KKYK-CD,

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30 (

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channel 21), is a low powered, Class A

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- affiliated

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, 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

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is located on

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, near the

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neighborhood of Little Rock.

History

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

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, which was based in Little Rock, and changed its call letters to KLRA-LP (the KLRA callsign originally belonged to a popular

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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

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network

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in 2001. On May 8, 2004, Equity began simulcasting the station's programming on sister station

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as well as its three translators (K69EK (now

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) and KCHM-LP (now KUOK-CD) in

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;

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(now defunct) in

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; and KOKT-LP (also now defunct) in

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), 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. After failing to find a buyer at a

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auction, KLRA was sold to Pinnacle Media in August 2009 (after having initially been included in Silver Point Finance's acquisition on June 2 of several Equity stations), with Pinnacle assuming control of the station under a

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on August 5. In 2013, the station changed its call letters to KKYK-CD (a callsign that was formerly used on a repeater of former sister station

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, channel 49, which also once bore the KKYK calls); in addition to swapping call letters, the station also swapped affiliations with KKYK-CD (channel 20), which adopted the KLRA-CD calls and became the market's Univision affiliate; the new KKYK-CD moved to UHF channel 30 and became an affiliate of

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. The station's low-power translator stations in northwestern Arkansas:

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(channel 31) in

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and KXUN-LD (channel 43) in Fort Smith, became translators of the channel 20 KLRA-CD.

Newscasts

Until 2008, KLRA-LP had produced a daily half-hour Spanish-language regional newscast ''Noticias Univision Arkansas'' (''Univision Arkansas News''), which aired Monday through Friday evenings at 5 and 10 p.m.; the program was produced out of Equity Broadcasting's headquarters in Little Rock as one of what would become six Univision-affiliated stations owned by Equity whose newscasts were hubbed from the facility, although each station maintained their own locally based reporters. The newscasts were also simulcast on now-former sister station KUOK in Woodward, Oklahoma and its translators (all of which are now owned by

-based

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) after the stations became the Univision affiliate for the

television market in May 2004; as a result, the newscasts were retitled ''Noticias Univision Arkansas-Oklahoma'' (''Univision Arkansas-Oklahoma News'') in 2005. The following year, Equity Broadcasting began producing separate regional Spanish-language newscasts for KUOK and

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Univision affiliate KUTU-CA, after the KLRA-LP was discontinued. As a result of corporate cutbacks due to the company's financial issues, Equity discontinued the newscasts it produced for all six of its Univision affiliates (including KLRA-LP) on June 6, 2008.EQUITY SAYS ADIOS TO SPANISH-LANGUAGE NEWS
''TVNewsCheck'', June 10, 2008.

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's digital signal is

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