KYUR
 
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Anchorage, Alaska United States |
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| 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 |
| 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: 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 |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www |
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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