KHBS, virtual channel 40 in Fort Smith and KHOG, virtual channel 29 in Fayetteville are the ABC-affiliated television stations for the Fort Smith/Fayetteville, Arkansas television market. The KHBS transmitter is located northwest of Poteau, Oklahoma. The KHOG transmitter is located southeast of Fayetteville. Both stations are owned by Hearst Television and are normally referred to as one entity, 40/29.

The station's operations are located in an all digital studio and newsroom located on Ajax Avenue in Rogers, which is a city of 56,000 twenty miles north of Fayetteville. KHBS operates a Fort Smith Newsroom on North Albert Pike. The two stations operate the area's CW affiliate on both of their second digital subchannels. Known on-air as Arkansas CW, it is also offered on Cox Communications systems—channel 4 in Fayetteville, channel 22 in Fort Smith, and channel 17 in Siloam Springs.

Channel 40 began as KFPW-TV on July 28, 1971. It was owned by local businessman Bob Hernreich along with KFPW radio (1230 AM). The station was a primary CBS affiliate with a secondary ABC affiliation. It took the CBS affiliation from KFSA-TV (channel 5, now KFSM-TV).

Sharyn Alfonsi (born June 3, 1972) is an on-air correspondent and journalist who appears on ABC News. She reports for Good Morning America, World News with Diane Sawyer and ABC's Nightline. According to the Tyndall Report, she was one of the most visible American journalists on television.

Alfonsi grew up in McLean, Virginia. She graduated with honors from the University of Mississippi, Oxford in 1994, where she was a James Love Scholar. She was a student of writers Barry Hannah and John Grisham.

Alfonsi is an Emmy Award winning journalist who began her career in broadcast journalism at KHBS-TV in Fort Smith, Arkansas from 1994–95, where she served as a news reporter, weekend weather anchor, photographer and editor. She then became a general assignment reporter for WVEC–TV in Norfolk, Virginia from 1995–97, where she traveled extensively with the military. Between 1998-2000, she worked as a reporter and substitute anchor for KIRO-TV in Seattle, Washington, where she covered the World Trade Organization riots.^{[citation needed]}