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| Channels | |
| Branding | Fox 16 Arkansas; Fox 16 News |
| Programming | |
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| Ownership | |
| Owner | Mission Broadcasting |
| Operator | Nexstar Media Group |
| KASN, KARK-TV, KARZ-TV | |
| History | |
First air date | June 26, 1983 |
Former channel number(s) | Analog: 16 (UHF, 1983–2009) |
| Independent (1983–1990) | |
Call sign meaning | Little Rock Television |
| Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 11951 |
| ERP | 1,000 kW |
| HAAT | 449 m (1,473 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 34°47′57″N 92°29′30″W / 34.79917°N 92.49167°W |
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Public license information | |
| Website | www |
KLRT-TV (channel 16) is a television station in Little Rock, Arkansas, United States, affiliated with the Fox network. It is owned by Mission Broadcasting alongside Pine Bluff–licensed CW affiliate KASN (channel 38); Mission maintains a local marketing agreement (LMA) with Nexstar Media Group, owner of NBC affiliate KARK-TV (channel 4) and MyNetworkTV affiliate KARZ-TV (channel 42), for the provision of certain services. The four stations share studios at the Victory Building on West Capitol Avenue and South Victory Street, near the Arkansas State Capitol, in downtown Little Rock; KLRT-TV's transmitter is located at the Shinall Mountain antenna farm, near the city's Chenal Valley neighborhood.
KLRT-TV began broadcasting on June 26, 1983 as the first independent station in the market and the first UHF station in central Arkansas in nearly 30 years. It was owned by a consortium dominated by MMT Sales, a national advertising sales representative for TV stations, and featuring six other partners who had been its competing applicants. After briefly becoming a Fox affiliate in September 1989 in connection with a planned acquisition of KASN assets that fell through, the network moved its affiliation for good to KLRT-TV in 1990. The next year, Clear Channel Television acquired KLRT-TV, followed by the assets of KASN, which Clear Channel then began controlling under a local marketing agreement. A local news program debuted in 2004. Clear Channel spun out its television stations to Newport Television, controlled by Providence Equity Partners, in 2007.
In 2012, Nexstar purchased some of the stations of Newport; it then assigned the purchase of KLRT-TV and KASN to Mission Broadcasting, which then contracted with Nexstar for services. As a result, most of KLRT-TV's management and news staffers were dismissed as functions were consolidated with KARK-TV. The combined newsroom airs weekday morning, early evening, and late evening newscasts on channel 16.
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for KLRT-TV". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.