KATH-LD

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KATH-LD
City Juneau, Alaska
Channels
BrandingKATH 2 Juneau
Programming
Affiliations2.1: NBC
Ownership
Owner
KYEX-LD
History
First air date
August 17, 1998(25 years ago) (1998-08-17)
Former call signs
K05JR (1998–2001)
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog: 5 (VHF, 1998–2011)
  • Virtual: 5 (2011–2020)
  • The WB (secondary, 1998–1999)
  • UPN (secondary)
Call sign meaning
Former owner's wife's name is Kathy
Technical information [1]
Licensing authority
 FCC
Facility ID 188833
ERP 0.1 kW
HAAT −377.9 m (−1,240 ft)
Transmitter coordinates 58°17′58.8″N134°25′26″W / 58.299667°N 134.42389°W / 58.299667; -134.42389
Links
Public license information
LMS
Website alaskasnewssource.com
KSCT-LP
Translator of KATH-LD
Channels
Brandingsee KATH-LD infobox
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
  • Gray Television
  • (Gray Television Licensee, LLC)
History
First air date
May 1, 1995(28 years ago) (1995-05-01)
Former call signs
K05KH (May–November 1995)
Former channel number(s)
Analog: 5 (VHF, 1995–2018)
  • Fox (1995–1998)
  • The WB (secondary, 1995–1999)
Call sign meaning
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 / 57.05028; -135.335528 (KSCT-LP)
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Public license information
LMS

KATH-LD, virtual channel 2 (UHF digital channel 35), is a low-power NBC-affiliated television station licensed to both Juneau and Douglas, Alaska, United States. The station is owned by Gray Television. KATH-LD's transmitter is located in downtown Juneau.

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KSCT-LP (virtual channel 2, VHF digital channel 5) in Sitka is a translator of KATH-LD, broadcasting from a transmitter in downtown Sitka. Programming is identical to KATH-LD with both stations being fed from the studios of sister station KTUU-TV (channel 2) in Anchorage.

On cable, KATH-LD is carried on GCI in Juneau on channel 15, on Dish Network throughout Southeast Alaska on channel 5/9380, and on DirecTV throughout Southeast Alaska on channel 4. KATH-LD's high definition feed is also available on GCI's basic service on digital channel 652 in Juneau, Sitka, Ketchikan, Petersburg and Wrangell. KATH-LD's standard-definition signal is also on GCI cable in Petersburg, Wrangell and Angoon. Daily Alaska news is provided through a partnership with KTUU-TV.

History

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. [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 the Big Four television networks that was willing to affiliate with low-power television stations. [3] Initially, most of KSCT-LP's non-Fox programming was supplied by National 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 with Channel America, Outdoor Channel, and American Independent Network on December 1, 1995. [5] By this time, KSCT-LP had added a secondary affiliation with The 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's KING-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, ABC affiliate KJUD (channel 8) and PBS station KTOO-TV (channel 3), were at the time part of the statewide Alaska's SuperStation and AlaskaOne networks 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 secondary UPN affiliation. [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 with KTVA in Anchorage from MediaNews Group.[ citation needed ] The Federal 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 to Gray Television on May 28, 2020. [17] The sale made KATH-LD and KSCT-LP sister stations to KTUU-TV and KYES-TV in Anchorage and KTVF in Fairbanks, and gave Gray a monopoly on NBC programming throughout Alaska. The sale was completed on July 31. [18]

Former logo of KATH-LD Kath-ld.png
Former logo of KATH-LD

Digital channel

The stations digital signal carries one subchannel:

Channel Video Aspect Short nameProgramming [19]
2.1 1080i 16:9 KATHMain KATH-LD programming / NBC

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