Kpomé

Kpomé is a town and arrondissement in the Atlantique Department of southern Benin. It is an administrative division under the jurisdiction of the commune of Toffo. According to the population census conducted by the Institut National de la Statistique Benin on February 15, 2002, the arrondissement had a total population of 5,254.

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Coordinates: 6°57′N 2°18′E / 6.950°N 2.300°E / 6.950; 2.300

KFTA-TV

KFTA-TV, virtual channel 24, is the Fox-affiliated television station for the Arkansas River Valley and Northwest Arkansas that is licensed to Fort Smith. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 27 from a transmitter south of Artist Point. Owned by Nexstar Broadcasting Group, the station is sister to the NBC affiliate KNWA-TV; the two share studios on Dickson Street in Downtown Fayetteville, with a sales office and bureau on Kelley Highway in Fort Smith. Syndicated programming on KFTA includes My Name Is Earl, The Office, Two and a Half Men, and Friends.

History

The station debuted on November 12, 1978 as KLMN-TV, the area's third television station. It took the CBS affiliation from KFPW-TV/KTVP (now KHBS/KHOG). In 1980, it swapped affiliations with KFSM-TV and became the area's NBC affiliate. Two years later, the station changed its calls to KPOM-TV (People On the Move).

Channel 24 struggled during its early years. Besides being the area's newest station, it was hampered by the fact it was a UHF station in a market that is very mountainous. Despite its 2.5 million watt effective radiated power, it only provided a Grade B signal to Fayetteville and could not be seen at all in Rogers and points north. For most of this station's first ten years on the air, viewers in the northern part of the area had to rely on cable to watch the station. Much of the far northern part of the market got a better signal from KSNF in Joplin, Missouri (which, incidentally, switched from CBS to NBC in 1982).