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KYUR
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Anchorage, Alaska
United States
Branding KYUR ABC 13 (general)
ABC (Alaska) News (newscasts)
Slogan Your Alaska Link
Channels Digital: 12 (VHF)
Virtual: 13 ()
Subchannels 13.1 ABC
13.2 CW+
Translators K03FW-D 3 Kenai, etc.
K13TR-D 13 Homer
K39AA-D 39 Ninilchick
K10MB 10 Girdwood
Affiliations ABC (since 1971)
Owner Vision Alaska LLC
(Vision Alaska I LLC)
Operator Coastal Television Broadcasting Company, LLC
First air date October 31, 1967; 49 years ago (1967-10-31)
Call letters' meaning YoUR Alaska Link
Sister station(s) KTBY
Former callsigns KHAR-TV (1967–1971)
KIMO (1971–2010)
Former channel number(s) Analog:
13 (VHF, 1967–2009)
Former affiliations Primary:
Independent (1967–1970)
NBC (1970–1971)
Per program:
PBS (1971–1975)
DT2:
The WB (1995–2006)
Transmitter power 41 kW
Height 240 m
Facility ID 13815
Transmitter coordinates 61°25′19.8″N 149°52′27.8″W / 61.422167°N 149.874389°W / 61.422167; -149.874389
Licensing authority FCC
Public license information: Profile
CDBS
Website www.youralaskalink.com

KYUR, virtual channel 13 (digital channel 12), is an ABC-affiliated television station located in Anchorage, Alaska, United States. Owned by Vision Alaska, KYUR is operated through joint sales and shared services agreements by Coastal Television Broadcasting Company, LLC, which owns Fox affiliate KTBY. KYUR currently shares studios with KTBY on 2700 East Tudor Road in Anchorage, and its transmitter is located at the Knik TV Mast in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough. KYUR is the flagship station of a trio of ABC and digital CW affiliates covering the U.S. state of Alaska under the "Your Alaska Link" banner, which also includes KATN in Fairbanks and KJUD in Juneau.

KYUR signed on the air on October 31, 1967 as KHAR-TV. It was the third television station in Anchorage, after KTVA and KENI-TV (now KTUU-TV). The station was launched by Sourdough Broadcasters, a company headed by Willis R. "Bill" Harpel, one of Alaska's broadcasting pioneers. Harpel began his broadcasting career in the early 1940s at Anchorage radio station KFQD, and was previously the owner of radio stations in Ellensburg and Mercer Island, Washington. Prior to the launch of the television station, he started Anchorage radio stations KHAR-AM in 1961 and KHAR-FM (now KBRJ) in 1966. A short time after the television station signed on the air, on January 13, 1968, Harpel died in a snowmobile accident near Girdwood, south of Anchorage. He was 46 years old. His widow, Patricia, took over the reins at a time when the station's future was uncertain.


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