Arkansas Educational Television Network

Arkansas Week 25th Anniversary

"I'd like to offer my congratulations to Arkansas Week for being around for 25 years and occasionally having me here for roughly half of them. Just think, Arkansas Week has been around longer than Mike Huckabee."
-David Keith

"For 25 years Arkansas Week is one of two things that has kept me home on most Friday nights. The other was being married."
-Roy Ockert

"Over the last quarter century the political conversations have become increasingly confrontational and adverserial and argumenative. I'm delighted that Arkansas Week has remained true to it's commitment providing dispationate discussion and analysis on Friday evenings, keeping us informed and enlighted about our state and it's politics."
-Hal Bass

"Thanks to a quarter century of Arkansas Week covering the excitment of Arkansas politics and business."
-Jay Barth

"I've been a fan of Arkansas Week for all of it's 25 years, I suspect. And it's been a great source of perspective on Arkansas news and events."
-Brenda Blagg

"For 25 years Arkansas Week has given you the most unique perspective in the state. From the grid iron to the capitol. They have all the news here."
-Joseph Halm

"I'm Hoyt Purvis and I've been privaleged to be a part of Arkansas Week for most of the 25 years it's been on the air. And I'm always impressed when I travel around the state how many people watch Arkansas Week and depend on it as a source of important information."
-Hoyt Purvis

"I'm Doug Thompson, and I'm a columnist for the Morning News in the Arkansas News Bureau. And one of the things that has always impressed me about Arkansas Week is the length that it will go to bring people from around the state from different areas to meet and talk about their views. I appreciate and I know of viewers who have stopped me on the sidewalk and in stores who have appreciated it also."
-Doug Thompson

"I'm Jeff Hankins, publisher of Arkansas Business. I've appeared on Arkansas Week for the past fourteen years. I think it's the one show state wide that brings every corner of the state together once a week to talk about the curren business, political, and general issues of the day that people are talking about and want to be informed about. And that's why I really appreciate Arkansas Week."
-Jeff Hankins

"Hello, I'm Larry Fugate, Editor of the Pine Bluff Commercial. And I've been practicing journalism in Arkansas for more than fourty years. Thank you AETN for Arkansas Week, for bringing the view from the main stream. "
-Larry Fugate

"Congratulations. 25 years of Arkansas Week. This is the best program for finding out what's going on in Arkansas for Arkansans. There's nothing like it anywhere in the state."
-Ann Clemmer

"Congratulations to Arkansas Week on celebrating 25 years of keeping Arkansans abreast of current events."
-Whit Jones

"Congratulations to 25 years of Arkansas Week for keeping viewers informed on all aspects of Arkansas current events, including business."
-Lance Turner

"I remember the first show 25 years ago. The panelist were as I recall John Ward, the editor of the Log Cabin Democrat in Conway, Paul Greenberg, who was at that time at Pine Bluff Commercial, and I. And the moderator was a young philosophy Professor at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. And the big topic was the return of Bill Clinton from the political wilderness where the voters had exiled him two years earlier. But none of us foresaw what was coming and over the intervening 25 years, I don't think we've gotten anymore clairvoyant."
-Ernie Dumas