newscasts each week (with three hours on weekdays and one hour each on weekends), which is well behind the local news programming output offered on a weekly basis by either of the Little Rock market's Big Three network affiliates. In addition, it produces the half-hour sports highlight program Final Score, which is hosted by weekend sports anchor Wess Moore and airs Sundays at 10:00 p.m. Newscast history Starting from its October 1983 sign-on, news programming on Channel 16 initially consisted mainly of one-minute hourly newsbriefs that aired within select commercial breaks during daytime and evening programs (usually from 9:00 a.m. until sign-off). Branded as Newscap 16 (later retitled Prime News Time), the newsbriefs consisted of local, national and international Associated Press wire reports and a brief weather forecast read by the assigned anchor. Initially anchored by Bill Powell (formerly an anchor at KTHV) and Linda Gilliam, both of whom alternated solo anchoring duties, the newsbriefs were presented by Ron Breeding (now at NPR member station KUAR, 89.1 FM), then working primarily with KQLV (102.9, now KARN-FM) towards the late 1980s. By the latter part of the decade, news updates were presented by staff from Arkansas Radio Network flagship KARN (920 AM), while weather segments were presented by local radio DJ (and eventual KTHV sports director-turned-news anchor) Craig O'Neill, then with KKYK (103.7 FM, now KABZ), who often introduced segments as his radio character "Sherman Bonner, the World's Only Human Thermometer". On September 4, 2000, KLRT premiered Fox First Weather, a five-minute local weather segment produced by AccuWeather (airing Sunday through Fridays at 10:00 p.m. and presented mainly by then-AccuWeather meteorologist Jim Kosek) that led into the station's late-access syndicated programming. (Then-sister station KOKI-TV in Tulsa had been producing a similar nightly local forecast program since January 1997, which ran until December 2001, two months before its news department began operations.) The news updates and First Weather were discontinued in December 2003. KLRT finally commenced development of a full-scale news department in September 2003, and hired Michael Fabac (who previously served in the same role at WNEM-TV in Flint–Bay City, Michigan) to serve as the new operation's news director; the Clear Channel Metroplex building (selected by Clear Channel primarily because it was of sufficient size to house a news operation) was also renovated for the new operation. The news department launched on March 28, 2004, with the premiere of the nightly