KFFS-CD (channel 36) is a low-power,

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, United States, affiliated with the digital multicast network

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. It is owned by Pinnacle Media alongside Bentonville–licensed

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affiliate KWNL-CD (channel 14). The two stations share studios on North College Avenue in Fayetteville; KFFS-CD's transmitter is located on South 56th Street in Springdale. KQRY-LD (channel 36) in Fort Smith is a

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of KFFS-CD; this station's transmitter is located near

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KQRY-LD history

At one point, KQRY-LP (as

affiliate KXUN-LP) aired local newscasts; they were produced out of

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, with reports produced in Fort Smith. The newscasts were canceled in June 2008, after then-owner

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instituted a companywide suspension of news programs. After failing to find a buyer at a bankruptcy auction, KXUN was sold to Pinnacle Media in August 2009 (after having initially been included in Silver Point Finance's acquisition on June 2 of several Equity stations), with Pinnacle assuming control under a

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on August 5. KXUN was previously seen on KPBI's digital subchannel 34.2; after KPBI was sold to

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and renamed KXNW, the KXUN simulcast was replaced with a simulcast of new sister station

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. On February 5, 2019, KXUN-LD swapped call signs with KQRY-LD in

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Subchannels

The station's digital signal is

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References

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