KLEP (channel 17) was an independentnon-commercial educationaltelevision station in Newark, Arkansas, United States, owned by Newark Public Schools.[1] It broadcast local academic and public affairs programming beginning at 6 p.m. on weekdays from its 1985 sign-on until it quit broadcasting in the mid-2000s. It never returned; the corresponding broadcast license was eventually canceled on April 19, 2005.