of its small-market Fox stations during 2011 and 2012 amid a reverse compensation dispute.) The sale of KLRT/KASN to Mission received FCC approval on December 10, 2012, and was completed on January 3, 2013; Nexstar took over the operations of KLRT and KASN, which were relocated to KARK/KARZ's Victory Building studios on West Capitol Avenue, under a local marketing agreement on February 2, 2013. As a result, Nexstar/Mission's Little Rock cluster became one of only two "virtual quadropolies"—four local full-power stations managed by one company—in existence in American television. (Sinclair Broadcast Group, owner of WEAR-TV and WFGX in that market, concurrently acquired Newport's Mobile–Pensacola duopoly of WPMI and WJTC in a similar arrangement through Deerfield Media.) The consolidation resulted in the layoffs of around 20 KLRT/KASN employees, including longtime KLRT/KASN general manager Chuck Spohn (who was replaced by KARK/KARZ general manager Mike Vaughn), in addition to eight others from KARK/KARZ. Subchannel history KLRT-DT2 KLRT-DT2, which broadcasts in widescreen standard definition on channel 16.2, was launched on May 6, 2002 as a standard definition simulcast of sister station KASN. (A temporary DT3 subchannel was later utilized as a KASN simulcast from December 8, 2018 to October 14, 2019.) On January 5, 2009, it became an affiliate of outdoor sports network Untamed Sports TV. It was replaced by music video network TheCoolTV on April 15, 2011, through the network's groupwide agreement with then-owner Newport Television. KLRT-DT2 affiliated with This TV on July 30, 2012, only for the subchannel to be discontinued after the Nexstar JSA/SSA took effect on February 2, 2013. KLRT-DT2 was relaunched as an affiliate of mystery/true crime network Escape (renamed Ion Mystery in September 2019), through an agreement between Katz Broadcasting and Nexstar/Mission, on September 1, 2016. Programming KLRT-TV currently broadcasts the entire Fox network schedule, including the Steve Rotfeld-produced educational program block Xploration Station (which is distributed on a syndicated basis primarily to Fox stations). Channel 16 may occasionally preempt Fox programs to provide long-form breaking news or severe weather coverage (the latter in simulcast with sister station KARK-TV) when necessary, with the preempted programs usually being rebroadcast in place of scheduled late-night programs. Syndicated programs broadcast by KLRT-TV include The Kelly Clarkson Show, Karamo, The Steve Wilkos Show, Rachael Ray, Tamron Hall, Family Feud, TMZ, Two and a Half Men, Young Sheldon and The Big Bang Theory. News operation , KLRT-TV broadcasts 17 hours of locally produced