87.7 the breeze channels analog 6 vhf digital 3 vhf affiliations independent owner fireweed communications corporation operated by alaska integrated media inc. founded july 1999 call letters meaning knik river former callsigns kaba lp 2009 koan lp 2007 2009 kznd lp 1999 2007 k06ly 1989 1999 transmitter power 920 watts website knik.com knik lp is a low power commercial television station in anchorage alaska broadcasting on vhf channel 6 taking advantage of that station s audio signal on 87.75 mhz fm . the station is one of very few low power television stations that operate predominantly as a radio station by way of the fact that many fm radio receivers can tune in a vhf channel 6 television audio carrier at 87.75 mhz . this technique is made more potent due to a formerly unforeseen interpretation of deregulatory language in fcc low power television station regulations sec . 73.653 operation of tv aural and visual transmitters . the aural and visual transmitters may be operated independently of each other or if operated simultaneously may be used with different and unrelated program material . this means that knik lp need not broadcast any particular image so long as it broadcasts a video signal and that the audio and video need not be technically synchronized . contents 1 history 2 the future 3 references 4 external links history edit knik lp started under this theory of operation with the call sign kznd lp in july 1999 . the station under the auspices of operator ubik broadcasting began broadcasting a modern rock format in fm stereo marketed as 87.7 the end . anchorage area radio competitors saw then kznd lp s entry into the market as cheating so they raised a complaint with the fcc . the agency concluded that it was not sufficient for kznd lp to show the ability to broadcast video but must actually do so to operate as a low power station . 1 kznd lp complied by broadcasting still pictures and later augmented the video feed by installing a camera in the studio for use during the live morning show . in early 2007 the modern rock format and call sign kznd became available on a newly acquired conventional fm signal 94.7 mhz fm . the kznd radio format was simulcast on both facilities until july 2007 when the low power station was switched over to simulcast pacifica radio affiliate kwmd and its call sign changed to koan lp . the predominant reason for the move of the modern rock format to the fm band was that since arbitron would not rate kznd lp as a radio station the operation consistently underperformed in terms of revenue . despite kznd lp s popularity among the anchorage radio audience arbitron bowed to the wishes of anchorage area radio groups who subscribed to the arbitron service . notably this discrimination distorted the arbitron ratings of the periods affected by omitting a significant portion of the anchorage area radio listening audience from the statistics . arbitron has reportedly made some accommodations for providing ratings for wnyz lp new york . however the ppm rating system is not available in many radio markets and arbitron ratings will not accurately reflect the radio audience so long as arbitron omits low power operations of the kznd lp mold from overall market reporting . kaba lp logo in june 2009 the station changed its call letters to kaba lp and began airing a business format formerly heard at 1020 am which had itself formerly used the kaba callsign and took the koan call letters abandoned by kaba lp . kaba lp was short lived as it was replaced that september by the current knik lp callsign and the format was changed to smooth jazz ; both the callsign and format were previously associated with the current kmvn 105.7 . both koan now kvnt and kmvn are owned by tati broadcasting which operates knik lp . the future edit the future of knik lp on 87.75 mhz fm was in some doubt as the channel 6 channel position had been assigned to kyes tv which is commonly owned with knik lp for digital broadcasting after the analog signal was discontinued in 2009 . however recent information from fireweed communications president jeremy lansman indicates that kyes will remain on channel 5 post dtv conversion in order to re use existing kyes analog broadcast equipment . fireweed has been assigned a digital companion channel for knik lp on channel 3 . 2 it appears that the unusual strategy pioneered by licensee fireweed communications corporation and previous operator ubik broadcasting may have a lasting impact in 2004 former tv weatherman jeff chang began his own low power station on the hawaiian island of kauai which he claims was inspired by kznd lp . 3 at least two other facilities wnyz lp and ksfv ca are owned and operated under the same regulatory provisions by longtime acquaintances of jeremy lansman owner of fireweed . references edit kyes s kznd library maintains documents related to the fcc investigation as well as responses by the plaintiff and kznd lp . tv query results video division fcc usa honolulu star bulletin 1 13 2004 . external links edit station website query the fcc s tv station database for knik lp anchorage press august 5 11 1999 discusses the origins of kznd archived at web.archive.org v t e television stations viewable in anchorage alaska local stations ktuu 2.1 nbc hd 2.2 justice network sd ktby 4.1 fox hd kyes 5.1 mntv 5.2 antenna tv 5.3 this tv 5.4 france 24 5.50 keul music 5.51 music 5.52 testing knik lp 6 ind. radio kakm 7.1 pbs hd 7.2 create 7.3 360 north ktva 11.1 cbs hd kyur 13.1 abc 13.2 cw kdmd 33.1 ion 33.2 tel 33.3 kacn lp 33.4 tbn kcft cd 35.1 familynet 35.2 katb fm 35.3 kafc fm 35.4 alaska sports channel kacn lp 38 me tv ind k54it 54 insp k56hv 56 mtv2 alaska broadcast television areas by city alaskan bush anchorage fairbanks juneau v t e anchorage alaska radio stations by fm frequency 87.7 88.1 88.5 88.7 88.9 88.9 89.3 89.5 89.9 90.3 91.1 92.1 92.9 93.7 94.7 95.1 95.5 96.3 96.7 97.3 98.1 98.9 99.7 100.5 100.9 101.3 102.1 103.1 103.7 104.1 104.9 105.7 106.5 107.5 by am frequency 550 590 650 700 750 1020 1080 1110 1430 noaa weather radio frequency 162.550 by callsign k236cg k244eg k279bg kabn fm kafc kagv kakl kash fm katb kaug kayo kbbo fm kbfx kbrj kbyr kec43 keag keni keul kfat kfqd kgot khar kjha kjlp kkni klef kmbq fm kmvn kmxs knba knik lp knlt koan krua kska ktmb ktzn kvnt kwhl kxlw kyka kymg kznd fm defunct kwmd 90.1 fm kraw 90.5 fm alaska radio markets anchorage other alaska radio regions fairbanks juneau kenai alaska bush alaska interior southeast alaska south central alaska see also list of radio stations in alaska retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title knik lp & oldid 741539933 categories 1999 establishments in alaskajazz radio stations in the united statestelevision channels and stations established in 1999television stations in anchorage 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 28 september 2016 at 04 07 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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