KLRT-TV (channel 16) is a television station in Little Rock, Arkansas, United States, affiliated with the Fox network.

The four stations share studios at the Victory Building on West Capitol Avenue and South Victory Street, near the Arkansas State Capitol, in downtown Little Rock; KLRT-TV's transmitter is located at the Shinall Mountain antenna farm, near the city's Chenal Valley neighborhood.

The first proposal for a channel 16 station in Little Rock reached the construction permit stage with a grant by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in March 1966.

[3] Originally planned to launch in 1967, its backers opted to wait until the FCC granted them an increase in their effective radiated power.

Other notable bidders included Milton Grant's Grant Broadcasting Corporation; a group led by former KARK-TV news anchor Deborah Mathis; Central Arkansas Television, whose investors included former U.S. House Representative and eventual Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker; May Broadcasting of Shenandoah, Iowa; and LRTV Limited Partnership, controlled by national station representation firm MMT Sales of New York and its executive Gary Scollard.

[8] Arkansas Christian Television, not wanting to face a comparative hearing process that it believed could stretch on for five years, withdrew the next month.

[13] Little Rock Communications Associates (LRCA), the consortium of owners produced by the settlement agreement, proceeded to draft plans to construct the station on Shinall Mountain[14] and purchase a building off Markham Street.

[21] While that station's signal did not reach Little Rock, and it ultimately closed in March 1988,[22] TVX Broadcast Group signed on Pine Bluff–licensed KJTM-TV (channel 38) on June 17, subsequently becoming the market's original Fox affiliate on October 6 of that year.

[23] During the late 1980s, KLRT also maintained an innovative partnership with Storer Cable's Little Rock system; the station occasionally leased airtime to Storer to offer free previews of programming from basic and premium cable channels carried by the system, in addition to co-sponsoring various community service projects.

[35] The next year, Mercury Broadcasting, a company owned by Van H. Archer III, acquired KASN itself in exchange for the assumption of $14.3 million in debt.

[36] Clear Channel then entered into a joint sales agreement (JSA) that September, allowing it to handle advertising and promotional services for KASN.

[37] The JSA was amended into a standard local marketing agreement (LMA) on January 1, 1995,[38] with operations for KASN consolidated at KLRT's facilities.

[47][48] The sale received FCC approval on December 1, 2007; after settlement of a lawsuit filed by Clear Channel owners Thomas H. Lee Partners and Bain Capital against Providence to force the deal's completion, consummation took place on March 14, 2008.

[66][67] At launch, the newscast was anchored on weeknights by Donna Terrell, Kevin Kelly, Troy Bridges and David Raath,[66] with weekends handled by Kim Betton, Nate Higgins and Justin Holgate;[68] Dewayne Graham, formerly of KATV, was the station's lead investigative reporter.

[78] The station's signal is multiplexed: Since 2016, KLRT has carried Ion Mystery as a subchannel via a groupwide deal between Mission/Nexstar and Katz Broadcasting.