Sullivan is originally from Lakeville, Massachusetts, and graduated cum laude from the University of Notre Dame.[1][2]. This email address is already subscribed to the selected list(s). Luke Ender Cline has arrived. Copyright 2023, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Inc. Beths mother served as a teacher, so they did lots of reading and Beth was always with them. She came to Channel 7 in November 2002 working as a General Assignment Reporter. Beth followed Gen. Wesley Clark on the campaign trail to Iowa and beyond in 2004 as he sought the Democratic nomination for President. A KATV reporter since September 2016, the Louisiana native and former Miss Bossier City will be a news anchor at KFDM in Beaumont, Texas. 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of Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Inc. Material from the Associated Press is Copyright 2023, Associated Press and may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. [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. Latest title? [citation needed]. People view my job as very glamorous, she told Little Rock Family a few years ago. [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. 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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. ", "Please know that it was never ever my intention to offend or cause any harm," he said. Barry Brandt, chief meteorologist at the station, also issued an apology, saying he made what he thought was a "lighthearted reference to the 1970s using a prop during my forecast. 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. 30, 2018 12:00 am 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. Genty said he doesnt expect all the maternity leave to disrupt his team severely. The station first signed on the air on December 19, 1953. She said she especially enjoyed having a chance to sit on a bull used by professional bull riders visiting the area and getting the opportunity to report on toad racing. She graduated Cum Laude. Jean Franseen is excited to join the KATV family as the Weekend Anchor/Reporter. "I want to take a moment to apologize and be accountable for a terrible decision I made when I last appeared on this newscast back on Sept. 16," said Chris May, evening news anchor. Currently, Beth serves as an evening anchor at KATV Channel 7. Rusley Heads to BeaumontOne face you wont be seeing on Channel 7 is Kimberly Rusleys. Marina Marraco & Angie Goff break some personal news! She is 45 years old. KATV Channel 7 News -- The Spirit of Arkansas -- For more news and weather visit www.katv.com or follow us on Twitter -. First-time dad. I wouldnt be afraid to let any one of them handle the anchoring duties if need be. He said viewers should expect to see a mix of faces over the next few months. 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. I pack lunch for my child and work out of a cubicle. Melinda Mayo is a Pine Bluff native who enjoys delivering the weather for her home state. Courtney stated her decision to. Beth Hunt is an evening anchor for KATV. He'll anchor the 5, 6 and 10 p.m. newscast. 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). All rights reserved. [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. pic.twitter.com/EpF4qwMJwX. She is the co-host of "Daybreak" and "Good Morning Arkansas" for KATV. 11, 2022 1:50 pm She was born in Arkansas and raised up in the small town of Carlisle by her caring and loving father and mother. All rights reserved. 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. 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.). Originally licensed to Pine Bluff, the station was a CBS affiliate with a secondary ABC affiliation. Beth serves as an evening anchor at KATV Channel 7. Little Rock, AR 72201, Toll free: (888) 322-6397 KATV's parent company is Sinclair Broadcast Group of Maryland. Weekend anchor Janelle Lilley brought Luke Ender Cline into the world on April 21 (8 pounds, 4 ounces). Copyright 2023, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Inc. Less than a year after its debut, KATV purchased the Little Rock studios of KRTV when that station closed down. 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). Beth is happily married to her lovely husband named Brian. Kaila Lafferty started at KATV in 2018 as a Daybreak reporter but also worked during her two years on Good Morning Arkansas and as a podcast producer. 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. "And moving forward, we promise we will.". Hunt says shes basically another working mother. 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. "This incident has taught me to be more aware of cliches and stereotypes and the damage they can cause. A federal Grand Jury in the Western District of Arkansas has indicted two former Crawford County Sheriff's Deputies in the violent arrest of a man at a Mulberry gas station in August. She has reported it all starting from the Space Shuttle Colombia disaster and the opening of the Clinton Presidential Library to the hype surrounding the first Razorback games of the year. On Oct. 4, Tucker posted on Twitter: "We had productive conversations with @WeAreSinclair CEO and upper management. However, it lost the appeal in April 2010.[33]. Kate Sullivan (born June 19, 1976) is an American television show host, producer, and television news anchor. . 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. Both anchors were clearly tired of their alarm clocks. )[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. "After 14 years of getting up at 2:30 in the morning, I'm stepping away from the anchor desk," Courtney wrote. 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. Little Rock, AR 72201, Toll free: (888) 322-6397 The couple also has three sons including Cameron. It was insensitive. Dad is Brian Cress, a North Little Rock Shelter Insurance agent. 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). 19.5 inches! [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. 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]. 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. KATV's parent company is Sinclair Broadcast Group of Maryland. Beth was born in 1977 in Arkansas, in the United States. Sullivan was a co-anchor of the evening news for WBBM-TV in Chicago with Rob Johnson from September 2010 to September 2015. 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. 40+ employees, only 8 Blacks. Chris May Retweeted. Sullivan is married to Michael Tillman. KATV's analog signal remained off the air for two weeks, until it built temporary transmitter facilities from an auxiliary tower on Shinall Mountain used by CBS affiliate KTHV. Beth is happily married to her lovely husband named Brian. KATV (channel 7) is a television station in Little Rock, Arkansas, United States, affiliated with ABC and owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group.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 . Neither these AP materials nor any portion thereof may be stored in a computer except for personal and noncommercial use. Prior to that, Beth anchored live shows from Heifer International, Riverfest, Toadsuck, and just about each other major festival or event in the state. Neither these AP materials nor any portion thereof may be stored in a computer except for personal and noncommercial use. KATV was also carried on cable systems in those areas, including Greenville, Cleveland and Clarksdale. Kate Sullivan (born June 19, 1976) is an American television show host, producer, and television news anchor. But I do my own hair and makeup. In December 2014, the couple welcomed their first child, a son.[4]. A KATV reporter is leaving the station next week after two years in Little Rock. KATV originally transmitted its signal from a tower near Jefferson, until a taller tower was built farther north in Redfield in 1965. For nearly eight years, the donated footage remained untouched until the Tyson family donated $1.5million to the Pryor Center to digitize the footage. "SKY 7 brings a whole new perspective to local news," said the news director, One reporter told police it wasn't fair the other reporter could tweet when the presiding judge "told them no cellphones.". [13], KATV subsequently moved to a two-story building at 310 West 3rd Street; the first floor had been occupied by a furniture store, while the second floor served as studio facilities for a local radio station and also housed the offices of an insurance agency. When it comes down to it, Im a wife and a mom who just happens to be on TV.. 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. 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. In September 2010, Sullivan joined WBBM-TV in Chicago, where she worked until she left the station in September 2015. It was originally published at 11:52 a.m. "I listened & learned: ALL managers are White. Then he took his staff in his hand, and chose five smooth stones from the wadi, and put them in his shepherd s bag, in the pouch; his sling was in his hand, and he drew near to the Philistine.Bible: Hebrew, 1 Samuel 17:40. Her message? 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. 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. On June 18, 1953, the FCC granted the construction permit to Central South and dismissed Shaw's application on the "strike" grounds.[5][6]. Thanks for the love and the stories!. City is 42% Black," Tucker said in a Tweet on Sept. 22. Therefore, Beth has accumulated a decent fortune over the years she has worked. [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). Read more about this topic: KATV, News Operation, News Team, Men perceive that equating love and domestic work is a trap. Franseen is a graduate from Middle Tennessee State University and has previously worked as a morning reporter for Local 24 in Memphis, she said. 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