"This is home," reads one motto on the new set of KTHV-TV in Little Rock, and the home is newly remodeled.

Marty Schack, the station's president and general manager, showed it off last week as on-air personalities Ed Buckner, Marlisa Goldsmith and Hayden Balgavy got a feeling for their new surroundings and technicians hung new LED lights.

Schack has transformed the environment at the CBS affiliate, with which Arkansas Business has a news-sharing agreement. He even persuaded the station's owner, Tegna Inc. of Tysons, Virginia, to invest in a new set and new technologies for the Little Rock station.

The makeover of 720 Izard St., the TV station's only home since it went on the air in November 1955, runs the gamut from new breakroom amenities to a vast 2,000-SF newsroom now free of cubicles. Portraits of the station's 85 employees adorn a hallway wall, featuring personal touches like anchor and former Miss Kansas Amanda Jaeger seemingly leaping over a basset hound....