anchor David Raath. Weeknight anchors Donna Terrell and Kevin Kelly, and chief meteorologist Jeff Baskin were among those who remained with the station as Mission employees, while weekend anchor Kelly Dudzik left for an anchor/reporter role at WGRZ in Buffalo. Channel 16 merged its news department with KARK at the latter's Victory Building facility when the JSA/SSA with Nexstar went into effect on February 2, 2013. (The former news set used until the end of independent news operations would be repurposed by then-Memphis sister station WATN-TV when its new studio facility opened on June 1.) At that time, the station cancelled its weeknight 5:00 and 10:00 p.m. newscasts, but retained its weeknight 5:30 p.m. and nightly 9:00 p.m. broadcasts; additionally on February 4, the station premiered Good Day Arkansas, a two-hour weekday morning newscast (from 7:00 to 9:00 a.m.) that shares some on-air staff with KARK's separate morning program. (As a result, KARK canceled the 7:00 a.m. newscast it had been producing for KARZ-TV since 2010.) KLRT utilizes a separate news set and on-air identity from KARK's newscasts and, through Mission, maintains separate additional news anchors, meteorologists and sports anchors for its evening newscasts; otherwise, KLRT and KARK share most on-air personnel and maintain the "Arkansas Storm Team" partnership comprising their respective meteorologists, which allows the stations to simulcast severe weather coverage. Notable former on-air staff Roby Brock – host of Talk Business & Politics'' (2000–2014; now at KATV as host of the program) Technical information Subchannels The station's digital signal is multiplexed: Analog-to-digital conversion KLRT-TV signed on its digital signal on UHF channel 30 on May 6, 2002. The station shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 16, on February 17, 2009, the original deadline for American full-power television stations to transition exclusively to digital broadcasts (which was later pushed back to June 12, 2009). The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 30. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 16. References External links LRT-TV Fox network affiliates Ion Mystery affiliates Television channels and stations established in 1983 Mass media in Little Rock, Arkansas Nexstar Media Group 1983 establishments in Arkansas