KATH-LD
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| City | Juneau, Alaska |
| Channels | |
| Branding | KATH 2 Juneau |
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| Affiliations | 2.1:NBC |
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| KYEX-LD | |
| History | |
First air date | August 17, 1998 |
Former call signs | K05JR (1998–2001) |
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Call signmeaning | Former owner's wife's name is Kathy |
| Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 188833 |
| ERP | 0.1kW |
| HAAT | −377.9 m (−1,240 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 58°17′58.8″N134°25′26″W/ 58.299667°N 134.42389°W |
| Links | |
Public license information | LMS |
| Website | alaskasnewssource |
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| Channels | |
| Branding | see KATH-LD infobox |
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| History | |
First air date | May 1, 1995 |
Former call signs | K05KH (May–November 1995) |
Former channel number(s) | Analog:5 (VHF, 1995–2018) |
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Call signmeaning | Sitka Community Television |
| Technical information[2] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 15348 |
| ERP | 0.619 kW |
| HAAT | 23.1 m (76 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 57°3′1″N135°20′7.9″W/ 57.05028°N 135.335528°W |
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Public license information | LMS |
KATH-LD,virtual channel2 (UHFdigitalchannel 35), is alow-powerNBC-affiliatedtelevision stationlicensedto bothJuneauandDouglas, Alaska,United States. The station is owned byGray Television.KATH-LD'stransmitteris located in downtown Juneau.
KSCT-LP(virtual channel 2,VHFdigital channel 5) inSitkais atranslatorof KATH-LD, broadcasting from a transmitter in downtown Sitka. Programming is identical to KATH-LD with both stations being fed from the studios ofsister stationKTUU-TV(channel 2) inAnchorage.
Oncable,KATH-LD is carried onGCIin Juneau on channel 15, onDish Networkthroughout Southeast Alaska on channel 5/9380, and onDirecTVthroughout Southeast Alaska on channel 4. KATH-LD's high definition feed is also available on GCI's basic service ondigitalchannel 652 in Juneau, Sitka,Ketchikan,PetersburgandWrangell.KATH-LD'sstandard-definitionsignal is also on GCI cable in Petersburg, Wrangell andAngoon.Daily Alaska news is provided through a partnership with KTUU-TV.
History
[edit]KSCT-LP was the first of the two stations to go on the air, signing on May 1, 1995, as aFoxaffiliate owned by Dan Etulain, who previously ownedKTNL(channel 13) from 1983 to 1992.[3]KSCT-LP had operated as a cable-only station since December 9, 1994;[4]during that period, Fox's primetime programming was seen in the afternoon, though it was moved into primetime concurrently with channel 5's sign on.[3]KSCT-LP affiliated with Fox because, at the time, it was the only one of theBig Four television networksthat was willing to affiliate with low-power television stations.[3]Initially, most of KSCT-LP's non-Fox programming was supplied byNational Empowerment Television,though it also broadcast some local programming;[3][4]after NET moved to a satellite that the station could not receive, its programming was replaced withChannel America,Outdoor Channel,andAmerican Independent Networkon December 1, 1995.[5]By this time, KSCT-LP had added a secondary affiliation withThe WB.[5]The station was originally assigned the call letters K05KH; it officially became KSCT-LP on November 20, 1995,[6]though it had promoted itself as "KSCT" since its launch.[3]
In June 1998, Etulain announced that he would launch KATH-LP as Juneau's NBC affiliate that July; KSCT-LP had switched to NBC by this time as well.[7]Delays in receiving equipment required to place the station on GCI's lineup postponed the launch of the station to August 17, 1998.[8]NBC programming was previously only available in Juneau via cable carriage of Seattle'sKING-TV;however, KING was not carried on the basic cable tier, unlike KATH-LP.[7]KATH-LP supplemented NBC programming with blocks of local programming, which generally consisted of pre-recorded coverage of community events and high school sports; at its launch, the station did not air any local newscasts.[7][8]Juneau's existing stations,ABCaffiliateKJUD(channel 8) andPBSstationKTOO-TV(channel 3), were at the time part of the statewideAlaska's SuperStationandAlaskaOnenetworks respectively, with limited local programming.[7]Shortly after KATH-LP's launch, Etulain purchased[9]K05JR,[10]which had been licensed in 1994;[11]the sale was completed on May 26, 1999.[9]K05JR and KSCT-LP continued their secondary WB affiliations until early 1999; at that time, K05JR added a secondaryUPNaffiliation.[12]K05JR's call sign was changed to KATH-LP on November 15, 2001;[10]it had been calling itself "KATH" on the air since its sale to Etulain. By early 2003, KATH-LP was simulcasting local newscasts from KTUU-TV in Anchorage.[13]KATH-LD ended analog over-the-air broadcasts in November 2011.
On November 9, 2012, GCI, through subsidiary Denali Media Holdings, announced plans to purchase KATH-LD and KSCT-LP from Dan Etulain's North Star Television Network, along withKTVAinAnchoragefromMediaNews Group.[citation needed]TheFederal Communications Commission(FCC) approved the deal on October 29, 2013.[14]KATH-LD's news partnership with KTUU-TV was suspended on December 7, 2013, as a result of a larger dispute between GCI and KTUU,[15]but a deal to resume it was reached on February 6, 2014.[16]
KSCT-LP began broadcasting a digital over-the-air TV signal in January 2018.[citation needed]
Denali Media Holdings announced the sale of KATH-LD and KSCT-LP toGray Televisionon May 28, 2020.[17]The sale made KATH-LD and KSCT-LP sister stations to KTUU-TV andKYES-TVinAnchorageandKTVFinFairbanks,and gave Gray a monopoly on NBC programming throughout Alaska. The sale was completed on July 31.[18]
Digital channel
[edit]The stations digital signal carries one subchannel:
| Channel | Video | Aspect | Short name | Programming[19] |
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| 2.1 | 1080i | 16:9 | KATH | Main KATH-LD programming /NBC |
References
[edit]- ^"Facility Technical Data for KATH-LD".Licensing and Management System.Federal Communications Commission.
- ^"Facility Technical Data for KSCT-LP".Licensing and Management System.Federal Communications Commission.
- ^abcdeHaugland, Shannon (April 28, 1995)."TV Watchers to Receive Broader Viewing".Daily Sitka Sentinel.p. 13.RetrievedApril 6,2016.
- ^ab"New TV Station On Air in Sitka".Daily Sitka Sentinel.December 30, 1994. p. 7.RetrievedApril 6,2016.
- ^ab"Local Station Changes Schedule".Daily Sitka Sentinel.November 30, 1995. p. 4.RetrievedApril 6,2016.
- ^"Call Sign History (KSCT-LP)".CDBS Public Access.Federal Communications Commission.RetrievedApril 6,2016.
- ^abcd"Juneau-based television station to hit airwaves soon".Juneau Empire.June 26, 1998. Archived fromthe originalon April 22, 2016.RetrievedApril 6,2016.
- ^ab"New local television station to hit airwaves Monday".Juneau Empire.August 16, 1998. Archived fromthe originalon April 22, 2016.RetrievedApril 6,2016.
- ^ab"Application Search Details (DKATH-LP, 1)".CDBS Public Access.Federal Communications Commission.RetrievedApril 6,2016.
- ^ab"Call Sign History (DKATH-LP)".CDBS Public Access.Federal Communications Commission.RetrievedApril 6,2016.
- ^"Application Search Details (DKATH-LP, 2)".CDBS Public Access.Federal Communications Commission.RetrievedApril 6,2016.
- ^Smith, Doug (March 1999)."TV News"(PDF).VHF-UHF Digest.p. 10.RetrievedApril 6,2016.
- ^Krueger, Andrew (March 6, 2003)."What's up with that?".Juneau Empire.RetrievedApril 6,2016.
- ^Burke, Jill (October 30, 2013)."GCI wins out in FCC fight over acquisition of Alaska TV stations".Alaska Dispatch.RetrievedOctober 31,2013.
- ^"KTUU service in Southeast to change".Juneau Empire.December 6, 2013.RetrievedDecember 10,2013.
- ^"Agreement finalized, KTUU-TV programming to return to rural Alaska on GCI cable systems".KTUU.February 6, 2014. Archived fromthe originalon February 7, 2014.RetrievedFebruary 7,2014.
- ^"GCI announces sale of TV stations in Southeast markets".KINY.RetrievedMay 29,2020.
- ^"KTUU Expands into Southeast Alaska and KYES Launches" CBS5 Anchorage "".KTUU.July 31, 2020.RetrievedAugust 3,2020.
- ^"KATH-LD JUNEAU-DOUGLAS, AK".rabbitears.info.