{{Infobox television station | callsign = KLRT-TV | above = | location = Little Rock, Arkansas | city = | country = United States | branding = Fox 16 ArkansasFox 16 News | logo = File:KLRT Logo.png | logo_size = 125px | logo_caption = | digital = 30 (UHF) | virtual = 16 | subchannels = | affiliations = | translators = | owner = Mission Broadcasting, Inc. | licensee = | operator = Nexstar Media Group(via LMA) | sister_stations = KASN, KARK-TV (via LMA), KARZ-TV (via LMA) | founded = | airdate = | last_airdate = | former_callsigns = KLRT (CP, January 6–26, 1983) | former_channel_numbers = | former_affiliations = | callsign_meaning = Little Rock Television | erp = 1,000 kW | haat = | facility_id = 11951 | class = | coordinates = | licensing_authority = FCC | website = }} KLRT-TV (channel 16) is a television station in Little Rock, Arkansas, United States, affiliated with the Fox network. It is owned by Mission Broadcasting alongside Pine Bluff–licensed de facto CW owned-and-operated station KASN (channel 38); Mission maintains a local marketing agreement (LMA) with Nexstar Media Group, owner of NBC affiliate KARK-TV (channel 4) and MyNetworkTV affiliate KARZ-TV (channel 42), for the provision of certain services. The stations share studios at the Victory Building on West Capitol Avenue and South Victory Street (near the Arkansas State Capitol) in downtown Little Rock, while KLRT-TV's transmitter is located at the Shinall Mountain antenna farm, near the city's Chenal Valley neighborhood. History As an independent station KLRT-TV (standing for "Little Rock Television") first signed on the air on June 26, 1983; it was the first independent station in Arkansas, and the first commercial television station to sign on in the Little Rock–Pine Bluff market since CBS affiliate KTHV (channel 11) debuted 28 years earlier on November 27, 1955. (On paper, the Little Rock–Pine Bluff market had a large enough population to support an independent station since the mid-1970s.) The station was originally owned by Little Rock Communications Associates (LRCA) and operated by Scollard Communications; both companies were majority owned by New York City-based media executive Garrett Scollard (who also served as the station's vice president and general manager from 1990 to 1991), who—through his advertising firm, MMT Sales Inc.—filed a construction permit application with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to operate UHF channel 16 on July 2, 1980, which was later