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KATH: Juneau-Douglas, Alaska KSCT: Sitka, Alaska United States |
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| Branding | NBC Southeast |
| Slogan | NBC for Southeast Alaska |
| Channels |
Analog: KSCT-LP 5 (VHF) Sitka Digital: KATH-LD 35 (UHF) Juneau Virtual: 5 () |
| Affiliations | NBC |
| Owner |
Denali Media Holdings (Denali Media Southeast, Corp.) |
| First air date |
KATH: August 17, 1998 KSCT: May 1, 1995 |
| Call letters' meaning |
KATH: Former owner's wife's name is Kathy KSCT: K Sitka Community Television |
| Sister station(s) | KXLJ-LD, KTNL-TV, KUBD, KTVA |
| Former callsigns |
KATH: K05JR (1998–2001) KSCT: K05KH (May–November 1995) |
| Former channel number(s) |
KATH: 5 (VHF analog, 1998–2011) |
| Former affiliations |
KATH: The WB (secondary, 1998–1999) UPN (secondary) KSCT: Fox (1995–1998) The WB (secondary, 1995–1999) |
| Transmitter power |
KATH: 0.1 kW KSCT: 0.049 kW |
| Facility ID |
KATH: 188833 KSCT: 15348 |
| Transmitter coordinates |
KATH: 58°18′0″N 134°25′19.7″W / 58.30000°N 134.422139°W KSCT: 57°3′27″N 135°20′20.7″W / 57.05750°N 135.339083°W |
| Website |
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KATH-LD is a low-power NBC affiliate serving Juneau, Alaska. The station is broadcast over the air in high definition on digital channel 5.1 (UHF frequency 35). It is owned by Denali Media Holdings, a subsidiary of Alaska's telecommunications company, GCI.KSCT-LP is a low-power translator of KATH in Sitka, broadcasting over-the-air and on cable in Sitka on channel 5. KSCT does not broadcast digital over-the-air TV signals at this time.
KATH is carried on GCI cable in Juneau on channel 15, on Dish Network throughout Southeast Alaska on channel 5/9380, and on DirecTV throughout Southeast Alaska on channel 5. KATH's high definition feed is also available on GCI's "Basic Cable" service on channel 652 in Juneau, Sitka, Ketchikan, Petersburg and Wrangell. KATH's standard definition signal is also on GCI cable in Petersburg, Wrangell and Angoon. Daily Alaska news is provided through a partnership with Anchorage's NBC affiliate KTUU-TV.
KSCT-LP was the first of the two stations to go on the air, signing on May 1, 1995 as a Fox affiliate owned by Dan Etulain, who previously owned KTNL (channel 13) from 1983 to 1992. KSCT had operated as a cable-only station since December 9, 1994; 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. KSCT affiliated with Fox because, at the time, it was the only one of the Big Four television networks that was willing to affiliate with low-power television stations. Initially, most of KSCT's non-Fox programming was supplied by National Empowerment Television, though it also broadcast some local programming; after NET moved to a satellite that the station could not receive, its programming was replaced with Channel America, Outdoor Channel, and American Independent Network on December 1, 1995. By this time, KSCT had added a secondary affiliation with The WB. The station was originally assigned the call letters K05KH; it officially became KSCT-LP on November 20, 1995, though it had promoted itself as "KSCT" since its launch.
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