Billy's New Venture

Hi all,

I know I have been off the map for a while now, but I have started a new company called Traveling Pixel. I have partnered up with Steve Powell, and between the two of us, we have more than 10 awards for Writing and Video Editing. Please check out our website at http://www.travelingpixel.com If there is anything we can do for you or your business, please feel free to contact us!

Thank you for your continued support!
Billy Cannon

Times, They Are 'A Changin'

Well, I regret to inform that I have been let go by KATV in a corporate-wide Staff reduction. I enjoyed all my adventures, and hope there will be more in the future. It has been a great run and I have loved every minute of it. I want to thank you all for stopping by and for the emails I have received. Times are tough for us all, but we will all come out better and stronger than we were before. I have plans for the future and you will hear from me again!

Thanks for stopping by!
God Bless!

My email

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Purple Hull Pea Festival Picture Slide Show

Flooding & Tornado Damage Pictures

Due to space restrictions on the KATV website, I have to post a lot of my pictures here on this blog page. These pictures are in no particular order of any kind. I have just randomly selected the best ones of the bunch. You can click on them to make them bigger.

Hurricane Creek Mobile Home Park behind Newstar

Lil' Pard along Hwy 36 that was underwater the same time the next day.

A farm that is underwater near Georgetown, AR

If you look closely, you can see the moon setting behind Newstar.



Newstar with flood waters all around



These ducks kept coming to me and I shared my breakfast bar with them. I had to take a picture of them. This and the next few pictures are from Island Harbor near Pine Bluff on the Arkansas River.



The Island Harbor Fire Trucks had to park on higher ground because as you can see in the picture below, their fire station was in about a foot of water.



The Island Harbor Fire Station.

March 08 Dallas/Snow Pictures

A gorgeous sunset over the clouds from London, AR

Heather Crawford and Photographer Ray Hamilton

Heather ready to report during the 6pm News

Close-up of snow at my parents' house in McKinney, TX

Newstar outside the Four Seasons Resort in Irving, TX

Mike Huckabee doing an interview with Fox News Channel

Newstar and other news trucks at the Four Seasons Resort in Irving, TX

The newstrucks were lined up all the way down the street by the end of the day

Snowy Pictures

Washington D.C. 08 Pictures

More Cool Pictures from the Dallas Trip (Click on picture to embiggen)

All About Arkansas Promo

The "Coach Watch" is over!

Well, finally, we have a new football coach! Read the story here. Up next (scheduled) The big "D" for the Cotton Bowl!

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"Coach Watch"

We are still on "Coach Watch"! We haven't been anywhere but to Fayetteville this past week, so I have not posted anything new, as there has been nothing new to post. Keep tuning in as at any moment, we could have a new coach! Plus, the weather is getting very very strange! I say, bring on the snow! I know it is not in the forecast yet, but one can always hope :)! More to come as things happen!

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"Mr. & Mrs. Trucker"

I normally don't do this, but I just had to. Anne Pressly asked me a few weeks ago to help her with a story. I asked her what it was about, and she told me quote "Oh, you will love it". She told me it was about Ms. Arkansas 2005, Eudora Mosby Evans and her husband becoming truck drivers. Well, I did love the idea, so I jumped at the opportunity to edit it. I also posted it below because I must say, we are very proud of it! I can relate to Eudora in the story, because it took me 3 tries as well to pass the CDL test! It happens to the best of us! Enjoy!

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Oxford, Mississippi

We went down to Oxford, Ms for the Houston Nutt Press Conference announcing his new gig. The drive was not bad, but Memphis traffic is interesting to say the least! I have posted pics below of Newstar at the Ford Performing Arts Center on the Ole Miss campus. I also posted pictures of other trucks around us. Enjoy! We are now on Coach Watch! Good Luck to us all!!!



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WOW!!

Wow, that is all I can say about that awesome game on Friday. I got 3 phone calls after the game and that is all they could say as well. We arrived in Baton Rouge at about 3:00 Thursday afternoon. It was not a bad drive down at all. We did live shots with Beau McCastlain at 5, 6 and 10. Then we were right back out there for Friday morning Daybreak. I am so glad I was at the stadium instead of at the local Circuit City or Best Buy! A lot less people and a lot more fun! I then went back to the hotel to rest because I had to drive us from Baton Rouge to Fayetteville Friday night. I returned to the stadium around 4:00. I had a chance to walk in and watch the last half of the 4th quarter, then headed back to the truck to watch the overtimes. WOW, when they won, I heard a roar from the Arkansas TV trucks parked near us. It was really cool! We then did feeds for about an hour then finally got away from LSU at around 8:15. When we arrived in Fayetteville at 7:40am Saturday, it was cloudy, windy and 33 degrees. It was chilly in Baton Rouge as well. It was truly an adventure that I will never forget! For those of you that know me, I am a HUGE snow fan. When we were driving through North Little Rock at 4:30am Saturday, it was snowing, not too bad and it was above freezing, but it was still really neat to be driving through snow! I have posted pictures below of Newstar at Tiger Stadium and other pictures from our adventure to Baton Rouge, LA!

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Sandy King, Stephen McElrath, and Newstar in front of Tiger Stadium


Mike the Tiger (sorry about the poor picture, we were crammed in trying to get a good one)


The field from the Press floor.


Another view of the field from the press floor.


Tiger Stadium has floor to ceiling windows that face the west, I was able to take this really gorgeous sunset shot from the inside. Pretty cool!


Newstar is in there somewhere. To the right of the picture are the CBS trucks.

Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Sorry, not much time lately for posts. We are currently in Baton Rouge, Louisiana covering the Hogs vs LSU. I will post more and even pictures when I get time. Thanks for keeping up with us!

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Now, This is what I call an ADVENTURE!!!

We started this morning by heading to Glen Rose High School. It was a lot of fun! We had to have had about 200 people show up for this morning's Daybreak Spirit Rally. Once again, we had a very warm welcome from the great people at Glen Rose. After Daybreak, we headed to what I had looked forward to since Wednesday, but I had no idea what was in store for us. When we arrived at ORVPark in Hot Springs, my mouth just dropped. I have always loved to go four-wheeling, but this is extreme four wheeling. I took some pictures from the site where we were shooting, but I was too afraid to take my camera on the ride with me because as clumsy as I am, I thought I might drop it and break it. :) I had good reason. After our live shots, some club members took Jason Harper and I on a ride through a class 4 out of 5 trail. It started smooth, then about a mile into the trail, I saw a HUGE hill of big boulders. I'm talking 4 feet high boulders. We then proceeded to climb these rocks in these jeeps. I had the ride of my life. It is like going on a roller coaster at 2 mph. We "crawled" up the hill at a snail's pace climbing boulder after boulder. Good thing we were buckled in, because we were very near a roll over situation many times. It is really cool to be sitting in a jeep looking straight ahead and you see the trees that are above you. VERY VERY VERY COOL!!!! OK, I could go on about this for a long time, but this was by far one of the best adventures yet! The main reason we were there was to talk about the Wounded Warrior Project. Just go to their website for info. They are giving away an $80,000 Jeep Wrangler JK. I have posted pictures below of both adventures today. Enjoy!

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Newstar in front of the Glen Rose Sports Arena

A Big crowd at 6:00 in the morning!

Taking Newstar off-road.... If Only!!

Jason Harper with the Arkansas Crawlers Club

My ride up the mountain. SWEEEEEET!!! :)))

The group before we head to the trail.