Ritter Communications is excited to announce that the entire finale showcase of the Miss Arkansas scholarship pageant will broadcast live to Arkansas and Missouri Ritter TV viewers for the first time in the 80-year history of the pageant.
The finale begins at 7 p.m. Saturday, June 17, at the newly renovated Robinson Performance Hall in downtown Little Rock. KATV, the ABC affiliate in Little Rock, is producing the event and allowing Ritter TV customers to view the show on KATV in Northeast Arkansas on channel 99.
KATV Daybreak anchor Chris Kane and Miss Arkansas 2009 Sarah Slocum Collins will serve as pageant emcees for the three-hour live broadcast. The live show will include popular pageant segments such as the talent showcase, swimsuit, evening wear, contestant interviews and a tribute to this year’s 2017 Miss America Savvy Shields of Arkansas and the reigning 2016 Miss Arkansas Savannah Skidmore. The evening will culminate in the live crowning of the new Miss Arkansas 2017 who will go on to compete in Miss America 2018 September 10th in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
This week-long competition will conclude with one young woman walking away with a $30,000 scholarship, the largest in the pageant’s history, plus over $75,000 in prizes. The Miss Arkansas Scholarship Foundation will award over $167,000 by Saturday and a $400 scholarship will be awarded to each participant competing. The Miss America organization is the largest contributor of scholarship to women in America.
For more information, contact Natalie Fleeman in the Ritter Communications marketing department at 870-336-2322 or click here to learn more.
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About Ritter Communications:
Ritter Communications, founded in Marked Tree, Arkansas and headquartered in Jonesboro, began providing local phone service in 1906. Today, Ritter serves 62 communities and more than 45,000 customers in northeast and north central Arkansas and west Tennessee with advanced voice and data services typically found only in major metropolitan areas. Ritter invests heavily in the communities it serves by deploying proven, best in class infrastructure and technology while coupling it with a world class customer focused experience.
Residential consumer services include local and long distance phone service, cable television and high speed internet. Business services include customized communications systems and services, including, broadband Internet services, Managed Voice, data center services, Ethernet connectivity, customized networking and hosted applications. For more information, visit rittercommunications.com or facebook.com/rittercommunications.
About The Miss America Organization:
The Miss America Organization, a 501(c)4 non-profit organization, is the nation’s leading advocate for women’s education and the largest provider of scholarship assistance to young women in the United States, awarding millions of dollars annually. The Miss America Organization is comprised of 52 licensed organizations, including all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico. Miss America contestants contribute tens of thousands of community service hours annually and have raised over $15 million for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals and Miss America scholarships since 2007. For more information, visit www.MissAmerica.org.
