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KFSM, branded 5NEWS, is the CBS affiliate for Fort Smith and Fayetteville, serving the Arkansas River Valley and Northwest Arkansas since 1956.

One market, two metros

The station's newsroom covers two separate cities about an hour apart: Fort Smith, the old manufacturing town on the Arkansas border with Oklahoma, and Fayetteville, the centre of a corridor that has grown faster than almost anywhere in the United States. Morning, evening and late newscasts serve both, and the schedules have to account for the distance between them.

Northwest Arkansas

The region's growth came from Walmart, Tyson Foods and J.B. Hunt, all headquartered there, and from the University of Arkansas. The result is a metropolitan area of more than half a million people in what was farmland two generations ago, with the housing and road pressure that follows.

Tegna

KFSM belongs to Tegna, one of the largest owners of American local stations, which supplies shared services while leaving each newsroom its own identity. The station's coverage of the Arkansas Razorbacks is a statewide habit rather than a local item.

Weather in tornado country

The Arkansas valley sits in a zone where spring tornadoes and winter ice storms are regular events. Severe weather coverage is the station's most consequential output, and the reason viewers keep it on through the evening.

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