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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:
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. ==History== 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.〔(KYES's KZND Library ) maintains documents related to the FCC investigation, as well as responses by the plaintiff and KZND-LP.〕 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. 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.) 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「KNIK-LP」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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