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KLDN Lufkin is Getting a New Transmitter This Week

Red River Radio Local Newscast 8:04 AM 05.23.22 with Chuck Smith

— The unemployment rate for Louisiana has dropped to its lowest rate since 1976.
— Texas and Arkansas' unemployment rates have also fallen setting all-time highs for employment.
— Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson goes on the record to defend the state's "trigger law" but did say he favored exceptions that most Arkansans do not.

Chuck Smith brings more than 30 years' broadcast and media experience to Red River Radio. He began his career as a radio news reporter and transitioned to television journalism and newsmagazine production. Chuck studied mass communications at Southern Arkansas University in Magnolia and motion picture / television production at the University of California at Los Angeles. He has also taught writing for television at York Technical College in Rock Hill, South Carolina and video / film production at Centenary College of Louisiana, Shreveport.