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KTVA, virtual channel 11, is a CBS-affiliated television station in Anchorage, Alaska. Owned by Denali Media Holdings (a subsidiary of local cable provider GCI), its studios are based at the former headquarters of the ''Anchorage Daily News'' on Northway Drive in Anchorage, while its transmitter is located in Spenard—covering the Anchorage bowl and much of the adjacent Matanuska-Susitna Valley.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=FCC Digital TV Coverage Maps - Anchorage )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=KTVA – Online Coverage Map )〕 Some of its programming is broadcast to rural communities via low-power translators through the Alaska Rural Communications Service (ARCS). ==History== KTVA is Alaska's first broadcast television station. Legendary Alaskan broadcast pioneer August G. "Augie" Hiebert (1916-2007) applied to the FCC in May 1953, received approval for construction permits in July 1953, and KTVA signed on the air on December 11, 1953 broadcasting (initially from 2 p.m. to 11:30 p.m.). The studio and office were originally housed on the first floor and the transmitter on top of the pink 14-story McKinley Building. with an analog signal on VHF channel 11.〔/〕 The station aired a few NBC programs in the late 1960s, until KHAR-TV (now KYUR) took the NBC affiliation in 1970. The station was a DuMont affiliate in the early 1950s.〔http://www.jeaniegreene.com/akb.htm〕 During the late 1950s, the station was also briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network.〔 〕 KTVA also carried ''Sesame Street'' from 1970 until KAKM signed on in 1975. On January 3, 1971, KTVA aired Anchorage's first ever live satellite broadcast from the U.S. mainland, the 1971 NFC Championship Game. Until the 1980s, when the networks went to full satellite distribution, KTVA and other TV stations in Alaska aired network programming on a tape-delayed basis via videotaped recordings of network programs captured off-the-air in Seattle, which were then flown to Alaska. In 2000, KTVA was acquired by the newspaper publisher MediaNews Group.〔http://peninsulaclarion.com/stories/032900/ala_032900ala0040001.shtml Retrieved November 14, 2013〕 KTVA brought in $6.8 million of revenue in 2009, second to KTUU-TV with $10 million (40% of the market).〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Market Eye: They’re Anchored to Alaska. )〕 On November 9, 2012, GCI, through subsidiary Denali Media Holdings, announced plans to purchase KTVA, as well as KATH-LD and KSCT-LP in Southeast Alaska.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=GCI to purchase NBC for Southeast Alaska KATH-TV and KSCT-TV )〕 The Federal Communications Commission approved the deal on October 29, 2013. The sale was formally closed on November 1.〔https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101587216&formid=905&fac_num=49632〕 On December 2, 2013, KTVA moved to a new high definition-capable studio on the second floor of the headquarters of the Anchorage Daily News, and unveiled a new set and logo.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.ktva.com/ktva-debuts-new-station/ )〕 KTVA is presently the only Anchorage television station that has never changed its primary affiliation, as well as one of two Big Four affiliates in the market to have been their respective networks' sole affiliate (KTBY is the other). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「KTVA」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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