branding kuac tv 9 channels digital 9 vhf virtual 9 psip subchannels 9.1 pbs 9.2 world 9.3 create 9.4 uaf tv fnx affiliations pbs owner university of alaska fairbanks first air date december 22 1971 call letters meaning university of alaska college sister station s kuac fm former channel number s analog 9 vhf 1971 2009 digital 24 uhf 2004 2009 transmitter power 30 kw height 168.9 m facility id 69315 transmitter coordinates 64 54 40.3 n 147 46 47.5 w 64.911194 n 147.779861 w 64.911194 ; 147.779861 kuac tv website www.kuac.org kuac tv is the pbs member station for the alaska interior that is licensed to fairbanks . owned by the university of alaska fairbanks the station broadcasts a high definition digital signal on vhf channel 9 from a transmitter on bender mountain . kuac maintains studios in the great hall on the uaf campus alongside the area s npr station kuac fm . contents 1 history 2 digital television 3 references 4 external links history edit kuac tv signed on for the first time on december 22 1971 as an early christmas present to the interior . it was the first public television station in alaska and the only one until kakm in anchorage signed on in 1975 . it originally aired for only five hours a day from 5 pm to 10 pm . as the difficulties associated with bringing pbs programming decreased channel 9 increased its schedule and now operates 24 hours per day . in 1995 kuac tv joined with ktoo tv in juneau and kyuk tv in bethel to form alaskaone a network of pbs stations serving all of alaska outside of anchorage . the three stations formed the alaska public broadcasting service to air a common pbs schedule . this move was made in hopes of sharing administrative costs . 1 ktoo and kyuk occasionally broke off from the alaskaone feed to air programming relevant to their areas while kuac tv used its massive translator network to deliver alaskaone programming across the interior . kuac tv signed on the first high definition public television service in alaska in 2004 on channel 24 . however it opted to move its digital signal back to channel 9 when analog broadcasting ended in the united states in april 2009 . on november 18 2011 . the apbs board voted to transfer operation of the alaskaone feed to alaska public telecommunications owner of anchorage s pbs station kakm . in response uaf which cast the lone dissenting vote announced on december 11 that kuac tv would break off from alaskaone and revert to being a separate locally focused pbs station on july 1 2012 . 2 uaf contended that a single statewide pbs service would not meet the needs of the interior . 1 on july 1 kuac tv resumed its original branding of kuac tv9 while ktoo and kyuk joined with kakm to form alaska public television . digital television edit kuac tv s signal on channel 9 is multiplexed . channel programming 9.1 main kuac tv programming pbs 9.2 world 9.3 create 9.4 uaf tv first nations experience 9.5 kuac fm and hd 1 9.6 kuac hd 2 9.7 kuac hd 3 references edit a b lean reba . alaskaone dissolving ; kuac tv taking over . fairbanks daily news miner 2012 06 16 . kuac tv becoming independent of alaskaone . uaf communications 2011 12 11 external links edit kuac fm tv query the fcc s tv station database for kuac tv biafn s media web database information on kuac tv youtube inaugural broadcast of kuac tv on december 22 1971 including introductory comments from university of alaska president william ransom wood 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 pbs member stations in the state of alaska alaska public television apt kakm 7 anchorage ktoo 3 juneau kmxt lp 9 kodiak kyuk ld 15 bethel arcs alaska bush other kuac 9 fairbanks see also abc cbs cw fox ion mynetworktv nbc pbs other stations in alaska retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title kuac tv & oldid 744102450 categories 1971 establishments in alaskatelevision channels and stations established in 1971television stations in fairbanks alaska 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 13 october 2016 at 04 07 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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