KTVA
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Anchorage, Alaska United States |
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| Branding | KTVA 11 (general) KTVA 11 News (newscasts) |
| Slogan | First in Alaska |
| Channels |
Digital: 28 (UHF) Virtual: 11 () |
| Subchannels | 11.1 CBS |
| Owner |
Denali Media Holdings (Denali Media Anchorage, Corp.) |
| First air date | December 11, 1953 |
| Call letters' meaning | TeleVision Alaska |
| Sister station(s) | KATH-LD |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 11 (VHF, 1953–2009) |
| Former affiliations |
All secondary: DuMont (1953–1955) NBC (1965–1970) PBS (Sesame Street, 1970–1975) |
| Transmitter power | 28.9 kW |
| Height | 60.6 m |
| Facility ID | 49632 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 61°11′31.5″N 149°54′8.5″W / 61.192083°N 149.902361°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www.ktva.com |
KTVA, virtual channel 11, is a CBS-affiliated television station in Anchorage, Alaska. Owned by Denali Media Holdings (a subsidiary of local cable provider GCI), its studios are based at the former headquarters of the Anchorage Daily News on Northway Drive in Anchorage, while its transmitter is located in Spenard—covering the Anchorage bowl and much of the adjacent Matanuska-Susitna Valley. Some of its programming is broadcast to rural communities via low-power translators through the Alaska Rural Communications Service (ARCS).
KTVA is Alaska's first broadcast television station. Legendary Alaskan broadcast pioneer August G. "Augie" Hiebert (1916-2007) applied for the license in May 1953 through his company, Northern Television. He received FCC approval for construction permits in July 1953, and KTVA signed on the air on December 11, 1953 broadcasting (initially from 2 p.m. to 11:30 p.m.). The studio and office were originally housed on the first floor and the transmitter on top of the pink 14-story McKinley Building. with an analog signal on VHF channel 11. The station aired a few NBC programs in the late 1960s, until KHAR-TV (now KYUR) took the NBC affiliation in 1970. The station was a DuMont affiliate in the early 1950s. During the late 1950s, the station was also briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network. KTVA also carried Sesame Street from 1970 until KAKM signed on in 1975.
On January 3, 1971, KTVA aired Anchorage's first ever live satellite broadcast from the U.S. mainland, the 1971 NFC Championship Game. Until the 1980s, when the networks went to full satellite distribution, KTVA and other TV stations in Alaska aired network programming on a tape-delayed basis via videotaped recordings of network programs captured off-the-air in Seattle, which were then flown to Alaska.
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