You didn’t know this about Katv

KATV , is a critically acclaimed affiliate station of ABC serving the Little Rock television market and central Arkansas. Before the collapse of its tower, KATV also broadcast on the second band of its digital signal , calling this channel KATV News Now.

KATV broadcasts a total of 28 hours of local news per week , the most of any station in the Little Rock market. KATV continues to maintain a nominal studio in Pine Bluff to satisfy the original FCC conditions for moving the license to Little Rock, even though modern FCC rules would allow it to operate only from Little Rock even if the license returned to Pine Bluff.

The KATV Building at 401 Main Street extends along Fourth Street a full block eastward to Scott Street, one block north of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and across Fourth Street from the Rose Law Firm.

KATV has used the Circle 7 logo since the 1960s; though it is traditionally associated with O&O ABC stations, KATV is one of several non-O&Os to have used it.

KATV also first placed the Circle 7 inside a square in the 1990s; WJLA now uses that as well, though neither station uses it consistently.

Western sections of Bolivar and Coahoma Counties in west central Mississippi have been known to receive KATV’s signal. KATV’s analog signal was never interrupted on Comcast’s Little Rock system due to a direct studio feed, though the HDTV feed was initially interrupted; Comcast is also feeding KATV’s signal to other cable and satellite providers.

KATV’s analog signal returned to the air a couple of weeks later from an auxiliary tower of competitor KTHV.

Before the recently-collapsed tower was built in 1965, KATV broadcast from a smaller tower near Jefferson .

KATV Channel 8 is available to all cable subscribers who live in the City of Arvada.

KATV adheres to the ICRA RATING SYSTEM Pages throughout the KATV website feature links to other sites, some of which are operated by companies unrelated to KATV. KATV has received City of Little Rock, FAA and FCC approval to build a new tower on Shinall Mountain near the Chenal Valley neighborhood of Little Rock, where Little Rock’s other major-network affiliates are located, as well as KATV’s temporary analog signal and digital signal .

The Arkansas Razorback Sports Network is no more, according to a news release from KATV in Little Rock.

Before today’s news, the UA and KATV had a contract that was scheduled to end after the 2011 basketball season.

KATV was reportedly pushing anchorman Scott Inman, who hosts ARSN’s post-game show for football broadcasts, to fill the spot left open by Eells’ passing in the summer of 200