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Clear Channel Broadcasting Tower Redfield
Clear Channel Broadcasting Tower Redfield is a tall guyed mast located in Grant County (near Redfield), Arkansas, at , currently owned by Mission Broadcasting. It was completed in 1985 and is 1,898.9 feet (578.8 m) high. Its current FCC registration says it was built in 2001, but that is clearly in error; the tower has been in place ever since KASN, the TV station for which it was originally constructed, went on the air in 1986. The 1985 date given above is from an old application filed with the FCC on the date the FCC now says the tower was built (August 22, 2001). Clear Channel Communications acquired the tower when it acquired KASN (KASN and the rest of Clear Channel's television holdings were divested to Newport Television; KASN is now owned by Mission Broadcasting and managed by Nexstar Media Group). The other former television tower near Redfield, the collapsed KATV tower, also had an incorrect construction date on its FCC registration; but its date was off by only tw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grant County, Arkansas
Grant County is a county in the U.S. state of Arkansas. Its population was 17,853 at the 2010 United States Census. The county seat is Sheridan. Grant County is included in the Little Rock– North Little Rock– Conway, AR Metropolitan Statistical Area. History Formed on February 4, 1869, Grant County was named in honor of U.S. President-elect Ulysses S. Grant. It is an alcohol prohibition or dry county. Robert W. Glover, a Missionary Baptist pastor who served in both houses of the Arkansas General Assembly (1905-1912) from Sheridan, introduced in 1909 the resolution calling for the establishment of four state agricultural colleges. His brother, David Delano Glover, a Methodist, was a state representative in the 1907 session and a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1929 to 1935, having been unseated in 1934 by Grant County native John Little McClellan who at the time was practicing law in Camden. McClellan later went on to become Arkansas' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Redfield, Arkansas
Redfield is a small city in the Pine Bluff metropolitan area of northwestern Jefferson County in the U.S. state of Arkansas. The city is situated on the Union Pacific Railway and is approximately south of Little Rock, the state capital. As of the 2020 census, Redfield has a population of 1,505. History Following the arrival of the Little Rock, Mississippi River and Texas Railway (L. R., M. R. & T. Ry.), a settlement grew up around the new railroad depot (present-day Redfield Church of Christ) named for company president Jared E. Redfield of Essex, Connecticut. The municipality was incorporated by the Jefferson county court on October 18, 1898. Four properties have been added to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP): Dollarway Road (1974), West James Street Overpass (1995), Lone Star Baptist Church (2005), and Redfield School Historic District (2014). To the area now known as Redfield came Auguste Le noir de Serville, after serving with the French in the Am ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arkansas
Arkansas ( ) is a landlocked state in the South Central United States. It is bordered by Missouri to the north, Tennessee and Mississippi to the east, Louisiana to the south, and Texas and Oklahoma to the west. Its name is from the Osage language, a Dhegiha Siouan language, and referred to their relatives, the Quapaw people. The state's diverse geography ranges from the mountainous regions of the Ozark and Ouachita Mountains, which make up the U.S. Interior Highlands, to the densely forested land in the south known as the Arkansas Timberlands, to the eastern lowlands along the Mississippi River and the Arkansas Delta. Arkansas is the 29th largest by area and the 34th most populous state, with a population of just over 3 million at the 2020 census. The capital and most populous city is Little Rock, in the central part of the state, a hub for transportation, business, culture, and government. The northwestern corner of the state, including the Fayetteville� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mission Broadcasting
Mission Broadcasting, Inc. is a television station group that owns 20 television stations in 17 markets in the United States. The group's Chair is Nancie Smith, the widow of David S. Smith, who founded the company in 1996 and died in 2011. All but one of Mission's stations are located in markets where Nexstar Media Group also owns a station, and all of Mission's stations (including its lone stand-alone station) are managed by Nexstar through shared services and local marketing agreementseffectively creating duopolies between the top two stations in a market or in markets with too few stations or unique station owners to legally allow duopolies. The company moved its headquarters from Westlake, Ohio, to Wichita Falls, Texas, in 2018. The company's stations are based in markets as large as New York City and as small as Grand Junction, Colorado. History In 1996, Mission Broadcasting was started with its first stations were WUPN in Greensboro and WUXP in Nashville. Both of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KASN
KASN (channel 38) is a television station licensed to Pine Bluff, Arkansas, United States, serving the Little Rock area as a ''de facto'' owned-and-operated station of The CW. It is owned by Mission Broadcasting alongside Fox affiliate KLRT-TV (channel 16); Mission maintains a local marketing agreement (LMA) with Nexstar Media Group (which owns NBC affiliate KARK-TV hannel 4and MyNetworkTV affiliate KARZ-TV hannel 42and holds a majority stake in The CW) for the provision of certain services. The stations share studios at the Victory Building on West Capitol Avenue and South Victory Street (near the Arkansas State Capitol) in downtown Little Rock, while KASN's transmitter is located on the Clear Channel Broadcasting Tower, west-southwest of Redfield. Channel 38 was established in 1985 as the second independent station in the Little Rock market and was the Fox affiliate for central Arkansas from 1986 to 1990. It struggled to compete with KLRT and ultimately lost the Fox affi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newport Television
Newport Television, LLC was a television station holding company founded by Providence Equity Partners and Sandy DiPasquale in 2007 to acquire the television stations owned by Clear Channel Communications. History In September 2007, Newport agreed to sell KFTY and KVOS-TV tLK Station Group LLCfor $26.6 million. The deal was set to be completed in March 2008 but eventually collapsed due to LK's lender refusing to provide the funding; KFTY (now KEMO-TV) and KVOS have since been sold to other companies. As of October 10, 2007, Newport had agreed to sell KION-TV, KMUV-LP, K44DN, KKFX-CA, KCOY-TV to Cowles Publishing Company for $41 million. Newport's purchase of the Clear Channel stations and those being resold were granted conditional Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approval, subject to divestitures of media properties owned by other affiliates of Providence Equity Partners in several other markets. The entire deal closed on March 14, 2008 after several stations, in ad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nexstar Media Group
Nexstar Media Group, Inc. is an American publicly traded media company with headquarter offices in Irving, Texas; Midtown Manhattan; and Chicago, Illinois. The company is the largest television station owner in the United States, owning 197 television stations across the U.S., most of which are affiliates with the four "major" U.S. television networks, and MyNetworkTV. It also operates all of the stations owned by affiliated companies, such as Mission Broadcasting and Vaughan Media, under local marketing agreements, and operates major TV network The CW through a 75% majority stake, two terrestrial television networks airing classic shows, Antenna TV and Rewind TV, and has full or partial ownership stakes in three pay television networks (cable news and entertainment network NewsNation and food and cooking networks Food Network and Cooking Channel, the latter two through a 31% stake in Television Food Network General partnership, G.P.). History 1996–2010: Formation The Nexstar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KATV Tower
The KATV tower was a -tall television mast (or antenna tower) built in 1965, which was located near Redfield, Arkansas, off of Arkansas Highway 365 (at ). At the time of its completion, it was the third-tallest man-made structure and second-tallest broadcast tower in the world (behind the KVLY-TV mast in Blanchard, North Dakota), and the tallest structure in Arkansas. , the tower was tied with 15 other 2000-foot masts, all built after it, as the fifth-tallest structure in the world (sixth, counting the submerged Petronius oil platform). In addition to the analog and digital transmitters of its namesake, Little Rock ABC affiliate KATV (channel 7), it also hosted the analog transmitter of KETS (channel 2), the Little Rock flagship station of the Arkansas Educational Television Network. History In June 1964, KATV Inc. received approval from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to build a broadcast tower at a site west-southwest of Redfield. The location of the tower was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KHKN
KHKN (94.9 FM) is a radio station in the Little Rock, Arkansas area. The station's studios are located in West Little Rock, and the transmitter tower is located in Redfield, Arkansas. KHKN broadcasts in HD. KHKN is licensed by the FCC to broadcast a HD digital signal. History From 1987 until late 1989, it was KZLR "KZ-95." It had been KADL-FM prior and was off-air for about a year before the launch of AOR "KZ-95." Despite a heavy street presence and a massive promotion blitz, KZ-95 failed to gain traction. From 1989 to 2003, it was KOLL ("Cool 95"), playing all oldies from the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. From 2003 to 2005, it aired an adult contemporary station with the call letters KMSX with the branding "Mix 94.9". On December 26, 2005, the station changed its call letters to KHLR and began airing an urban gospel format, branded as "Hallelujah 94.9." On August 17, 2009, KHLR swapped formats and call letters with KHKN (106.7 FM), adopting an adult hits format, branded as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IHeartMedia
iHeartMedia, Inc., formerly CC Media Holdings, Inc., is an American mass media corporation headquartered in San Antonio, Texas. It is the holding company of iHeartCommunications, Inc. (formerly Clear Channel Communications, Inc.), a company founded by Lowry Mays and Red McCombs, B. J. "Red" McCombs in 1972, and later taken private by Bain Capital and Thomas H. Lee Partners through a leveraged buyout in 2008. As a result of this buyout, Clear Channel Communications, Inc., began to operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of CC Media Holdings, Inc. On September 16, 2014, CC Media Holdings, Inc. was rebranded iHeartMedia, Inc., and Clear Channel Communications, Inc., became iHeartCommunications, Inc. Overview iHeartMedia, Inc. specializes in radio broadcasting, podcasting, Digital media, digital and live events through Division (business), division iHeartMedia (sans "Inc." suffix; formerly Clear Channel Media and Entertainment, Clear Channel Radio, et al.) and subsidiary iHeartMedia an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arkansas PBS
Arkansas PBS (sometimes shortened to AR PBS) is a state network of PBS member television stations serving the U.S. state of Arkansas. It is operated by the Arkansas Educational Television Commission, a statutory non-cabinet agency of the Arkansas government operated through the Arkansas Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, which holds the licenses for all of the public television stations based in the state. The commission is managed by an independent board of university and education officials, and gubernatorial appointees representing each of Arkansas's four congressional districts. Along with offering television programs supplied by PBS and various independent distributors, the network produces public affairs, cultural and documentary programming as well as sports events sanctioned by the Arkansas Activities Association (AAA). The broadcast signals of the six full-power and five low-power translator stations that make up the Arkansas PBS network cover almost ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Masts
The tallest structure in the world is the Burj Khalifa skyscraper at . Listed are guyed masts (such as telecommunication masts), self-supporting towers (such as the CN Tower), skyscrapers (such as the Willis Tower), oil platforms, electricity transmission towers, and bridge support towers. This list is organized by absolute height. See List of tallest buildings and structures, List of tallest freestanding structures and List of tallest buildings and List of tallest towers for additional information about these types of structures. Terminology Terminological and listing criteria follow Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat definitions. Guyed masts are differentiated from towers – the latter not featuring any guy wires or other support structures; and buildings are differentiated from towers – the former having at least 50% of occupiable floor space although both are self-supporting structures. List by height This list includes structures with a minimum height of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
