KTVA
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KTVA | |
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Anchorage, Alaska | |
Branding | KTVA CBS 11 CBS 11 News |
Slogan | Not Just What Happens, What Matters. |
Channels | Analog: 11 (VHF) |
Affiliations | CBS |
Owner | MediaNews Group, Inc. (Alaska Broadcasting Company, Inc.) |
First air date | December 11, 1953 |
Call letters’ meaning | TeleVision Alaska |
Former affiliations | Secondary: DuMont (1953-1955) |
Transmitter Power | 50.1 kW (analog) 28.9 kW (digital) |
Height | 91 m (analog) 60.6 m (digital) |
Facility ID | 49632 |
Transmitter Coordinates | |
Website | www.ktva.com |
KTVA, channel 11, is a CBS affiliate in Anchorage, Alaska. The station is currently the only broadcasting property owned by the MediaNews Group newspaper chain.
KTVA is broadcast on over-the-air on analog channel 11 and digital channel 28, as well as on the local cable system, GCI.
[edit] History
KTVA is Alaska's first TV station, having signed on the air on December 11, 1953. The station also carried a few NBC programs in the late 1960s, until KHAR-TV (Now KIMO) took the NBC affiliation in 1970. The station was also a DuMont affiliate in the 1950s [1]. KTVA even carried Sesame Street from 1970 until KAKM signed on in May of 1975.
[edit] External links
- KTVA official site
- Query the FCC's TV station database for KTVA
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KTVA-TV
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