KARD
 
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West Monroe/Monroe, Louisiana-El Dorado, Arkansas United States |
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| Branding | Fox 14 |
| Slogan | The Right News at the Right Time |
| Channels |
Digital: 36 (UHF) Virtual: 14 (PSIP) |
| Subchannels | 14.1 Fox 14.2 Bounce TV 14.3 Grit |
| Affiliations | Fox (secondary 1987–1994) |
| Owner |
Nexstar Media Group (Nextstar Broadcasting, Inc.) |
| First air date | October 6, 1974 |
| Call letters' meaning | unknown, but pronounced "card"; could be a reference to the Arkansas Delta region which it serves |
| Sister station(s) | KTVE |
| Former callsigns | KUZN (1967–1968), KYAY (1970–1971), KLAA (1974–1982) |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 14 (UHF, 1974–2009) |
| Former affiliations |
Independent (1967–1968, 1970–1971) NBC (1974–1981) ABC (secondary 1970–1971; primary 1981–1994) CBS (secondary, 1970–1971) PTEN (secondary, 1994–1997) |
| Transmitter power | 1000 kW |
| Height | 520.8 m (1,709 ft) |
| Facility ID | 3658 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 32°5′42″N 92°10′34″W / 32.09500°N 92.17611°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www |
KARD, virtual channel 14 (UHF digital channel 36), is the Fox affiliate for the El Dorado, Arkansas/Monroe, Louisiana market area licensed to West Monroe, Louisiana, United States. It is owned by the Nexstar Media Group, which acquired the station in 2003 as part of its purchase of Quorum Broadcasting. KARD operates NBC affiliate KTVE through a LMA with KTVE owners Mission Broadcasting and the two stations share studios located on Pavilion Road in West Monroe, with KARD's transmitter located in Columbia, Louisiana.
The station that became KARD first signed on on August 19, 1967 as KUZN-TV on channel 39 and was owned by Howard E. Griffiths was a television counterpart of KUZN radio. This was Griffiths' second foray into television, as he was the co-owner of Monroe's first TV station, KFAZ, which signed on in 1953 but went off the air the next year. The station aired a local newscast, the BBC series Panorama, and old Western movies. The station ceased operations on January 12, 1968 but was sold to Northeast Louisiana Broadcasting Corporation.
It resumed operations on August 31, 1970 as KYAY-TV. During this incarnation, KYAY, again, aired news and off-network Westerns and movies, as well as ABC and CBS programming not carried on KNOE and KTVE, such as That Girl, Mod Squad, Hawaii Five-0, The Courtship of Eddie's Father, The Lawrence Welk Show, Engelbert Humperdinck, and The Merv Griffin Show. KYAY proved to be no more successful than KUZN had been, and it also went dark, on August 16, 1971.
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