LITTLE ROCK — HERE’S JOHNNY! The first Johnny Cash Music Festival, held last August in Jonesboro to raise funds to restore Cash’s boyhood home in Dyess, is airing nationally.
The show airs at 6 p.m. Thursday on RFD and again at 5 p.m. Saturday. GAC airs it at 7 p.m. Saturday with PBS affiliates soon airing it at various times. DVDs and CDs hit stores July 31.
CHANGING CHANNELS: Here’s an update on Arkansas Baptist student Matthew Cline of Maumelle, noted here in March after he competed on the Kids Week edition of the TV game show Jeopardy! His episode airs at 11 a.m. July 30 on KATV, Channel 7.
SIGNING OFF: Local broadcaster Dave Woodman is leaving KARKTV, Channel 4. Again.
Woodman first retired in 2000 but returned two years later as producer of the station’s annual Community Service Awards, an event he’d been involved with since the first one in 1978. Now, after another 10 years with KARK, Woodman, 77, “re-retires” Friday upon his final taping of the 35th awards show.
This year marks the end of his 60 years in broadcasting. His career started at age 17.
Woodman, former football and basketball “Voice of the Razorbacks,” arrived at KARK in 1970. He served as sports director for 20-plus years. In 1991, he became anchorman of KARK’s morning and noon shows.
CLOSE TO HOME: Delight native and country music star Glen Campbell has canceled his tour of Australia and New Zealand with Kenny Rogers next month for health reasons, reports The Associated Press.
A spokesman for Campbell says “the very long flight that it would require” would be too taxing on the 76-year-old, who’s battling Alzheimer’s disease.
Meanwhile, Campbell has added another Arkansas show to “The Good-bye Tour.” He originally had a Sept. 6 show at Little Rock’s Robinson Center Music Hall and has added a Sept. 7 show at the Arkansas State University Convocation Center in Jonesboro.
ART OF THE GAME: With nostalgia still strong after the recent demolition of the old Ray Winder baseball park, local artists are being called upon to create baseball-related work on 17-by-17-inch wooden home plates.
In September, the art will be sold online, with some pieces sold in live and silent auctions Sept. 27 at the Thea Foundation in North Little Rock.
The event, sponsored by the Jim Elder Good Sport Fund, benefits local nonprofit organizations that assist Arkansas students. The organization is endowed in honor of the late KARN radio sports director, announcer and analyst who did play-byplay broadcasts for the Arkansas Travelers for 33 years, from 1960-93.
Artists may pick up the home plates at the Thea Foundation, and art is due Aug. 15. For more information or to view previous work, visit jimelder.org.
Contact Linda Caillouet at (501) 399-3636 or at lcaillouet@arkan sasonline.com
Arkansas, Pages 13 on 07/22/2012