KARK GM Promoted to Corporate Job

KARK's Vice President and General Manager Mike Vaughn has been promoted.  Nexstar has promoted Vaughn to Senior Vice President and Regional Manager of Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc.  The promotion follows the closing of Nexstar purchasing Media General to become the second largest broadcasting company in the United States.  

According to the story from KARK, the new Nexstar Media Group will have more that 170 broadcasting stations around the country.  Vaughn will oversee stations in Arkansas, Louisiana, Missouri and Tennessee. Vaughn has been GM of KARK/Channel 4/Little Rock since 2011.  Vaughn came to Little Rock from Northwest Arkansas where he was GM from 2008-2011 at KNWA/KFTA.