KATN

KATN-TV
Fairbanks, Alaska United States

City of license	Fairbanks
Branding	KATN ABC 2 (general) Your Alaska Link (newscasts)
Slogan	Alaska's Superstation Your Alaska Link
Channels	Digital: 18 (UHF) Virtual: 2 (PSIP)
Affiliations	ABC (secondary until 1985) The CW (DT2)
Owner	Vision Alaska LLC (Vision Alaska II LLC)
First air date	March 1, 1955
Call letters' meaning	Alaska Television Network
Sister station(s)	KJUD, KTBY, KYUR
Former callsigns	KFAR-TV (1955-1981)^[1] KTTU-TV (1981-1984)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 2 (VHF, 1955-2009)
Former affiliations	NBC (1955-1996, secondary from 1985) The WB (DT2) (1995-2006)
Transmitter power	16 kW
Height	230 m
Facility ID	13813
Transmitter coordinates	64°55′17.4″N 147°42′57.4″W / 64.921500°N 147.715944°W / 64.921500; -147.715944
Website	www.youralaskalink.com

KATN, virtual channel 2 (digital channel 18), is the ABC-affiliated television station in Fairbanks, Alaska. The station is owned by Vision Alaska LLC. Its studios are located in the Lathrop Building on 2nd Avenue in downtown Fairbanks and the transmitter tower is northeast of the city on Cranberry Ridge.

Digital television

Channel	Video	Aspect	PSIP short name	Programming
2.1	720p	16:9	KATN-HD	Main KATN programming / ABC
2.2	480i	4:3	KATN CW	The CW

History

KATN's studios are located in the Lathrop Building in downtown Fairbanks.

KATN debuted on March 1, 1955 as KFAR-TV, and was Fairbanks' second television station after KTVF. It became KTTU-TV (no relation to the Tucson, Arizona station) in 1981 and KATN in 1984. It is now a part of the ABC Alaska Superstation and was the first TV station in Fairbanks to broadcast in color in 1967 (while KTVF was temporarily off the air due to a flood).

KFAR/KTTU was primarily an NBC station with ABC as the secondary network until 1984, when the owners of KIMO (now KYUR) bought the station, changed the call letters (the ATN in KATN stood for Alaska Television Network, a consortium of KATN, KIMO, and KJUD), and made them the primary ABC affiliate. KATN would continue to carry NBC programs as a secondary affiliate until 1996 when KTVF flipped from CBS to NBC in response to KATN's new ownership. Until the launch of KFXF in 1992, they were Fairbanks' only two commercial network stations.

In September 2006, KATN began to show programming from The CW Television Network on its digital subchannel. The subchannel is called Fairbanks CW and uses the fictional call letters KWFA-DT (the actual call letters of the subchannel are still KATN).

Smith Media sold KATN and the remainder of the "ABC Alaska's Superstation" system to Vision Alaska LLC in 2010.^[2]

References

↑ Mitchell, Elaine B., ed. (1973). Alaska Blue Book (First ed.). Juneau: Alaska Department of Education, Division of State Libraries. p. 136.
↑ "Alaska TV group sold". Television Business Report. January 15, 2010. Retrieved January 16, 2010.

External links

YourAlaskaLink.com - Official Website
Query the FCC's TV station database for KATN
BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KATN-TV

Television stations viewable in Fairbanks, Alaska

Local stations	KATN (2.1 ABC, 2.2 CW) KJNP (4.1 TBN, 4.2 Worship) KFXF (7.1 Fox, 7.2 K13XD-D) KUAC (9.1 PBS, 9.2 World/360 North, 9.3 Create, 9.4 UATV, 9.5–9.7 KUAC-FM/subchannels) KTVF (11.1–11.2 NBC) K13XD-D (13.1 CBS) KDMD-LP 32 (ION)

Defunct	K34EJ 34 (MTV2) K48FG 48 (INSP)

Alaska broadcast television areas by city Alaskan Bush Anchorage Fairbanks Juneau

ABC Network Affiliates in the state of Alaska (ABC Alaska Superstation)

KATN 2 (Fairbanks) KJUD 8 (Juneau) KYUR 13 (Anchorage) ARCS (Alaska Bush)

See also ABC CBS CW Fox Ion MyNetworkTV NBC PBS Other stations in Alaska

CW Network affiliates in the state of Alaska

KATN-DT 2.2 (Fairbanks) KJUD-DT 8.3 (Juneau) KYUR-DT 13.2 (Anchorage)

See also ABC CBS CW Fox Ion MyNetworkTV NBC PBS Other stations in Alaska

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