KARZ-TV
Encyclopedia
KARZ-TV is the MyNetworkTV
-affiliated television station
for Central Arkansas. It is licensed to Little Rock
. It broadcasts a high definition
digital signal on UHF channel 42 from a transmitter on Shinall Mountain
near the Chenal Valley
section of Little Rock. Owned by the Nexstar Broadcasting Group
, the station is sister to NBC
affiliate KARK-TV
(channel 4) and the two share studios on West Capitol Avenue in Downtown.
KARZ-TV requested to transmit in digital only, effective June 12, 2009. After it shut down its analog signal on that date, the rescheduled completion date of the nationwide analog television shutdown
, KARZ-DT remained on its pre-transition digital channel number, 44, using PSIP
to display its virtual channel as 42.
The station's digital signal used to be multiplexed. It broadcasted former sister stations KKYK
on subchannel
42.2 and KHUG-LP (an LAT TV
affiliate) on 42.3. This ended on February 1, 2009 when Nexstar gained control of the station. In 2008, Equity allowed Little Rock's ABC
affiliate KATV
to temporarily take over 42.3 after its tower collapsed. Through PSIP, it was remmaped to 7.1, KATV's usual channel number.
) launched the station on December 1, 1997 as KYPX, an affiliate of InTV, a network that primarily ran infomercial
s; it became an affiliate of PAX when it launched in August 1998. In 2001, after Paxson sold the station to Equity Broadcasting, it swapped affiliations with new sister station KKYK
and became an affiliate of The WB. The calls were initially changed to KLRA-TV but switched to KWBF. Its call letters referred both to the network and its defunct mascot, Michigan J. Frog
. Additionally, a nickname for the station in its later WB-affiliate years was "The Frog". During its existence as KWBF, it was the flagship station of Little Rock-based Equity Broadcasting. KWBF was also seen on a repeater, KWBF-LP channel 47, in Sheridan
. There are no longer U.S. Federal Communications Commission
(FCC) records of that station.
In January 2006 three years prior to becoming a sister station to KARK, the station made headlines when it decided to air NBC
's The Book of Daniel after KARK, the local NBC affiliate, declined to do so. Because of the controversial nature of the series, the station came under fire for this and had to hire extra security after threats were made against the station.
In Fall 2006, The WB ceased broadcasting and merged with UPN
into a new network called The CW
. Only one WB/UPN affiliate in each market could join The CW, and KWBF was rejected in favor of KASN
. Instead, it joined MyNetworkTV, another new network created by News Corp.
for former WB/UPN stations that couldn't affiliate with The CW. The network launched on September 5 and the station became known on-air as "My 42". On October 7, 2008, the $4 million sale of the station to Irving, Texas
-based Nexstar Broadcasting Group was announced.
On December 8, Equity filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection due to attempts by creditors to force the company into liquidation. Meanwhile, the FCC approved Nexstar's purchase of KWBF on December 23. The sale closed on January 30, and Nexstar took control of the station on February 1, making it part of a duopoly with KARK
. At this point, the station changed its call letters to the current KARZ-TV, rebranded to "Z 42", and boosted its power. It also started airing a one hour KARK-produced newscast weeknights at 7, delaying MyNetworkTV programming to 8. Nexstar's purchase of the station was legally consummated on March 12, 2009.
programming on KARZ includes but are not limited to: The Doctors
, The Real Housewives, Access Hollywood
, The Insider
, Judge Alex
, The Steve Wilkos Show
, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, Roseanne, Tyler Perry's House of Payne
, The King of Queens
, Family Guy
, and Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns. MyNetworkTV
primetime is pushed back an hour to 8 p.m. on KARZ weeknights, instead of starting at the usual 7 p.m. timeslot. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday nights South Park
is shown afterwards at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday nights, "Razorback Classics" football games are shown beginning at 7:30. Due to this, MyNetworkTV primetime is not timeshifted and therefore does not air Wednesday nights on KARZ.
is shown weekday mornings from 5-7 a.m., followed by a two-hour extension of KARK's morning newscast, KARK 4 Today, from 7-8 a.m. On April 20, 2011, KARK became the third Little Rock station and the first Nexstar-owned station to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition
. The KARZ shows were included in the upgrade.
KARK 4 Today on KARZ 42
(Weekdays 7 to 8 a.m.)
Arkansas Sports Nation
(Weeknights 7 to 7:30 p.m.)
MyNetworkTV
MyNetworkTV is a television broadcast syndication service in the United States, owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, a division of News Corporation...
-affiliated television station
Television station
A television station is a business, organisation or other such as an amateur television operator that transmits content over terrestrial television. A television transmission can be by analog television signals or, more recently, by digital television. Broadcast television systems standards are...
for Central Arkansas. It is licensed to Little Rock
Little Rock, Arkansas
Little Rock is the capital and the largest city of the U.S. state of Arkansas. The Metropolitan Statistical Area had a population of 699,757 people in the 2010 census...
. It broadcasts a high definition
High-definition television
High-definition television is video that has resolution substantially higher than that of traditional television systems . HDTV has one or two million pixels per frame, roughly five times that of SD...
digital signal on UHF channel 42 from a transmitter on Shinall Mountain
Shinall Mountain
Shinall Mountain, elevation , is located near the Chenal Valley neighborhood of Little Rock, Arkansas, in the foothills of the Ouachita Mountains...
near the Chenal Valley
Chenal Valley, Little Rock, Arkansas
A sizable and more recently developed section of the city, Chenal Valley is in the west-central section of Little Rock, Arkansas, known as West Little Rock...
section of Little Rock. Owned by the Nexstar Broadcasting Group
Nexstar Broadcasting Group
Nexstar Broadcasting Group, Inc., is an entity of broadcast television stations headquartered in Irving, Texas. The company consists of 50 television stations across the U.S., ranging from market sizes 9 to 201 . 43 of the stations are broadcasting at full power, with the other 4 broadcasting at...
, the station is sister to NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
affiliate KARK-TV
KARK-TV
KARK, virtual channel 4, is the NBC-affiliated television station for Central Arkansas that is licensed to Little Rock. Owned by the Nexstar Broadcasting Group, the station is sister to MyNetworkTV affiliate KARZ-TV and the two share studios on West Capitol Avenue in Downtown Little Rock one block...
(channel 4) and the two share studios on West Capitol Avenue in Downtown.
Digital programming
KARZ-DT's high definition signal is also carried on Comcast digital cable channel 436 and AT&T U-verse channel 1042 in the Little Rock market.| Channel | Aspect Aspect ratio The aspect ratio of a shape is the ratio of its longer dimension to its shorter dimension. It may be applied to two characteristic dimensions of a three-dimensional shape, such as the ratio of the longest and shortest axis, or for symmetrical objects that are described by just two measurements,... |
Video | Programming |
|---|---|---|---|
| 42.1 | 16:9 16:9 16:9 is an aspect ratio with a width of 16 units and height of 9. Since 2009, it has become the most common aspect ratio for sold televisions and computer monitors and is also the international standard format of HDTV, Full HD, non-HD digital television and analog widescreen television ... |
720p 720p 720p is the shorthand name for 1280x720, a category of High-definition television video modes having a resolution of 1080 or 720p and a progressive scan... |
Main KARZ programming / MyNetworkTV |
| 42.2 | 4:3 | 480i 480i 480i is the shorthand name for a video mode, namely the US NTSC television system or digital television systems with the same characteristics. The i, which is sometimes uppercase, stands for interlaced, the 480 for a vertical frame resolution of 480 lines containing picture information; while NTSC... |
Bounce TV Bounce TV Bounce TV is a United States television network airing on digital terrestrial television stations. Promoted as "the first 24/7 digital multicast broadcast network created exclusively for African Americans," Bounce TV launched on September 26, 2011 and features programming geared toward blacks in... |
KARZ-TV requested to transmit in digital only, effective June 12, 2009. After it shut down its analog signal on that date, the rescheduled completion date of the nationwide analog television shutdown
Digital television transition
The digital television transition is the process in which analog television broadcasting is converted to and replaced by digital television. This primarily involves both TV stations and over-the-air viewers; however it also involves content providers like TV networks, and cable television...
, KARZ-DT remained on its pre-transition digital channel number, 44, using PSIP
Program and System Information Protocol
The Program and System Information Protocol is the protocol used in the ATSC digital television system for carrying metadata about each channel in the broadcast MPEG transport stream of a TV station and for publishing information about television programs so that viewers can select what to watch...
to display its virtual channel as 42.
The station's digital signal used to be multiplexed. It broadcasted former sister stations KKYK
KKYK-DT
KMYA-DT is a Me-TV affiliated television station in Camden, Arkansas, serving the Little Rock, Arkansas market on digital channel 49. The station also has a digital repeater inside Little Rock, KKYK-CD channel 20....
on subchannel
Digital subchannel
In broadcasting, digital subchannels are a means to transmit more than one independent program at the same time from the same digital radio or digital television station on the same radio frequency channel. This is done by using data compression techniques to reduce the size of each individual...
42.2 and KHUG-LP (an LAT TV
LAT TV
LAT TV was a Spanish-language television network emphasizing family-oriented and educational programming. It was owned by Latin America Broadcasting of Houston, Texas and launched in May 2006, initially on five low-power television stations in Texas and Arizona, four of which were in top-ten...
affiliate) on 42.3. This ended on February 1, 2009 when Nexstar gained control of the station. In 2008, Equity allowed Little Rock's ABC
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
affiliate KATV
KATV
KATV, channel 7, is an ABC affiliated television station serving the Little Rock television market and central Arkansas. The station is owned by Allbritton Communications Company....
to temporarily take over 42.3 after its tower collapsed. Through PSIP, it was remmaped to 7.1, KATV's usual channel number.
History
After purchasing the license from defunct station KVUT, Paxson Communications (now ION Media NetworksION Media Networks
ION Media Networks is an American television broadcasting company that owns and operates over 60 television stations in most major American markets. It is now a privately owned company.-History:...
) launched the station on December 1, 1997 as KYPX, an affiliate of InTV, a network that primarily ran infomercial
Infomercial
Infomercials are direct response television commercials which generally include a phone number or website. There are long-form infomercials, which are typically between 15 and 30 minutes in length, and short-form infomercials, which are typically 30 seconds to 120 seconds in length. Infomercials...
s; it became an affiliate of PAX when it launched in August 1998. In 2001, after Paxson sold the station to Equity Broadcasting, it swapped affiliations with new sister station KKYK
KKYK-DT
KMYA-DT is a Me-TV affiliated television station in Camden, Arkansas, serving the Little Rock, Arkansas market on digital channel 49. The station also has a digital repeater inside Little Rock, KKYK-CD channel 20....
and became an affiliate of The WB. The calls were initially changed to KLRA-TV but switched to KWBF. Its call letters referred both to the network and its defunct mascot, Michigan J. Frog
Michigan J. Frog
Michigan J. Frog is an animated cartoon character who debuted in the Looney Tunes cartoon One Froggy Evening , written by Michael Maltese and directed by Chuck Jones...
. Additionally, a nickname for the station in its later WB-affiliate years was "The Frog". During its existence as KWBF, it was the flagship station of Little Rock-based Equity Broadcasting. KWBF was also seen on a repeater, KWBF-LP channel 47, in Sheridan
Sheridan, Arkansas
Sheridan is the largest city and county seat in Grant County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 3,872 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Little Rock–North Little Rock–Conway Metropolitan Statistical Area. .-History:Robert W...
. There are no longer U.S. Federal Communications Commission
Federal Communications Commission
The Federal Communications Commission is an independent agency of the United States government, created, Congressional statute , and with the majority of its commissioners appointed by the current President. The FCC works towards six goals in the areas of broadband, competition, the spectrum, the...
(FCC) records of that station.
In January 2006 three years prior to becoming a sister station to KARK, the station made headlines when it decided to air NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
's The Book of Daniel after KARK, the local NBC affiliate, declined to do so. Because of the controversial nature of the series, the station came under fire for this and had to hire extra security after threats were made against the station.
In Fall 2006, The WB ceased broadcasting and merged with UPN
UPN
United Paramount Network was a television network that was broadcast in over 200 markets in the United States from 1995 to 2006. UPN was originally owned by Viacom/Paramount and Chris-Craft Industries, the former of which, through the Paramount Television Group, produced most of the network's...
into a new network called The CW
The CW Television Network
The CW Television Network is a television network in the United States launched at the beginning of the 2006–2007 television season. It is a joint venture between CBS Corporation, the former owners of United Paramount Network , and Time Warner's Warner Bros., former majority owner of The WB...
. Only one WB/UPN affiliate in each market could join The CW, and KWBF was rejected in favor of KASN
KASN
KASN, virtual channel 38, branded as "The CW Arkansas", is an affiliate of The CW Television Network in Little Rock, Arkansas. The station is owned by Newport Television, in a duopoly with Fox affiliate KLRT . The station shares studios with KLRT that are located east of I-430 on Colonel Glenn Rd...
. Instead, it joined MyNetworkTV, another new network created by News Corp.
News Corporation
News Corporation or News Corp. is an American multinational media conglomerate. It is the world's second-largest media conglomerate as of 2011 in terms of revenue, and the world's third largest in entertainment as of 2009, although the BBC remains the world's largest broadcaster...
for former WB/UPN stations that couldn't affiliate with The CW. The network launched on September 5 and the station became known on-air as "My 42". On October 7, 2008, the $4 million sale of the station to Irving, Texas
Irving, Texas
Irving is a city located in the U.S. state of Texas within Dallas County. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the city population was 216,290. Irving is within the Dallas–Plano–Irving metropolitan division of the Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington metropolitan area, designated...
-based Nexstar Broadcasting Group was announced.
On December 8, Equity filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection due to attempts by creditors to force the company into liquidation. Meanwhile, the FCC approved Nexstar's purchase of KWBF on December 23. The sale closed on January 30, and Nexstar took control of the station on February 1, making it part of a duopoly with KARK
KARK-TV
KARK, virtual channel 4, is the NBC-affiliated television station for Central Arkansas that is licensed to Little Rock. Owned by the Nexstar Broadcasting Group, the station is sister to MyNetworkTV affiliate KARZ-TV and the two share studios on West Capitol Avenue in Downtown Little Rock one block...
. At this point, the station changed its call letters to the current KARZ-TV, rebranded to "Z 42", and boosted its power. It also started airing a one hour KARK-produced newscast weeknights at 7, delaying MyNetworkTV programming to 8. Nexstar's purchase of the station was legally consummated on March 12, 2009.
Programming
SyndicatedTelevision syndication
In broadcasting, syndication is the sale of the right to broadcast radio shows and television shows by multiple radio stations and television stations, without going through a broadcast network, though the process of syndication may conjure up structures like those of a network itself, by its very...
programming on KARZ includes but are not limited to: The Doctors
The Doctors
The Doctors is a soap opera which aired on NBC Daytime from April 1, 1963, to December 31, 1982. There were 5280 episodes produced, with the 5000th episode airing in November 1981...
, The Real Housewives, Access Hollywood
Access Hollywood
Access Hollywood is a weekday television entertainment news program covering events and celebrities in the entertainment industry. It was created by former Entertainment Tonight executive producer Jim Van Messel, and is currently directed by Robert Silverstein. In previous years, Doug Dougherty and...
, The Insider
The Insider
An insider is a member of a group of people of limited number and with restricted access.The Insider may refer to:-Film media:*The Insider , a 1999 film drama about a 60 Minutes exposé of the tobacco industry, by director Michael Mann*"The Insider" , a 2002 episode of the American television crime...
, Judge Alex
Judge Alex
Judge Alex is a United States syndicated courtroom television show that debuted September 12, 2005. The host/arbitrator is the Hon. Alex Ferrer, a former police officer, lawyer, and Florida judge. The show was produced in Houston at the television studios of Fox's KRIV , as was previously done with...
, The Steve Wilkos Show
The Steve Wilkos Show
The Steve Wilkos Show is a syndicated American tabloid talk show hosted by Steve Wilkos. The show debuted on September 10, 2007, two months after Wilkos' departure as director of security on The Jerry Springer Show.-History:...
, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, Roseanne, Tyler Perry's House of Payne
Tyler Perry's House of Payne
Tyler Perry's House of Payne is an American comedy-drama television series created and produced by playwright, director, and producer Tyler Perry. The show revolves around a multi-generational family living under one roof in Atlanta, Georgia led by patriarch Curtis Payne and his wife Ella...
, The King of Queens
The King of Queens
The King of Queens is an American sitcom that originally ran on CBS from September 21, 1998, to May 14, 2007.This show was produced by Hanley Productions and CBS Productions , CBS Paramount Television ,and CBS Television Studios in association with Columbia TriStar Television , and Sony Pictures...
, Family Guy
Family Guy
Family Guy is an American animated television series created by Seth MacFarlane for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series centers on the Griffins, a dysfunctional family consisting of parents Peter and Lois; their children Meg, Chris, and Stewie; and their anthropomorphic pet dog Brian...
, and Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns. MyNetworkTV
MyNetworkTV
MyNetworkTV is a television broadcast syndication service in the United States, owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, a division of News Corporation...
primetime is pushed back an hour to 8 p.m. on KARZ weeknights, instead of starting at the usual 7 p.m. timeslot. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday nights South Park
South Park
South Park is an American animated television series created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone for the Comedy Central television network. Intended for mature audiences, the show has become famous for its crude language, surreal, satirical, and dark humor that lampoons a wide range of topics...
is shown afterwards at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday nights, "Razorback Classics" football games are shown beginning at 7:30. Due to this, MyNetworkTV primetime is not timeshifted and therefore does not air Wednesday nights on KARZ.
Newscasts and other local programming
"Arkansas Sports Nation", which airs weeknights at 7 p.m., is a KARK-produced sports show that highlights Arkansas sports. The Daily BuzzThe Daily Buzz
The Daily Buzz is a nationally syndicated breakfast television news and infotainment program. The show is produced by Fisher Communications and is owned and distributed by ACME Communications; it is broadcast every weekday morning from studios at Full Sail University in Winter Park, Florida...
is shown weekday mornings from 5-7 a.m., followed by a two-hour extension of KARK's morning newscast, KARK 4 Today, from 7-8 a.m. On April 20, 2011, KARK became the third Little Rock station and the first Nexstar-owned station to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition
High-definition television
High-definition television is video that has resolution substantially higher than that of traditional television systems . HDTV has one or two million pixels per frame, roughly five times that of SD...
. The KARZ shows were included in the upgrade.
KARK 4 Today on KARZ 42
(Weekdays 7 to 8 a.m.)
- Anchors:
- Matt Mosler
- Wendy Suares
- Weather:
- Greg Dee
Arkansas Sports Nation
(Weeknights 7 to 7:30 p.m.)
- Hosts:
- Kerri O'Hara
- Jason Snavely
Station slogans
- Real Variety (2009–present; primary general slogan)
- The Best Mix of Favorites (secondary general slogan; 2009–present)
- Little Rock's News Channel (2009–present; news slogan)