Spohn Let Go at KLRT-KASN Little Rock

By ( Broadcasting & Cable ) published

Chuck Spohn, GM at KLRT-KASN Little Rock (Ark.), has been let go from the stations, which were recently sold to Mission Broadcasting by Newport Television.

The stations are a Fox-CW pair.

In July, Nexstar agreed to acquire 10 stations and Inergize Digital from Newport, while Mission acquired the Little Rock duopoly.

Michael Vaughan, VP and GM of Nexstar's KARK-KARZ, will oversee the stations through a joint sales agreement between Mission and Nexstar.

Spohn's dismissal was previously reported in TVSpy.

He spent 15 years at the stations.

Michael Malone
Michael Malone

Michael Malone is content director at B+C and Multichannel News. He joined B+C in 2005 and has covered network programming, including entertainment, news and sports on broadcast, cable and streaming; and local broadcast television, including writing the "Local News Close-Up" market profiles. He also hosted the podcasts "Busted Pilot" and "Series Business." His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The L.A. Times, The Boston Globe and New York magazine.