11 general news center 11 newscasts slogan interior alaska s most trusted news source channels digital 26 uhf virtual 11 psip subchannels 11.1 nbc hd 11.2 nbc sd translators 11 vhf fairbanks affiliations nbc secondary from 1985 1996 owner chena broadcasting llc operator tanana valley television company first air date february 3 1955 1 call letters meaning television fairbanks sister station s kfxf k13xd d former channel number s analog 11 vhf 1955 2009 former affiliations primary cbs 1955 1996 secondary abc 1971 1985 upn 1995 2000 transmitter power 12 kw height 11 m facility id 49621 transmitter coordinates 64 50 34.3 n 147 42 58.1 w 64.842861 n 147.716139 w 64.842861 ; 147.716139 website www.webcenter11.com ktvf is an nbc affiliated television station located in fairbanks alaska united states . ktvf is owned by chena broadcasting llc but is operated by tanana valley television company owner of fox affiliate kfxf channel 7 and cbs affiliate k13xd d channel 13 . the station broadcasts a high definition digital signal on uhf channel 26 or virtual channel 11 via psip from a transmitter located on the ester dome . ktvf maintains separate studios located on international drive in downtown fairbanks . ktvf operates a digital fill in translator on vhf channel 11 from a transmitter located at kfxf and k13xd d s studios on braddock street in downtown fairbanks . contents 1 history 2 digital television 3 references 4 external links history edit the station signed on the air in february 1955 as the first television station serving what at the time was the smallest television market in the united states . the station was a cbs affiliate until april 1 1996 . while primarily a cbs station ktvf also served as secondary affiliates for abc from 1971 to 1985 when it aired some of abc s top rated shows like marcus welby m.d. happy days laverne & shirley three s company and eight is enough as well as wide world of sports super bowl xix and the academy awards and nbc from 1985 to 1996 . during the late 1950s the station was also briefly affiliated with the nta film network . 2 in 1967 months after the chena river flood temporarily knocked them off the air ktvf rebuilt their studios in the northward building where they still remained until 1990 and returned to the air this time broadcasting in color . in 1996 ktvf switched affiliations from cbs to nbc . the reason for the network switch was that rival station katn which had nbc affiliation since signing on a couple weeks after ktvf but had been primarily with abc since 1984 would be merged with two other abc stations in anchorage and juneau to form abc alaska s superstation and that nbc was the dominant network by the 1995 96 season while cbs was in third place . ktvf also carried upn programming on the weekends from 1995 to 2000 . kfxf aired a few cbs shows until k13xd signed on in august . ktvf was founded by alaska broadcasting pioneer augie hiebert and his company northern television . it was thus a sister station to ktva tv in anchorage . hiebert retired in 1997 and his family sold the station to the ackerley group in 1999 . ackerley merged with clear channel communications in 2001 . clear channel sold its entire television division including ktvf to newport television in 2007 . in june 2003 media news group owner of the fairbanks daily news miner announced that it would exercise an option to purchase ktvf . the seven year option pending removal of the fcc s restrictions on newspaper broadcast ownership was granted to media news in 1999 when northern television sold the station to ackerley . the fcc eliminated this rule on june 3 2003 but implementation was stayed pending the outcome of litigation . media news purchase attempt never materialized ; the seven year option period expired in 2006 without renewal . ktvf began airing high definition programming from nbc on february 12 2010 at the start of the winter olympic games in vancouver ; full hd broadcasting both nbc and syndicated would follow on may 31 2012 . on september 29 2010 the fcc granted ktvf a construction permit for a fill in translator on their former analog allotment channel 11 . 3 the translator will serve sections of the fairbanks area . newport announced the sale of ktvf to chena broadcasting a local company owned by michael young on october 13 2011 . 4 young had previously owned a partial stake in tanana valley television owner of kfxf and k13xd ; 5 that company will take over ktvf s operations under a shared services agreement upon the deal s completion . 6 the sale of ktvf to chena broadcasting was consummated in march 7 2012 resulting in all of fairbanks commercial stations being operated by just two companies . digital television edit channel video aspect psip short name programming 7 11.1 1080i 16 9 ktvf dt main ktvf programming nbc 11.2 480i 4 3 ktvf dt sd simulcast of ktvf references edit the broadcasting and cable yearbook says february 17 while the television and cable factbook says february 3 . require prime evening time for nta films . boxoffice 13 . november 10 1956 . archived from the original on june 14 2009 . unreliable source http licensing.fcc.gov cgi bin ws.exe prod cdbs pubacc prod app list.pl facility id 49621 eggerton john october 13 2011 . newport agrees to sell ktvf to chena broadcasting . broadcasting & cable . retrieved october 14 2011 . chomicz dorothy october 15 2011 . fairbanks businessman mike young awaits approval of ktvf purchase . fairbanks daily news miner . retrieved october 19 2011 . more than meets the eye to fairbanks tv deal . television business report . october 19 2011 . retrieved october 20 2011 . digital tv market listing for ktvf . rabbitears.info . external links edit webcenter11.com official ktvf tv website query the fcc s tv station database for ktvf biafn s media web database information on ktvf tv v t e television stations viewable in fairbanks alaska local stations katn 2.1 abc 2.2 cw kjnp 4.1 tbn 4.2 worship kfxf 7.1 fox 7.2 cbs kuac 9.1 pbs 9.2 world 9.3 create 9.4 uatv fnx 9.5 9.7 kuac fm hd subchannels ktvf 11.1 11.2 nbc k13xd d 13.1 cbs cable and dish network 360 north defunct kdmd lp 32 pax i ion k34ej 34 mtv2 k48fg 48 insp alaska broadcast television areas by city alaskan bush anchorage fairbanks juneau v t e nbc network affiliates in the state of alaska ktuu 2 anchorage kath ld 5 ksct lp 5 juneau sitka ktvf 11 fairbanks arcs alaska bush see also abc cbs cw fox ion mynetworktv nbc pbs other stations in alaska retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title ktvf & oldid 740295556 categories nbc network affiliates1955 establishments in alaskatelevision channels and stations established in 1955television stations in fairbanks alaskahidden categories all articles lacking reliable referencesarticles lacking reliable references from october 2014articles with inconsistent citation formats navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 20 september 2016 at 05 26 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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