LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KATV) — A treasure trove of Arkansas history is now accessible online, thanks to the efforts of the David and Barbara Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History. The KATV Channel 7 News archive, which spans more than 75 years, has been digitized and made available in a searchable format.
“It is Arkansas history for as long as this television station has been on the air,” said former KATV News Director Randy Dixon.
Dixon joined the station as its first video tape editor at the age of 19. At the time, the station had all of nine tapes in the archive. He watched it grown to more than 26,000…