits, both in Nashville. She was 47 at the time. GoGoMag.com & TVHeads.com are not affiliated with ABC, Al Jazeera America, Bloomberg, CBS, CNN, ESPN, Fox News Channel, Fox Business Network, Fox Sports, NBC, NFL Network, The Weather Channel, Univision or any other news concern. HAYDEN SAVAGE REPORTER ALEJANDRA HERNNDEZ REPORTER MADDIE SEXTON REPORTER RYAN VAUGHAN CHIEF METEOROLOGIST AARON CASTLEBERRY GMR8 METEOROLOGIST JACE PASSMORE WEEKEND METEOROLOGIST CHRIS HUDGISON. Sinclair Group Manager John Seabers said Nick Genty was suspended Sept. 17, but Seabers. Former KCTV Channel 5 anchor Karen Fuller has settled her age and discrimination lawsuit against the station's owner, . 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. I wasnt ready for this kind of change 10or even five years ago.. He can be reached at neal.gladner@gmail.com. Inman and his wife have four children. The company has a newly-leased facility at The post Irish Company RelateCare Bringing 255 Jobs to Sherwood appeared first on AMP. Courtney, who spent years in the anchor chair at KTHV before departing for KATV in March 2011, said on Facebook that she's leaving TV news to focus on family, particularly her girls' budding acting careers. "She came in and fit into our pattern immediately. So dont shake hands with him. 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.). 114 Scott St. Its the first thing we think of now, he concluded. "I can't remember Matt without a smile," meteorologist Todd Yakoubian said. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Copyright 2020 Arkansas Money and Politics. Never said a word to him, but he acted weird, and didnt wash his hands. Amanda returned to Memphis after serving as an anchor at Action News 5's sister station, KAIT, in Jonesboro, Arkansas. Tony Brooks, Donna Dickson, Terry Wood and Dick Clay. LAWSUIT ROUTE: Karen Fuller, a popular former anchor at Little Rock's KATV, Channel 7, is used to delivering the news. Haislip Theatre. KARK 4 News Anchors Bob Clausen Laura Monteverdi Caitrin Assaf Hilary Hunt D.J. Neal Gladner spent more than 25 years as a broadcaster in Arkansas. The CBS affiliate is a sister station to KATV, owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. She'll fill the main anchor position, Genty said. The return of May, who co-anchored KATVs weeknight newscasts from 1995 until his departure in 1998, comes as the station is looking to fill a void left open by former weeknight anchor Scott Inman. 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. Upon its move to the Riverdale building, the Main Street facility is to be redeveloped as part of the planned Little Rock Technology Park complex. ", 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. Its a great work environment, he said of KATV. The settlement was reached just before the case was set to go to trial in federal court in Kansas City, Kansas, next month. Eric Mangham has been promoted to executive vice president/chief finance officer of Arkansas Federal Credit Union. Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page. 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. May previously worked for Philadelphia CBS affiliate KYW-TV, though he wrote on social media in June 2015 that he had "anchored [his] last broadcast" there. Before landing the job in Philadelphia, May also held jobs at Boston CBS affiliate WBZ-TV and WHDH-TV in Boston. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook to get the latest updates on SEC Football and Recruiting. AMP reported that Inman will be leaving the station when his contract is up to become director of business development for GenWealth Financial Advisors in Bryant. I talked with Darby for 15 minutes and he was very passionate about the weather. Management always found the right fit for the people on the team.. Ranchino was a professor at Ouachita Baptist University[59] and an ally of Bill Clinton, who was elected governor of Arkansas on the night that Ranchino collapsed and died in the studio.[60]. [53][54] KATV originally planned to move to the Riverdale facility in early 2020; however, the relocation was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. KATV is Little Rock's oldest continually operating television station, beating NBC affiliate KARK-TV (channel 4) by almost five months. According to her lawsuit, the average age of female anchors at Meredith's 17 TV stations across the country is 40; the average age of its male anchors is 51. KATV's parent company is Sinclair Broadcast Group of Maryland. 11, 2022 1:50 pm A former news anchor for KCTV-5 in the Kansas City area is suing the station's owner for age and gender discrimination. The KATV news station in Little Rock. The station held a Zoom meeting Wednesday. The thought of helping others reach their personal goals appeals to me, he said. Little Rock, AR 72201, Toll free: (888) 322-6397 317 followers . [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. It issues in a spate of words from the loudspeakers and the politicians. Learn more about each member of the ABC7 news team with exclusive bios. (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. 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 KATV anchor Chris May was suspended after wearing an Afro wig on air. KATV's analog signal remained on Comcast in the Little Rock area after the collapse as it received the station through a direct feed from KATV's Main Street studios, although the HD feed was initially interrupted; Comcast also delivered KATV's signal to other cable and satellite providers. Heather is the main anchor at that station, which is a promotion over where she was. His first shows were that evening. "So, I'd say at least one round of wintry precipitation is a good bet. She is a winner of two Emmy Awards, considering her contribution to the news network. An avid outdoorsman, he hosted FLW College Fishing on VS. Network with former Channel 7 host Jason Harper and professional fisherman Justin Lucas, and hes a member of the broadcast team for University of Central Arkansas football. Jean was born and raised in Memphis, TN, which isn't too far from the Natural State. FORECAST CAST: And speaking of KATV and Perme, the station has named a replacement chief meteorologist. If you watched KATV's. But thats not the case for KATV news anchor Scott Inman. Fri, Mar 03. LAWSUIT ROUTE: Karen Fuller, a popular former anchor at Little Rock's KATV, Channel 7, is used to delivering the news. Inman closed out his 17-year-old career at KATV in March to begin a job at GenWealth Financial Advisors. But they don't. Inman isnt the first Little Rock television anchor to transition intothe financial services sector. Karen Fuller is an American two-time Emmy Award-winning Broadcast journalist. Plus Allyson and the Hispanic reporter. She alleged that Meredith had created an age ceiling for its female anchors but not for its male anchors. 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. In 2015, Mangham was named senior vice president/chief finance officer. Ol Pard must be rolling over in his grave. Layoffs hit the KATU-TV newsroom on Wednesday, according to reports posted on social media and confirmed by sources with knowledge of the situation. Its so interesting how different generations perceive Chuck. He also started and hosted a weekend program dealing with divorce. Read more about Inmans departure here, and his new job here. She anchors the KARK 4 News Today and also hosts Newsfeed Now for stations across the country. The news director for KATV, Channel 7, has been fired, Sinclair Broadcast Group confirmed Friday. Sports Anchors Alex Anderson. Albuquerque 27 . [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. It was their first appearance since Sept. 16, when they wore curly black wigs on-air in a stunt that led to complaints of racial insensitivity and the firing of News Director Nick Genty. (Doubleday remained as KATV's manager until 1968, when he was promoted to president of KATV and KTUL. Bowen School of Law. Jaeger's reply: "I'm not pregnant, but I do have a food baby. Arkansas Fan Tries To Make It Right Almost 50 Years Later, Arkansas Hires New OC To Replace Kendal Briles, Report: Arkansas OC Kendal Briles Leaving For TCU OC Job, Arkansas Photographer Absolutely Bites It Running On Court After Razorbacks Buzzer-Beater, Tenn Influencer Rachel Stuhlmann Shows Off Her 'Rack-et', Michael Douglas Owes Catherine Zeta-Jones When He Loses At Golf: I have to whip it out, Nick Saban Not Happy With Proposed SEC Schedule, Check Out Viktor Hovland's Awesome Hole-In-One. Heather left KATV to be closer to the Mayo clinic where her husband is a patient. The other lawsuit was filed by two other reporters and a meteorologist at the same station. In 2009, KATV donated approximately 300 hours of film and 26,000 hours of video tape to the University of Arkansas David and Barbara Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History. Jean Franseen is excited to join the KATV family as the Weekend Anchor/Reporter. Click to reveal Now, to have the chance to return and once again lead this truly great television station and finish that career in the place where it started is a blessing I can't find the words to describe.". All rights reserved. Fri, Mar 03 @9:00am. Hilary Hunt rejoined KARK in Sept. 2018 after spending two years away from Little Rock with Nexstar stations KNWA and Fox 24 in Fayetteville. KATV was one of a few television stations affiliated with a network other than NBC to participate in a news share agreement with a Pax TV station. They were former news anchors, weather anchor and sports anchor at KAIT in Jonesboro during the 1980's. Under Doubleday, KATV became a major competitor in the Little Rock market. Apparently we both needed to take a leak while waiting on a plane. When KATV made the announcement, it quoted Inman as saying he made the decision to allow him to spend more time with his family. Anne Pressly (August 28, 1982 - October 25, 2008) was an American news anchor for KATV Channel 7 in Little Rock, Arkansas. He credits the news team and KATV management for the long ratings success. May first joined the Little Rock station in 1993 and served as the weeknight co-anchor from 1995 to 1998. Some examples include Matt DeCample, who left KATV to be communications director for former Gov. "Great sense of humor, too." katv.com 'We lost someone special': KATV remembers Matt DeCample Many Channel 7 viewers remember Matt DeCample from his days as a reporter for KATV in the late 1990s. However, unlike WJLA and most of the O&Os, prior to the Sinclair purchase KATV paired the ABC logo with the Circle 7 sparingly, usually in on-screen logo bugs in which the Circle 7 covers the standard ABC bug. Erin was just a reporter at that station. Mike Beebe; Cecillea Pond-Mayo, a onetime TV reporter, who is now communications director for the Arkansas House of Representatives; Meg Matthews, a onetime TV reporter on KTHV, who served as communications director for the city of Little Rock; and, 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. The former KATV reporter died Sunday after a four-year battle with cancer. I guess the meteorologists are exempt from getting into reporting the woke news. Copyright @2023 SECRant.com. 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. 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.[66]. 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. Customer Service: (501) 455-9333 or email, Monday, Aug. 15, 2022 3:49 pm KATV, channel 7, is an ABC affiliated television station serving the Little Rock television market and central Arkansas. Meet the anchors, reporters and meteorologists of THV11 KTHV-TV in Little Rock, Arkansas. Fuller, now an anchor for the CBS affiliate in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, filed her lawsuit two-and-a-half years ago. The Block Plant is located at 565 Front Street in Conway. On retrial, she won $325,000 but that award was overturned on appeal. News cameramen included Bob Donaldson and Lou Oberste. KATV appealed the fine, claiming the error was due to a last-minute insertion order from ABC. A court filing on Monday said attorneys for the parties had settled and compromised the claims in this lawsuit and that the case was being terminated. He now works for Ramsey, Krug, Farrell & Lensing, a division of BancorpSouth Insurance Services, helping individual clients and businesses on a variety of insurance products including group benefits and other business insurance. AHN becomes the The post Arkansas Health Network Earns Clinical Integration, Employer Based Population Health appeared first on [], An anonymous donor has provided $600,000 in second-year grant funding to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) to continue providing long-acting reversible contraception devices (LARCs) for uninsured post-partum patients in Little Rock and Fort Smith. She came to Channel 7 in November 2002 working as a General Assignment Reporter. Copyright 2023, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Inc. 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). KWCH is owned by the Gray Television chain of Atlanta; KTHV belongs to the Tegna chain of Tysons Corner, Virginia. Daily Forecast. She graduated Cum Laude. [36] The license for the station's analog signal continued to reference the Redfield tower as its transmitter site while the station was broadcasting in analog from the temporary site on Shinall Mountain, as well as in digital over a subchannel of KWBF. A jury awarded Craft $500,000 but the judge threw out the award and ordered a retrial. 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. Ryan Houston, a Pine Bluff. All rights reserved. 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). KATU ABC 2 offers coverage of news, weather, sports and community events for Portland, Oregon and surrounding towns, including Beaverton, Lake Oswego, Milwaukie . [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. [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. He was vice president/general manager of KARN Newsradio and the Arkansas Radio Network for over a decade, where he also hosted a morning talk show. Main line: (501) 372-1443 Kane, who anchored "Daybreak" and "Good Morning Arkansas" after starting as a sports desk intern, announced on social media that Friday, Aug. 12, was his last broadcast day. Karen Fuller Age She was born in 1968 in the northern part of Arkansas State, United States. Kate Sullivan (born June 19, 1976) is an American television show host, producer, and television news anchor. I still wish I could be in the midst of it when that happens, he added. . As Arkansas Federals executive vice president and chief financial officer, Mangham is responsible for The post Arkansas Federal Credit Union Names New Executive VP, CFO appeared first on AMP. KATV news director terminated, company confirms nwaonline.com. Brandt, who will handle the 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. newscasts, has been with KATV since 1997. List of Local Children's Television Series (united States), 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. 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. The Brandon Burlsworth Foundation will be honoring Kevin Scanlon of Stephens Inc. with the 2023 Legends Award. Website Designed By CRAFT SEO. 52,470 talking about this. KATV morning anchor Chris Kane said goodbye to the Little Rock, Ark., ABC affiliate after 12 years. 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). 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. KATV last week announced Barry Brandt -- "the single most-experienced meteorologist on the Arkansas airwaves, having covered the natural state for more than three decades" -- will fill the role. Fuller did make a brief appearance on Little Rock television recently. Pearsons story is a little different in how it happened, but similar in the outcome. A new member of the weather team will work weekends: storm chaser James Bryant, a North Little Rock native with a meteorology degree from Mississippi State. 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"). Local television station KATV decided to celebrate with wordplay in a "return to the 70s" segment in which on-air personalities sported looks popular . 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. KATV News Director Nick Genty confirmed the hiring of Chris May, first reported by Arkansas Business, adding that the specifics of his new role, set to begin Aug. 1, have not been set. TV has always been a visual medium, but he adds now its a real catch your eye approach. Anchoring the 5 p.m., 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. news means Inman goes to work about the time his children are getting out of school, leaving little time to be involved in their after school activities.
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