Steve Grant, KY3-TV 
Grant started anchoring and reporting for KY3-TV in Springfield, Mo. just after his 20th birthday, bringing his radio days in high school to the news desk. Among his professional awards, his most cherished honor is “Distinguished Alumnus of Evangel University” in 2010. Off camera, Steve Grant has passed the ketchup to former President Nixon at a Caribbean café’… prayed The Lord’s Prayer with Pope John Paul II during a private audience… was kissed on the cheek by Paul Harvey (as personal thanks from the famous news commentator’s wife Angel)… and received prayer beads from the Dalai Lama after the Tibetan spiritual leader’s Arkansas visit in 2011. Finding, covering and introducing the interesting lives, greatest struggles, and best days of people across southern Missouri and northern Arkansas drives his work and all of the KY3 newsteam. Over the years, Steve's assignments have taken him to every city, town and county in the viewing area. As a traveling correspondent, he has reported from New York City, Washington, D.C., Hollywood and the Vatican. 
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Kat Robinson is a food and travel writer based in Little Rock, Ark. She writes Eat Arkansas, the blog for food lovers for the Arkansas Times. She also writes Tie Dye Travels, her syndicated column and blog about her journeys both in and out of Arkansas. Tie Dye Travels is also featured on KARK's Arkansas Matters website, and Kat appears on KARK Today at Noon monthly. Before starting her writing career in 2007, Kat produced and wrote for several Arkansas-based television and radio outlets, including an eight year stint producing Today's THV This Morning. These days, she travels Arkansas and the South searching for good stories, tall tales and the next great little restaurant. Kat is the 2011 recipient of the Henry Award for Media Support, presented annually to a distinguished individual or organization for extraordinary attention to and/or support of Arkansas’s tourism industry through the use of media, by the Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism. She is also the 2011 award winner for Best Freelance Writing for a Large Daily in the Arkansas Press Association's Better Newspaper Editorial Contest, for her November 2010 in-depth article and web coverage Eat Arkansas, For Breakfast.

Kat Robinson
Eat Arkansas
Trading Post host Tim Tibbs airs live each weekday from 11 a.m. to noon 
on KTLO 1240 AM and KCTT 101.7 FM in Mountain Home, Ark. 
Mike Bishop, President/CEO of the Greater Eureka Springs Chamber of Commerce is one of Eureka Springs and Arkansas’ best ambassadors. Through his work with the chamber and his own tourism business interests he has traveled throughout the United States entertaining and promoting the Ozark Mountains as a favorite vacation destination. Mike is also recognized throughout the Ozarks region as a popular entertainer. He and his wife Dale own and operate the Pine Mountain Theater music and comedy show in Eureka Springs, where they headline the 2 ½ hour production performing nightly except Sunday from March through mid-December. Upon taking over the Pine Mountain Theater operations, Mike became involved in tourism promotion for Eureka Springs serving as a board member of the Greater Eureka Springs Chamber of Commerce and the Northwest Arkansas Tourist Association, the Mayors Tourism Task Force, the Eureka Springs Tourism Coop, and is an active member of the Arkansas Hospitality Association.

Tim Tibbs, KTLO 
Mike Bishop
Eureka Springs Chamber
Judi Hicks is the face for Community News 411 on Hometown TV in Harrison, Ark., covering Boone County on K26 TV and its sister station XL7 TV in Mountain Home, Ark.. Judi helps produce and develop the 726 Show in both markets each week, and she wears many hats at Hometown TV, serving as administrative assistant, spearheading the accounting, scheduling guests, as well as producing and developing the 726 Show in both markets. Hometown TV covers 12 counties including Taney, Stone, Howell and Ozark in Missouri. Hometown TV is the home of four television channels and are also on all cable systems.

Judi has spoken with many different dignitaries at state and local levels, including an unforgettable experience when she received prayer beads that a member of the U.S. Military brought back with him from his tour of teaching the Iraqi farmers how to grow and cultivate their lands beneficially. In her spare time, Judi enjoys coaching soccer at her local soccer club and riding her horses in her local horse club and Cowboy Church. 


Judi Hicks
Hometown TV