KKYK-CD
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Little Rock/Pine Bluff, Arkansas United States |
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| City | Little Rock, Arkansas |
| Channels |
Digital: 16 (UHF) Virtual: 30 () |
| Subchannels | 30.1 Soul of the South Network 30.2 Cozi TV 30.4 QVC 47.1 MundoFox 49.1 Me-TV / KMYA-DT |
| Affiliations | Soul of the South Network (2013–present) |
| Owner | Pinnacle Media (sale to Kaleidoscope Foundation, Inc. pending) (Pinnacle Media, LLC) |
| First air date | May 15, 1995 |
| Call letters' meaning | Derived from radio station (now KABZ) and former sister television station (now KMYA-DT) |
| Sister station(s) | KLRA-CD, KXUN-LD, KWNL-CD |
| Former callsigns | K58FA (1995–1997) KKRK-LP (1997–1999) KLRA-LP (1999–2012) KLRA-CD (2012–2013) |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 58 (UHF, 1995–2011) Virtual: 58 (PSIP, 1995–2013) |
| Former affiliations | Univision (2004–2013) |
| Transmitter power | 15 kW |
| Height | 405 m (1,329 ft) |
| Class | Class A |
| Facility ID | 57548 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 34°47′56.0″N 92°29′44.0″W / 34.798889°N 92.495556°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
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Profile CDBS |
KKYK-CD, virtual channel 30 (UHF digital channel 16), is a Soul of the South Network-affiliated television station licensed to Little Rock, Arkansas, United States. Owned by Pinnacle Media, KKYK-CD maintains studio facilities located on Shackelford Drive in the Beverly Hills section of Little Rock, and its transmitter is located on Shinall Mountain, near the Chenal Valley neighborhood of Little Rock.
The station first signed on the air on May 15, 1995 as K58FA; its calls were changed to KKRK-LP in 1997. In 1999, the station was acquired by the Equity Broadcasting Corporation, which was based in Little Rock, and changed its call letters to KLRA-LP (the KLRA callsign originally belonged to a popular country music AM radio station in Little Rock; it was known for its morning DJ Hal Webber, whose on-air senior-citizen character was called "Brother Hal"; Equity commonly used the call signs of old Little Rock radio stations for its television stations; such as KKYK and KBBL).
The station became an affiliate of Spanish-language network Univision in 2001. On May 8, 2004, Equity began simulcasting the station's programming on sister station KUOK in Woodward, Oklahoma as well as its three translators (K69EK (now KOCY-LP) and KCHM-LP (now KUOK-CD) in Oklahoma City; KUOK-CA (now defunct) in Norman; and KOKT-LP (also now defunct) in Sulphur), forming a regional mini-network known as Univision Arkansas-Oklahoma. Local commercials from the Little Rock area that were inserted by that station during national commercial breaks and KLRA-LP's station identification bumpers were broadcast through this simulcast to Oklahoma viewers (the Oklahoma City repeaters were identified only through text-only IDs placed at the bottom of the screen each half-hour). In March 2005, the simulcast between KLRA-LP and KUOK was discontinued, with both stations – which continued to be programmed via satellite from Equity's headquarters in Little Rock – relaying Univision programming through separate feeds with KUOK carrying advertising for businesses within the Oklahoma City market and separate station promotions (KUOK's schedule now mirrors the national feed outside of local advertising, news inserts and occasional paid programming substitutions). KLRA-LP rebranded as Univision Arkansas shortly afterward.
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