KTBS News is an ABC affiliate US TV broadcaster that serves the Shreveport region in Louisiana , as well as the Texarkana area of Texas. Being owned by Wray Properties Trust, the station operates at Virtual CH 3. The owner of WrayPropertities is Betty Wray Anderson, Wdwin N. Wray Jr., and John D. Wray. Find the station’s exclusive news coverage and weather transmission over the local cable network, transmitter, satellite, and official website via KTBS live stream. Channel 3 News Shreveport uses a branding KTBS 3 News, and taglines News When You Need It; First in News, First in HD for its newscast. The station also has a catchphrase for its weather coverage i.e. The Calm During The Storm. KTBS 3 offers local stories, Shreveport Breaking News, KTBS weather, Live Videos, KTBS Jail Bookings, Weekly Ads, KTBS Local Marketplace, KTBS 3 Now, Community Coverage, Pictures, KTBS Payroll, Video, and other stuff.
Its news section includes Shreveport News, LSU Health Shreveport Allegations, Infrastructure: Code Red, Community Contributors, East Texas, Crime Report, Texarkana, ArkLaTex In-Depth, and more. KTBS Weather station covers StormTeam 3 Weather, Weather Headlines, Gulf Watch, Jr. Weather Watchers, Hurricane Tracker, Weather Headlines, Gulf Watch, and KTBS 3 Interactive Radar. Its community transmission includes Featured Projects, What’s Happening, Calendars, Spring Tips, Hometown patriots, Paws to Care, Local Live, Community Caravan, Featured Projects, and Ask The Trooper.
KTBS News Live Stream
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KTBS Channel 3 News Team
KTBS Channel 3 team offers the best services in town including accurate news reporting and trusted stories. Each member of the squad is proficient in the language, updated in current affairs, and has good communication skills. Moreover, they also make sure that they look perfect in appearance and have a good dictation and a confident delivery style. In addition, they have a sharp presence of mind and strong domain knowledge. On top of that, their team effort skills are perfect and they are willing to work for long hours as news personalities. Nate Fluharty, Linnea Allen, Gerry May, T.W Starr, and Bill Lunn are leading news personalities in the KTBS News team.
Linnea Allen: News Anchor at KTBS Shreveport
KTBS News has one of the most experienced journalists in its anchor team known as Linnea Allen. She joined Channel 3 News Shreveport in March 2020. Since her joining, Allen has covered major exciting stories related to the Shreveport area. Linnea anchors 5 pm/6 pm newscast along with reporting health content. Moreover, she compiles, edits, and comes up with her own stories together with many long-form reports every month. Meanwhile, Allen co-presents two news telecasts: 30-minutes news at 5 pm and 60-minutes news at 6 pm. Allen completed her BA in Communications at Louisiana State University in Shreveport. While studying there, Allen was honored by the communications faculty as the Speech Student of the Year couple of times.
Moreover, she has also attended Louisiana Tech University and earned a Masters’s degree in Counseling and guidance with a 4.0 CGPA. There, the College of Education awarded Linnea the Outstanding Graduate Student of the Year. Allen started her career in journalism as a sports reporter in the same city Shreveport but at a different channel. She used to produce and present three multiple sports telecasts where she used to conduct thorough interviews with huge sports figures and legendary athletes. Linnea was also the one who covered News England’s Super Bowl win against Carolina Panthers in 2004 and LSU’s win against Oklahoma in national football.
Prior to joining KTBS 3 News, Linnea was a Vice President/Social Media Director/ Cultural Communications Officers at Origin Bank from June 2012 to March 2020. She was responsible for leading social media strategy, providing the brand’s voice around all social media handles of the company, and renovating some parts of its internal websites such as creating weekly newsletters.
More About Lennea’s Career
From 1990 to March 2020, Allen spent a huge chunk of her life on Television and Radio as a Spokesperson, emcee, writer, and producer. Linnea was involved in various TV and radio projects. The projects were about performing as a consultant, or talent, and writing/producing TV commercials. She was also a motivational speaker at church groups, women’s groups, and schools.
Linnea also spends 1 year and 2 months as a Leader at First Baptist Church of Ruston from July 2017 to August 2018. From June 2005 to June 2012, Allen was a part of Squire Creek Country Club as a Director of Marketing and Membership. While working there, Linnea coordinated and conducted special events of all members, emceed functions, and managed all marketing strategies.
She was also the manager of the website and handling the company’s digital content. She once has severed the Shreveport region as a news broadcaster from 2002 to 2005 at KSLA News. Her professional career started in 1999 when she first joined Bossier Shreveport Mudbugs Hockey Team as a Director of Community Relations.
Mega 3 Storm Team
KTBS Weather team/Mega 3 Storm Team or Weather Watchers are the talented meteorologists of KTBS 3 Weather. The team, consisting of three people, knows its way around the weather and understands what’s best for the public. Apart from reading the weather data at KTBS weather radar, the team creates an accurate forecast, provides information on school closings and delays, delivers alerts about severe weather, and tells people what measure to take if they ever encounter such harsh conditions. Weather is a wonderful thing, and it requires a lot of skills to understand. Therefore, the channel requires a talented team of people. KTBS Weather team includes Joe Haynes, a chief meteorologist, Patrick Dennis, and Brian Fowler.
Patrick Dennis: Meteorologist at KTBS Weather
Patrick Dennis has been working as a weather reporter at KTBS TV for years. His extraordinary skills helped him make a great name for himself in the weather world. Though he left the weather field for two years in between, now he is back on track. No one knows the weather in Shreveport as better as Patrick since he spent two decades chasing and reading the weather in the Shreveport region. He has also served the KSLA News as a Chief Meteorologist for almost 7 years. Dennis knows its tricks around the KTBS weather radar and after reading the data carefully, crafts the most accurate weather report for the channel. Dennis loves the outdoor activities and spends a lot of time exploring local areas including parks when not working in the KTBS Shreveport.
He loves outdoor to the extent that he even introduced Bayou Outdoors 365 in 2014, an outdoor program focusing on all outdoor activities. Moreover, Dennis loves to spend time with his family including her beautiful daughters. Dennis loves the ArkLaTex and considers it a special place for exploring and chasing weather.
Channel 3 News Shreveport Mobile Apps
KTBS 3 News app provides offers the latest news, current affairs, traffic updates, KTBS jail bookings, investigative stories, community knowledge, KTBS payroll, sports updates, health coverage, KTBS live stream, and video clips of the stories to the people of Shreveport and Texarkana regions. KTBS 3 News is easy to use and users can navigate through different tabs within split seconds. They can access the latest top stories immediately, videos from the news studios are also available, and don’t forget the knicks and knacks of the town. Everything can be accessed with a tap.
StormTeam 3 mobile app presents the best and smooth weather coverage in the town. KTBS 3 Weather offers direct stories from the KTBS weather team, forecasts predicted by the KTBS radar, school closings/delays, severe weather alerts, and realtime weather updates. Meanwhile, viewers can get the weather notifications directly on their smartphones with a push-alert notification service.
KTBS TV Popular Programs
News, weather, politics, TV series, exciting interviews, quiz shows, and entertainment programs are the main focus of KTBS News. Viewers can watch these amazing and exciting programs on various digital networks including the Live News Globe. Inside Edition, The Drew Barrymore Show, Jeopardy!, and Bachelor in Paradise are few high-rated ABC programs on the list. Watch all these shows on KTBS live. Below is the table of all the shows airing from Monday to Friday on the KTBS TV schedule.
| To Tell the Truth | Monk | The Chase | KTBS 3 News at 10:00 p.m. |
| America This Morning | Castle Hedge Fund Homeboys | ABC World News Now | Good Morning America |
| KTBS 3 News Midday | Live With Kelly and Ryan | The Drew Barrymore Show | General Hospital |
| ABC World News Tonight With David Muir | Jeopardy! | Dr. Phil Playing Cop … Or Just Doing His Job? | GMA3: What You Need to Know |
| The View | Bachelor in Paradise | The Celebrity Dating Game | Entertainment Tonight |
| Access Hollywood | Extra | Home Economics | Press Your Luck Whammageddon! |
| Press Your Luck Whammageddon! | Holey Moley It’s Family Night! | Superstar Kobe Bryant | The Hustler |
| When Nature Calls With Helen Mirren | Shark Tank | Cornerstone | Ocean Treks With Jeff Corwin |
About KTBS News
KTBS News aired its first telecast on 3 September 1955 with the calls KTBS TV. It was the third channel to begin operations in the market of Shreveport-Texarkana. However, it was the second one to gain the license in the Shreveport area. KTBS TV was initially an NBC affiliate channel but later became a primary ABC associate. ABC News Shreveport operates alongside KPXJ CH 21 from a single studio on Shreveport’s east side at East Kings Highway. However, the KTBS News transmitter lies in Cado Parish’s rural area close to Saint John’s Baptist Church Road. ABC News Shreveport is among the few channels with local ownerships.
Website: https://www.ktbs.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ktbs/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KTBS3
Tower Location: Near St. Johns Baptist Church Road (southeast of Mooringsport and Caddo Lake) in rural northern Caddo Parish
Brand Name: KTBS 3
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