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Article: Barrett foregoes fury and sticks to the script.(Company overview)
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- Arkansas Business
- Article date:
- November 5, 2007
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Chuck Barrett's voice has been a familiar one to Arkansans for a long time.
He has called University of Arkansas Razorback baseball on the radio for 15 years. He was the host for 13 years of "Sports Rap," a popular and sometimes controversial opinionated radio show. Barrett's show' moved into the central Arkansas market in 2000, a "strange time" for Barrett, he says.
Earlier this year, Barrett announced that he was removing the show from the Arkansas Radio Network and was going to go about syndicating the program independently. That move didn't last long, as Barrett soon found himself and KATV, Channel 7, anchorman Scott ...