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Mitch Roberts joined 40/29 News as Sports Director in May 2014. This email address is already subscribed to the selected list(s). NWA's TV news anchorwomen - The Free Weekly 23, 2015 - 5:24 PM. Huge CONGRATULATIONS!!!. Most commercials were live since videotapes were not yet available. Over the years, KFSM has been the ratings leader in the area, mainly due to the fact that it was the only commercial VHF station on the air in the Fort SmithFayetteville market during the analog television era. She graduated with a 3.9 GPA in 2012. Veteran journalist Ruben Diaz has been responsible for bringing the latest news coverage to Arkansas residents for four memorable years. We would have to make it possible for people to subscribe to our podcast and hear from us all the time. Congressman John Boozman (AR), Bachelor of Business Administration, Sales, Marketing, Leadership, Customer Relations, Microsoft, Executive Director, Cancer Support Foundation at Donald W. Reynolds Cancer Support House, Executive Director, Reynolds Cancer Support House. [8][9] The deal received significant scrutiny over Sinclair's forthrightness in its applications to sell certain conflict properties, prompting the FCC to designate it for hearing and leading Tribune to terminate the deal and sue Sinclair for breach of contract. After the license transfer to Donrey's broadcasting subsidiary, American Television Company, was finalized in January 1959, channel 5 changed its calls to KFSA-TV. Aside from KNAC's brief time on-the-air, KFSA/KFSM was the only station in Fort Smith for 18 years. Many old timers remember the station's microwave problems that disrupted several games of the 1954 World Series. Reynolds then built a microwave relay hop on Mount Magazine to relay live programming from the Little Rock stations. Washington Regional . We are also working on an actual podcast, more on that later, but this was an idea from one of our former hosts. A local TV-Appliance dealer, Bill Engles (a.k.a. The network was number one in viewers and KNAC-TV quickly became a favorite because of its VHF signal and CBS affiliation. Engleman said he was pursuing other options. I think that podcast is one step closer to being done. Channel 5 Celebrates Its Rich History, Looks To The Future Days later, the Eads Brothers Furniture Building was destroyed by one of largest fires in Fort Smith's history. She remembers how quickly this became a national story. The storm left four people dead in western Arkansas.